Yosuke Hanamura

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Yosuke Hanamura
Other Name(s)	Captain RessentimentPersona 4 Arena Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
Date of Birth	June 22, 1994
Age	16-17Persona 4 Persona 4 Golden Persona 4 Arena Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth 18Persona 4: Dancing All Night
Height	175 cm (5’9”)
Weight	58 kg (127 lbs)
Blood Type	A
Relative(s)	Yoichi Hanamura (Father)
School(s)	Yasogami High School
Occupation(s)	Junes Employee
Affiliation(s)	Investigation Team Junes
Arcana	Magician
Persona(s)	Jiraiya Susano-O Takehaya Susano-oPersona 4 Golden (Ultimate Persona)
Voice Actor(s)	Showtaro Morikubo (JA) Yuri Lowenthal (EN)
Live-Action Actor(s)	Takahisa MaeyamaVisualive Persona 4 Visualive Persona 4: The Evolution Ryō HiranoPersona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena Kodai MiyagiPersona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold

Yosuke Hanamura is a character in Persona 4. He is a second year at Yasogami High School, and is among the first people the Protagonist meets in Inaba.

Profile

Yosuke is a 2nd year student at Yasogami High. He moved to Inaba around six months ago when his father became the manager of the local Junes. Some people in Inaba resent Yosuke and his family due to the perceived threat of Junes closing local businesses. That did not stop people like Chie Satonaka and Saki Konishi, who got to know Yosuke before the story began, with Chie lending him a DVD she loves and Saki being a fellow part-timer at Junes. He meets the protagonist on their first day of school, riding past him on his bike and crashing into a trash can. The two end up in class 2-2 together alongside Chie and Yukiko Amagi.

The sudden news of Saki's death on April 15th shocks Yosuke and motivates him to explore the TV World, thinking that the strange place is somehow connected. He forms a friendship with the protagonist and starts calling him his partner as they work with Chie and Teddie to solve the mystery of the TV World, the Midnight Channel, and the recent deaths. He becomes the second in command of the Investigation Team under the protagonist and helps try to figure out clues and patterns about the murderer and the victims.

Outside the investigation, Yosuke is somewhat self-deprecating in his remarks about himself. At other times, he has various schemes like bringing swimsuits on the camping trip or putting the idea of a group date cafe in his class's head for the culture festival that he pats himself on the back for. Yet, these things never quite go as he expects them to and usually backfire on him.

Yosuke has dyed hair and is usually seen wearing his headphones with his school uniform and casual clothes. In the TV World, he also has a pair of rectangular glasses with orange trim.

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Yosuke Hanamura.

Yosuke is the Magician Social Link. He becomes a playable party member in April with the Persona Jiraiya. He primarily specializes in Garu spells.

Manual

Manual Descriptions
Persona 4	Another classmate of the protagonist's. Yosuke is the son of the owner of the local Junes department store, and he moved to Inaba six months earlier. He likes to stand out, but he's sensitive to others' feelings and will act accordingly...though sometimes he fails to notice what's right in front of him.
Persona 4 Golden	One of the protagonist's classmates at Yasogami High. Yosuke moved to Inaba six months earlier when his father was assigned to manage the local Junes department store. He has a cheery personality and takes a shine to the protagonist, since they come from similar circumstances.
Persona 4 Arena	A 3rd-year Yasogami High student who was the brains of the Investigation Team that solved last year's case. He's a cheerful trickster with speedy, unpredictable moves. His Persona is Jiraiya, master of wind.
Persona 4: Dancing All Night	A member of the Investigation Team, which solved the murder mystery in Persona 4, and Yu's partner. He has come with his friends to meet Yu. He specializes in fast-paced dances that make use of his nimbleness.

Game Appearances

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Persona 4 Arena

Yosuke's Story Mode

Yosuke's story mode is one of the default story modes. It was also used as the basis for the Arena manga.

Other Characters

Yosuke appears in the story modes for some of the other characters.

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CR Persona 4 The Pachinko

Yosuke is one of the selectable avatars for the pachinko machine. When selected, his mini-portrait will appears on the player's stat screen and he does the voice over for the machine's functions. He is the subject of some probability events, such as one where he rides his bicycle and swerves after seeing a cat. If the player fails the probability roll, Yosuke will ride into a trash can like he does in the beginning of Persona 4.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

	For more information on this subject in BlazBlue, see Yosuke Hanamura on BlazBlue Wiki.

Puzzle & Dragons

Yosuke is a 5★ wind and fire unit who can be obtained in the gacha during the Persona collaboration. His base card and skill up card were part of the first collab in 2018.

[4384] Yosuke Hanamura (Base)

• Active Skill: Wind Boost
• Leader Skill: Let's Go, Partner!

[4406] Persona 4: The Magician Arcana (Skill Card)

• Active Skill: Wind Boost

Kotodaman

Yosuke appears as a unit in the Persona collab for the mobile game Kotodaman during the collab's original run in 2020, and once again during the rerun in 2024. He can be obtained by rolling in the Persona gacha. As a game unit, Yosuke is a 5★ wood-attribute unit who can be used to form words using the syllables that make up his initials: よ・ょ and は・ば・ぱ. He can be evolved into a 6★ unit. His 3+ and 4+ syllable skills are named Garu and Brave Blade, two skills that his Persona learns during Persona 4.

Trivia

• Yosuke was originally conceived as a party member and one of the protagonist's friend group. During development, Atlus wanted to add in a twist culprit between the November and April culprits. Yosuke was considered for this role as Atlus thought the player would be able to believe he was behind it all, but never actually wrote this and dropped the idea as they did not want to make a party member be the culprit.
• From the start, Yosuke was designed as a person who could speak for the otherwise silent main character. As this role was similar to Junpei Iori's in Persona 3, the staff jokingly called him Junpei during development. In order to separate him from Junpei, Hashino asked Soejima to make Yosuke look pretty. Soejima also wanted to use Yosuke's design to emphasize that he comes from the big city, so he gave him headphones and messy dyed brown hair that made him look different from others in Inaba.
• In his Yasogami High social media profile in the 2009 setting book, Persona Club P4, Yosuke talks about liking the guitar and saving up for a scooter, both of which would later be used as plot points in Golden. He also mentions his favorite food is fruit flavored throat drops because they are useful for karaoke, but he hates tofu (which comes with an apology to Rise). He also dislikes cockroaches. The social clubs he has joined are "People Who Commute on Bike", "Wanna go to Junes?", "Delicious Homemade Food", and "Trial of the Dragon". His inbox has a message from Chie reminding him about her DVD. He has the same likes and dislikes in his Arena Ultimax remastered profile.
• The developer Q&A about Yosuke reveals some background information and dropped scenes:
  • Originally, there was going to be a scene where Yosuke rode his bike into the Samegawa River.
  • In the original Persona 4, Yosuke was studying to get his scooter license, but did not have the money for it because of Teddie's clothes that Chie charged to him, and all of the snacks that Teddie buys with Yosuke's money. Chie thinks that she did him a favor by preventing him from getting into a scooter accident.
  • Yosuke does not like tofu because he finds it bland, he listens to popular or catchy music on his headphones, and Jiraiya's Luk stat is low because of how Yosuke has such poor timing.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	花村 陽介	Hanamura Yōsuke. The family name means "flower village," and the given name means "sunshine mediator."

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