Urobuchi, Gen

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Birthday: Dec 20, 1972
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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

News

Winners of the Newtype Anime Awards 2015

Winners of the Newtype Anime Awards 2015

Winners of the 2015 Newtype Anime Awards were announced at the Machi Asobi event. The winners were selected by fans in magazine and online polls. The participants we...read more

Gen Urobuchi Pens 'Obsolete' 3DCG Anime Series

Gen Urobuchi Pens 'Obsolete' 3DCG Anime Series

An original 3DCG mecha anime series titled Obsolete was announced by Bandai Namco Arts on Wednesday. The company launched an official website, revealing the lead sta...read more

News Briefs for Jun 2 - 8

News Briefs for Jun 2 - 8

Here is a collection of news briefs for the last week in anime/manga news. These briefs include announcements that would not normally receive their own news thread. ...read more

Madoka Magica Project To Be Continued After the Movie Trilogy

According to an interview with Urobuchi Gen on the brochure of Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Movie 1: Hajimari no Monogatari, the Madoka Magica project will not end wit...read more

Urobuchi Gen's New Anime Movie 'Rakuen Tsuihou' Announced [Update Sep 21]

According to Anime!Anime!, Toei Animation has announced an original anime movie "Rakuen Tsuihou -Expelled From Paradise-" at Tokyo International Anime Fair. The deta...read more

Director Motohiro Katsuyuki Omits Moe From Psycho-Pass Anime

Weekly Playboy News released an interview with director Motohiro Katsuyuki and writer Urobuchi Gen about new anime Psycho-Pass. Monohiro said he didn't allow the pro...read more

Urobuchi's Original TV Anime 'Suisei no Gargantia' Announced

According to Newtype Ace magazine, an original TV anime "Suisei no Gargantia" was announced. It will be aired from April 2013. Director: Murata Kazuya Series Composi...read more

Urobuchi Gen's New Original Anime Due in October

Urobuchi Gen announced on his twitter that his original anime will be aired from October 2012. He didn't reveal any details about the anime. Source: Urobuchi's tweet

Urobuchi Gen Mentions Next Development of Madoka Magica

In the staff commentary of Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Blu-ray vol.6, Urobuchi Gen has announced that he is working on the next work of madoka. Urobuchi: It's be...read more

Urobuchi Gen To Send a Protest Message to Tokyo Anime Award Committee

Urobuchi Gen tweeted that he has been perplexed by the announcement of the Tokyo Anime Award 2012, in which he won the Best Scenario Writer award. According to him, ...read more

Tabletop RPG Session by Urobuchi, Nasu and Narita Announced

Tabletop RPG Session by Urobuchi, Nasu and Narita Announced

According to the official website, publisher Seikaisha has announced a tabletop RPG session "Red Dragon" played by popular light novel authors. The replay...read more

Urobuchi Gen To Release New Anime By the End of 2012

According to Weekly Playboy News, scenario writer Urobuchi Gen plans to release some new anime by the end of 2012. He was asked to write a sequel to Mahou Shoujo Mad...read more

Urobuchi says Postponement will Improve the Quality of Madoka Magica

Urobuchi Gen announced in his twitter that there is nothing to worry about the airing of the remaining two episodes of Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica. He said the qualit...read more

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