Dai Satō

Dai Satō

Dai Satō (佐藤 大, Satō Dai^?, born on 1969) is a Japanese screenwriter and musician.

Having begun scriptwriting at a young age and writing scripts for various companies,^[1] Satō later focused his attention on writing for anime series. The first major series he worked on was the groundbreaking 1998 Sunrise series Cowboy Bebop, after which he worked on other well-known series, such as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Wolf's Rain. In 2005, Satō was the chief writer of Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, for which he received an award for best screenplay at the Tokyo International Anime Fair in 2006.^[2]

In 2006 and 2007, Satō worked on the Sunrise OVA series Freedom Project (which featured director Katsuhiro Otomo).

Satō also created his own consultant company, Frognation, with two of his acquaintances, which incorporated he and his friend Kengo Watanabe's own electronic music label Frogman Records.

In 2007, after leaving Frognation, Sato established his own company Storyriders.

Major works

• Eternal Family (1997): Script
• Cowboy Bebop (1998): Script
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002): Script
• Wolf's Rain (2003): Script
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (2004): Script
• Casshern (2004): Script
• Samurai Champloo (2004): Script
• Eureka Seven (2005): Series composition, Chief writer
• Ergo Proxy (2006): Chief writer, Screenplay
• Freedom Project (2006): Script
• Toward the Terra (2007): Script

References

1. ^ Sato, Dai (2005-11-29) (PDF). [Archive copy at the Wayback Machine: Dai Sato talks with Doug McGray about anime]. Interview with Doug McGray. Japan Society. New York. Archive copy at the Wayback Machine:. 
2. ^ "Tokyo Anime Fair: Award Winners". http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2006-03-27/tokyo-anime-fair-award-winners. Retrieved 2 December 2007. 

• Gifford, Kevin. "Ergo Proxy". (November 2006) Newtype USA. p. 148.

External links

• Official Frognation website
• Official Storyriders website
• Storyriders on Twitter (Japanese)
• Dai Satō at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Storywriter Sato Dai is frustrated with Japanese anime

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