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Family name: 虚淵Birthday: Dec 20, 1972 Website: Member Favorites: 12,088 More: Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese novelist, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter. He is best known for writing the highly acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Madoka Magica, which earned him the Tokyo Anime Award for Best Scriptwriter. Some other of his popular works include the 2003 visual novel Saya no Uta, the 2012 anime Psycho-Pass, the light novel and anime Fate/Zero, and the 2013–2014 tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Gaim. He currently works at Nitroplus and Nitro+chiral.
Nicknamed Urobutcher by his fans, Urobuchi's works often contain dark and nihilistic themes, tragic plot twists, and heavy usage of gore. Anime written by Urobuchi that have won the Newtype Anime Award have been Puella Magi Madoka Magica in 2011, Fate/Zero in 2012 and Psycho-Pass: The Movie in 2015. He wrote scenarios for several visual novels created by Nitroplus: Phantom of Inferno (2000) Kyuuketsu Senki Vjedogonia (2001) Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer (2002). Saya no Uta (2003) Zoku Satsuriku no Django ~Jigoku no Shoukinkubi~ (2007) (Source: Wikipedia) Twitter: @Butch_Gen |
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