Shio Satō

Chiyoko "Shio" Satō (佐藤 史生) (6 December 1952 – 4 April 2010) was a Japanese manga artist. Satō was a member of the Post Year 24 Group, a group of female manga artists considered influential in the development of shōjo manga. She also wrote under the pen name Sugar Salt (砂糖 塩). She made her professional debut in 1977 with the publication of Koi wa Ajinomono!? in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic. Her definitive works include Yumemiru Wakusei (The Dreaming Planet) and One Zero. Her stories were usually serious science fiction drawn in a "subdued" style. Sato regards her interest in science fiction from the patience and thorough answers of her father when she was young and asking "Why?" to everything. Her science fiction influences include Isaac Asimov, Cordwainer Smith and James Tiptree Jr. A major influence on her work Yumemiru Wakusei was the film Lawrence of Arabia.

Satō became an assistant to Moto Hagio and Keiko Takemiya in 1972, and she continued to work as an assistant until the demands of her own works prevented her from doing so.

Her short story, The Changeling, in addition to being published in the English-language anthology Four Shōjo Stories, was serialised in Animerica. Satō died from brain cancer in Tome, Miyagi, on 4 April 2010, aged 57.

Works

 * Kinseiju (金星樹) (1979, Kisōtengaisha) (1992, reprint plus one new story, Shinchosha)
 * Haru wo Yumemishi (春を夢見し) (1980, Shinshokan)
 * Yumemiru Wakusei (夢みる惑星) (1982–1984, serialized in Petit Flower, Shogakukan) (1996,  bunkoban reprint, Shogakukan)
 * Shiseru Ōjo no Tame no Pavane (死せる王女のための孔雀舞) (1983, Shinshokan)
 * Ahōsen (阿呆船) (1984, Shinshokan) inspired by Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant
 * Ryu no Yume, Sonota no Yume (竜の夢 その他の夢) (1984, Shinshokan)
 * Kono Mazushiki Chijō ni (この貧しき地上に) (1985, Shinshokan)
 * One Zero (ワン・ゼロ) (1985–1986, Shogakukan) (1996, bunkoban reprint, Shogakukan)
 * Datenraku (打天楽) (1987, Shogakukan)
 * Kicchō Kajin (吉祥花人) (1987, Hakusensha)
 * Raryō-Ō (羅陵王) (1988, Hakusensha)
 * Changeling (チェンジリング) (1989, Shogakukan)
 * Yadorigi (やどり木) (1988, Shinshokan)
 * Shōryō-Ō (精霊王) (1989, Shogakukan)
 * Oni ou mono (鬼追うもの) (1995, Shogakukan)
 * Shinzō no Nai Kyojin (心臓のない巨人) (1999, serialized in Petit Flower, Shogakukan)
 * Majutsushi Sagashi (魔術師さがし) (2000, Shogakukan)

Anthologies
These are anthology works in which one or more stories by Satō appeared:
 * New Fantasy Comic World (ニュー・ファンタジー・コミックの世界) (1982, Sanrio)
 * Alice Book I (アリス・ブックI) (1991, Shinchosha)
 * Alice Book II (アリス・ブックII) (1991, Shinchosha)
 * Four Shōjo Stories (1996, Viz Media)