YosuKan

YosuKan is the slash ship between Yosuke Hanamura and Kanji Tatsumi from the Persona fandom.

Canon
Yosuke and Kanji first meet when the Investigation Team decides to tail Kanji after seeing him on the Midnight Channel. Yosuke at first seems afraid of Kanji, due to his large form and his "punk" persona. However, his fear turns to a different kind of unease when the group goes into the TV world to save Kanji. They are faced with Kanji's Shadow, which is flamboyant and partially nude. Yosuke seems really put off by the idea of Kanji being gay, and is particularly uncomfortable in Kanji's Shadow's bathhouse.

When the students go camping, Yosuke and Yu agree to share a tent. Partway through the night Kanji comes into their tent, asking to sleep there for the night as the first year tent is too quiet. They agree, although a bit reluctantly. While trying to sleep, Yosuke comes right out and asks if he's "safe" around Kanji. He takes offense to this, telling Yosuke to stop bringing up his Shadow. Yu pesters him as well, both of them trying to get him to confess the truth about his sexuality. This angers Kanji, who storms off to sleep in the girls' tent instead.

Yosuke continues to rib Kanji about his sexuality throughout the rest of the school year. Out of all of the members of the Investigation Team, he is the one that focuses on it the most. When Teddie grows himself a human body and buys new clothes, Yosuke asks Kanji if he finds Teddie cute, much to Kanji's annoyance. Still, they appear to be close friends, sharing hotel rooms together on the class trip to Tatsumi Port Island and at the Amagi Inn. They are shown to still be good friends in the epilogue.

Fanon
YosuKan is one of the more popular slash ships in the Persona 4 fandom. Although Yosuke was shown to be homophobic throughout the course of the game, many fans interpreted that as internalized homophobia, an idea reinforced by the fact that Yosuke was originally a romance option for the male protagonist. Fans of this ship enjoy the idea of having Kanji help Yosuke discover his sexuality after seeing Kanji's shadow. Some prefer them to be friends, but with Kanji still helping Yosuke discover his sexuality (typically as a set-up for SouYo). YosuKan's biggest rival ships are SouYo and KanNao.

There are currently over 45 works on AO3 for this ship.

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