Well I recently started playing persona 3 on my psp and it was a lot of fun but i found it kind of strange of having to have all this school and romance stuff yet still needed to go fight shadows and stuff... So basically I'm asking if anyone knows of jrpg games that have gameplay and school stuff similar to persona 3... no action and stuff cause I've got Kingdom Hearts and Metal Gear Solid for that. Oh and if that game deals with dating a girl... like you meet that girl you spend time with her and then it gets into romance... So yeah... main protagonist has to be a guy or let you choose to be a guy, and I'm not into visual novel stuff (i like reading the actual novel) but i know that a lot of those school/dating games are visual novel but persona 3 sort of did that but there were points in the game where you could move around and look around the school.... oh and the game has to be in english...

tl;dr

Game like persona 3 but no actiony stuff (fighting a bully or someone is fine but not stuff where space mecha aliens are threatening to take over the planet and you have to do it whenever you arent in school...xD) , the pc (playable character) must be a guy, romance is a plus, can't be 100% visual novel and choice selecting (at least let you go to parts of the school and look around)... Must be in english

P.S: Ever since i saw Hagani (its an anime) like a year ago and saw a character play this dating sim game... i've always been trying to look for something like that, but wasnt so visual novel stuff where you make 3 decisions and let the entire game do the whole thing for 5 hours...

Still interested despite it being years since the question got put up.