{"id":2034536,"date":"2026-07-09T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2034536"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:20:10","slug":"there-are-apparently-going-to-be-changes-to-one-of-persona-4-revivals-most-important-characters-but-what-exactly-does-that-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2034536","title":{"rendered":"There are apparently going to be &#8220;changes&#8221; to one of Persona 4 Revival&#8217;s most important characters, but what exactly does that mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/persona-4-revival\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Persona 4 Revival<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">There are apparently going to be &#8220;changes&#8221; to one of Persona 4 Revival&#8217;s most important characters, but what exactly does that mean?<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Knowing Yu, knowing me.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/yosuke-p4-r.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Yosuke, as he appears in Persona 4, holding up a hand with red headphones around his neck. There&apos;s a blurry blue room in the background.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"yosuke-p4-r.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dom Peppiatt avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/pxl_20220402_110941365.portrait_V04meYj.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1044\" height=\"1130\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Dom Peppiatt avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"pxl_20220402_110941365.portrait_V04meYj.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1044\" height=\"1130\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/dom-peppiatt\">Dom Peppiatt<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Deputy Editorial Director<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-07-09T09:20:10+00:00\">July 9, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"36ff4042-793f-4428-af27-878973eaf4f4\" data-name=\"Persona 4 Revival\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Persona 4 Revival\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Persona 4 Revival\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Persona 4 Revival\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Persona 4 Revival\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Persona 4 Revival\" title=\"Follow Persona 4 Revival\"><br \/>\n  Follow Persona 4 Revival<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>After a long period of not knowing much about the upcoming remake, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/persona-4\">Persona 4<\/a> Revival,, we last month finally learned that Atlus&#8217; re-do of one of its most popular games is launching on 18th February on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X\/S, and PC. But the game isn&#8217;t a straight one-to-one remake of the 2008 RPG. Similarly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/persona-3-reload\">Persona 3 Reload<\/a>, it  will see differences to the source material.<\/p>\n<p>At Anime Expo last weekend (where we also got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/cyberpunk-edgerunners-season-2-first-reactions\">our first look at Cyberpunk Edgerunners Season 2<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/animecorner.me\/persona-4-revival-changes-to-yosuke\/\">Anime Corner<\/a> managed to chat to P4R&#8217;s general producer, Kazuhisa Wada, who revealed what flavour some of the game&#8217;s changes will take.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Persona 4 Revival - Official Characters Overview\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i2Z_jdMgYG4?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/i2Z_jdMgYG4\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Persona 4 Revival &#8211; Official Characters Overview<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here is a quick overview of the characters in the game.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i2Z_jdMgYG4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t changed anything core about the characters,&#8221; noted Wada. &#8220;But we&#8217;ve just sort of brushed up the kind of corners, to make sure it all fits and really is appropriate for the characters and for the age that we live in now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He goes on to say that  Atlus &#8220;[hasn&#8217;t] really changed anything about the story of the characters&#8217; thoughts or how they act,&#8221; but rather that the team has &#8220;changed the way we express some of this a little bit, mostly with Yosuke. &#8220;He&#8217;s a little bit insensitive in terms of how he treats outsiders sometimes. We wanted to lighten that up and make it a little more fitting for the world that we live in now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. What could this mean? If you&#8217;re familiar with the base game, you&#8217;ll know that Yosuke is, at times, quite difficult to like: he&#8217;s conservative, judgemental, and quite often plays up to the &#8216;teenage pervert&#8217; stereotype. Certain interactions the party member can have with the player character and one other support character can also make him seem intolerant and homophobic &#8211; which is ironic, given that in the original game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Ogh3mdPHsA\">there were unused voice lines indicating he was a potential romance option for the male protagonist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We can already see one such change thanks to the gameplay trailers Atlus has released: there&#8217;s a line in P4 and its re-release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/persona-4-golden\">Persona 4 Golden<\/a>, in which Yosuke sheepishly notes that protagonist Yu is &#8220;good with his hands&#8221;. Internet sleuths have determined this line is now &#8220;actually, you do strike me as someone who&#8217;d be good at that&#8221; &#8211; before anyone cries censorship or &#8216;straight-washing&#8217;, it&#8217;s worth noting that this is actually closer to what is said in the original Japanese script.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"image_wrapper\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/persona4revival3.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"2560\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt data-autosize=\"bounds_lossy\" data-uri=\"persona4revival3.jpg\" height=\"1440\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"2560\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"loading spinner large\"><\/span><\/p>\n<nav class=\"pagination--hoverable\">\n<div class=\"previous\">\n<button class=\"button pagination-button\"><br \/>\n<span 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data-uri=\"persona4revival2.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fullscreen_info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<span class=\"label\"><br \/>\nCaption          <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"attribution\">\n<span class=\"label\"><br \/>\nAttribution          <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-gallery-caption\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advert_container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve dipped your toe into any of the technically non-canon Persona spin-off universe (Persona Q, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/persona-4-arena\">Persona 4 Arena<\/a>, Persona 4 Dancing All Night, and so on), you&#8217;ll know Yosuke has grown up a bit since the events of Persona 4: he is often a bit embarrassed and humbled by his past behaviour, and exhibits maturity and self-reflection outside of the title&#8217;s main storyline. I quite like this; it offers him a redemption arc and shows that &#8216;hey, look, we can all be idiots when we&#8217;re teenagers&#8217;. I hope the changes Atlus makes don&#8217;t sand off too many of Yosuke&#8217;s rough edges &#8211; I think, in many ways, they define him.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Atlus has opted to change legacy lines to be more appropriate in today&#8217;s climate: in Persona 3 Reload, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/persona-3-reload-removes-an-infamously-transphobic-line-of-dialogue\">the developer took out and altered lines that were transphobic<\/a> &#8211; opting to make the NPC at the center of the controversy a conspiracy theorist, doing away with the trans panic aspect of the interaction altogether. For my money, this was a good thing: it&#8217;s a tiny change that doesn&#8217;t alienate anyone, and has very little bearing on the overall story. Atlus also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/persona-5-royal-will-change-homophobic-scenes-for-western-release\">edited out homophobic elements from Persona 5<\/a> by the time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/persona-5-royal\">Persona 5 Royal<\/a> hit the shelves. Again, I see this as a net benefit.<\/p>\n<p>So I trust Atlus when it comes to these Yosuke changes. The studio knows how to balance editing a script for a modern audience whilst retaining the bite and edge its characters have become known for. There&#8217;s a lot of interesting stuff in Persona 4 around gender identity and perceived homosexuality, and to sanitise that too much would be to undercut key themes in the game. I trust Atlus will keep P4&#8217;s much-loved spirit intact.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>After a long period of not knowing much about the upcoming remake, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/persona-4\">Persona 4<\/a> Revival,, we last month finally learned that Atlus&#8217; re-do of one of its most popular games is launching on 18th February on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X\/S, and PC. But the game isn&#8217;t a straight one-to-one remake of the 2008 RPG. Similarly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/persona-3-reload\">Persona 3 Reload<\/a>, it  will see differences to the source material.<\/p>\n<p>At Anime Expo last weekend (where we also got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/cyberpunk-edgerunners-season-2-first-reactions\">our first look at Cyberpunk Edgerunners Season 2<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/animecorner.me\/persona-4-revival-changes-to-yosuke\/\">Anime Corner<\/a> managed to chat to P4R&#8217;s general producer, Kazuhisa Wada, who revealed what flavour some of the game&#8217;s changes will take.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Persona 4 Revival - Official Characters Overview\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i2Z_jdMgYG4?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/i2Z_jdMgYG4\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Persona 4 Revival &#8211; Official Characters Overview<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here is a quick overview of the characters in the game.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i2Z_jdMgYG4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t changed anything core about the characters,&#8221; noted Wada. &#8220;But we&#8217;ve just sort of brushed up the kind of corners, to make sure it all fits and really is appropriate for the characters and for the age that we live in now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He goes on to say that  Atlus &#8220;[hasn&#8217;t] really changed anything about the story of the characters&#8217; thoughts or how they act,&#8221; but rather that the team has &#8220;changed the way we express some of this a little bit, mostly with Yosuke. &#8220;He&#8217;s a little bit insensitive in terms of how he treats outsiders sometimes. We wanted to lighten that up and make it a little more fitting for the world that we live in now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. What could this mean? If you&#8217;re familiar with the base game, you&#8217;ll know that Yosuke is, at times, quite difficult to like: he&#8217;s conservative, judgemental, and quite often plays up to the &#8216;teenage pervert&#8217; stereotype. Certain interactions the party member can have with the player character and one other support character can also make him seem intolerant and homophobic &#8211; which is ironic, given that in the original game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Ogh3mdPHsA\">there were unused voice lines indicating he was a potential romance option for the male protagonist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We can already see one such change thanks to the gameplay trailers Atlus has released: there&#8217;s a line in P4 and its re-release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/persona-4-golden\">Persona 4 Golden<\/a>, in which Yosuke sheepishly notes that protagonist Yu is &#8220;good with his hands&#8221;. 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title&#8217;s main storyline. I quite like this; it offers him a redemption arc and shows that &#8216;hey, look, we can all be idiots when we&#8217;re teenagers&#8217;. I hope the changes Atlus makes don&#8217;t sand off too many of Yosuke&#8217;s rough edges &#8211; I think, in many ways, they define him.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Atlus has opted to change legacy lines to be more appropriate in today&#8217;s climate: in Persona 3 Reload, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/persona-3-reload-removes-an-infamously-transphobic-line-of-dialogue\">the developer took out and altered lines that were transphobic<\/a> &#8211; opting to make the NPC at the center of the controversy a conspiracy theorist, doing away with the trans panic aspect of the interaction altogether. For my money, this was a good thing: it&#8217;s a tiny change that doesn&#8217;t alienate anyone, and has very little bearing on the overall story. Atlus also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/persona-5-royal-will-change-homophobic-scenes-for-western-release\">edited out homophobic elements from Persona 5<\/a> by the time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/persona-5-royal\">Persona 5 Royal<\/a> hit the shelves. Again, I see this as a net benefit.<\/p>\n<p>So I trust Atlus when it comes to these Yosuke changes. The studio knows how to balance editing a script for a modern audience whilst retaining the bite and edge its characters have become known for. There&#8217;s a lot of interesting stuff in Persona 4 around gender identity and perceived homosexuality, and to sanitise that too much would be to undercut key themes in the game. I trust Atlus will keep P4&#8217;s much-loved spirit intact.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Persona 4 Revival There are apparently going to be &#8220;changes&#8221; to one of Persona 4 Revival&#8217;s most important characters, but what exactly does that mean? Knowing Yu, knowing me. 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