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 and Red Sun Black Cross, 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.
[5] After Daisuke's death, the decision was made to leave Highschool of the Dead unfinished.