Katsura Hashino (Japanese: 橋野 桂, Hepburn: Hashino Katsura) is a Japanese video game director and producer, best known for working on the Persona role-playing game series by Atlus. From 2006 to 2016, Hashino served as director of P-Studio, an internal team at Atlus that developed the Persona series. Following the release of Persona 5 (2016), Hashino departed P-Studio to establish Studio Zero, another development team at Atlus focused on the creation of a new IP.
Katsura Hashino | |
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橋野 桂 | |
| Nationality | Japanese |
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| Years active | 1994–present |
| Employer | Atlus |
| Notable work | Megami Tensei series Persona series |
| Title | Founder, Studio Zero |
Career
editHashino made his directorial debut with Maken X (1999).[1] He has since directed or produced several games in the Megami Tensei and Persona series.[2] In addition to Persona, Hashino directed and produced on Catherine (2011).[3] Hashino formed a new internal division at Atlus in 2017 called Studio Zero, with their first release being a port of Catherine with additional content, Catherine: Full Body (2019). The studio's first original game is the fantasy role-playing Metaphor: ReFantazio (2024).[4][5]
Works
editReferences
edit- ^ "橋野 桂 [プロデューサー&ゲームディレクター] | スタッフ Voice". 2015-05-30. Archived from the original on 2015-05-30. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ "Precious Moments, Hype and High School: A Conversation with 'Persona 5' Director Katsura Hashino". Waypoint. 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ "Catherine is twenty-hours long, has multiple endings - Gematsu". Gematsu. 2010-08-27. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ "Longtime Persona director hands off series after more than a decade". Polygon. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ Vitale, Adam. "Atlus reveals Metaphor: ReFantazio for Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC, set to launch in 2024". RPG Site. Retrieved 11 June 2023.