pkmin3033
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Really? I've never seen anyone else complain about it...but then, I prefer not to talk about P4 too much, because you get strung up and crucified if you dislike it in most places. I suppose it makes me humourless, but I just can't see that sort of thing as acceptable. Especially not when the character in question isn't criticised for it. It was also the way in which literally none of the characters called Yosuke out for it that annoyed me as well. I know it's partially a culture thing - or just an age group thing, whatever - but...god, it annoys me. If you can shrug it off...good for you, I guess? I dunno. It's not often that a single character stops me from enjoying something that is otherwise fairly good quality, but this...That's a valid complaint. A lot of people aren't exactly very hot on the whole homophobic angle Atlus took with Kanji's issues. Yosuke in particular, as you speak, is guilty of it.
Though to be perfectly honest with you, I took it more as a joke than anything else. Which is why it didn't impact my enjoyment of the game/anime as much as it did for you. As for the slow pacing, well, yeah. Another valid issue there. The game really likes to take its time with things XD;
Yosuke being voiced by Yuri Lowenthal did not help endear his character to me, either. Given that Yukiko, Rise, and Kanji (I never even got to Naoto in the game) weren't bad characters, I was quite annoyed the game forced the worst two on me first. After I watched the anime I tried playing the game again to see if I could get any further in it, and I just gave up because neither Yosuke nor Chie ever developed as characters...and I got very tired of Teddie being an unwavering pervert. It was funny the first time. Not after that, though.
I knew there was SOMETHING related to P3 in it. At least I wasn't wrong about that. xDNah, Trinity Soul isn't related to P3. It is a standalone work with one character from P3 cast making an appearance somewhere in it. That's about it.
Maybe give the movies a go, yes. They were definitely higher budget than the P4 anime and just didn't have much "downtime" in them. That'd alleviate your pacing complaints to a degree, I suppose.
I think my pacing complaints for the games come through the mountains of banal school life dialogue they have which add literally nothing to the plot, so if there is none of that, so much the better. I was fine with the P4 anime's pacing mostly. I also liked that Yu had a voice...and a character, albeit a reticent one. I've never understood the rationale behind having a silent protagonist that you don't pick in a story-heavy JRPG. Feels lazy; one less character to write, etc. I was glad the anime fixed that to a degree, and even made him a bit likeable.
I wonder if Persona 5 will get a full anime adaptation. Given that the first hour of the game is at least half anime cutscenes, it wouldn't surprise me...