>>517758Sorry for more sperging:
>oh, I guess it's empowering to dress sexy I'm not sure it even bothers to justify it like this, from what I've seen so far her Phantom Thief outfit just is what it is.
I cringed so hard when I unlocked her seducer ability where she sexually allures the enemies into not attacking you. It makes zero sense when she's not even written as a character who is acutely aware of or makes intentional use of her appearance.
Her social links make it clear that she models by convenience and doesn't actually put effort into molding her appearance into what it is. When she has to model for Yusuke to get close the party close to him, she has to be talked into it and she does everything she can to make herself unappealing (20 layers of clothing. Every time she's asked to utilize her feminine wiles or whatever she's explicitly bad at it.
So what reason is there for her to be sexily seducing monsters other than the developers wanting it for OOC fanservice?
I hated the way Rise was handled in P4 but even putting aside the whole Kamoshida situation, Ann's sexualization is much harder to sit through because it's sexualization of a character who's actively opposed to it. I feel so bad for her because regardless of her appearance she's just a regular teenage girl who wants to be treated as such (also see: her talking about how Shiho became her best friend because she treated her normally without judging her appearance), but the game treats her the same way her abuser did.