That's my experience as well. At the end of the game, I felt Yosuke was one of the characters I could relate to the most if not the character. I've always said that, too.
Let's be clear: The only thing I'm bullish on is the usage of "homophobic" and people downplaying it. Yosuke fits the description almost perfectly. But I love the character myself and I can't make that clear enough.
I think Yosuke's homophobia though, again, stems from him being a 17 year old raised in a culture that could stand to really fix the way it acts toward homosexuals. I wouldn't quite say that it's what defines Yosuke's interactions with Kanji, though it is definitely the stand out part of it. I think Yosuke's real beef is that Yosuke wants to sort of have time just between him and Yu, and Kanji kinda bunks that angle at times. Like, I almost feel the real reason Yosuke picks on Kanji is because Yosuke is sort of the middle brother and Kanji is the little brother and both sorta are vying for big bro Yu's attention.
I think what we really lack, though is time Yosuke spends just with Kanji. He spends alone time with Yu and with Teddie, but not really Kanji, so their relationship isn't as solid. I feel like you
could say that's due to Yosuke's irrational, stupid teenage fear of catchin' the gay from Kanji, but it could also be that Kanji himself tends to spend more time with Rise and Teddie than anybody else. Like, inside the group there are sorta sub groups.
And I want to point out that over the course of the game Yosuke is increasingly less averse toward Kanji. In the absence of Yu, I imagine that Kanji and Yosuke will naturally sorta gravitate to one another in their mutual need of a bro.
Yea I feel that way about him sort of too
Heh, thanks!
Corvo's pretty much spot-on. I think Yosuke is a very well-realised character. I'm not a fan, but he's absolutely one of the more realistic teenaged characters I've seen in a game.
Yeah, I think the point of Yosuke is that he's supposed to sorta embody the awkward, petty, small-minded side of being a teenage boy early on and sorta grow out of that as it goes on. I mean shoot, his Shadow Self is basically just a disaffected teenage brat.
Well said.
I think the majority of the people posting in this thread could definitely relate to Yosuke at some point in their lives. At the very least, I could empathize with that kind of tactlessness all too well, unfortunately.
I think the aspect that balances out Yosuke's shittiness is really that he's aware of it and wants to get past it but often makes it worse for himself. Like, Yosuke's "thirst" sorta encapsulates it because he is perfectly capable of being a sweet, kind guy like we saw in P4A but oftentimes he lets his mouth run too much. In addition to being the "ideas guy" (the guy who has all the best ideas for what the group should do as a group), I think one of Yosuke's greatest strengths is that he's very good at becoming nonchalant about shit after awhile.
Like, I kinda feel like the addition of Teddie to the cast was perfect for Yosuke, because it gave someone who was almost undeniably more awkward and more brash than Yosuke who Yosuke could then sort of see and go "damn well I better not do that." Because people focus a shitton on how "Yosuke doesn't accept that Kanji is gay!" but people tend to skip over just how chill Yosuke ultimately is that Teddie is an inhuman embodiment of the human subconscious or whatever. His failings are kinda balanced by the moments when his true quality shines through.
How I feel about him. Good shit, CS.
Could not have said it better myself, Yosuke is indeed pretty great.
Heh, thanks.
Exactly how I feel. I thought Yosuke was pretty relatable. Maybe it was growing up in Texas, but I knew a LOT of Yosuke's in high school and it's not that different from how I might have acted then. Yosuke is one of my favorite characters
Oh definitely. It's also why I try not to be hard on people I meet like this now, because I realize I was that way once, and that people can change and be better than their petty, small-minded, awkward teenage selves.
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