Shio Satō, the pioneering Shoujo and science-fiction artist best known for One Zero, The Changeling, and other literary works, passed away on April 4 due to a brain tumor. She was 59.
Satō was born with the given name Chiyoko, but she adopted the pen name Shio Satō as a wordplay on "sugar salt" (pronounced "Satō Shio" in Japanese). She made her professional debut in 1977 and soon focused on contemplative science-fiction stories such as One Zero and Yume-miru Wakusei.The North American manga publisher Viz released Satō's The Changeling in its Four Shōjo Stories manga anthology — one of the first attempts to translate and print Shoujo manga into English.
