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Alchemist Atelier Marie Tarot      2000 Ouse Kohime      Japan                                                   Art Medium: Description: Marie no Atelier is a very popular role playing game for the Sony Playstation released by the Japanese company Gust in 1998. The box for the edition released in 2000 included a set of tarot cards, created by Ouse Kohime. Marie runs an alchemist's shop and this leads her into the various adventures that constitute the game. The action is set in medieval Germany. Only six of the figures on the cards are male, with even the Hierophant being shown as a woman.