

Frivolous Lawsuit / Disney Owns This Trope: Narrowly averted thanks to a resulting backlash.The fact that many die-hard fans buy most of both companies' games probably helps them getting along. Friendly Rival: With Nippon Ichi, in North America at least.Badass Boast: Its forum staff goes as far as to declare, " We get off on your tears.".In fact, NIS America is responsible for publishing Persona -trinity soul-, the anime based on the Atlus game. This led to NIS eventually branching out on their own, and to this day the companies share many staff amongst their translation and dubbing teams, as well as an amicable business relationship. Atlus is also famous for first exposing North America to Nippon Ichi Software, having published Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure back in the PlayStation 1 era, and later Disgaea: Hour of Darkness game for PlayStation 2.

Their American branch is also famous for the translation of their games: Woolseyism and Superlative Dubbing abound in games they publish.

note Games published by Atlus USA but not developed by its parent company may not have this trait Though good design means they usually avoid Fake Difficulty. Many of their internally developed 21st-century games are really freaking HARD. Atlus is probably most notable for developing and publishing the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona games. The Japanese HQ portion of the company is both a publisher (since 1989) and developer, the North American branch serves as a publisher and localization company that publishes more games than just what its parent company Index Corporation develops and publishes in the list of games below said games are listed with Atlus being the North American publisher. While not necessarily having the name-recognition of some larger companies, they have a huge number of quality products, both as a developer and a publisher, and often both at once. Atlus is a Japanese video game developer, publisher and distributor based in Tokyo, founded on Apand a subsidiary of Sega since 2013.
