Yosuke Hanamura

Clumsy boy and comic relief character who sports reddish-brown hair and wears red headphones around his neck. Uses dual knives or kunai in battle and his initial persona is Jiraiya of the Magician Arcana which uses Wind and Stat Buff/Debuffing magic.

Overview

In Persona 4 Yosuke is one of the first characters to befriend the main character Souji Seta. Yosuke and Chie are the first two characters to accompany the player into the TV, and Yosuke is the first one present when the party meet Teddie.

Yosuke is used mainly as source of comic relief during the game, although he is occasionally shown acting with a more serious attitude when discussing the death of Saki Konishi. His family manage the local Junes store, the location at which the party enter the TV for the first time. In combat Yosuke uses kunai and wears yellow glasses when inside the TV world whilst having his earphones on which he constantly wears. When not in school on a Sunday Yosuke wears a ski jacket and an orange t-shirt which goes with his earphones, suggesting his main colour in the game is orange, the orange colour can also be seen in a lot of concept drawings of Yosuke.

The characters initial Persona is Jiraiya of the Magician Arcana, which later on evolves into Susano-o, removing his weakness to lightning.

Jiraiya

Susano-o

Combat

In combat, Yosuke is primarily used do deal wind damage. Over the course of his skill progression, he becomes a valuable ally to the team. Not withstanding his stellar magic statistic, he also learns a number of healing spells, and the useful buff, "Masakukaja", increasing player hit rate and evasion rate. Furthermore, he also learns the skill "Tentarafoo", a move which confuses all enemies if sucessful. Despite the fact he's primarily a caster (Denoted by his affiliation with the magician arcana), he learns the skill "Brave Blade", the second most powerful physical attack. Yosukes follow up attack is called "Yosuke strike" which is guaranteed to do a critical hit and knock the enemy down. As afforementioned, Yosuke attacks with Kunai/twin knives.

Social Link

Magician Arcana

During his Social Link, Yosuke initially relates to the player through both of them being from the big city and moving to Inaba. They talk about how they felt moving from the big city to a small rural town. You learn that initially Youske was very much against the move of opening the large Junes chain store because of his fear in making the people of the shopping district hate him and his family. Even though everyone from the shopping district hated this due to them losing customers. Even though he was hated by her, he fell for Saki and constantly laments over her death. At the end of the social link, Yosuke challenges the main character to a fight. Through the help of the player Yosuke is able to come to terms with her death, love Inaba, and form an everlasting friendship with The Protagonist.

After completing Yosuke's social link The Protagonist receives a Buddy Bandage and the ability to create Mada of the Magician Arcana.

Mada

Character Name:	Yosuke Hanamura
Real Name:
Gender:	Male
Birthday:	June 22, 1995
Appears in:	1 games
First appearance:	Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
Aliases

	Mr. Yamada
	Mrs. Nakayama
	Mr. Kondo
	Mr. Hosoi
	Ms. Sofue
	Taro Namatame
	Ryotaro Dojima
	Kou Ichijo
	Daisuke Nagase
	Saki Konishi
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