Daisuke Satō Explained

Birth Date:	3 April 1964
Birth Place:	Ishikawa, Japan
Nationality:	Japanese
Area:	Writer
Alias:	Daisuke Tō
Notable Works:	Imperial Guards^[1] Highschool of the Dead^[2]
Manga:	y

was a Japanese board game designer, novelist, and manga writer. He was known for his alternate history novels Seito and Red Sun Black Cross, among others. He wrote the story for his manga Imperial Guards (with illustrator Yū Itō) and Highschool of the Dead (with illustrator Shōji Satō). Imperial Guards was nominated for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2007 and for the first Manga Taishō in 2008.^[3] ^[4] He died on March 22, 2017, from ischaemic heart disease.^[5] After Daisuke's death, the decision was made to leave Highschool of the Dead unfinished.

Bibliography

Manga

by Daisuke Tō (another name of Satō), Yoshifumi Kobayashi and others
Imperial Guards by Daisuke Satō and Yū Itō
by Daisuke Satō and Shōji Satō

Novels

- - - Red Sun Black Cross

Notes and References

Web site: http://blogs.yomiuri.co.jp/book/2008/03/post_1d3a.html . ja:｢皇国の守護者 5巻｣(佐藤大輔・伊藤悠) . ja . . 2008-03-11 . 2009-05-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090405180506/http://blogs.yomiuri.co.jp/book/2008/03/post_1d3a.html . 2009-04-05.
Web site: http://www.fujimishobo.co.jp/sp/dead/. ja:学園黙示録　HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD. ja. Fujimi Shobo. 2009-05-19. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090702042817/http://www.fujimishobo.co.jp/sp/dead/. 2009-07-02.
Web site: Loo. Egan . April 30, 2007 . Tezuka Cultural Prize Nominees for Manga Announced . . April 21, 2017.
Web site: Loo. Egan . January 23, 2008 . 12 Titles Nominated for 1st Ever Manga Taisho Awards (Updated) . Anime News Network . March 28, 2017.
Web site: Loo. Egan . March 26, 2017. High School of the Dead Manga Creator Daisuke Satō Passes Away at 52. Anime News Network. March 26, 2017.