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Gen Urobuchi | |
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| Born | Wada (first name unknown) December 20, 1972 Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Writer, scriptwriter |
| Education | Wakō University |
| Genre | Dark Fantasy, horror, thriller, sci-fi, tragedy[1] |
| Notable works | Puella Magi Madoka Magica Fate/Zero Psycho-Pass Saya no Uta Kamen Rider Gaim |
| Notable awards | 1st Newtype Anime Awards - Screenwriter Prize 11th Tokyo Anime Award for Best Screenplay |
| Relatives | Tsunashirō Wada (Great-grandfather) Sunao Ōtsubo (Grandfather) Shū Wada (Father) Natsuko Sebata (Mother) |
Gen Urobuchi (Japanese: 虚淵 玄, Hepburn: Urobuchi Gen, born December 20, 1972) is a Japanese novelist, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter. He is known for being the co-creator of the highly acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which earned him the Tokyo Anime Award for Best Scriptwriter, as well as the writer of 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. Anime written by Urobuchi that have won the Newtype Anime Awards have been Puella Magi Madoka Magica in 2011, Fate/Zero in 2012 and Psycho-Pass: The Movie in 2015.