Yosuke Hanamura

Yosuke Hanamura
花村 陽介
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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
Voice Actor(s)	Showtaro Morikubo (JA) Yuri LowenthalPersona 4 Persona 4 Golden Persona 4 Arena Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Persona 4: Dancing All Night Persona 4 The Animation (EN) Paul Castro Jr.Persona 4 Revival (EN) Zhang PeiPersona 4 Revival (ZH)
Live-Action Actor(s)	Takahisa MaeyamaVisualive Persona 4 Visualive Persona 4: The Evolution Ryo 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 defacto 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. 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.

Gameplay

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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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On April 12th, the protagonist witnesses Yosuke crash his bicycle on the way to school. The two end up in class 2-2 together, with Yosuke sitting behind the protagonist. Chie Satonaka mentions that the protagonist is like Yosuke, as both are from the city. After school, Yosuke returns Chie's copy of Trial of the Dragon, then tries to run away while admitting he broke the DVD but will replace it soon. An upset Chie runs after him and he hits the edge of a desk. At the school gates, Yosuke hears that Yukiko Amagi turned down a guy who asked her out. He recalls asking her out and getting rejected, then tries again, only to get rejected again.

When the protagonist walks to school on April 13th, he sees Yosuke ride by on his bicycle and crash into a trash can and helps him out. Yosuke recognizes the protagonist as the new transfer student and, after school, invites him to get Inaba's local specialty, beefsteak. Chie overhears this and invites herself to go since Yosuke still owes her after breaking her DVD. She tries to invite Yukiko too, but Yukiko has to go help at the Amagi Inn. Yosuke assumes she is already training to take over the inn, but Yukiko denies this.

Yosuke changes his plans as he cannot pay for two people and instead takes them to the Junes food court. Yosuke's father is the manager of the recently opened the Junes Inaba branch and his family moved there from the city. According to Chie, people have stopped going to the Central Shopping District since Junes opened, but Yosuke denies that this is entirely because of Junes. Yosuke spots Saki Konishi, a 3rd year at school who works at Junes despite her family owning a liquor store in the shopping district. He notices that she looks down and offers support, but she tells him she is just tired. After teasing Yosuke and meeting the protagonist, Saki goes back to work. Yosuke thinks she treats him like her younger brother, and Chie assumes Yosuke wishes Saki would treat him differently, imagining a forbidden romance between the two. Assuming he has love troubles, Chie suggests Yosuke check out the Midnight Channel, an urban legend about seeing your soulmate when you watch a TV by yourself on a rainy night. Yosuke thinks that sounds stupid and tries to change the topic to Mayumi Yamano's death, but ends up watching the Midnight Channel that night anyway.

After school on April 14th, Yosuke hears from Chie that Saki found Yamano's body, and he assumes that is why she looked upset the other day. Chie begins describing the person she saw on the Midnight Channel, and Yosuke thinks he might have seen the same person. The protagonist tags along to Junes where Yosuke shows new TV models to Chie, but Yosuke and Chie are shocked when the protagonist proves he can stick his hand into a large display TV. Yosuke panics and suddenly needs to pee, and the group falls into the display TV, ending up in the TV World.

Eventually, they come across an apartment room with a red scarf tied like a noose and defaced posters that look familiar. Yosuke cannot hold it anymore and ends up peeing against a wall. The group begins feeling unwell and tries to leave, but do not see an exit. When they return to the area they came from, Yosuke spots something in the distance, which turns out to be a mascot-looking bear. The bear mentions someone has been throwing people into the TV and tells the group to leave soon. Yosuke complains about not knowing how to leave, so the bear creates a stack of TVs that serves as an exit. He pushes them through the TVs, and they pop out back in Junes. When Yosuke looks at a poster in the electronics section of Misuzu Hiiragi, he realizes that it is the same poster they saw in the apartment inside of the TV. Since Hiiragi has been in the media lately due to her husband's affair with Yamano, Yosuke starts to think that the room and the noose they saw were somehow related to Yamano's death.

On April 15th, Yosuke is speechless when the principal announces that Saki was found dead that morning. He recounts to the protagonist and Chie that something was bugging him last night, so he watched the Midnight Channel again and saw Saki in pain. He recalls how Chie talked about how someone in another class said they saw Yamano on the Midnight Channel, and he thinks the mysterious world inside the TV has something to do with both deaths. Yosuke wants to know why Saki died; he refuses to leave this to the police as they have yet to make any progress on Yamano's case and no one would believe them about the TV. He tells Chie and the protagonist he will wait for them at Junes. There, they find Yosuke near the large display TV with a golf club and a rope. He intends to leave Chie out of this, handing her one end of the rope while he and the protagonist enter the TV again.

Inside, Yosuke sees they came to the same studio-looking area as before and figures that the TV in Junes is connected to the same place. They run into the bear again, who accuses them of throwing people into the TV. Yosuke quickly establishes a connection between people being thrown in and the two victims, and tries to convince the bear they are not the ones behind this. He gets frustrated and starts to find the bear more suspicious, and tries removing its head to see who is under the costume, but he is surprised when nothing is inside. The bear decides to believe them, but since Yosuke's rope broke and they have no way out, it also refuses to help them leave the TV unless they agree to uncover the real culprit. Yosuke feels they are being blackmailed, but nonetheless introduces himself and the protagonist, and is unamused when the bear replies that his name is Teddie. Teddie gives them special glasses to see through the fog and takes them to where the second victim was before she disappeared.

Teddie takes them to an area that resembles Konishi Liquors in the Central Shopping District, which Teddie only knows as being "reality" for the person who created it. The three get attacked by Shadows, but the protagonist summons his Persona and defeats them. Yosuke wonders if he can do that while also feeling annoyed at how Teddie begins praising the protagonist. Around the liquor store, they hear the voices of what seems to be Saki and her father, and Yosuke wonders if this was "reality" for Saki. Her father's voice is upset with her for working at Junes, while Saki's voice calls Yosuke annoying and says she was only nice to him because he is the manager's son. Yosuke is in disbelief as Saki seemed to enjoy working at Junes and denies this really represents her.

Suddenly, Other Yosuke manifests and says that he's the one who really finds everything annoying. According to Other Yosuke, the real Yosuke masks his loneliness with his personality. He is bored in Inaba and he wanted to come into the TV again so he could play hero; Saki's death was just an excuse. Hearing that, Yosuke angrily rejects the idea that Other Yosuke is him, and it transforms into Shadow Yosuke, but the protagonist defeats it with his Persona. Yosuke tries to reject it again, but Teddie encourages him to accept it or it may attack again. Yosuke admits he was so ashamed of himself that he denied it was him, but now he is able to accept it. In doing so, he gains his own Persona, Jiraiya. He reflects on how when he heard that voice he thought to be Saki's, he wondered if she thought he was annoying deep down inside, and thanks the protagonist for being there, saying things could have gone much worse without him.

Back at the entrance to the TV World, Yosuke hypothesizes what happened with Mayumi and Saki, and suggests he and the protagonist might be able to use their new powers to save people as victims seem to be safe from Shadows before the fog lifts. With a better understanding of the situation, he resolves to catch the culprit. When they return to Junes, Chie gets mad, throws Yosuke's rope at his face, and then runs off, yelling that she hates both of them. Yosuke admits they might have made her worry too much and suggests they apologize tomorrow.

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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.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

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Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

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Appearances in Non-Megami Tensei Media

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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 March 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.
• 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 greeting is, "Yo! Welcome to Yo-suke's Room!" 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.
  • Yosuke has been studying to get his scooter license but does not have the money for it after Chie spent his money on Teddie's clothes, plus all of the snacks that Teddie buys with Yosuke's money. Chie thinks 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 feels the same way about konjac.
  • He listens to popular or catchy music on his headphones
  • Yosuke was conceived as being clumsy, hence why his Persona has a low Luk stat. Though, rather than clumsy, he comes off as a person who says the wrong things at the wrong time.
• Yosuke listens to western music and movie soundtracks, plus Japanese music so he can talk to girls about it.
• When asked why all of the characters in Persona 4 look so stylish when they live in a small rural area, Katsura Hashino replied that, while this isn't officially part of the worldbuilding, the characters might get their clothes in a city that appears in the game and is located near Inaba (referring to Okina). The exception to this is Yosuke, who presumably either gets his clothes from Junes or is forced to wear clothes from Junes due to his dad being the manager.
• In Golden, Yosuke's snowboarding jacket says "Since 1839 Giraiya Setsuwa". 1839 is the year the serialized picture book version of Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari began being published, Giraiya is Jiraiya, and Setsuwa is another reading of 物語 Monogatari.
• For the 30th anniversary celebration of the Persona series at Sea Paradise, Yosuke is drawn with a pacific white-sided dolphin.

Nomenclature

Yosuke HanamuraNicknames

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Yosuke Hanamura
Japanese	花村 陽介	Hanamura Yōsuke. The family name means "flower village," and the given name means "sunshine mediator."
Simplified Chinese	花村 阳介 huā cūn yáng jiè
Traditional Chinese	花村 陽介 huā cūn yáng jiè
Korean	하나무라 요스케

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Captain RessentimentPersona 4 Arena Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
Japanese	口を開けばガッカリ王子Persona 4

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