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*** And one of the costume choices for the boys? The cross-dressing pageant outfits.

** The game is confirmed for US release (though the Vita isn't region locked anyway) in October.

* [[Anvilicious]]: The game hits pretty early and pretty hard with the message that it's better to face your true self than to live in denial, from the murder mystery premise to the way the characters gain their personas. [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|Of course, that's not exactly a bad message]]. Just a tad overbearing.

* [[Applicability]]: Naoto is seen by many Western fans as [[Transsexualism]], which overlaps with, but wasn't exactly the intent of the creators.

* [[Escapist Character]]: Yu definitely qualifies as he can romance school and TV idols, is an uncontested leader, a [[Supreme Chef]], a [[Warrior Therapist]] and generally comes out as an all-around cool guy for absolutely everyone he meets.

* [[Even Better Sequel]]: The gameplay is ''miles'' better than its predecessor. Most notably [[Artificial Stupidity|not having to wrassle with uncooperative ally AI in battle]]. Ironically, the Portable remake of ''Persona 3'' had a number of refinements that were directly inspired by ''Persona 4'', including the ability to instruct your teammates.

* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]:

** Despite there not being any real "official" couples (what with [[Chick Magnet|being able to date everyone]]), {{spoiler|Naoto}} and the Protagonist get paired up a ''lot'' (to the point that said spoiler is reaching [[It Was His Sled]] territory). Yukiko and Rise are also very popular targets for Protagonist-shipping, more or less in a dead heat behind {{spoiler|Naoto}} for second place.

** The ability for skills to randomly change during fusion. It is random, yes, but it is also possible for a Level 45 or 50 persona to get ''Victory Cry'', which can normally only be gotten by Lucifer at Level 99. This makes the rest of the game a cakewalk in terms of grinding. A trick with the Persona Kaiwan, normally around Level 25 or so, can be fused on a specific day some time during June, and with enough patience and luck, it can acquire Victory Cry, which can then be fused onto other Personas.

** Spell Master halves the SP cost of all skills that use it. This is quite useful in the Hollow Forest, in which if you have a Persona with that ability, you can essentially throw around high-level spells while your accessory recoups the cost.

* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: This holds true in relation to ''[[Persona 3]]''. ''Persona 3'' was a little better received in Japan and is generally considered the better of the two games, and got ''far'' more spinoff merch due to the incredible demand; ''Persona 4'', meanwhile, still got a decent reception but not a great one and not much secondary merch. The opposite holds true in America and Europe, though; while ''Persona 3'' did basically bring real mainstream attention onto the franchise, ''Persona 4'' reviewed '''much''' higher and is generally considered by everyone to be a whisper away from total perfection and quickly became the best-selling SMT title in the West ''ever'' (which actually had the effect of making ''Persona 4'' the best-selling SMT game ever due to worldwide sales). This may actually be spilling back to its homeland as well, with several spinoff merch and sequels that are about equal with ''Persona 3''.

* [[Goddamned Boss]]:

* [[Hell Is That Noise]]: Those squelchy noises Shadow Rise makes when she's moving.

* [[Hollywood Homely]]:

** Rise, when she's working at her family's tofu stand. Presumably it's meant to show how different she is from her idol persona, but characters genuinely believe she's an old lady just from the fact that she's wearing a kerchief on her head.

* [[Holy Shit Quotient]]:

** {{spoiler|Adachi}} also qualifies. "Bitches and whores", ''indeed''.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]:

** [[Accidental Innuendo|Kou looooooooves them balls]].

** {{spoiler|Adachi's}} [[Straw Misogynist]] opinion that women are "Bitches And Whores".

* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: Most fans focus so much on Kanji's sexuality issues that they lose sight of the fact that, while that's an important factor, his ''real'' and ''biggest'' issues are with acceptance. In fact, after his level his ambiguous sexuality is only mentioned as a [[Running Gag]], while his Social Link focuses more on being true to himself. True, whether he is straight or gay ([[Bi the Way|or bisexual]]) '''is''' a part of his problems, but it's not '''the''' focus.

* [[Misblamed]]: Yukiko is often blamed for the Amagi Inn incident because she forgot the time, but it was Rise who suggested to just keep it a secret.

** "Welcome home, Big Bro!" {{spoiler|Once it's gone, you ''will'' miss it}}.

** The music that plays when you max out a Social Link.

* [[Nausea Fuel]]:

** The reaction you'll get besides [[Nightmare Fuel|horror]] at Berserk Shadow Rise.

** Mitsuo Kubo's horrible dead eyes qualify as well.

** Namatame's usual expression, staring like that can be a little creepy, although his backstory at least makes it justified. {{spoiler|His boss form has this pretty bad as well}}.

* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: The Fox is actually {{spoiler|a vixen. She has kids at the end of the game}}.

* [[What an Idiot!]]: So your nephew, who you've suspected for a while of involving himself in your murder case, {{spoiler|suddenly receives a threatening letter saying someone close to him will die if he doesn't butt out}}? Why, obviously the right thing to do is {{spoiler|''leave your seven year-old daughter at home alone while you interrogate him at the police station''}}. ''Awesome'' parenting skills, Dojima! Of course, if you follow his and Nanako's Social Links, you'll learn that despite his good heart, well, parenting really is ''not'' one of Dojima's strong points.

** Teddie's verbal tic was changed from adding the word "-kuma" to words in his sentences to making bad puns, many involving the word "bear" in some way. This arguably counts for his name, too, since the connotations of a cutesy bear calling itself "Kuma" ("Bear" in Japanese) don't translate well into English. Although even in Japanese, Teddie also made bear puns (just less often than the English version). This even goes so far as that when fan-subs of ''The Animation'' were being made before the dub was released, fans would insert bear puns into Teddie's dialogue rather than retain his use of "-kuma".

** Changing "Mayonaka TV" to "The Midnight Channel".

** You get to engage in some Woolseyfication of your own if you take the part-time job as a translator. You'll often be asked about how you want to translate something culture-specific, like idioms or children's speech patterns, and basically have two options - [[Blind Idiot Translation|do it literally]], or creatively improvise. [[Anvilicious|You have a chance to get paid MUCH better if you improvise]] (assuming you don't [[Macekre|screw it up]]), one of the "double or nothing" opportunities that determine how much you get paid.

** The item that instantly transports you out of a dungeon was originally called "Kaereiru", from the Japanese "kaeru", meaning "return". Stateside, it's called "Goho-M". This also counts as a [[Stealth Pun]] that most people don't get until they say "Goho-M" out loud. Go on. Try it.