Dai Satō

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Dai Satō (佐藤大, Satō Dai^?, born on 1969) is a Japanese screenwriter and musician. He is a graduate of Musahino Art University.

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 later worked on other well-known series, such as the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series, and Wolf's Rain. In 2005, Dai 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 lauded Sunrise OVA series, Freedom Project (which featured the likes of noted director Katsuhiro Otomo).

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