Current Events > The Persona games make me wonder about Japan. (mild spoilers)

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I'm playing Persona 3. Theres a scene where you and two guys try to hit on girls at the beach, and there's a "gag" where one is a transgender woman, who is characterized as having facial hair and calling the protagonists "boy toys."

So transgender people equals icky. But apparently grown women thinking about using their authority to groom a teenager into a relationship is totally cool, as happens in the Hermit social link. I've also read that as a woman protagonist you can have a romance social Link with Ken Amada, who is in elementary school.

There's also Bebe, who is a foreigner student living in Japan. He's the only person in the Home Economics club, which is about fashion and sewing. But the game makes no attempts at any gags about you and another dude sewing with each other alone after school. Which I find a little shocking for a game from the early 2000s.

I guess the lesson here is you cant get an accurate reading of a country's culture by playing an anime high school game
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To be fair about the Hermit Link, the teacher has no idea youre her student until the very end

Persona 5 just sort of runs with it though so you still have a point lol
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Doe posted...

I've also read that as a woman protagonist you can have a romance social Link with Ken Amada, who is in elementary school.

Not particularly true, you can max out a social link in the game without confessing to them, it mostly just affects who you spend your last moments in the game with
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