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{{CompanyBob
| logo=AM2 logo 2015.png
| division=[[Sega Interactive (Japan)|Sega Interactive]]
| founded=2015-04-01
| defunct=2020-04-01
| headquarters=Japan
| prevdate=2015-04-01
| prev=[[Sega R&D2 (2011-2015)|Sega R&D2]]
| mergeddate=2020-04-01
| merged=[[Sega AJ5]]{{fileref|MakotoOsaki LinkedIn screenshot 2021-04-30.jpg}}
}}
{{stub}}'''R&D Div. #2''' (第二研究開発本部) was the research & development division of [[Sega Interactive (Japan)|Sega Interactive]], also known as '''SIC R&D2''' (SIC第二研究開発本部){{ref|https://vgmdb.net/album/76986}}. It is the direct successor to [[Sega R&D2 (2011-2015)|R&D2]], and mostly operated with the same staff as before.
Like the previous R&D2, it contained 2 development departments, one dedicated to arcade games, the second dedicated to console games. Despite not using the AM2 name since 2011, it still occasionally traded as AM2 and displayed the AM2 logo on some of its websites{{ref|https://web.archive.org/web/20171002161546/https://zero.soulreverse.jp/home}}{{ref|https://web.archive.org/web/20190701162624/http://miku.sega.jp/mega39s/}}. 

While it continued to support the arcade ''[[Border Break]]'' series, it eventually found a place on [[Border Break (PlayStation 4)|PlayStation 4]]. R&D2 had also created their last ''Shining Force'' update, ''[[Shining Force Cross Exlesia Zenith]]'', a year prior to the founding of Sega Interactive. Instead, it focused on creating new games for arcades, mainly using established franchises created by other companies, similar to the ''[[:category:Hatsune Miku|Hatsune Miku]]'' property, which it had been working with since 2010, and ''[[KanColle Arcade]]'', which began development at Sega R&D2{{ref|https://kancolle-a.sega.jp/players/information/160419_1.html}}, but wasn't released until a year after Sega Interactive was established. Its only legacy IP to continue arcade support was ''[[:category:MJ|MJ]]'', which received a reboot in ''[[Sega Net Mahjong MJ Arcade]]''. The division's most notable new IP was ''Soul Reverse'', which received both a [[Soul Reverse Zero|mobile]] and [[Soul Reverse|arcade]] game.

After Sega Interactive was merged with [[Sega Games]] in 2020, it became the 5th Development Dept. #2, was part of the 5th Development Div. at Sega Asia & Japan Studio HQ{{fileref|MakotoOsaki LinkedIn screenshot 2021-04-30.jpg}} Either that year or the year after, R&D2 was effectively merged with [[Ryu ga Gotoku Studio]]. 

==Sections==
===Development Dept. #1===
*Program Section (プログラムセクション){{ref|1=https://cloud.google.com/blog/ja/topics/customers/google-cloud-platform-sega-interactive?hl=ja}}
===Development Dept. #2===
*Design Section (デザインセクション){{ref|https://web.archive.org/web/20160724005417/http://sega-interactive.co.jp/special/interview/vol4-1/}}

==Softography==
{{CompanyHistoryAll|Sega Interactive R&D2}}

==List of staff==
{{StaffList|Sega Interactive R&D2}}

==Photo gallery==
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SegaInteractiveR&D2 DevDept1ProgramSection GoogleCloud2018.jpg|Program Section, Development Department 1
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==References==
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