Yoshino Somei

Yoshino Somei is the main protagonist of Raise wa Tanin ga Ii. Her grandfather is the leader of the Somei Yakuza group in Kansai who started living in Tokyo due to her arranged marriage.

Appearance
Yoshino is beautiful but despite that she receives criticisms about it, from "The hostess of Umeda" to "Mrs. Divorced with kids" and "Pretty face you get tired of in three days since middle school". Yoshino sports purple wavy hair that extends to her shoulders and bangs parted at the middle usually she styles when she's in the school or when she's shopping. When she's working or at the home, she wraps her hair in a bun. When she goes out she wears dress while she wears a kimono or a t-shirt and shorts when she's at home.

According to people around her, she looks like her grandfather when he was young and if he'd been a girl. She doesn't use much of the Kansai dialect despite growing up in Osaka, and thought it'd be better to stick with standard Japanese.

Personality
Yoshino is a very independent woman, despite her life has always been surrounded by men. She is born without her actual parents, but rather her grandfather, Hotei and many of her bodyguards that raised her. Her one-sided lover Miyama Kirishima is often rejected by her. She is shown to be rarely using her yakuza side of emotion towards other people unless they seriously ticks her off. Yoshino also gets angry and frustrated pretty easily, but rarely to where she shows her anger where she outright eviscerates the latter.

Yoshino also doesn't put her nose into other's business, such as not making a big deal of the fact Kirishima plays with several women meanwhile having a crush on her. According to Kirishima, Yoshino barely shows any emotion nor feelings to him. She is also very dominant as a woman and knows when to play her cards right when situations suddenly get serious around her, and will not show her weaknesses in front of men like Kirishima.

Yoshino doesn't seem to enjoy when Kirishima is being his fake persona, and will get intensively angry if he pushes to her limit. She doesn't like to be put into certain troubles by Kirishima and would like to stay out of it. She typically expects nothing from Kirishima, and doesn't care for him either. She doesn't seem flattered when Kirishima flirts with her, as she is already sick of it. She is seemingly highly tolerating alcohol and is still strong after drinking several cups of it. In terms of physical strength, Yoshino is very strong and strategic, but she always would need a weapon to attack first.

Yoshino is also prideful, and dislikes any activity used to attack her family or her territory. This includes when Kirishima was insulting Shouma and when Kirishima attacked Osaka accidentally.

Miyama Kirishima
Kirishima is Yoshino's one-sided love who always chases after her especially after Yoshino 'sold her kidney' and earned 4 million yen and since then, has been very obsessive over her. He regularly tails Yoshino but will back off if she ever needed privacy. Yoshino is also aware of his playboy personality, and never minds it since she doesn't develop any form of romantic interest for him anyways. Kirishima is also impressed by Yoshino's aggressiveness and her yakuza side of her personality. Prior to that, Kirishima was not interested in her. She and Kirishima are not shown to be romantic to each other fairly, as Yoshino doesn't reflect Kirishima's feelings back to him. Instead, she studies his pattern of behavior and his personality throughout the series, and sometimes uses them to her advantage.

Toriashi Shouma
Shouma is Yoshino's grandfather Renji's foster son, or maybe simplified as her adopted brother since middle school. Shouma cares about Yoshino as much as Kirishima did, but he genuinely hates Kirishima in general. He and Yoshino both sees Kirishima as a possible psychopath when they first met, and does not approve Yoshino to actually be loved by him. Yoshino also gets irritated by Shouma's gluttony towards food and his unawareness of his surrounding, such as not bringing a second clothing although he booked a hotel in Tokyo and that he is unaware and shows his tattoos; however, Yoshino trusts him and knows him better. Overall, Shouma is viewed as a brother figure to her, who is willing to protect her from anything dangerous around others, especially Kirishima. It is also shown that Shouma doesn't see her as a love interest, but would not mind to live with her together for the rest of their lives.

Somei Renji
Renji is Yoshino's grandfather, and Yoshino calls him 'Gramps' generally. He and her seems to have a lot in common, such as when Yoshino was a lot younger, she and his actions almost synced; but Renji is often busy with his work, leaving her for Hotei's care. However, when Renji tells Yoshino to get Kirishima obsessed with her so badly but dump him after a year, Yoshino felt that the advice he gave was trash. Renji is highly protective of Yoshino, examples being that when Kirishima caused a large portion of chaos in order to deal with Ozu Kento, he sent danger to the Osaka territory and one of the endangered being Yoshino, which provoked Renji to beat him up soon after the chaos ended.

Hotei Taketa
Hotei is Yoshino's main bodyguard since she was a baby. Hotei acts as her primary caretaker when she was at Osaka ever since he was in his early 20's. When Yoshino was about to leave Osaka to Tokyo, Hotei cried. When bringing Shouma to Tokyo to see Yoshino, Hotei felt happy.

Akashigata Tsubaki
Tsubaki is Yoshino's cousin, as they share the same grandfather and their parents are half-siblings (Yoshino's father and Tsubaki's Mother). Yoshino chatters with Tsubaki in a very casual matter. Yoshino gets irritated of how Tsubaki worships their grandfather in a god-like matter. Apparently, Tsubaki was helping Yoshino to fake her lie about selling her kidney, in which Yoshino didn't but sold a large amount of blood instead, to be later be purchased by Tsubaki for 4 million yen. She also protects Yoshino from Kirishima, and threatens him that she can look like Yoshino anytime. Tsubaki and Yoshino has a solid friendship, as she is one of the many few characters that she can rely her trust on and the two treat each other like best friends.

Nao Shiota
Nao and Yoshino met shortly after Nao went to Osaka and Kirishima sent Yoshino off. Nao told her about Kirishima's parents and a bit of his past, which surprised her that he actually has normal parents. The two then got each other's numbers, with Nao being forced by Ozu to lead Yoshino to him.

Kento Ozu
Ozu only knows Yoshino via Nao, but only of her name and nothing else. Yoshino took this advantage and disguised herself as Suzuki Mai in order to talk to him. Ozu does not think of her as pretty, but thinks she has a nice body. Ozu seems rather shocked that Yoshino can handle sake really well, and drunk numerous cups of it.

Trivia

 * Yoshino's birthday is April 2nd, proved by the author on Twitter.
 * With this birthday, Yoshino is an Aries.
 * Yoshino is shown to be very tall since she was very young.
 * She is shown to be extremely tall as a Japanese woman, as she was taller than Kirishima when they were about 12-13 years old.
 * She gets a fever in summer instead of winter every year.
 * She has never seen her father, as he died before her birth; however Yoshino still takes photos of him along with her anyways.
 * Yoshino's instagram name is 'yoshino0402', there, she only took pictures of Shouma.
 * Kirishima is the first person outside of her family to call her cute.
 * Yoshino can handle sake very well, to where she is just as sober before drinking, even though it was her first time.