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For Persona 5 on the PlayStatn 4, a GameFAQs msage board topic tled "Sce when is Kanji gay?".

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IS PERSONA 4‘S KANJI GAY OR NOT?

One of the most pellg parts of Atl’ Persona 4 is the qutn of one of s characters’ possible homosexualy.

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.

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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. 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? 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.

SCE WHEN IS KANJI GAY?

More surprisg still, several people the ments also wrote that they too were disappoted/upset that the game seemed to duck around the issue of whether or not the character was gay. First off, let’s get the obv out of the way, Kanji probably isn’t gay.

The game certaly mak SEEM like he’s gay.

His teractn’s wh the “boy” Naoto and, of urse, his shadow on the Midnight Channel are all signed to make look like he’s gay.

IS PERSONA 4'S KANJI GAY OR NOT?

Persona 4 really go far to make you, the player thk that Kanji is, fact gay. And so many people WANT Kanji to be gay. So many other game players WANTED Kanji to be gay, bee vio gam are sperate need for those gay characters who are not stereotyp.

If Kanji did e out the game and say hewas gay, would provi some really tertg teractns throughout the game, jt as Burch said; would allow the game to show teractns of a gay teenager high school. And that would be jt the kd of sightful, meangful reprentatn of homosexualy that gamg needs.

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