Contents:
- IS PERSONA 4‘S KANJI GAY OR NOT?
- GAY JAPANE
- FUDANSHI: MEN AND THE CONSUMPTN OF GAY THEM MANGA AND ANIME
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. Why do everyone onle say he's gay.
One of the most pellg parts of Atl’ Persona 4 is the qutn of one of s characters’ possible homosexualy.
GAY 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. 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.
The game, however, never really mak ncrete whether or not Kanji’s gay or jt sexually nfed, which has trated some gamers.
“The Japane are more fortable wh the ncept of beg gay and not beg gay at the same time. 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.
FUDANSHI: MEN AND THE CONSUMPTN OF GAY THEM MANGA AND ANIME
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.
Burch lled out Persona 4 as an example of a game which handled homosexualy extremely poorly. Is he gay? Is he not gay?