Storyriders
co.,ltd. was set up in 2007 as a management office for Dai Sato
and his scriptwriting team.
Company Name
Storyriders
co.,ltd.
Address
Mimami-cho Compound C,
1-24-10 Kichijoji Minami-cho,
Musashino-shi, Tokyo, 180-0003
Tel/Fax +81-(0)422-46-7650
President/CEO
Dai Sato
Staff
Naruki Nagakawa, Muga Takeda, Atsushi Kaneda, Daichi
Kagawa, and Takako Baba
Main Financing
Bank
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. Kichijoji Branch
Main Business
Activities
Planning, concept development and scriptwriting for:
visual contents, interactive contents (e.g. games) and
other various publications/media
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Writers
Dai Sato (born in 1969
Dai
Sato started his career as a TV script writer/program planner and a lyricist at
the age of 19, and later ventured into the video game and music industries.
Today, he is first and foremost an animation scriptwriter, with side projects
creating scripts and concepts for various media. In 2007 he created Storyriders
Inc., Ltd. of which he is the president and CEO.
As
scriptwriter:
TV
Animation: Eternal Family, Cowboy Bebop Ghost in the Shell -Stand
Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Kenran Butoh Sai ("Mars Daybreak"), Samurai
Champloo, Psalms of Planets -Eureka Seven, Ergo Proxy, Freedom, Battle Spirits -Shounen
Toppa Bashin, Eden of the East
Game: Ace Combat 3 -Electrosphere
Film: Casshern
Novel: Nō R Gyuru: Nōwaku Kōshi ("Noire Gyuru: Brain Ambassador," based on the
novels of Kyusaku Yumeno with scenario written by Sato Dai)
Naruki
Nagakawa(born in 1974)
Naruki Nagakawa became fascinated by theatrical performance
during his student days and started his drama group where he was active as an
actor and a playwright. After graduation, he joined TAITO Corporation as a game
planner, later moved to Sony Computer Entertainment before he started working
as a freelance scriptwriter/game planner.
As
scriptwriter:
Game:
Eureka Seven NEW WAVE, Eureka Seven NEW VISION, Dragon Ball Online
TV
Animation: Ergo Proxy, Battle Spirits -Shounen Toppa Bashin
Comic:
Eureka Seven Gravity Boys and Lifting Girl, Lion-Maru G
Novel:
Nō R Gyuru: Nōwaku Kōshi,
Other
works:
Densha
de GO! -Bullet train Sanyo Shinkansen (game structure developer), PS2
Operator's Side (scripting, database creation/management), novels and other publications
under an alias
Muga Takeda
(born in 1977)
Muga Takeda has been active since his student days, where
he did a narration for a Swiss environmental protection video and wrote columns for Nagano
local newspaper, while majoring in Japanese Literature.
After graduation, he experienced film/drama production work, and moved onto producing
artists' promotional videos as a producer, planner, sub-director and director.
Muga is currently a scriptwriter for animation, comics and others.
As
scriptwriter:
Comic:
Ergo Proxy- Centzon Hitchers and Undertaker, Lion-Maru G
TV:
STYLE JAPAN MUSIC (omnibus drama)
TV
Animation: Battle Spirits: Shounen Toppa Bashin
Novel:
Nō R Gyuru: Nōwaku Kōshi,
Other
works:
TV
travel show "tropical night in Thailand" (director), TEPCO - Tokyo Electric
Power Company TVCM (planning), omnibus drama (director), promotional videos for
actress/models/idols e.g. Eiko Koike, MEGUMI, Chinatsu Wakatsuki (director), novels
and other publications under an alias
