is a Japanese

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. He won the

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Manga Award for his work '' Say Hello to Black Jack''. His assistants have included his wife, manga artist Tomomi Satō, as well as Masasumi Kakizaki (one year before his debut), Takahisa Shiratori, Itsunari Fujii, Eiji Nomura, Takashi Yoshida, and Kōjirō Umezawa.

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 or is a private university in Kodaira, Western Tokyo, founded in 1962 with roots going back to 1929. It is known as one of the leading art universities in Japan. History In October 1929, was founded. In December 1948, it became , and in ...

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

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and

Tsutomu Takahashi , born on September 20, 1965 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese manga artist, who is well known for his manga '' Jiraishin''. As of March 2006, he is currently married and has one child. His alias is Ichigo Nekota. History He began his involvement i ...

, and made his professional debut in 1998 in ''

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'' with his work , though his ''Promised Land'', which was a special selection at the 1997 Afternoon Four Seasons Awards, was technically his debut. Two works, ''

Umizaru is a manga series by Shūhō Satō which was serialized by Shogakukan in ''Weekly Young Sunday'' from 1998 to 2001. Yōichi Komori is credited with the original idea for the series, and he also did the research to make the series more a ...

'' and '' Say Hello to Black Jack'' have been adapted very faithfully as television dramas and

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s. Satō won the 2002

Manga Award for his work '' Say Hello to Black Jack''. Satō drew the cover art for

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's June 2007 single "Kimi wa Boku no Nani wo Suki ni Nattandarou/Very Very Strong -Eine Kleine-".

Works

* ''

'' (1999–2001, 12 volumes, ''

'',

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, research done by

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) * '' Say Hello to Black Jack'' (2002–2006, 13 volumes, ''

Weekly Morning is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha. It debuted in 1982 as . The digital edition of the magazine is titled . In 2006 a spin-off magazine called was launched (formerly bimonthly), featuring stories like ''Saint ''� ...

'',

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, has sold over 10 million copies) * '' New Say Hello to Black Jack'' (since 2007, ''

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'', Shogakukan) * '' The Death-Defying Negotiator M'' (2003, 1 volume, '' Kindai Mahjongg Gold'',

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) * '' The Isle of Tokkō'' (2006, 1 volume, ''

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'',

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)

As writer

* ''

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'' (art by Eiji Nomura, since 2004, ''Weekly Young Sunday'', Shogakukan)

References

1973 births Living people Manga artists People from Hokkaido {{manga-artist-stub