In the original RPG game's story, Yosuke Hanamura is one of your party members in Persona 4. He is a second-year student at Yasogami High School, acting as the best friend and partner of Yu, although he's often the butt of his other friends' jokes. After entering the Midnight Channel and facing his Shadow Self, he gains his Persona, JiraiyaGuardAllStartup12Recovery24Advantage-10, and joins the Investigation Team and investigates Inaba's kidnapping and murders with Yu Narukami, Chie Satonaka, Yukiko Amagi, Kanji Tatsumi, Rise Kujikawa, Teddie and Naoto Shirogane. This continues all throughout the Persona 4 Arena series of games.
In BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, he is one of the many characters summoned to the Phantom Field to take part of the Cross Tag Battle tournament, because Persona 4 simply can never be milked enough.
In the all of fighting game spinoffs he appears in, Yosuke is a pixie A character with powerful movement options, short range, small hurtbox, and low health. type character, who in exchange for dealing mediocre damage and having the defenses of wet tissue paper, Yosuke has unmatched mobility, excellent pressure, and a suite of useful defensive tools.