Why Persona 5 NEEDED Gay Relationships // LGBTQ
Starting to feel alienated as a queer persona fan, not at all by the community but by the games themselves. Of course there’s the gag with Ryuji in Shinjuku where gay men are depicted as sexual predators, which is icky. They (kind of) patched it in Royal, but it still all feels in bad taste. Home Discussions Workshop Market Broadcasts. Change language. Homophobia in the Persona Franchise
They do end up appearing again in the beach scene. This time the game stops with the implications, and pretty much outright says, that these two men want to at least sexually harass minors. So the scene starts with the two gay men making their entrance. In the opening cutscene of Persona 3 Reload , protagonist Makoto Yuki walks by someone with a Pride pin on their bag. The moment also ends up serving as a pretty decent encapsulation of how queerness is situated throughout this updated version of the year-old classic. 
Atlus tried, and failed, to fix Persona 5’s most
Persona 5 ‘s homophobia problem Persona 5 has always positioned itself as a story about standing up against oppressive forces in the name of standing up for the little guy crushed under their boots. Queer Persona fans know the series to be fraught, and even the most passionate among us treat it like the fun uncle who claims to love everyone and still says something extremely out of pocket each holiday. I figured Persona 5 Tactica , the tactical spin-off launching on November 17, would follow all the previous games and find some way to throw a jab at queer people for no reason.
Taking a look at the LGBT representation in Persona 5 (Light
The LGBT Characters of the Persona Series (Part 2) Ryoji Mochizuki (Persona 3) I wont say much about Ryoji, due to heavy spoilers. But in the female route, you have access to a social link with him. In it, he reveals that he would be in love with the protagonist regardless of their gender, establishing him as bisexual. Persona 5 Royal developer Atlus once made an announcement about the upcoming English version of the game that had fans of the Japanese role-playing game hopeful and excited. They promised that they were making changes to the dialogue to try and fix the situation in Royal. Heres to hoping future persona games have gay romance options
Heres to hoping future persona games have gay romance options It was a step in the right direction to change that unfortunate scene with ryuji and the two dudes, and I hope Atlus will take the time to be a little more inclusive for LGBTQ+ fans in their future games! cheers:). The Persona series has a long history of homophobia and transphobia, something its queer fans have struggled with for years. In the new release, the woman is a conspiracy theorist trying to sell them special sunscreen, and the boys react with the same dismay they did in the original. Persona 3 Reload Gives Me Hope Persona 6 Can Do Right By
In the original Persona 5, a pair of unnamed gay men approach the character Ryuji unprompted during a mandatory in-game visit to Shinjuku. . 
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Persona 5 Royal could have—and should have, in my opinion—contained an LGBTQ social link OR gay dating options. .
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I have a lot of thoughts on it. The themes of the persona games overwhelming resonate with a queer reading. They're universally about self acceptance, finding a place in the world, community, and defying how people have been victimized by the world. Atlus shows their awareness of this with Jun and Yukino in P2, Jun being so far the only example of a gay romance choice for the MC and the only. .