Gen Urobuchi

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Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese novelist, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter. He currently works at Nitroplus and serves as the company's representative director. He is known for being the co-creator of the highly acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Madoka Magica, which earned him the Tokyo Anime Award for Best Scriptwriter, as well as the writer of the Nitroplus visual novel Saya no Uta, the anime series Psycho-Pass, the light novel and anime series Fate/Zero, 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 Psycho-Pass: The Movie in 2015.

Urobuchi is also said to be a film buff and is known to insert a lot of film homages in his works. He has cited Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, and John Carpenter as his favorite film directors.