The perverted mother of Yoshiko Hanabatake, who desperately wants Yoshiko to be normal or find a husband so Yoshie can retire. She is very skilled in hand-to-hand combat and can tell a woman's intentions by looking at her panties.

Yoshie is not an idiotic person like Yoshiko as Yoshie wishes for Yoshiko to be a normal person. She is shown to be rather devious schemer, as she longs to be free of her idiot daughter and retire happily. To do this, she hopelessly tries to set Yoshiko up with Akuru, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her in the future. She is willing to stoop to deprave methods to assure this, such as trying to find ways to get Yoshiko to "seal the deal" with Akuru to ensure he'll marry her in the future once he gets a well-paying job. The extent of her immorality is best shown when she encouraged her daughter to drug Akuru and then "seal the deal" with him after leaving him vulnerable, showing just how far her depravity goes.

Like her daughter, she is rather dirty-minded.

Yoshiko Hanabatake is an idiot beyond all belief. Somehow managing to consistently score zeroes on all of her tests and consumed by an absurd obsession with bananas, her senseless acts have caused even her own mother to lose all hope. Only one person is up to the task of keeping her insanity in check: childhood friend Akuru "A-kun" Akutsu.
 
Though he bemoans the ridiculous behavior he has to endure, the studious but terrifying A-kun is always ready to put an end to any stupidity Yoshiko gets up to, with no qualms about using physical force. Unfortunately, no matter how many times he attempts to knock some sense into her, the girl bounces right back to her usual shenanigans, even dragging in some other eccentrics along for the ride. Try as he might to rein in her nonsense, every moment is unpredictable with Yoshiko and her profound idiocy on the loose.
 
(Source: MAL Rewrite)

__Height:__ 157 cm 

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Co-hosted the popular weekly radio show Odoroki Sentai Momonoki Five (おどろき戦隊モモノキファイブ) with fellow seiyuu [Eriko Nakamura](https://anilist.co/staff/103983) from 2009 to 2017.
She got married to a person from outside the industry in 2015.
On September 5, 2024, she announced that she was starting her own voice talent agency, [i.nari](https://inari-inc.com/), which would also be representing her going forward.

__Non-anime roles:__
- Neve - Goddess of Victory: Nikke (VG)
- Red Hood - Goddess of Victory: Nikke (VG)
- Celia - Tevi (VG)
- Emilie - Genshin Impact (VG)
- Judith Lanster - The Legend of Heroes Series (VG)
- Brigitta Lycaon - Metaphor: ReFantazio (VG)
- Vita - Honkai Impact 3rd (VG)
- Saeki Kazuko - YanOta: The Delinquent and the Otaku (Drama CD)
- Evelyn Chevalier - Zenless Zone Zero (VG)

Yoshiko is a hopelessly clueless high school girl. Her rock-paper-scissors strategy is “rock.” She somehow gets zeroes on multiple-choice tests. And she has an often-nearly-fatal weakness for bananas. Her devoted friends have no choice but to hang around and make sure nobody takes advantage of her. (Of course, the entertainment value might have something to do with it, too.) Cute characters, weird gags, and lots and lots of bananas!
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 
Included one-shot: 
Volume 12: Nandemo Shiteageru (I'd do anything for you.)

Yoshie Hanabatake