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

Dai Satō
Dai Satō at Japan Expo 2009
Born	1969 (age 52–53) Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Screenwriter and Musician
Known for	Cowboy Bebop Ergo Proxy Eureka Seven Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Wolf's Rain

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, Satō established his own company Storyriders.

Major works

Anime television series

OVA

• Eternal Family (1997): Screenplay
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – The Laughing Man (2005): Screenplay
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG – Individual Eleven (2006): Screenplay
• Freedom Project (2006): Series Composition, Scenario
• Halo Legends (2010): Screenplay
  • "The Package"
• Five Numbers! (2011): Screenplay, Original Development

Films

• Casshern (2004): Screenplay
• Tekken: Blood Vengeance (2011): Screenplay
• Psalm of Planets Eureka Seven: Hi-Evolution 1 (2017): Script
• Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020): Screenplay[6]
• Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021): Script[7]
• Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022): Screenplay[8]
• Break of Dawn (2022): Screenplay[9]

Video games

• Ace Combat 3 (1999): Screenplay
• Blood: The Last Vampire (2000): Screenplay
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2004): Screenplay
• Resident Evil: Revelations (2012): Chief script writer
• E.X. Troopers (2012): Story
• Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2015): Chief script writer

References

External links

• Official Frognation website
• Official Storyriders website
• Storyriders on Twitter (Japanese)
• Dai Sato anime listing at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)
• Dai Satō at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Dai Satō at IMDb 
• Storywriter Sato Dai is frustrated with Japanese anime

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