Shōtarō Suga

(December 31, 1972 – March 19, 2015) was a Japanese screenwriter. He was famous for writing multiple anime series, most notably Darker than Black.

Biography Suga was born in Tokyo, Japan. He worked in multiple series from Production I.G, including Blood+ and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Suga recalls having problems with the latter's characters, most notably Motoko Kusanagi in regards to how their personalities work. Director Kenji Kamiyama often relied on Suga's work when working for such series. Despite the series' futuristic setting, Suga claimed that he aimed to give the audience modern themes to see in the anime. For the 2010 original video animations Darker than Black: Gaiden Tensai Okamura gave Suga complete freedom and all he asked was that a scene with rain be put in. The scene plays in the third episode when Xin-Qi forces the Contractors to attack Hei. My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected (seasons 12), One Week Friends, The Seven Deadly Sins (season 1), and Dimension W. The Fandom Post considers Dimension W as a response to criticism aimed towards Darker than Black.

Suga heavily wrote for the overall Resident Evil IP from 2008 to 2012. He scripted Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles and Resident Evil 6, the manga tie-in Resident Evil: The Marhawa Desire and the movies Resident Evil: Degeneration and Resident Evil: Damnation. For the latter, Suga went to Eastern Europe and created East Slavic Republic, a fictional post-Soviet country formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In retrospect, Suga claims that Damnation surpassed Degeneration.

Death Suga died on March 19, 2015. The cause of his death was not disclosed.

Upon his death, Kenji Kamiyama wrote that he was glad he met Suga as he often helped him in his works and had a kind personality.