I’m not even mad about P4R getting announced, if anything I felt this was kind of inevitable after P3R — but I’m not in love with it for personal reasons (p3r felt better as a companion to p3, endless remake culture, the Recasts ™️)
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This one the recasts are gonna hurt way more for me personally, after hearing them in spinoffs and everything for so long, they've got huge shoes to fill
On the upside, maybe 20 years having passed means that people understand gender and sexuality are more complex than simple binaries and won’t be so shitty about naoto and kanjhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Naoto is such an interesting case of a character because my understanding was that that character was written in response to hostile gender inequality in the Japanese workforce and less about personal gender identity >
But when you bring that overseas and teenagers playing it while not being subject to that super specific cultural difference while also questioning their own gender identities connected and related to Naoto in a way that may not have been intended...but can you really say they're wrong?
I think part of why the discourse has existed to heavily for so long is that these characters were written in ways that tangle them in all sorts of angle, perceptions and contexts and no one can agree on which reading is "correct". Even now I feel like I could be wrong in my understanding lol
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He will also be a romance option.