Hirofumi Yoshida

"Do you think Chainsaw Man would eat it for us? The Death Devil."

Hirofumi Yoshida (ヒロフミ) is a Public Safety Devil Hunter and formerly a Private Devil Hunter. Together with Kusakabe and Tamaoki, he is considered by Makima as a high-class bodyguard specialist. He is a member of an organization that tasked him with keeping Denji safe.

Yoshida first appears as a supporting character in the International Assassins arc, and has a larger recurring role in the Academy Saga.

Appearance
Yoshida has mid-length smooth black hair, dark eyes, and a slim face. There is a beauty mark under his lips. He has eight piercings on his left ear, though usually only six are visible below his hair. His piercings are likely a reference to his contract with the Octopus Devil. As a civilian devil hunter, Yoshida wears a casual outfit which consists of an unbuttoned light jacket and dark pants.

Personality
Yoshida is quite playful and mischievous and loves to have small talk with his opponents during battle. Although Yoshida always has a smile on his face, he is also ruthless. This side of him is demonstrated when he mercilessly kills the middle brother of the three Immortal Brothers in the back alley after showing up behind the surviving brother.

From his interactions with Kishibe, he is revealed to be still attending high school.

Yoshida seems to take his job seriously; he told Denji that if he attempts to reveal his identity as the Chainsaw Man, he will interfere and take action to stop him, and eventually does it by grabbing him with the power of the Octopus Devil right before Yoru could attack him in his back, demonstrating he is also someone who keeps his word.

He also seems to have a disdain for death, asking if it is possible for Denji, as Chainsaw Man, to consume the Death Devil for the good of the people. Whether this is a personal desire or the intentions of the organization he is a member of, it is currently unknown. He even remarks by mocking the devil that trapped him with his fellow members of the devil hunter club that thanks to its existence, he now appreciates life more in general.

Yoshida is someone who doesn't like to beat around the bush and prefers to get straight to the point, seen when he meets Fami and inmediatly asks her about her next moves, even threatening her if she doesn't cooperate with him and Public Safety.

International Assassins arc
Finding out that Denji's existence has been revealed in the media, Makima orders her subordinates to get several Public Safety Devil Hunters and also hire Yoshida for one month to protect Denji from the onslaught of other countries' assassins trying to take his heart.

Justice Devil arc
As Asa Mitaka attends school under the order of the War Devil, she meets Yoshida, who asks if she needs to be brought to the nurse's office. After she joins the Devil Hunter club, he becomes one of the members of her group.

Yoshida later finds Denji watching a news reporter and attempts to convince him not to publicly reveal his identity as Chainsaw Man, saying that he is following Denji on a mission from his organization. At school, Yoshida finds students paying Denji to sit on him, and gives Denji his student ID card back after Denji purposefully left it at the scene of his fight with the Cockroach Devil. To appease Denji's wish for a girlfriend, Yoshida introduces him to Asa.

Later, Yoshida recovers Denji with the Octopus Devil after he defeats Yuko to stop him from revealing his identity.

Dating Denji arc
Yoshida appears at the aquarium both Denji and Asa were having their date in, alongside the Devil Hunter Club, claiming he also happened to be there at the same time as them when they were trapped by the Eternity Devil.

Three days later, Yoshida says to Denji that this should be his cue to do something to fix their current situation. Denji tells Yoshida that the only reason he was able to kill the Eternity Devil in his first fight with it was that it revealed itself to him, but since the devil is nowhere to be found, he is unable to do anything. Denji then asks Yoshida if he is able to do something, to which Yoshida pulls out a cell phone. However, Yoshida tells him that getting just one signal is not enough to get a call for help and theorizes that due to the power of the Eternity Devil, time has effectively stopped in the outside world, making any effort to call useless. Noting that Seigi and Higashiyama have both snapped in their own way, he also tells Denji that he is okay with dying before asking him if Chainsaw Man would be able to eat the Death Devil for the good of the people, which confuses Denji.

After Asa breaks them out of the endless aquarium, Yoshida mockingly remarks that the devil helped him appreciate life more as he assists Asa in killing it. As Fami remarks how her plan to use the devil to coerce Asa to turn Denji into a weapon failed, Yoshida notices and locks eyes with her.

After Asa appears to have been stood up by Denji at school, Yoshida approaches her and asks her to accompany him for a bit, taking her to the Devil Hunter Clubroom. Having heard Asa's ramblings, Yoshida agrees with her notion that life is easier alone. He then tells her to stay away from Denji and leaves without an explanation.

Yoshida then approaches Fami, aware of her identity as the Famine Devil. He tells her about an urban legend concerning a prophecy of Nostradamus predicting the end of humanity in July 1999, and Public Safety believes that whatever Fami is planning is connected. Yoshida threatens Fami to talk, and she tells him about the recent appearance of a primal devil.

Devil Contracts

 * Octopus Devil Contract: Yoshida has a contract with the Octopus Devil for an unknown price.
 * Tentacle Summoning: By crossing his middle and index fingers, he can summon the Octopus Devil's tentacles which protrude from ink clouds. He can summon multiple of these to attack small groups or bind them. Yoshida can summon them to wrap himself for protection or use them to catch him from falling to his death.
 * Ink: By saying "Ink," the tentacle will produce a large black smokescreen. Yoshida uses this to blind his opponents and attack.

Skillset

 * Hand-to-Hand Combatant: During his brief fight with Quanxi, he has shown quite a remarkable level of abilities in hand-to-hand combat. Yoshida is capable of a few-minute fight on equal terms with Quanxi, who is well-known for her unnatural physical strength and fighting prowess, although he loses the battle.

Etymology

 * Hirofumi's surname Yoshida means "lucky, good" and "field, rice paddy". It is also the 11th most common Japanese surname.

Trivia

 * Hirofumi's ranking in the Popularity Polls are as follows;
 * Hirofumi ranked 10th in the First Popularity Poll, with 8,593 votes.
 * Hirofumi ranked 6th in the Second Popularity Poll, with 32,161 votes.
 * Tatsuki Fujimoto has admitted to being puzzled about Hirofumi's popularity. He had expected him to rank much lower relative to what the actual results ended up being. It only came to light when his assistant told him about it.
 * Shihei Lin comically received a comment from a fan asking for Yoshida to not be too active in the manga, as that would make him die faster.
 * Hirofumi was the first character other than Denji confirmed to make an appearance in Part 2, even before Asa Mitaka.
 * In Chapter 114 he is referred to as a Public Safety Devil hunter making it unknown if he is truly private or not.

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