Daisuke Satoh

Daisuke Satō (佐藤大輔, Satō Daisuke, April 3 1964 – March 22 2017) was a Japanese board game designer, novelist, and manga writer. He was known for his alternate history novels Seito (divided Japan like Korea) and Red Sun Black Cross (Japan fights against Germany), 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. He died on March 22, 2017 from ischaemic heart disease.