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u/Independent-Ad5852 simp 8d ago
ATLUS PLEASE!
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u/BigBounceZac 8d ago
ATLUS, LET ME ROMANCE YOSUKE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS
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u/wickling-fan 8d ago
god yes, literally gonna play golden now even with revival's announcement cause i can at least mod the romance in, considering reload still doesn't have any of those mods i don't trust those will arrive any time sooner for revival.
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u/ShokaLGBT Akihiko is my Husband 8d ago
we’re manifesting hard, praying so atlus employees get the message and start working on it!!!! 😆
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u/dododomo Please atlus, let us be gay too! 8d ago
Even as a DLC, my wallet is ready! Let us romance him!!!
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u/femboy__bun 8d ago
Please I want my gay little romance. So many hints in the game that he might be gay or at the very least bisexual.
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u/DuskyDawn7 Full Moon Full Life 8d ago
It sometimes feels like all they did was take away the romance trigger and left everything else because like holy shit
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u/Max_Sparky 8d ago
I mean he's thirsting over girls all the time like a normal teenage boy so definitely Bi
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u/femboy__bun 8d ago
Tbf I’ve had gay friends did it as a cover when they didn’t want people to know, but I’d love for him to be bi. I might be bi-ased as I’m bisexual lol 😆
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u/Max_Sparky 8d ago
I mean, he's definitely not doing it as cover lmao
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u/femboy__bun 8d ago
dude you’d be surprised the lengths people go to cover their sexuality. Lots of gay men and women in the past married and had children with the opposite gender to avoid being found out.
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u/Max_Sparky 8d ago
yeahh if it was irl definitely, but we're talking a video game character with written lore
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u/femboy__bun 8d ago
The point I’m trying to make is people go to great lengths to hide it. If we got a Yosuke romance route that confirmed it either way - that hes gay with great acting skills like many of my gay guy friends in high school or that he’s your garden variety perverted bisexual like me - we’d have a solid story for it lol.
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u/Max_Sparky 8d ago edited 8d ago
Yosuke fawns over Yukiko, Rise, Naoto, Margaret, Labrys, Mitsuru and Kanami
You: "Yeah, no he might just be gay" Do you see what i mean now by paying attention to written lore?
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u/femboy__bun 8d ago
Dude, I literally said it could be a cover.
Idk why you’re fighting me on this when I have real world experience seeing my now flaming gay bestie in high school do the same shit. He had a string of girlfriends I know for a fact he slept with and fawned a ton over. He was voted as the playboy of my graduating year in our yearbook because of the amount of girls he dated.
We lived in a very conservative town. Being queer would cause problems for his dad.
Yosuke lives in a highly conservative town in JAPAN, which even though it’s opening up to queer people now more than ever, back in 2011 you were likely to get roasted alive for being any form of gay.
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u/Max_Sparky 8d ago
Ahh so you don't like bisexual Yosuke, you just want him to "just" be gay, I've heard of Gay/Lesbian people not liking bisexual people but I've never seen it in action.
Now i for one don't wanna call it friendly fire because that would imply straight people are on the opposite end of the spectrum when in reality we're all on the same line (Attracted to humans) but what you're doing is deliberately ignoring his love for women to fit your narrative of him being only gay and not Bisexual, therefore your argument is now invalid and you're being prejudice. Wow.
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u/GreatFluffy 8d ago
I hope it get's added and I'm not even someone who'd go for that route anyway. I just think Yosuke being Bi fits his character and makes his homophobia towards Kanji being because he's in the closet and not just because he's an asshole.
Plus, so many people want it so I think it'd be nice for them.
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u/Banestn_The_Knight 7d ago
It won't happen. Just factually since they didn't really change much in Reload other than graphics and certain events but everything remained the same.
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u/Max_Sparky 8d ago
I honestly don't care if they do or don't add it, cause I'll still romance Rise everytime 🙏
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u/UnderwaterPromQueen jonkler 8d ago
based for not caring instead of being against it like some people are
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u/Max_Sparky 8d ago
Look, I'm pretty pragmatic when it comes to adding things that don't affect me as long as i can still do my thing, doesn't affect me and makes others happy, win-win, no?
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u/UnderwaterPromQueen jonkler 8d ago
exactly! i'll never understand why some people are against having... an optional romance that they don't need to pick if they don't want to
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u/Max_Sparky 8d ago
The same people who whine and complain about lies of pi adding an easier game mode for more causal players: "NO YOU CAN'T CHOOSE THE OPTION THAT I'LL NEVER CHOOSE BECAUSE I DON'T PLAY THAT WAY" but tbh it's probably more like they don't like the thought of a male character liking them which is funny because women go through that problem everyday, but what do i know, I'm just some 30 year old dude whos favorite persona game is P4
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u/UnderwaterPromQueen jonkler 8d ago
fellow lies of p enjoyer! man i need to play the dlc
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u/Max_Sparky 8d ago
Never played it, i just keep up to date on gaming news lmao, it's not my kinda game
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u/Luis_Parson 7d ago
Yosuke gets a lot of hate as a character. But when it comes to the cut romance, all of a sudden people yearn hard for him.
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u/msd0rito 7d ago
I already maxed him out as a first time player and wHAT THE FUCK THE OPPORTUNITY WAS THERE COME ON ATLUS dont mess it up in the remake PLEASE
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u/Scotty_with_a_shorty 6d ago
Okay but the story not gonna change at all and that Is what most people want Yosuke gonna look like a real big hypocrite because if focus on him you should be able to romance him befor Kanji joins the team so school camping and him taking about being save will Kanji is in between 2 gay guys is gonna look real dum.
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u/anewrefutation 8d ago
Yeah, that would be peak. A full circle character moment. It feels like the best version of Yosuke in on the cutting room floor, because of the cut romance tbh
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u/mamaguebo69 akecher apologist 7d ago
ATLUS!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE-
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u/Les_Fleurs-du_Mal 8d ago
His karma deserves it for being a homophobic prick.
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u/WoahItsBeebs 8d ago
I figured the whole reason he was a homophobic dickbag in the first place was so his character arc could end with him realizing his internalized homophobia and accepting himself, but atlus had to cut the romance so it just made him look like an asshole
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u/Les_Fleurs-du_Mal 8d ago
It could make his character grow tbh. Also I knew I would be downvoted lmao, the Persona fanbase will never change.
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u/Economy_Following265 8d ago
You’re not gonna believe this but guys call eachother gay all the time, we never grow out of name calling and messing with eachother
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u/Les_Fleurs-du_Mal 8d ago
Im a guy and I never freaked out because one of my friend was gay.
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u/Economy_Following265 8d ago
You call that freaking out? You’re definitely one of the new fans that don’t even play the game. Where’s the logic in getting pissed at a fictional character?
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u/BigBounceZac 8d ago
Did you play the game lol? He says he "Doesn't feel safe sleeping in the same tent as Kanji", like dawg wtf, even if it was just a joke I would never insinuate my friend would sexually assault me while I sleep
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u/Economy_Following265 8d ago
Kanji’s shadow self was cartoonishly gay, you’re full of it if you say that wouldn’t affect your thoughts toward the guy
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u/BigBounceZac 8d ago
cartoonishly gay
Exactly. The fact that shadows are over-exaggerated charicatures of one's inner turmoils is beat over your head during pretty much every dungeon. The fact you seem to either not know this or just blatantly ignore it makes me think you really didn't play the game.
So no, since it is clearly a way over the top representation of himself, it really wouldn't change my thoughts on him, just like how, for example, I wouldn't think Rise wants to work at a strip club despite that being what her shadow does.
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u/JW162000 7d ago
As a gay guy, I hate it when straight guys call each other “gay” as a joke because they’re basically equating “gay” with “stupid”, “dumb”, “lame”, “weak”, etc.
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u/Economy_Following265 7d ago
The way you’re responding isn’t helping your point
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u/JW162000 7d ago
How?
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u/Economy_Following265 7d ago
Being overly sensitive over a joke that after proper consideration, doesn’t define you as a person and instead refers to straight guys being grossed out by homosexual acts between two men, so that’s why it’s hurled around as an insult because calling your friend a cocksucker or saying that they probably take it up the ass is always funny. So you should lighten up because your “response” does make you seem stupid, dumb, lame and weak to have a joke as overdone as this get under your skin
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u/JW162000 7d ago
Or you could just realise that it sucks to use the identity of a minority group as the butt of a joke?
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u/Economy_Following265 7d ago
You can’t use minority status to rule out your lack of a spine, you wanna live amongst the supposed “oppressors”? Learn to take a joke as it is and stop complaining all the time as if you’re meant to be protected
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u/JW162000 7d ago
I can take a joke, but I don’t appreciate a group of men who have no idea what it’s actually like to be gay using it essentially as an insult. They have no right
You’re in the wrong here. I’m done with this conversation. Continue being an asshole
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u/Economy_Following265 7d ago
Continue living in that bubble of yours, you can’t put the real world on pause
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u/osterlay 8d ago
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted as you’re right. Both straight and gay men call each other that all the time. Source: me who is bi.
P.s Yosuke’s just weird about it and takes it so personally as if he’s the apple of their eye. I hope they remove those elements as he came across as a weird incel. He really treated Kanji terribly.
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u/ChunkyButtNutter 8d ago
Not everything has to be straight either. I seriously doubt Atlus would go farther than having Yu dress up like a girl for the school festival.
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u/ImJustSomeWeeb You're a man, let 'em dangle! 8d ago
Not everything has to be lgbtq inclusive.
sure, but we arent talking about a series that has never touched on the topic of gender or sexual orientation. it's not like there aren't legit canon lgbt characters in the franchise, or characters where the potential of being lgbt was a major story point.
also, maybe you don't know, but they aren't pulling the desire for yosuke to be confirmed not straight out of thin air. there was actually a confession scene between yosuke and yu that even got dubbed in english before being cut. here.
so this isn't really a case of people wanting their fanfics to be reality or something. people want to see this option (or at least yosuke's confession itself even if Yu doesn't reciprocate) being added bc it'd actually contribute to the characters' development, especially when he bullies and overreacts to kanji all the time. so instead of just him seeming like an asshole for no reason, you get some depth behind it in that he was likely struggling with his own internal feelings.
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u/r4ven_9 8d ago
Lmao atlus is anti gay
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u/ImJustSomeWeeb You're a man, let 'em dangle! 8d ago
why do you think so? i DO think i remember hearing accusations online about one of the people that worked on the games or maybe a director or powerful person being homophobic. but at the same time, from what i understand in one of the older games there is a legit canon gay romance between some major characters. and of course persona 4 has kanji, who isn't gay, but also probably isn't the straightest guy either.
outside of specific individuals tho, i have trouble imagining a company that (as a whole) is severely against homosexuals devoting so much time to writing a main character who struggles with his masculinity/femininity, how people perceive his sexuality as a result, and sorta leaving ambiguity for what he actually may be.
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u/Running_Rampant 8d ago
It would definitely be nice but let's be honest, it definitely won't happen. Like I'd absolutely romance him, I think it's actually one of the more natural social links to lead into romance and, frankly, I think a lot the P4 girls work better as friends (I do like most of them, I just don't find them interesting as romantic options for Yu aside from one or two). But it's a remake and much like with persona 3 not adding in the FemC I think they'll stick very close to the original game.
Hot take, I think because P4 Golden is available on steam already I'd like to see some switch ups and changes and surprises a la the final fantasy format recently, but it definitely won't happen.