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Since we're taking into account the emotional aspect of things, I'll leave some cents on Shadow Kanji here, with my own experience.

As the biggest Kanji/Naoto shipper around here I dare you to find someone who would come close I will teach them the meaning of romance, I do have strong feelings toward Kanji's sexuality on a base level. Namely that P4 does a really bad job empowering non-heterosexuality, but a really fantastic job portraying what it means to be a teenager struggling with those. I struggled really hard coming to grips with my sexuality as a teen, and the one line "It doesn't matter guys or chicks, I'm just scared shitless about being rejected" resonated with me like nothing else. It made me feel it's okay to be somewhere in between, that being me was enough, just like it was for Kanji, and I can figure it out on the way without a definitive answer. And that made watching his character transformation through the game all the more special, because it inspired me to change or find resolution in myself, too. And that's, y'know. Kinda cool. I guess.

Admittedly I think Shadow Kanji himself is a kind of "Whitney's Miltank" situation where it's more there to check DO YOU KNOW WHAT BUFFS AND DEBUFFS ARE and is hard for requiring knowledge of how the game expects you to play it rather than taking the all-out offensive approach, making it more memorable as a result, so the encounter doesn't stand out to me quite as much. It was my hardest boss on my first playthrough, but I've seen many a playthrough where he ranges from "impossible" to "yeah okay whatever".

And,uh... yeah. Tagging, obviously.
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