Line #30 Creator/OsamuSato


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2	[[caption-width-right:138:The face of probable insanity.]]
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4	Osamu Sato (born April 14, 1960) is... a very ''strange'' creator. Specializing in both video games and music, he is well known for his experimental as hell music (most of which can range from a mere 15-30 second loop to 10 whole minutes) and his surreal games which are key targets for NightmareFuel and SurrealHorror.
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6	What doesn't help the insanity proposed by Osamu Sato is how much people do not know about him. Many people have speculating things due to many of his works, like he had died at one point (which is false, he has an Instagram which is still updated fairly commonly) or something else. Many people do not know about him at all, making it hard to find concrete evidence about him.
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8	He is most well known for his video game creations, though. To the rate many people ''only'' know of him through some of his games, to be exact. However, some games haven't even been located yet and have gone missing, requiring fans to KeepCirculatingTheTapes.
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10	!! List of works created by Osamu Sato
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13	[[folder:Video Games]]
14	* ''[[VideoGame/LSDDreamEmulator LSD: Dream Emulator]]''
15	* ''VideoGame/EasternMindTheLostSoulsOfTongNou''
16	** ''[[VideoGame/ChuTeng Chu-Teng]]''
17	* ''[[VideoGame/RhythmNFace Rhythm 'N' Face]]''
18	* ''[[VideoGame/TokyoWakuseiPlanetokio Tokyo Wakusei Planetokio]]''
19	* ''[[VideoGame/RolypolysNoNanakorobiyaoki Rolypolys no Nanakorobiyaoki]]''
20	** ''[[VideoGame/RolypolysNoSekaiRyokou Rolypolys no Sekai Ryokou]]''
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23	[[folder:Albums]]
24	* ''Objectless (1983)''
25	* ''Transmigration (1994)''
26	* ''Equal (1996)''
27	* ''Linen Sampler (1997)''
28	* ''LSD and Remixes (1998)''
29	* ''Lucy in the Sky With Dynamites (1998)''
30	* ''Objectless (2017)''
31	* ''All Things Must Be Equal''
32	** ''All Things Must Be Equal: TYO Edition (2017)''
33	** ''All Things Must Be Equal: BLN Edition (2018)''
34	** ''All Things Must Be Equal: 808 Mono Edition (2018)''
35	* ''Mono (2017)''
36	* ''Collected Ambient Grooves 1993-2001 (2020)''
37	* ''Grateful In All Things (2020)''
38	* ''Transformed Collection (2020)''
39	* ''Experimental Demo Tapes (2020)''
40	* ''Roots (2022)''
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44	!! List of tropes almost always seen in Sato's works
45	* ArcSymbol: A yellow face with red eyes and horns is seen in many of Sato's games, most notably VideoGame/LSDDreamEmulator. This face is referred to as Linen by fans, as that's what the symbol is labelled as on the cover of ''Linen Sampler''.
46	* AmazingTechnicolorWorld: Nearly all of Sato's artwork is colored in bright primary colors.
47	* BrokenRecord: Many of Sato's songs have melodies repeated for the entire duration of the song. Taken up a notch with Objectless (1983), which solely contians this.
48	* CapsLock: Often seen whenever Sato employs English text, such as the Spotify release of ''All Things Must Be Equal''.
49	* MindScrew: And how; most games make little to no sense.
50	* MinimalisticCoverArt: Objectless (1983)'s cover consists of a solid red background with a blue rectangle containing the album's name and artist in white text.
51	* RecurringElement: {{UsefulNotes/Buddhism}} is referenced quite a lot in Osamu Sato's games, most prominently within VideoGame/EasternMindTheLostSoulsOfTongNou and some of VideoGame/LSDDreamEmulator.
52	* RemixAlbum: A good chunk of Sato's albums can be summed up as this.
53	* SurrealHorror: To be expected when the guy made VideoGame/LSDDreamEmulator.
54	* SurrealHumor: Occasionally, the surreal aspects are used to create comedic situations, such as how T.B.C. from VideoGame/EasternMindTheLostSoulsOfTongNou are meant to specialize in co-coordination, but are bad at it.

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