Katsura Hashino
- Game director
- producer
Persona series
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.
Career
Hashino 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
Year | Title | Role |
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1994 | Shin Megami Tensei If... | Game design |
1995 | Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner | |
1997 | Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers | |
1999 | Maken X | Director |
2001 | Maken Shao: Demon Sword | |
2003 | Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne | Director, supervisor |
2004 | Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga | Planning director, producer |
2005 | Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 | Producer |
Trauma Center: Under the Knife | Original plot, producer | |
2006 | Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army | Producer |
Persona 3 | Director, producer | |
Trauma Center: Second Opinion | Producer | |
2007 | Etrian Odyssey | Special advisor |
Persona 3 FES | Director, producer | |
Trauma Center: New Blood | Development manager | |
2008 | Etrian Odyssey II | Special advisor |
Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 | Development manager | |
Persona 4 | Director | |
Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon | Supervisor | |
2009 | Persona 3 Portable | Producer |
2011 | Catherine | Director, producer, lyrics |
Persona 4 Golden | Original story, game design, creative producer | |
2012 | Persona 4 Arena | Game design, creative producer |
2013 | Dragon's Crown | General producer |
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax | Game design, producer | |
2014 | Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth | Producer |
2015 | Persona 4: Dancing All Night | |
2016 | Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir | General producer |
Persona 5 | Director, producer | |
2018 | Dragon's Crown Pro | General producer |
2019 | Catherine: Full Body | Producer |
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim | Development support | |
2024 | Metaphor: ReFantazio | Director |
References
- ^ "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.
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