[ SECRET POST #2622 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2622 ⌋

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Comments

[feotakahari]

I'm not sure who Chihiro is, but Persona 4 gets a lot of mileage out of the following arc:

Character feels uncomfortable with social expectations
Character pushes back against social expectations
Character conforms to social expectations, and realizes he or she is happier that way.

Kanji manages to avoid this, but not many other characters do. In order to properly engage with and respond to P4's messages and themes, you need to decide for yourself how to feel about that, and responding negatively is a perfectly valid approach. (So is responding positively, for that matter. What matters is that you don't just passively consume.)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think you might have hit the nail on the head for me. Even leaving aside the idea that Naoto might be trans (which I'll admit is probably a combination of my personal bias and cultural bias), it seems obvious at some points that she's uncomfortable acting too feminine, and yet it seems like she's constantly pressured to act more feminine even when she doesn't want to, and the game treats that pressure and her giving in to it (while still seeming uncomfortable with it) as a good thing.

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DA

But that was kinda gross me out when anime/manga/what-have-you does that. It's one thing if the female character was forced to act masculine and was told that it was okay to act feminine (Cure Sunshine from Heartcatch PreCure comes to mind, iirc), but it's another thing that they shame her into being feminine when she's clearly not happy with it.