Keiichi Sato

Directing

Keiichi Sato

Born 1965-12-18 · Kagawa, Japan

Keiichi Sato (さとう けいいち Satō Keiichi) is a mecha and character designer born in the Kagawa Prefecture of Japan in 1965. In 1996, Sato met with Kazuyoshi Katayama to begin work on The Big O. Until then, Sato's work consisted mainly of designing characters and supervising animation for anime series. The Big O is the first based on a concept of his creation and he considers it his magnum opus. Sato's style is influenced by his "love of all things nostalgic. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary poster
6.8

Mitsumasa Kido discovers a misterious baby in the himalayas whom he adopts as his grandaughter. 16 years later, Saori Kido is a young girl troubled by her mysterious powers. She is saved by Seiya from an assassin sent to kill her. Saori then learns she is the reincarnation of the Goddess Athena with Seiya being one of her Saints sworn to protect her. Upon learning of her destiny, she heads to the Sanctuary to rebel against the Pope's murderous plot.

Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary

2014

GANTZ:O poster
7.4

After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.

GANTZ:O

2016

Asura poster
7.2

Abandoned in the barren wasteland of Kyoto, a savage, enraged orphan does whatever it takes to survive in the wild. When he crosses paths with civilization, he must learn to tame the beast within.

Asura

2012

Karas: The Prophecy poster
6.3

Tokyo: a city populated by both humans and ghostly beings. They exist in both dimensions, seen and unseen: spirits, apparitions, demons. The balance between these two dimensions has long been upheld by the city's guardian crow Karas and his masters. But that balance has been thrown into disarray as Eko, a former Karas, has attempted to seize power and bring order to the streets through force. The entity Yurine, who represents the will of the people, stands in his way with her newly risen Karas. Now an ageless battle stretching across both dimensions and killing humans and spirits alike is in progress. Karas is humanity's last hope.

Karas: The Prophecy

2005

Black Butler poster
7.0

Set in the year 2020, following her supposed death, a young woman returns as the son of her noble family to precede the family's prestigious company, with a demon at her side to avenge her parent's murder.

Black Butler

2014

Karas: The Revelation poster
5.0

Karas: The Revelation is about the battle between supernatural forces on the streets of modern-day Japan. The Revelation covers the true identity of newly-minted Karas (spiritual protector of humanity from demonic forces) Otaha, who returns to his hometown to rescue a friend from gangsters. Meanwhile, evil Karas Eko continues his campaign of terror against mankind with the aid of a multi-headed dragon summoned by the powers of rogue demon Nue.

Karas: The Revelation

2007

Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis Recap poster
8.0

Recap short of the first six episodes of Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis.

Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis Recap

2014