History Creator / GenUrobuchi

Gen Urobuchi (born December 20, 1972) is a prolific Japanese author in the VisualNovel industry who currently works under {{Creator/Nitroplus}}. He is (in)famous for creating dark, tragic settings and plot twists in his stories, in part due to nearly dying in an epidemic when he was younger. (Indeed, as he put it in [[http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Shinjidai_no_Mixture_Magazine_BLACK_PAST this interview]], the experience gave him "eyesight of the dead".) The work which gave him this fame was ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'', an Creator/HPLovecraft-inspired VisualNovel released under Nitro+. As a result, he has been given the nickname "[[FanNickname Uro]][[TheButcher butcher]]" by several circles on the internet. That said, he may be trying to break out of this mold; [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-07-25/madoka-magica-urobuchi-writes-kamen-rider-gaimu given how he worked on a]] [[Series/KamenRiderGaim a tokusatsu series.]][[note]](Though he ''had'' stated that said series would be DarkerAndEdgier than the previous entries in [[Franchise/KamenRider the franchise]]. And it was.)[[/note]] Meanwhile, ''[[Series/ThunderboltFantasy Thunderbolt Fantasy]]'', is [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-02-05/gen-urobuchi-good-smile-company-launch-thunderbolt-fantasy-puppet-tv-series/.98364 a puppet TV Series]]

* ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'' (2003)[[/index]]
* ''Jouka no Monshou'' (2003, a short {{Film/Equilibrium}} fanfic)

* AuthorAppeal: He apparently likes using ordinary guns in a fantastic setting [[MugglesDoItBetter and to show that they get the job done]], if ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'', ''Literature/FateZero'', and ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' are any indication. ''Anime/PsychoPass'' also counts; even though the [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon Dominators]] work, [[spoiler: they are useless against the Big Bad, so he ends up being executed by an ordinary revolver.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: Seems to be a specialty of his, be it deconstructing love (''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'' and ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''), heroism (''Literature/FateZero'', ''Series/KamenRiderGaim''), power (''Series/KamenRiderGaim''), Japanese culture (''Anime/PsychoPass''), or selflessness (''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''). In the case of the ''[[Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters Godzilla]]'' [[Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters anime trilogy]]...''all of them?''
* DeconReconSwitch: In spite of the above, good tends to prevail and outright [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]] are generally avoided in his works. It's just that BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil tends to be very much in effect and the price of victory keeps the characters and the viewers alike wondering whether it was worth it.

* RapeAsDrama: He is not above using rape as a source of drama, including [[VisualNovel/SayaNoUta young]] [[Literature/FateZero children]].

* SpaghettiWestern: Django, which is also a SpaceWestern.

!!And he has been involved in the production of the following series:

-->''"Failure is the mother of success; a long journey begins from the ground beneath his feet. I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy."''

Compare with Creator/MohiroKitoh, Creator/LynnOkamoto, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/YokoTaro, Creator/YasukoKobayashi, Creator/RobertKirkman, Creator/GarthEnnis, Creator/ChuckPalahniuk, Creator/CharlieBrooker, Creator/JossWhedon, Creator/AlanMoore, [[LightNovel/BlackBullet Shiden Kanzaki]], and [[LightNovel/ReZero Tappei Nagatsuki]] for similar authors.

Gen Urobuchi (born December 20, 1972) is a prolific Japanese author in the VisualNovel industry who currently works under {{Creator/Nitroplus}}. He is (in)famous for creating dark, tragic settings and plot twists in his stories, in part due to [[CreatorBreakdown nearly dying in an epidemic]] [[HarmfulToMinors when he was younger]]. (Indeed, as he put it in [[http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Shinjidai_no_Mixture_Magazine_BLACK_PAST this interview]], the experience gave him "eyesight of the dead".) The work which gave him this fame was ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'', an Creator/HPLovecraft-inspired VisualNovel released under Nitro+. As a result, he has been given the nickname "[[FanNickname Uro]][[TheButcher butcher]]" by several circles on the internet. That said, he may be trying to break out of this mold; [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-07-25/madoka-magica-urobuchi-writes-kamen-rider-gaimu given how he worked on a]] [[Series/KamenRiderGaim a tokusatsu series.]][[note]](Though he ''had'' stated that said series would be DarkerAndEdgier than the previous entries in [[Franchise/KamenRider the franchise]]. And it was.)[[/note]] Meanwhile, ''[[Series/ThunderboltFantasy Thunderbolt Fantasy]]'', is [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-02-05/gen-urobuchi-good-smile-company-launch-thunderbolt-fantasy-puppet-tv-series/.98364 a puppet TV Series]]

* UnlikelyHero: Not only is he fond of this trope, but in [[http://nekoshiritori.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/interview-with-gen-urobuchi/ an interview]], he admitted that the people he view as true heroes are often these.

He and Kinoko Nasu of Creator/TypeMoon are known to be good friends, and have even collaborated on three ''[[Franchise/FateSeries Fate/]]'' series projects, ''Literature/FateZero'', ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'', and ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''; they also played together in the TabletopRPG that would be [[TheAnimeOfTheGame adapted]] into ''Anime/ChaosDragon''. He's also worked with fellow writers Ichiro Itano (who co-wrote ''{{Anime/Blassreiter}}'' with him) and Yosuke Kuroda (who helmed the adaptation of ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno''), and considers them both his mentors in writing and a major influence on his writing of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica.''

* ''LightNovel/FateZero'', under the direction of Kinoko Nasu

* ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'' as the concept creator of Spartacus and Vlad III

* AuthorAppeal: He apparently likes using ordinary guns in a fantastic setting [[MugglesDoItBetter and to show that they get the job done]], if ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'', ''LightNovel/FateZero'', and ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' are any indication. ''Anime/PsychoPass'' also counts; even though the [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon Dominators]] work, [[spoiler: they are useless against the Big Bad, so he ends up being executed by an ordinary revolver.]]
** If [[LightNovel/FateZero Saber, Maiya]], [[Anime/PsychoPass Akane, Yayoi]], and [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Yoko]] are any indication, he also seems to have a thing for women in suits.

* CreatorRecovery: In ''LightNovel/FateZero''[='=]s afterward he wrote that he wanted to write a heartwarming story one day, but couldn't because of his "tragedy syndrome". Then came ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' [[spoiler: where he does manage to write something heartwarming exactly as he described in the ''Fate Zero'''s afterward.]] Since then, his later works have fallen more on the idealistic end, such as (the admittedly still dark) ''Anime/PsychoPass'' and ''Anime/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet''. It probably helps that ''Madoka Magica'' has put him on the map as a writer of television shows.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Seems to be a specialty of his, be it deconstructing love (''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'' and ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''), heroism (''LightNovel/FateZero'', ''Series/KamenRiderGaim''), power (''Series/KamenRiderGaim''), Japanese culture (''Anime/PsychoPass''), or selflessness (''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''). In the case of the ''[[Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters Godzilla]]'' [[Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters anime trilogy]]...''all of them?''

* FateWorseThanDeath: Despite his infamy of being the "Urobutcher", killing off his characters isn't the ''worst'' he can do to his characters. He's also known to have his characters being raped, brutally tortured, or chronically turning his characters into literal monsters. In fact, he let some of his characters live, but have them go through emotional and mental suffering either seeing some of their loved ones killed off (''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''), having their ideal dreams destroyed and/or exposed (''LightNovel/FateZero''), or all three (''Series/KamenRiderGaim'').
* ForHappiness[=/=]TotalitarianUtilitarian[=/=]TheNeedsOfTheMany: Many of his works focus on, and brutally deconstruct, utilitarian and consequentialist ethical philosophy (see ''LightNovel/FateZero'', ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'', ''Anime/ExpelledFromParadise'', and the ''[[Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters Godzilla]]'' anime trilogy).

** However, some of his works tend to BlackAndGrayMorality (''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'', ''VisualNovel/KikokugaiTheCyberSlayer'', ''LightNovel/FateZero'', ''Anime/AldnoahZero'', ''Anime/PsychoPass'' and ''Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater'') or WhiteAndGreyMorality (''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' and ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'').

** ''Fate/Accel Zero Order'', a {{crossover}} event between ''LightNovel/FateZero'' and ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' whose main story is written by Urobuchi, is notably far more idealistic than the original ''Zero''; this is because one of the main allies of the player is a FutureBadass version of one of the Masters, and thus can SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. Only one of the Masters dies, the most overtly evil of them, and while all of the Servants still die the heroic ones are all either killed honorably or allow themselves to vanish due to the Holy Grail War drawing to a close. However, it's still a very serious story, especially when juxtaposed with the DenserAndWackier events for ''Grand Order'' that Nasu loves to write.

* RapeAsDrama: He is not above using rape as a source of drama, including [[VisualNovel/SayaNoUta young]] [[LightNovel/FateZero children]].

** Though ''LightNovel/FateZero'' deconstructs heroism, [[spoiler:the final conversation between Kiritsugu and Shirou shows that Kiritsugu at least saved Shirou, who would go onto try to be a hero like his father. Unlike Emiya who got nearly nothing for his struggles, Shirou does manage to make the world better in some routes of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. Emiya also does save the world by preventing Kirei or others from making a wish with the Holy Grail, which would bring destruction to the world, though Emiya does not get world peace like he wanted.]]

Gen Urobuchi (born December 20, 1972) is a prolific Japanese author in the VisualNovel industry who currently works under {{Creator/Nitroplus}}. He is (in)famous for creating dark, tragic settings and plot twists in his stories, in part [[FreudianExcuse due to]] [[CreatorBreakdown nearly dying in an epidemic]] [[HarmfulToMinors when he was younger]]. (Indeed, as he put it in [[http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Shinjidai_no_Mixture_Magazine_BLACK_PAST this interview]], the experience gave him "eyesight of the dead".) The work which gave him this fame was ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'', an Creator/HPLovecraft-inspired VisualNovel released under Nitro+. As a result, he has been given the nickname "[[FanNickname Uro]][[TheButcher butcher]]" by several circles on the internet. That said, he may be trying to break out of this mold; [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-07-25/madoka-magica-urobuchi-writes-kamen-rider-gaimu given how he worked on a]] [[Series/KamenRiderGaim a tokusatsu series.]][[note]](Though he ''had'' stated that said series would be DarkerAndEdgier than the previous entries in [[Franchise/KamenRider the franchise]]. And it was.)[[/note]] Meanwhile, ''[[Series/ThunderboltFantasy Thunderbolt Fantasy]]'', is [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-02-05/gen-urobuchi-good-smile-company-launch-thunderbolt-fantasy-puppet-tv-series/.98364 a puppet TV Series]]

* KillEmAll: Hence his FanNickname, "Urobutcher".
** Averted in ''Anime/PsychoPass''. [[spoiler:Many people die throughout the series, but only a few main characters die; with only a one-shot character, one major hero and the main villain dying in the final three episodes which make up the climax and denouement of the work.]] Count those deaths and make note that this is LighterAndSofter for him.
** Averted again for ''Anime/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet''. Although a few characters die in the series [[spoiler:(including fan-favorite Chamber)]], this series undeniably has the lowest bodycount yet.
** In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' [[spoiler:there's actually a ''[[EveryoneLives negative death count]]''...[[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain but at a great cost.]]]]
** This tendency is so bad that in the tabletop play for ''Anime/ChaosDragon'' all of the other players had to conspire make sure he didn't cause a TotalPartyKill given the chance.

He and Kinoko Nasu of [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Type Moon]] are known to be good friends, and have even collaborated on three ''[[Franchise/FateSeries Fate/]]'' series projects, ''Literature/FateZero'', ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'', and ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''; they also played together in the TabletopRPG that would be [[TheAnimeOfTheGame adapted]] into ''Anime/ChaosDragon''. He's also worked with fellow writers Ichiro Itano (who co-wrote ''{{Anime/Blassreiter}}'' with him) and Yosuke Kuroda (who helmed the adaptation of ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno''), and considers them both his mentors in writing and a major influence on his writing of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica.''

** He confesses to this in the afterword to ''Fate/zero's'' first volume, saying that he can no longer write happy endings to his stories. However, with the ending to [[spoiler:''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'']], he [[CreatorRecovery seems to have gotten over it]]. [[BittersweetEnding Somewhat.]]

* ''RWBY: Ice Queendom'' (animation concept)

* RapeAsDrama: He is not above using rape as a source of drama, including [[VisualNovel/SayaNoUta young children]].

* RapeAsDrama[=/=]RapeAsBackstory: He is not above using rape as a source of drama, including [[VisualNovel/SayaNoUta young children]].

* TearJerker: Invoked often as he usually breaks the idealists in his stories.

* [[YaoiFangirl Yaoi Fanboy]]: Maybe. In an interview he stated that if he wanted to he could create a Boys Love series. However he did had a hand in forming Nitro+[=CHiRAL=], along with developing ''VisualNovel/TogainuNoChi'' and ''VisualNovel/SweetPool''.
* YuriFan: Seems a certainty with LesYay in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' and outright lesbians in ''Anime/PsychoPass''.

He and Kinoko Nasu of [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Type Moon]] are known to be good friends, and have even collaborated on two ''[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Fate/]]'' series projects, ''Literature/FateZero'' and ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha''; they also played together in the TabletopRPG that would be [[TheAnimeOfTheGame adapted]] into ''Anime/ChaosDragon''. He's also worked with fellow writers Ichiro Itano (who co-wrote ''{{Anime/Blassreiter}}'' with him) and Yosuke Kuroda (who helmed the adaptation of ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno''), and considers them both his mentors in writing and a major influence on his writing of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica.''

* WalkingSpoiler: By the time he started to work on ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' the man himself had become a real life example of this trope, in that his involvement in the writing of ''Madoka Magica'' alone gave the part of the audience aware of his track record a rough idea [[DarkerAndEdgier what]] [[AnyoneCanDie to expect]] from it. [[GenreSavvy Urobuchi himself apparently was aware of this]], as [[http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Gen_Urobuchi#Involvement_in_the_Magica_Quartet he initially intended his involvement to be kept a secret]], and when this failed he tried to [[TrollingCreator mislead]] the audience by promising a heartwarming story.

Compare with Creator/MohiroKitoh, Creator/LynnOkamoto, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/TaroYoko, Creator/YasukoKobayashi, Creator/RobertKirkman, Creator/GarthEnnis, Creator/ChuckPalahniuk, Creator/CharlieBrooker, Creator/JossWhedon, Creator/AlanMoore, [[LightNovel/BlackBullet Shiden Kanzaki]], and [[LightNovel/ReZero Tappei Nagatsuki]] for similar authors.

Compare with Creator/MohiroKitoh, Creator/LynnOkamoto, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/TaroYoko, Creator/YasukoKobayashi, [[Franchise/TheWalkingDead Robert Kirkman]], Creator/GarthEnnis, Creator/ChuckPalahniuk, Creator/CharlieBrooker, Creator/JossWhedon, Creator/AlanMoore, [[LightNovel/BlackBullet Shiden Kanzaki]], and [[LightNovel/ReZero Tappei Nagatsuki]] for similar authors.

** ''Anime/PsychoPass'': His involvement has fluctuated. He was there from start to finish for season 1, but had no involvement with season 2. He was co-writer for [[Anime/PsychoPassTheMovie the 2015 movie]], and the main writer for the ''[[VisualNovel/PsychoPassMandatoryHappiness Mandatory Happiness]]'' visual novel, but after that, he had no involvement with the ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]]'' trilogy or season 3. Post-2015, he essentially departed the franchise in favor of ''Series/ThunderboltFantasy'' and his ''Godzilla'' movies.

* ''VisualNovel/PsychoPassMandatoryHappiness'' (2015)

* ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'' (2003)

* ''Zoku Satsuriku no Django: Tre Donne Crudeli'' (2008)

* DarkerAndEdgier: [[https://40.media.tumblr.com/90264548a7431f26965baba3fb0f18dd/tumblr_mowxntnr061rmwgqyo1_500.jpg The incarnation]] of this trope done right. If you're not sure how to darken the tone of your story without succumbing to DarknessInducedAudienceApathy, hire Gen Urobuchi. Under his purview, the darkness levels are practically guaranteed to get ratcheted up several notches. His friend Nasu jokes that he actually is a RealityWarper.

* [[YaoiFangirl Yaoi Fanboy]]: Maybe. In an interview he stated that if he wanted to he could create a Boys Love series. However he did have a hand in forming Nitro+{{CHiRAL}}, along with developing ''VisualNovel/TogainuNoChi'' and ''VisualNovel/SweetPool''.