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Contents:
- IS PERSONA 4‘S KANJI GAY OR NOT?
- THE NAME GAY CHE / JAPANE...
- HOW TO SAY GAY JAPANE
- PERSONA 4: GOLN MOD RTOR GAY ROMANCE OPTN
- GAY JAPANE
IS PERSONA 4‘S KANJI GAY OR NOT?
He lerally says he's not gay and the whole pot of his character is that he's not gay, he jt has a feme personaly. One of the most pellg parts of Atl’ Persona 4 is the qutn of one of s characters’ possible homosexualy.
THE NAME GAY CHE / JAPANE...
Persona 4 ma great stris the portrayal of homosexualy gam wh the character of Kanji, a rough-and-tumble lquent who may or may not be gay.
HOW TO SAY GAY JAPANE
In Kanji’s alternate world, his other self appears as a near-nu, “gay” soundg versn of himself who habs a men’s bathhoe, strongly suggtg that the character ho homosexual sir.
PERSONA 4: GOLN MOD RTOR GAY ROMANCE OPTN
The game, however, never really mak ncrete whether or not Kanji’s gay or jt sexually nfed, which has trated some gamers.
In this se, mak sense that, the end, the game is not tellg you what to thk about Kanji or even if he is gay. “That flamboyance was also what the viewers of the Midnight Channel [a TV channel that shows what’s happeng the alternate world] wanted to see: a typil gay person on TV that people would lgh at.
GAY JAPANE
I was so nnected to the character, and felt that his characteristics and msage were so clear, that I was more than a ltle angered by the way Kanji was terpreted a recent vio on The vio qutn was a rant, wrten and performed by se edor Anthony Burch, which he argued that vio gam sperately need homosexual characters that didn’t nform to obv stereotyp.
Here, and that (sexualy) is not as clear cut as that, but the game still ma me feel that that was a wardly move, to make a character, and actually explore what ’s like to be gay high school when that’s not really the accepted norm, and then refe to say whether he’s gay or not.