Warashi Inc.

Warashi Inc. is a small Japanese company who develops video games for arcade, home console, and mobile platforms, specializes in Mahjong and shoot 'em up titles. It is known for the Shienryu series of games and for releasing one of the final Dreamcast games in early 2007. Founded in 1995, by Noriyuki Takasaki and a group of former Athena Co. Ltd. workers, this 40-people company specialized in Mahong games and shoot-em-up titles. Their first videogame was Shienryu, which is considered as a spiritual successor of Athena's Daioh.

The company is known for its shoot-em-ups Shienryu, and Triggerheart Exelica, one of the last Dreamcast games released in 2007. In October 26, 2011, the company's website and all their Triggerheart related links along with those of Alchemist and Sega, and the XBOX Live store (until the XBLA Re-release in 2016) went offline with no signs of coming back, but there's no news regarding the company's fate, and is implied the company was closed. The only "active" former Warashi worker is Kazuhiko Kakoi "GRA", who released a series of doujin books based on concepts for a possible Triggerheart Exelica II called Triggerheart Exelica RE:Anchor.