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!"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
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."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.

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.