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** What version of Persona 4 were you guys playing? Kanji was still obsessed with Naoto through the end of the game. Kanji just has no ability to deal with girls - do YOU think a guy that awkward could make a pass at someone? Plus you only have Naoto in your party for about two months of game time that are completely overshadowed by the finale of the game - the subplot likely petered out because there were more important things going on. {{spoiler|The game is pretty clear that he's not gay, all of his sexual hangups stem from him having traditionally feminine interests and being shunned for it. Since girls gave him the hardest time over it, he ''really'' can't talk to girls. And he '''really''' can't talk to Naoto. It's obvious he's attracted to girls - he got a nosebleed seeing Chie and Yukiko in their swimsuits. He was absolutely gobsmacked at the idea of Naoto in a swimsuit and disappointed when she wasn't. But it's Kanji. He's not good at communicating with girls - something common to plenty of heterosexual teenage boys. And I say this as someone who had really hoped for a gay character in this game, but it's pretty obvious the plotline for Kanji was not a simple coming out story, but of someone having to grapple with society's expectations for gender roles. And society expects that a guy with feminine interests is gay.}}
*** Also notice that the guys were also in their swimsuits during the nosebleed incident. Besides I'm a Naoto/Kanji shipper, but I thought his ambiguous sexuality was [[Word of God]] and they made him socially inept so the player wouldn't be 100% sure of which way he went. I agree with your take on his shadow back story though.
**** The guys were in their swimsuits, but Kanji had no reaction to them. He didn't start blushing or getting nose bleeds until the girls showed up. I haven't got anything on [[Word of God]] - did you find something else? I'm just going with what's in the game. Edit: Found it - [https://web.archive.org/web/20121011114903/http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=2&cId=3172364 from three days ago]. Kind of a shame, though, that only the Atlus USA guys answered that question and the game's director didn't offer any insight. Then again, I suppose if they'd said anything he hadn't intended, he would elaborated further, so I'll take his silence as a sign that they all had the same answer.
***** Actually, Kanji didn't get a nosebleed when the girls showed up either. He ACTUALLY got it when the boys were put in the water, and were suddenly wet. He is staring at THE BOYS when the girls notice his nosebleed. I think the game intends him to be ambiguous, but leaning towards gay, especially when you consider that his crush on Naoto is purely based on the fact that she looks and acts like a feminine boy, and it goes away when he finds out she's a girl.
****** Seriously, guys, why can't we just leave it at [[Word of God]] saying "it's whatever you want it to be" and be done with it?
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