But what about Akira and Ryuji? Which ship would you choose if you could only pick one: Yu&Yosuke or Akira&Ryuji?
Yu and Yosuke, they had a lot more of a canon interest towards each other than Ryuji and Akira do.
Literally the removed romance path proves this. Even though I love Pegoryu like every other person Ryuji is in NO way bi or interested in guys. He’s just a typical guy who wants a girl (not in a thirsty way either) who is as loyal as a dog. Sometimes you gotta look past your own want to realize that Ryuji is sadly not the same way Yosuke is.
Yosuke drops a lot of lines that show his attraction towards MC and says “you’re special to me” to Yu without a romance path while Rise says the same thing IN her romance path.
Hugging is also a lot more of an intimate action in japan than it is here
so literally p4g drops hints left and right of Yosuke having feelings for the MC (where the entire internalized homophobia comes from because he tries to tell himself with skirt-chasing and rude comments towards Kanji that he’s not what he fears to be)
Yu and Yosuke have a lot more chemistry to work together as a couple than Ryuji and Akira do honestly. it goes super deep











