Masaki Sato

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Masaki Sato (佐藤正樹, Sato Masaki) is a Japanese animator who had worked as both Key Animator and Director on Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z.

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In 1987, Sato had joined the Dragon Ball franchise when he was assigned as Key Animator for Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure. He then continued to work as a Key Animator for four episodes of Dragon Ball until 1989.

In 1990, he was also assigned as Key Animator for Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone and appointed as Assistant Director for Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might and Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku.

In 1991, Sato was assigned to be the Director of Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug, and to be the Assistant Director in Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge.

Between 1990 to 1992, Sato worked as a Key Animator on 8 Dragon Ball Z episodes. In 1993, he was an animator for Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks and a Key Animator for Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!.

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v · d · eDragon Ball production staff

Companies	Bird Studio • Caramel Mama • Shueisha • Silver Link • Toei Animation

Author(s)	Akira Toriyama • Hiroshi Otogi • Katsuki Hirose • Masakazu Katsura • Masatoshi Kusakabe • Naho Ooishi* • Toyotarou* • Yoshitaka Nagayama*

Assistants	Takashi Matsuyama

Editors	Akio Iyoku* • Daisuke Terashi* • Fuyuto Takeda • Kazuhiko Torishima • Shinichi Fukumitsu* • Victory Uchida* • Yū Kondō

Directors	Akihiko Yamaguchi • Akihiro Nakamura • Akio Yamaguchi • Atsutoshi Umezawa • Aya Komaki • Ayumu Ono • Chikashi Kubota • Daisuke Nishio • Emiko Miyamoto • Gaku Yano • Hidehiko Kadota • Hideki Hiroshima • Hiroki Shibata • Hiromi Ishigami • Hiroshi Aoyama • Hiroyuki Honda • Hiroyuki Kakudō • Ichio Hayashi • Johei Matsuura • Jun'ichi Fujise • Kan Murakami • Kana Shinohara • Kaori Saitō • Kazuhisa Takenouchi • Kazuhito Kikuchi • Kazuya Hisada • Kazuya Karasawa • Keiji Mochizuki • Ken'ichi Takeshita • Keisuke Masunaga • Kimitoshi Chioka • Kōhei Hatano • Kōji Kawasaki • Kōji Ogawa • Kozue Komatsu • Kyōsuke Yamazaki • Makoto Sonoda • Mari Tominaga • Masahiro Hosoda • Masanori Satō • Masaki Sato • Masaki Tachibana • Masato Mikami • Masato Mitsuka • Maya Asakura • Minoru Okazaki • Miyako Tsuji • Morio Hatano • Osamu Kasai • Ryō Nanba • Ryōta Nakamura • Ryūta Kawahara • Shigeyasu Yamauchi • Shun Sawai • Tadayoshi Yamamuro • Tai'ichirō Ohara • Takahiro Imamura • Takahiro Majima • Takao Iwai • Takao Kiriyama • Takumi Yamamoto • Tatsuya Nagamine • Tatsuya Orime • Toshiaki Komura • Toshihiko Arisako • Wataru Abe • Wataru Matsumi • Yashiro Ichinomiya • Yoshihiro Ueda • Yui Komatsu • Yūichi Hamano • Yūichi Tsuzuki • Yuji Endo • Yukihiko Nakao • Yutaka Satō

Producers	Chiaki Imada • Gyarmath Bogdan • Hiromi Seki • James Wong • Kazumitsu Matsusaka • Keizo Shichijo • Kenji Shimizu • Kohei Obara • Kōji Kaneda • Kouichi Hirose • Kōzō Morishita • Kyōtarō Kimura • Masato Seino • Norihiro Hayashida • Rikizō Kayano • Seiichi Hiruta • Tamio Kojima • Tan Takaiwa • Tokizō Tsuchiya • Tomio Anzai • Tsutomu Tomari • Wataru Higuchi • Yoshiaki Yanagi

Production managers	Akihiko Yamaguchi • Atsunori Kazama • Katsunori Kobayashi • Kazumi Fujioka • Ken Suetake • Matsuji Kishimoto • Takeshi Torimoto • Tetsuo Inagaki • Yuichi Suenaga

Screenwriters	Akira Toriyama • Atsushi Maekawa • Aya Matsui • Ben Ramsey • Daisuke Yajima • Hajime Satsuki • Hiroko Miyazaki • Hiroshi Toda • Junki Takegami • Katsumi Aoshima • Katsuyuki Sumisawa • Keiji Terui • Masashi Kubota • Michiru Shimada • Miho Maruo • Reiko Yoshida • Satoru Akahori • Shun'ichi Yukimuro • Sumio Uetake • Takao Koyama • Toshiki Inoue • Toshinobu Ooi • Yoshifumi Yuki • Yoshiyuki Suga • Yūsuke Watanabe

Art directors	Eiji Itō • Hiroshi Katō • Hiromitsu Shiozaki • Iwamitsu Ito • Junichi Taniguchi • Kunio Kaneshima • Masahiro Shimanuki • Mitsuo Shindō • Ryūji Yoshi'ike • Shigenori Takada • Shinzō Yuki • Tadanao Tsuji • Teppei Horita • Yoshiyuki Yamamoto • Yūji Ikeda

Anime designers	Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru • Minoru Maeda • Naohiro Shintani • Shinzō Yuki • Tadayoshi Yamamuro

Animators	Akemi Seki • Akiko Matsumoto • Akiko Nakano • Akio Katada • Akira Inagami • Akira Kato • Ayumi Kondou • Chihiro Tanaka • Chikako Uesugi • Chikashi Kubota • Chiori Matsuda • Chizuko Kawamura • Daisuke Hiruma • Eisaku Inoue • Emiko Miyamoto • Emiko Uesugi • Eriko Kimura • Eugene Ayson • Fumiko Onojima • Hatsue Suzuki • Hideaki Furusawa • Hideaki Maniwa • Hideaki Nishikawa • Hideki Inoue • Hideki Yamazaki • Hideko Okimoto • Hiroaki Shimizu • Hiroaki Yoshikawa • Hirofumi Yamashita • Hiroko Noda • Hiromi Ishigami • Hiromi Matsushita • Hiromi Ono • Hiromi Shirakami • Hiroshi Takeuchi • Hirotaka Nii • Hiroyuki Itai • Hiroyuki Honda • Hiroyuki Ikeda • Hiroyuki Kanbe • Hisashi Nakayama • Hitomi Kadota • Hitomi Mizunashi • Hitoshi Ehara • Hisashi Eguchi • Iwao Ōtsuka • Izumi Ichiki • Joey Calangian • Junji Kiyohara • Junko Miyamoto • Junko Shirasu • Junichi Taniguchi • Kanae Suwa • Kaori Saitō • Kaori Takamura • Kaoru Igaki • Katsumi Aoshima • Kayo Tanahashi • Kazue Ōneda • Kazufumi Takano • Kazuhiko Aida • Kazuhiro Takahashi • Kazuko Hirose • Kazuo Takigawa • Kazuya Hisada • Kazuyoshi Minato • Keiko Katakihara • Keiko Sasa • Keisuke Masunaga • Kenji Yokota • Kiyomi Ishiwata • Kiyoshi Matsumoto • Koji Nashizawa • Kooji Kobayashi • Kōji Usui • Kōji Watanabe • Kozue Komatsu • Kuniko Iwagami • Kyoko Higurashi • Kunitoshi Ishii • Maki Itō • Mamoru Hosoda • Masahiro Hamamori • Masahiro Takano • Masaki Sato • Masako Sankaku • Masanori Ōe • Masanori Satō • Masatoshi Hakata • Masayuki Aoki • Masayuki Uchiyama • Masayuki Yoshihara • Mayumi Fukushi • Mayumi Nakamura • Mayumi Shibuya • Mayumi Suzuki • Megumi Yamashita • Midori Iwai • Midori Sawaki • Miho Fujimoto • Miho Tanaka • Miki Ugai • Mikio Fujiwara • Minako Ito • Mineto Shibawaki • Miwa Oshima • Miyako Nishiwaki • Miyako Tsuji • Miyuki Abe • Miyuki Nakamura • Miyuki Shibazaki • Miyuki Takeda • Miyuki Yano • Naoki Tate • Naoaki Hōjō • Naohiro Shintani • Naoki Mishiba • Naoki Miyahara • Naoki Murakami • Naotoshi Shida • Noel Año-Nuevo • Noriko Ichihashi • Noriko Iidaka • Noriko Shibata • Osamu Ishikawa • Paul Año-Nuevo • Ritsuko Tanaka • Romel Pura • Rumiko Ōmiya • Sai Yamane • Sanae Kojima • Satoru Kusuda • Satoshi Nishimura • Seiichi Satō • Seizo Toma • Shigeru Komatsuzaki • Shigeru Nishioka • Shigetaka Nagata • Shiho Takeuchi • Shiho Tamai • Shingo Ishikawa • Shinichi Kaneko • Shizuo Kawai • Shun Sawai • Shuntarō Mura • Shuuichiro Manabe • Sonomi Aramaki • Takahiro Yoshimatsu • Tai'ichirō Ohara • Takahiro Umehara • Takao Maki • Takeshi Mochida • Takumi Yamamoto • Takashi Aoyama • Takayuki Komori • Takayuki Ushiki • Tatsuo Miura • Tatsushi Narita • Teruhisa Ryū • Tetsuya Numako • Tetsuya Saeki • Tomekichi Takeuchi • Tomoko Hirokawa • Tomoko Kusunoki • Tomoko Tanifuji • Tomomi Shimazaki • Tomoya Iida • Toshiko Nakamura • Toshiyuki Kan'no • Toshiyuki Komaru • Tsuyako Yamamuro • Yasuhiro Kaneda • Yasunori Gotō • Yasushi Tanizawa • Yasuyuki Shimizu • Yoichi Onishi • Yoshifumi Miyaji • Yoshitaka Yashima • Yui Kinoshita • Yūji Watanabe • Wakako Sato • Yōko Arai • Yoko Tanida • Yoshie Komatsu • Yūichi Hamano • Yuichi Karasawa • Yukihiro Kitano • Yukio Ebisawa • Yūko Iida • Yūko Inoue • Yūko Kogawara • Yumiko Watanabe • Yutaka Hirose • Yutaka Itō • Yuuji Hakamada • Yūya Takahashi

Special Effects	Asami Aoki • Chiaki Hirao‎ • Hidenori Arai • Kazuya Sakurada • Kiyoshi Asanuma • Kō Yamamoto • Kunji Tanifuji • Masayuki Kawachi • Masayuki Nakajima • Nao Ōta • Nobuhiro Shimokawa • Shōji Satō • Yoshiaki Okada • Yoshitaka Kumai • Yukari Hashimoto • Yūji Okajima • Yukari Hashimoto

Music composers	Shunsuke Kikuchi • Chiho Kiyooka • Akihito Tokunaga • Kenji Yamamoto • Norihito Sumitomo • Shuki Levy • Kussa Mahchi • Ron Wasserman • Bruce Faulconer • Julius Dobos • Mike Smith • Scott Morgan • Andy Baylor • Dale Kelly • Mark Akin • Scot Risch • Tom Keenlyside • John Mitchell • David Iris • Mark Menza • Dave Moran • Nathan Johnson • Jeremy Sweet • Shigeru Miyashita • Takeshi Ike • Yosuji Kudō • Yūya Mori • Naoki Satō

Vocalists	Ayumi Hamasaki • Hironobu Kageyama • Takayoshi Tanimoto • Yuka

Voice actors	Japanese voice actors • Blue Water voice actors • Ocean voice actors • FUNimation voice actors

See also	Dr. Slump • Dragon Ball (manga • anime) • Dragon Ball Z • Dragon Ball GT • Dragon Ball Z Kai • Dragon Ball Super (manga • anime) • Super Dragon Ball Heroes (anime) • Dragon Ball Daima • Video games • Related manga • Dragon Ball Room

v · d · eAnimation Supervisor

Dragon Ball	Masayuki Uchiyama • Tai'ichirō Ohara • Tomekichi Takeuchi • Toshiyuki Kan'no • Yukio Ebisawa

Dragon Ball Z	Ichio Hayashi • Kazuya Hisada • Masahiro Shimanuki • Tadayoshi Yamamuro • Yūya Takahashi • Naohiro Shintani • Yuuji Hakamada • Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru • Keisuke Masunaga • Kenji Yokoyama • Masayuki Uchiyama • Naoaki Hōjō • Takeo Ide • Toshiyuki Kan'no • Shingo Ishikawa • Yukio Ebisawa • Tomekichi Takeuchi

Dragon Ball GT	Tadayoshi Yamamuro • Masayuki Uchiyama • Takeo Ide • Toshiyuki Kan'no • Shingo Ishikawa • Noboru Koizumi

Dragon Ball Super	Masahiro Shimanuki • Yukihiro Kitano • Osamu Ishikawa • Yoshitaka Yashima • Naoki Tate • Yuichi Karasawa • Seizo Toma • Hiroyuki Itai • Koji Nashizawa • Hirotaka Nii • Tadayoshi Yamamuro • Shuichi Iseki • Yasuhiro Namatame • Tsutomu Ono • Shuuichiro Manabe • Yoichi Onishi • Yūya Takahashi • Eugene Ayson • Paul Año-Nuevo • Joey Calangian • Noel Año-Nuevo • Chihiro Tanaka • Kaori Takamura • Masanori Satō • Hideki Yamazaki • Midori Sawaki • Yui Kinoshita • Tomoko Kusunoki • Yuuji Hakamada • Miho Tanaka • Naohiro Shintani • Miyako Tsuji

Super Dragon Ball Heroes	Miyako Tsuji • Tadayoshi Yamamuro • Takeo Ide

Dragon Ball Daima	Chikashi Kubota • Emiko Miyamoto • Hiromi Ishigami • Hiroyuki Honda • Kaori Saitō • Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru • Kōji Watanabe • Kozue Komatsu • Mikio Fujiwara • Miyako Tsuji • Naoki Murakami • Naoko Yamaoka • Shun Sawai • Shuntarō Mura • Takeo Ide • Takumi Yamamoto • Yūichi Hamano • Yūya Takahashi