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.
[1] He has since directed or produced several games in the Megami Tensei and Persona series.
The studio's first original game is the fantasy role-playing Metaphor: ReFantazio (2024).