Gen Urobuchi

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/ButchGen Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese novelist and screenwriter. He is a key member of the video game and visual novel developer Nitroplushttps://anilist.co/studio/459/Nitroplus and currently serves as the companys representative director and vicepresident. He is best known as the cocreator of the highly acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magicahttps://anilist.co/anime/9756/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica/ which earned him the Tokyo Anime Award for Best Scriptwriter. His other major works include the acclaimed Nitroplusdeveloped visual novel Saya no Uta the anime series PSYCHOPASShttps://anilist.co/anime/13601/PSYCHOPASS/ the light novel and anime series Fate/Zerohttps://anilist.co/anime/10087/FateZero/ and the tokusatsu TV show Kamen Rider Gaim. Urobuchi is one of the most renowned and prolific writers in the anime industry. Anime series written by Urobuchi that have won the Newtype Anime Award have been Puella Magi Madoka Magica in 2011 Fate/Zero in 2012 and PsychoPass: The Moviehttps://anilist.co/anime/20514/PSYCHOPASSTheMovie/ in 2015. A film buff Urobuchi likes to include film homages in his works. He has named Kiyoshi Kurosawa Sergio Leone and John Carpenter to be his favorite directors. As a child he also loved robot animation and cited Armored Trooper Votomshttps://anilist.co/anime/2582/ArmoredTrooperVotoms/ as one of his influences. Notable works outside anime: