Daisuke Satō

About

Daisuke Satō 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 and Highschool of the Dead. Imperial Guards was nominated for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2007 and for the first Manga Taishō in 2008. He died on March 22, 2017 from ischaemic heart disease.