“...almost everyone comes at discussing the LGBT themes in P4 the wrong way.”

You bring back a 5-year-old thread and that is your opening line to restart the discussion. C’mon.

@htr10: I am trying to figure out why this is the post you chose to make. It seems way less useful than the post the person that necro-ed this made.

@sethmode:

Trying to restart a dialogue on this contentious topic with the opening line that says “almost everyone” has been “wrong” in their approach up until now is self-absorbed. It is basically saying “here, I have the one true opinion on this topic”.

To me, the necro post is more effective without that opening line that dismissed the 100 posts already here in this thread discussing this topic in detail. Personally, I don’t think any of the discussion in this thread in the past was “wrong”.

I never really read the Naoto story-line as anything other than her wanting to be taken seriously and feeling like she had to pretend to be male for that to happen. All seems fine to me.

At first I read the Kanji story as basically confronting his sexuality and was disappointed with the lack of real progress, I was 100% expecting him to be openly gay by the end of the game and it felt like a cop-out. After reading some of the comments here I think the idea of his non-masculine traits and the expectations of society fits the story better and is just as interesting imo.

This has actually helped clear up pretty much my only gripe with a pretty fucking phenomenal game so thanks a bunch guys.

EDIT: Just realised how old most of this discussion is...

The treatment of Kanji in P4 was awkward at times, but overall okay.

The way Persona 5 handles gay characters, however, is flat-out horrible. A real bummer in a game that I otherwise very much enjoyed.