Playing the games in Japanese I always felt like that ambiguity seemed like a result of the localization to me. But I played the games years ago when I was younger and simply dumber so I might not be correct thinking the JP didn't carry that same ambiguity.
In the case that it was introduced through the localization I have to applaud them to make this choice, I think that's very cool and gives his story more layers.
Was hoping that localization could have done some magic for the P5 and toned down or even change the "predator" thing(give it a different context that would still make sense) but seems that's not the case. My single hope is AtlusUSA bringing it up to the team how stuff like that is viewed.
Agreed I really liked Kanji's story for the reason of ambiguity. I played it about 5 years ago and I thought to myself this character is brilliant. I'm not gay, so I could relate to his struggles with liking gendered things. I could remember playing with dolls or not liking sports as a child and thinking, man it's messed up to tell people what they should like based on gender. But I was also thinking this character could be really relatable for someone not understanding their queerness, someone who lives in a small town with not a lot of other queer people, someone big that looks like they should be playing football but really they just want to open up and be themselves.
I feel like Atlus could do a lot more with their characters to make them feel more like people.
We should be able to call out friends on their stupid bullshit like the constant teasing of the token dumb friend characters like Junpei, Yosuke, and Ryuji. Maybe that sort of thing actually really gets to them emotionally. They often do get hurt by other team mates for laughs.
We should be able to call out sexist or homophobic stuff from characters like Yosuke.
I think it would be interesting to have a girl on your team you can just never date, maybe she's gay, or just doesn't have any interest in you. I think it would also be interesting to have 2 team mates that are a couple and you see how their relationship changes independent of the player. Maybe one asks the other out early on, grow as a couple, you have to hear about their bumps in the road. Maybe they take a break from each other. You know, real stuff that may happens to highschoolers.
Playing p4 Yosuke and Chie always really bothered me because they seemed so hypocritical to the games themes.
She doesn't​ have a shadow, that's false. Eikichi hasn't seen her in years and she gained weight in the interim. He accept​s her for who she is.
I didn't say she had a shadow, though I was vague because I was going off a Wiki summary. Shadow Eikichi was the problem. Does she not wish to be skinny and then remain that way the rest of the game?
) Kaiden was written better in that aspect and also didnt consider you a rival if you didnt return his flirting, same with Dorian (aka well written in comparison to Anders) 
