By Sickr on December 29, 2025

Katsura Hashino, the director behind acclaimed JRPG games such as Persona 3, Persona 4, Persona 5, and Catherine, has said that he's not really involved with the franchise anymore. Speaking in a new interview with Game Informer, Mr. Hashino says that he has been watching from the sidelines after opening a new subsidiary within publisher Atlus, Studio Zero, which went on to release the success story that was Metaphor: Refantazio.

"Right now, my juniors – members who have come after me – have taken over the reins and are producing titles for P-Studio. I've been on the sidelines, watching them and looking over them to see what they're doing. In that sense, I haven't been super involved in the Persona series after P5."