Shūhō Satō

Shūhō Satō
Birth name 佐藤 秀峰
Born December 8, 1973(1973-12-08)
Ikeda, Hokkaidō, Japan
Nationality Japan
Field Manga
Website http://satoshuho.com/

Shūhō Satō (佐藤 秀峰 Satō Shūhō?, born December 8, 1973 in Ikeda, Hokkaidō, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award for his work Say Hello to Black Jack.[1]

His assistants have included his wife, manga artist Tomomi Satō,[2] as well as Masami Kakizaki (one year before his debut), Takahisa Shiratori, Itsunari Fujii, Eiji Nomura, Takashi Yoshida, and Kōjirō Umezawa.

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Brief biography

Satō is left-handed, and has had a good sense and love of drawing since childhood. He graduated from Hokkaido Sapporo Nishi High School. While enrolled in Musashino Art University and studying in both the Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sculpture, Satō decided he wanted to pursue a career as a manga artist and subsequently dropped out before graduating.

He worked as an assistant to both Nobuyuki Fukumoto and Tsutomu Takahashi, and made his professional debut in 1998 in Weekly Young Sunday with his work Congratulations (おめでとォ! Omedeto!?), though his Promised Land, which was a special selection at the 1997 Afternoon Four Seasons Awards, was technically his debut. Two works, Umizaru and Say Hello to Black Jack have been adapted very faithfully as television dramas and films.

Satō won the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award for his work Say Hello to Black Jack.[1]

Works

As writer

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