Masako Sato

Masako Sato
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Gender:	Female
Date of birth:	unknown
Place of birth:	Tokyo, Japan
Location:	Japan
Last name can also be Satou.

Masako Sato (佐藤 雅子 ,Satō Masako) is a Japanese technical director, animation director, and storyboard artist from Tokyo. As of now, she only did episode directing for Detective Conan spin-offs The Culprit Hanzawa.

Works in Detective Conan

Sato belongs to Studio Ghibli (スタジオジブリ), she usually participates in the production of sports-themed anime, and has been in charge of the episode directing of the anime series Haikyu!! (ハイキュー!!) for a while, and became the series director for its fourth season.

Number of episodes directed: 4 (4 episodes)

• Along Came A Culprit (Episode 1)
• Encountering People is Such A Mysterious Thing (Episode 2)
• Oh! Fortune (Episode 11)
• The First Target (Episode 12)

Note: All the episodes listed above are referring to the spin-off story The Culprit Hanzawa

Other notable works

Anime

• Haikyu!!: Storyboard
• Haikyu!! S2: Storyboard, Episode Director, 2nd Key Animation, Key Animation
• Haikyu!! S3: Storyboard, Episode Director, Unit Director, 2nd Key Animation, Key Animation
• Haikyu!! To The Top S4: Director, Storyboard, Episode Director, Unit Director

Movies

• Naruto Shippūden: Background Scan (Scanya)

References

1. Twitter Account (Japanese)
2. 佐藤雅子 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
3. IMDb
4. Anime News Network