Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese novelist and screenwriter who's made his mark across visual novels, light novels, and anime. He's best known for Madoka Magica, the wildly successful series that won him the Tokyo Anime Award for Best Scriptwriter. His other major credits include the notorious visual novel Saya no Uta (2003), Psycho-Pass (2012), Fate/Zero, and the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Gaim (2013–2014). He currently works at Nitroplus and Nitro+chiral.
Fans call him the "Urobutcher"—a nickname that hints at his signature style. His work tends toward darkness: nihilistic themes, gut-punch plot twists, and graphic violence are pretty much his calling cards. Several of his anime adaptations have won the Newtype Anime Award, including Madoka Magica (2011), Fate/Zero (2012), and Psycho-Pass: The Movie (2015).
Before becoming a household name in anime, Urobuchi wrote scenarios for a string of Nitroplus visual novels: Phantom of Inferno (2000), Kyuuketsu Senki Vjedogonia (2001), Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer (2002), Saya no Uta (2003), and Zoku Satsuriku no Django ~Jigoku no Shoukinkubi~ (2007).
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