Dai Satō facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Dai Satō
Dai Satō at Japan Expo 2009
Born	1969 (age 55–56) 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 Pokémon

Dai Satō (佐藤 大, Satō Dai), born in 1969, is a talented Japanese writer and musician. He is famous for writing stories for many popular animated TV shows, called anime. He also creates music.

Dai Satō started writing scripts when he was young. He wrote for different companies before focusing on anime. His first big project was the amazing 1998 series Cowboy Bebop. After that, he worked on other well-known shows. These include Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Wolf's Rain.

In 2005, Satō was the main writer for Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven. For this work, he won an award for best screenplay in 2006. This was at the Tokyo International Anime Fair. From 2006 to 2007, he also worked on the Freedom Project series. This project featured the famous director Katsuhiro Otomo.

Dai Satō also started his own company called Frognation. He created it with two friends. This company included his electronic music label, Frogman Records. Later, in 2007, he left Frognation. He then started his own new company, Storyriders.

Dai Satō's Major Works

Dai Satō has contributed to many exciting projects. He has written for anime TV shows, original video animations (OVAs), online animations (ONAs), movies, and video games.

Anime TV Series

• Cowboy Bebop (1998–1999): He wrote scripts and helped with stage settings.
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002–2003): He wrote scripts for this series.
• Wolf's Rain (2003): He contributed scripts to this show.
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (2004): He continued to write scripts for this sequel.
• Samurai Champloo (2004): He wrote scripts for several episodes.
• Kenran Butohsai (2004): He worked as a scriptwriter.
• Eureka Seven (2005–2006): He was the main writer for the series and wrote many scripts.
• Ergo Proxy (2006–2007): He was the chief writer and wrote screenplays.
• Toward the Terra (2007): He wrote scripts for this series.
• Battle Spirits: Shounen Toppa Bashin (2008–2009): He was the main writer for the series and wrote scripts.
• Eden of the East (2009): He wrote screenplays for this show.
• Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (2012): He wrote scripts for episodes.
• Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter (2012–2013): His company, Storyriders, was involved in the series composition, and he wrote scripts.
• Space Dandy (2014): He wrote scripts for several episodes.
• Dai-Shogun - Great Revolution (2014): He was in charge of the series composition.
• Mysterious Joker (2014–2015): He handled the series composition and wrote scripts.
• Puzzle & Dragons X (2016–2018): His company, Storyriders, was involved in the series composition, and he wrote scripts.
• Listeners (2020): His company, Storyriders, was involved in the series composition, and he wrote scripts.
• Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 (2020): He wrote scripts for this newer series.
• Super Crooks (2021): He was in charge of the series composition and wrote scripts.
• Yurei Deco (2022): He was in charge of the series composition and wrote scripts.
• Pokémon (2023–present): He is currently working on the series composition and writing scripts for Pokémon.

Original Video Animations (OVAs)

OVAs are anime films or series made directly for home video release.

• Eternal Family (1997): He wrote the screenplay.
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – The Laughing Man (2005): He wrote the screenplay.
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG – Individual Eleven (2006): He wrote the screenplay.
• Freedom Project (2006): He was in charge of the series composition and scenario.
• Halo Legends (2010): He wrote the screenplay for "The Package" segment.
• Five Numbers! (2011): He wrote the screenplay and helped with the original story idea.

Original Net Animations (ONAs)

ONAs are anime series released directly online.

• Super Crooks: He was in charge of the series composition and wrote scripts.
• Time Patrol Bon: He wrote scripts for this series.

Films

• Casshern (2004): He wrote the screenplay for this live-action film.
• Tekken: Blood Vengeance (2011): He wrote the screenplay for this animated movie based on the video game.
• Psalm of Planets Eureka Seven: Hi-Evolution 1 (2017): He wrote the script for this movie.
• Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020): He wrote the screenplay for this animated film.
• Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021): He wrote the script for this movie.
• Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022): He wrote the screenplay for this Doraemon film.
• Break of Dawn (2022): He wrote the screenplay for this film.

Video Games

• Ace Combat 3 (1999): He wrote the screenplay for this flight combat game.
• Blood: The Last Vampire (2000): He wrote the screenplay for this game.
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2004): He wrote the screenplay for the PlayStation 2 game.
• Resident Evil: Revelations (2012): He was the chief script writer for this horror game.
• E.X. Troopers (2012): He wrote the story for this action game.
• Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2015): He was again the chief script writer for this sequel.