Biography
Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese novelist, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter. He was born on 20 December 1972 in Tokyo and graduated from Wako University with a degree in history. He began his career writing visual novels at Nitroplus, debuting with Phantom of Inferno (2000).
Urobuchi is best known for his work on Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011), for which he received the Tokyo Anime Award for Best Scriptwriter, as well as Fate/Zero (2011), Psycho-Pass (2012) and the Godzilla anime film trilogy comprising Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017), Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018) and Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018). He has also written for tokusatsu series such as Kamen Rider Gaim (2013–2014).
