Atlus

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Atlus

logo
legal form Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
founding April 7, 1986
resolution October 1, 2010
Seat Setagaya , Tokyo
management Akira Nomoto (President)
Number of employees 270 (October 2018)
sales 19.2 billion yen (€ 142 million as of July 31, 2009)
Branch Computer games
Website www.atlusnet.jp

Atlus ( Japanese ア ト ラ ス , Atorasu ) is a Japanese publisher for computer games . Until 2010 Atlus was an independent company called KK Atlus ( 株式会社 ア ト ラ ス , Kabushiki-gaisha Atorasu , English Atlus Co., Ltd. ), now it is a label for computer games of the company KK Index (English Index Corporation ). Atlus is particularly known for the tactical role-playing game Tactics Ogre and the role-playing game series Megami Tensei .

history

The Atlus logo until 2013

Atlus was founded on April 7, 1986. In July 1995, Atlus and Sega launched the first Purikura machines on the market. In April 1997 the foreign subsidiary Atlus Entertainment Pte Ltd was founded in Singapore and in March 1999 Atlus USA, Inc. was founded in the United States . In July 2000, Atlus entered into a capital and business relationship with Kadokawa Shoten . In January 2005, Shanghai Atlus Digital Eizō Yūgenkōshi (Japanese) / Shanghai Atlus Digital Yingxiang Youxiangongsi (Chinese) ( 上海 ア ト ラ ス デ ジ タ ル 影像 有限公司 , English Atlus Shanghai Digital Image Co., Ltd. ) and im March in Tianjin , the Atlus (Tianjin) Denshi Yūgenkōshi (Jap.) / Atlus (Tianjin) Dianzi Youxiangongsi ((Ch.) アトラス(天津)電子有限公司 , eng. , Ltd. Atlus (Tianjin) Electronics Co. ) was founded. In the same month Atlus entered into a capital and business relationship with the toy manufacturer Takara Tomy , became its subsidiary in October and took over its computer games division in January 2004. The company began selling slot machines in March 2006, but stopped selling them in September 2007.

On October 30, 2006, KK Index Holdings decided to buy the majority of shares in Atlus, whereby Atlus became a subsidiary of the holding on November 29, 2006. In May 2010 Atlus became a 100% subsidiary of KK Index Holdings. In July 2009, Atlus announced a loss of 2.397 billion yen (€ 17.7 million) for the past fiscal year on a 17.4% decline in sales, compared to a profit of 587 million yen (€ 3.47 million) ) last year.

On August 30, 2010, KK Index Holdings announced that it would merge its two subsidiaries, KK Index (mobile phone applications) and KK Atlus, effective October 1. The KK Index Holdings then changed its name to KK Index on December 1, 2010. On September 18, 2013, the games division - including Atlus - was taken over from Index by Sega with effect from November 1, 2013 and transferred to the newly founded subsidiary KK Sega Dream .

Games from Atlus

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Atlus Employee Profile . Retrieved December 27, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b 沿革 . Atlus, archived from the original on February 21, 2010 ; Retrieved August 31, 2010 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ Regarding tender offer results and subsidiary companies. (PDF; 138 kB) (No longer available online.) Index Holdings, November 21, 2006, archived from the original on July 13, 2011 ; accessed on August 30, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.index-hd.com
  4. ↑ 平 成 21 年 7 月 期 決算 短信 . (PDF) Atlus, September 18, 2009, archived from the original on January 5, 2011 ; Retrieved August 31, 2010 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ 当 社 連結 子 会 社 の 吸収 合併 に 関 す る お 知 ら せ . (PDF; 201 kB) (No longer available online.) Index Holdings, August 30, 2010, archived from the original on September 23, 2010 ; Retrieved August 30, 2010 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.index-hd.com
  6. ↑ セ ガ サ ミ ー 、 イ ン デ ッ ク ス 買 収 を 正式 発 表 ・ ・ ・ 「ア ト ラ ス」 ほ か 事業 の 大半 を 取得 . In: Inside. September 18, 2013, Retrieved October 7, 2013 (Japanese).