OH MAN it's um...it's certainly a thing. I've played all of them and I still feel P2's storyline is the strongest (gameplay wise, it's very meeeeeh) but look, the protags (two games so two protags! One of them is a girl) both have canon names, and this is how you meet Eikichi:



Think Yosuke and Ryuji, mixed Kanji's size and strength, add some of Teddie's girl antics and then wrap it in a Death Arcana and you've got Eikichi.

(Yes Michel is his 'stage name' that I've turned into his birth name because I'm a terrible person)