Shōji Satō (artist)
Japanese mangaka
Shōji Satō (佐藤 ショウジ, Satō Shōji) is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. He has also published various dōjinshi and ecchi under the pen name Inazuma and runs an erotic genre group called Digital Accel Works. He is responsible for the character design and illustration for the Highschool of the Dead manga. He is the former assistant of Kōshi Rikudō, the creator of the popular manga series Excel Saga.
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