Katsura Hashino

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, 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). He has since directed or produced several games in the Megami Tensei and Persona series. In addition to Persona, Hashino directed and produced on Catherine (2011). 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).

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