History Creator / GenUrobuchi

* {{Deconstruction}}

** And then [[spoiler: ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'']] ends on a [[DefiedTrope double-barrelled middle finger]] to this trope, making the whole thing ZigZagged across his general body of work.

* TrollingCreator: He has gained a reputation for this with ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.

A prolific Japanese author in the VisualNovel industry who currently works under {{Nitroplus}}. He is (in)famous for creating dark, tragic settings and plot twists in his stories, in part due to [[FreudianExcuse due to]] [[CreatorBreakdown 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 put him to this fame was ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'', an Creator/HPLovecraft-inspired VisualNovel released under {{Nitroplus}}. As a result, he has been given the nickname "[[FanNickname Urobutcher]]" by several circles on the internet.

-->"Lila Milla Rira of MobileSuitZetaGundam died soon after her ShowerScene shocked me so much at that time. How could [[YoshiyukiTomino Director Tomino]] allow such a beautiful, booby character casually die? I hated him very much back in the days when I'm in college. [[HilariousInHindsight I think even though it's fictional anime characters, it's not a good thing for them to die so easily.]]"

* CreatorBreakdown: 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:''Madoka Magica'']], he seems to have gotten over it. Somewhat.

** [[spoiler:Actually averted in ''Anime/Psycho-Pass''. 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.]]

** [[spoiler:Gen Urobuchi seems to have some respect for idealism now, as Akane shows in the end of ''Anime/Psycho-Pass'' by keeping and believing in idealism throughout the whole series and then giving a speech on it to the [[BigBrotherIsWatching Sibyl System]].]]

* 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. 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 mislead the audience by promising a heartwarming story.

* ''BlackLagoon: Shaitane Badi''

* BreakTheCutie: If there's an idealist in his story, chances are that person will be broken by the end. The Type-Moon wiki describes this tendency as the Reality Marble Dead End Catharsis: Heaven & Hell Drop, which lowers the happiness of all characters in his stories by one rank.

* KidHero: In an industry where most protagonists are under 18, he mostly avoids this, with the exception of ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.

* KidHero: In an industry where most protagonists are under 18, he mostly avoids this, with the exception of {{PuellaMagiMadokaMagica}}.

A prolific Japanese author in the VisualNovel industry who currently works under {{Nitroplus}}. He is (in)famous for creating dark, tragic settings and plot twists in his stories (possibly [[FreudianExcuse due to]] [[CreatorBreakdown nearly dying in an epidemic]] when he was younger). The work which put him to this fame was ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'', an Creator/HPLovecraft-inspired VisualNovel released under {{Nitroplus}}. As a result, he has been given the nickname "[[FanNickname Urobutcher]]" by several circles on the internet.

A prolific Japanese author in the VisualNovel industry who currently works under {{Nitroplus}}. He is (in)famous for creating dark, tragic settings and plot twists in his stories (possibly [[FreudianExcuse after]] [[CreatorBreakdown nearly dying in an epidemic]]). The work which put him to this fame was ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'', an Creator/HPLovecraft-inspired VisualNovel released under {{Nitroplus}}. As a result, he has been given the nickname "[[FanNickname Urobutcher]]" by several circles on the internet.

A prolific Japanese author in the VisualNovel industry who currently works under {{Nitroplus}}. He is (in)famous for creating dark, tragic settings and plot twists in his stories. The work which put him to this fame was ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'', an Creator/HPLovecraft-inspired VisualNovel released under {{Nitroplus}}. As a result, he has been given the nickname "[[FanNickname Urobutcher]]" by several circles on the internet.

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