Atlus to be sold off by Index Corporation

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Boutros said:

I have questions. Perhaps dumb but I don't know.
Can't Atlus like...buy themselves?
I mean don't they have all the infrastructures to be an independant company?
Why do they need a parent company?

Every company has an owner. That may be a single person or a mass of share-owners though (that is the case for MS/Sony/Nintendo). Index could sell them on the stock market, but I think it is a more complicated operation.