Katsura Hashino has been doing this a while. The designer, most famous for his work as director on Persona 3, 4, and 5 as well as, most recently, Metaphor: ReFantazio, has been working at Atlus since I was literally one year old, all the way back in 1994.
So it's with amused bafflement that I bring you the news that Hashino has just been awarded Japan's (pace yourself) "Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's New Face Award in the Media Arts Division of the Arts Encouragement Prize" (via Automaton). Atlus tweeted that he had received the prize on Monday.
