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Those tricky wordsmiths at

Atlus USA finished their work on

Conception II and sent Siliconera a little teaser.

How about we try to solve this one as a group?


I was given the clue "Origami Rhino Oh Yo"

But, I can’t think of any games

Atlus or even Atlus USA made about origami.

Now what could this be for…

any ideas?

According to a WHOIS domain lookup, Atlus has recently registered three different official domain names for the company as of August 13, 2015.

With “ATLUS CO.,LTD.” as the registrant organization, the following are the three domains: “atlus.tw,” “atlus.asia,” and “atlus.us.” .tw is the Internet country code top-level domain for Taiwan, .Asia is the top-level domain extension for Asia and the Pacific, and .us is, of course, the one for the United States.
atlus.tw

The WHOIS domain search for “atlus.tw” brings up the following information:
http://whois.domaintools.com/atlus.tw

Domain Name: atlus.tw
Registrant:
ATLUS CO.,LTD.
Atsushi Yagi
+81.357795340
+81.357795344
2-11-22 SuntowersCenterBuilding, SANGENJYAYA
SETAGAYAKU, TOKYO
JP

Administrative Contact:
Gonbei.jp Interlink Co., Ltd.
+81.339853711

Technical Contact:
Gonbei.jp Interlink Co., Ltd.
+81.339853711

Record expires on 2016-08-13 (YYYY-MM-DD)
Record created on 2015-08-13 (YYYY-MM-DD)

Domain servers in listed order:
gdns1.interlink.or.jp
gdns2.interlink.or.jp

Registration Service Provider: 1API GmbH

[Provided by NeuStar Registry Gateway Services]

atlus.asia

The WHOIS domain search for “atlus.asia” brings up the following information:

Atlus has announced that they have formed a new internal production studio within the company called “Studio Zero” that is developing a brand new IP fantasy role-playing game.

This new game will be neither “Persona” nor “Megaten,” but a completely new RPG project from the ground up.

In the January 5th, 2017 issue of Weekly Famitsu magazine (releasing on December 22, 2016) there will be more news on the project from two key people who are involved: Naoto Hiraoka (who oversees Atlus’ Consumer Software Business) and Katsura Hashino (who served as the director of Persona 5).

In July 2014, Atlus USA CEO Naoto Hiraoka announced that they had begun development on a title that would be released in three years time. This is possibly that title.

Katsura Hashino Comment

Atlus has registered a new website: rpg.jp. Producer and game director Katsura Hashino talks about Atlus, Studio Zero and the new game on it:

A brand new challenge unrelated to “Persona” or “Megaten”

about starting from zero

25 years ago, ATLUS began crafting their first RPG. Speaking of RPGs at the time — their stories were based around a so-called “fantasy” world.

At the time, such a foundation was mainstream. As a way of “countering” that “mainstream” foundation, we released the “Megami Tensei” series.

And after that, we branched off the series; releasing the spin-off that would become known as “Persona.”

With each series, each and every single project to date, and each generation; I have crafted my projects as games that are a counter to such.

Now, in continuation to these projects created by ATLUS, comes forth a new one. What is the next concept to tackle and address in RPGs? This has been consumed “naturally” for decades.

I think that this, in particular, is a challenge to the genre. The challenge is about to begin right now. And I would like you to stand with me as we start the challenge—as we start from zero.