Yosuke Hanamura

Yosuke Hanamura (花村 陽介, Hanamura Yousuke)

Yosuke's role remains the same in Persona 4. When Chie, Yu, and Yosuke first enter the T.V world, they encounter the Shadows for the first time. The Shadows chase them until Yu summons his persona. Chie falls unconscious after being attacked by the shadows.

When they return to Junes, Yosuke and Chie embrace each other for being back in the real world but Chie kicks him in the gut. When they get back to school, they learn of Saki's death, Yosukes' despair of not accepting his other selfAdded by Minako22pushing Yosuke to go into the TV world with Yu agreeing to go with him. When they meet his Shadow, Yosuke still remains conscious when his other self transforms. Throughout the fight he continually denies the Shadow's words. Eventually, Yosuke got punch by YuAdded by Minako22Yu decides to punch him. This makes him come back to his senses and admit it's true about himself. Accepting his Shadow while in battle causes his Shadow to lose control and weaken, allowing Izanagi to do the finishing blow and defeat him. Yosuke then goes to his Shadow (who has turned back to human form) and tells him "You're me and I'm you". With this, his Shadow smiles and turns into his Persona, Jiraiya.

Some time afterwards, Yu and Yosuke meet up at Junes. Yosuke reveals that he brought actual swords for the next trip to the TV world – right in front of a police officer. After this slight delay, the two meet up with Dojima, Adachi, and Chie. The two police officers discuss the case with them and reveal that Yukiko is missing. Chie breaks down into tears after hearing this. When they arrive at Yukiko’s Castle, Chie runs ahead of the other two – while Shadows begin pouring out of the walls. Yu and Yosuke summon their Personas to fight the Shadows. While Izanagi efficiently cuts through the Shadows, Jiraiya only manages to take down two, one with a Garu and the other with a kick, while two others fly past. When they confront Chie’s Shadow, it summons a vast number of Shadows from the walls. Jiraiya uses a disk attack to cut through them. Yosuke protects Chie from her Shadow, but when his persona is injured, he feels the pain. He gets trapped by Shadow Chie's hair and it begins to strangle him until Yu switches his persona to Pyro Jack. Combining his Garu with Pryo Jack’s Agi, the Shadow is destroyed.

When Yu, Yosuke, and Chie at where Yukiko and her other self are, the chandelier was coming at them until Jiraiya try push to chandelier back put ends up taking the damaged as well as Yosuke felted where his Persona crushed to a wall with a chandelier and unable to call it out(due to his Persona distance) and Yu's Persona switch his Persona back to his current Persona to help Jiraiya out and got trapped along with Yu by the melted candles unable to move before Shadow Yukiko's transformation until the shadow flames burn the candles wax with they were to move again and help out Chie.Until he and Yu are unable to defeat Yukiko's Shadow self due to the flames blocking them except for Chie. After the shadow weaken Yosuke and Chie combined with Yu attacks and able to defeat it.

After they rescue Yukiko, they spend their normal lives until Yukiko's recovered. As the days go by he notices Yu ditching class with Ai. He finds out they're dating and later thinks that Chie is jealous. So he asks Chie to become a manager for basketball club. On the last game for Kou he ends up confused on why he's wearing basketball uniform and Kou tells him it's because they are short in players. After they lose they went to Chinese Diner Aiya and he notices one of his classmate working there.

As the few days gone by during the exam, Yosuke seemed to be taking the exam but when he got stressed, he ditched class until the exam was over. When they went to stake out on Kanji who was accompanied by Naoto, they hid in the residents area in Inaba. They were then discovered by Kanji and were chased. As they continued being chased by Kanji, he almost convinced Chie to become a decoy so that they can escape but Yukiko then convinced Chie not to be fooled.

When Yosuke and others are at the entrance of Kanji's bath house, he refused to go inside because his own interest in men along with Yu who agreed with, but Chie grabbed Yosuke by the ear to f Yosuke along with Yu got poison by Tough GuyAdded by Minako22orce him to go inside. When Yukiko's persona attack the shadow with her fire spell, Yosuke got caught on fire with his persona as well, then Chie uses her persona and uses her ice spell to blast the flames on the shadows and his persona which causes him to freeze and become frozen. Yu breaks the ice with his persona and frees him. When Yosuke got subdued by tough guy when he touch his rear end, it cause him and Yu to blush before passing out.

Then during the school camp trip when he tries Chie and Yukiko's homemade curry he literally grosses out and passes out in disgust of their horribly cooking then regain consciousness but with an upset stomach so Yu brings him to the Health Association club tent for antacids. Then he saw Naoki who is Saki's younger brother. As Naoki leaves to go do his duties with the Health Association club he takes this investigation seriously and won't let anyone die again. The girls hide in the guys sleeping bags after Morooka appears outside. Chie hides in Yosuke's sleeping bag briefly while Yosuke looks over at Yu. After Morooka leaves Yosuke moves over to the same sleeping bag as Yu and Yukiko joins Chie in her sleeping bag. Then during the last day he wears orange swimsuit with a sunflower on it. He makes a perverted comment about the girls figure. So he gets pushed by Chie into the waterfall.

On June 21 at school, when Yosuke comment Rise's body and almost complare to Chie's he was kick on the stomach by Chie awhile she imitating Yosuke's persona name. Then on June 22 Yosuke was put in charge with the other members to catch the "curplit".

When the others Rise's shows all other Rises's personality with different outfits and different identify, Yosuke then amazing happy and blushing to see all different version of Risette's. As Shadow Rise shows up Yosuke then amazing happy and cheer her as he though maybe the real Rise and maybe seeing her beauty body in bikini, but hit by Chie to be quiet. When Shadow Teddie transformed and begins to suck everyone, Yosuke and Kanji holds on to the pole and unable to fight(due to his persona in bad shape) but only Yu's persona was able to defeated it.