Maybe the author forgot that in Japan, in its thousands of years of history, people haven’t discriminated against gay people. In Japan’s history men have been dressing up like women for hundreds of years, and that has been deemed as “beautiful” and “normal” in here. I mean, women painted their teeth black, because that was deemed as attractive as well.
It’s a non-issue here, most of the people do not judge anyone based on their sexual orientation here, and just let humans be humans. Trans, gay, lesbian or any other minority (if that’s what you want to call people, to me they are just normal people) has been represented in the media without any “hey, here’s and LGBT+++ person for you and this is the person’s stance on this and that sexuality and this is the person’s sexual orientation” which seems to be the way the Western media represents people and what the attitudes are largely about: putting people into categories. Western people somehow seem to have a need to put things into boxes to understand them. And I’m Western and probably partly quilty of that as well.
In Japan people just let people be free, nobody cares, it’s a NON-issue. That’s why when Western people look at Persona 5 or other games or movies, they often fail to realize that people here do not see these representations as issues. And if you (the author of this article) do not understand it, it’s then your (author’s) issue, not the game creators.
