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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#59876: Aug 2nd 2020 at 1:41:31 PM

There was actually this meme on Reddit I just read earlier today.

Hi., We are the dumb but good-hearted characters that will be your best friend throughout the story. We are also most likely the first guy you made a significant social link with.

And the mot upvoted replies are about how Yosuke is actually the smartest member of the team besides Yu and Naoto.

Because it's true.

RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#59877: Aug 2nd 2020 at 1:43:33 PM

[up] Yosuke is sort of being prepared to inherit his dad's management position at Junes, so that's a thing in his favor.

Even if he doesn't really care for it at first.

Edited by RedHunter543 on Aug 2nd 2020 at 1:43:36 AM

"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
Former King
#59878: Aug 2nd 2020 at 1:45:25 PM

Yukiko's an airhead, Chie's a meathead, Teddie's literally a child, and Kanji has no book smarts. Pretty easy to beat that combination in terms of smarts.

The legend has returned.
RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#59879: Aug 2nd 2020 at 1:45:53 PM

[up] Yukiko is pretty competent at running the inn though.

Edited by RedHunter543 on Aug 2nd 2020 at 1:48:05 AM

"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#59880: Aug 2nd 2020 at 1:48:24 PM

I thought Yukiko got good grades. She's never bemoaning exams like Chie and Yosuke.

Kanji is unquestionably the dumbest IT member. That' jut his role. He is more of a meathead than Chie as his dialogue really is quite often just "uh...what we talking about? Me no understand. Me caveman."

Edited by Nikkolas on Aug 2nd 2020 at 1:50:15 AM

Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Surrounded by weirdoes
#59881: Aug 2nd 2020 at 1:53:53 PM

Yukiko's train of thought is still really hard to follow, though, so she might not come off as smart as she really is, or something.

Wake me up at your own risk.
NeoChaos (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
#59882: Aug 2nd 2020 at 3:14:18 PM

Yukiko is at minimum book smart, given all the talk about how she has the top grades of the class she's in. Social skills/street smarts are where she's behind in what with the random bursts of laughter and her cluelessness about things like what exactly is in Yosuke's "secret stash".

deludedmusings Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#59883: Aug 2nd 2020 at 3:23:18 PM

She just gets assigned to a humour role once she joins the group.

Yumil Mad Archivist Since: Mar, 2016
Mad Archivist
#59884: Aug 2nd 2020 at 3:36:16 PM

Yukiko consistently hit top grades (or second-best grades if you beat her) so she's easily the most academically smart of the bunch. But she's not smart in the sense of sharp wits or emotionnal empathy.

Chie is a meathead, but towards the end of the plot, it becomes somewhat of a running thing that she ends up throwing dumb thoughts at the wall that happen to be actually completely true.

Yosuke starts out really smart... for the average best bro archetype, at least, but as naoto joins the gang, he kinda stops having those moments of smart.

For what it's worth, Arena also perpetuates the trend of Chie having occasionnal, smarter insight, as she does realise that the culprit behind the events of the game has got to be the shadow of the person thrown into the tv, while Yosuke believes it's his own shadow acting up again.

"when you stare too long into the abyss, Xehanort takes advantage of the distraction to break into your house and steal all your shit."
Smasher from The 1830's, but without the racists (Don’t ask) Relationship Status: The best thing that ever happened to a bum like me
#59885: Aug 2nd 2020 at 4:53:42 PM

Just a thought:

Why does Yu have multiple copies of Robert Johnson's complete recordings?

vicarious vicarious from NC, USA Since: Feb, 2013
vicarious
#59886: Aug 2nd 2020 at 5:32:19 PM

Because he’s got the blues

And only the bittersweet comfort of Mississippi Delta blues can soothe this tired man’s soul

Smasher from The 1830's, but without the racists (Don’t ask) Relationship Status: The best thing that ever happened to a bum like me
#59887: Aug 2nd 2020 at 9:14:32 PM

That sounds more like Makoto/Minato, from what little I know of him.

Edited by Smasher on Aug 2nd 2020 at 12:14:48 PM

Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
Former King
#59888: Aug 2nd 2020 at 9:43:17 PM

Joker too, to be honest.

The legend has returned.
Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Surrounded by weirdoes
#59889: Aug 2nd 2020 at 9:45:43 PM

Yu seems more like a soft jazz kind of guy, really.

Wake me up at your own risk.
Smasher from The 1830's, but without the racists (Don’t ask) Relationship Status: The best thing that ever happened to a bum like me
#59890: Aug 2nd 2020 at 10:44:39 PM

[up][up]Yeah, Yu has everything handed to him on a silver platter while Makoto/Minato and Akira/Ren have a lot of personal obstacles to face.

Edited by Smasher on Aug 2nd 2020 at 1:45:57 PM

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#59891: Aug 2nd 2020 at 10:46:27 PM

I imagine Minako's a ska girl. Upbeat, jazzy rock with deceptively bleak but usually determined lyrics.

Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#59892: Aug 2nd 2020 at 11:56:31 PM

[up][up] I mean, he's the only one with really no backstory at all. Joker and Minato have one big event that determined their lives in the game, Yu has...nothing. Do we even know why he came to Inaba? Do we know a single thing about his pre-game life?

ArthurEld Since: May, 2014
#59893: Aug 3rd 2020 at 12:08:05 AM

His parents took work overseas so he came to live with uncle Dojima.

Smasher from The 1830's, but without the racists (Don’t ask) Relationship Status: The best thing that ever happened to a bum like me
#59894: Aug 3rd 2020 at 12:08:12 AM

Edit: [nja]

Edited by Smasher on Aug 3rd 2020 at 3:08:30 PM

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#59895: Aug 3rd 2020 at 12:20:40 AM

I love how lazy the explanation is. The quote is quite literally "So... Your mom and dad are busy as always. They're working overseas, was it? I know it's only for a year, but getting stuck in a place like this because of your parents... It's rough being a kid."

Cosplaythief Since: Jun, 2013
#59896: Aug 3rd 2020 at 1:54:00 AM

Always saw Yu as a latchkey kid. And from what Danganronpa Ultra Despair Girls taught me, those can have loopy minds.

I mean he ate Nanako's science project among other inedible things in the fridge. That kid is not alright.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#59897: Aug 3rd 2020 at 1:56:44 AM

They really should give us more opportunity's to play the protagonists as people completely out of their fucking minds.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#59898: Aug 3rd 2020 at 3:25:55 AM

That's what mainline is for.[lol]

TrueShadow1 Since: Dec, 2012
#59899: Aug 3rd 2020 at 4:28:13 AM

It was said that they purposefully made Yu into a blanker state to make it easier to self-insert.

One thing Persona 4: The Animation did right is giving Yu a backstory and personality. It's kinda sad later P4 games don't carry over those personalities much and largely made him into a generic hero.

RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#59900: Aug 3rd 2020 at 4:29:26 AM

[up] Yeah Yu has a complex over leaving and abandonment same as Nanako thanks to moving around a lot. I thought that was pretty solid.

Then P5 did Joker dirty.

"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"

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