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His latest project is a tokusatsu series, but a sentence later, his latest project is a puppet TV series. See the problem here?
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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 one of his latest projects was]] [[Series/KamenRiderGaim a tokusatsu series.]][[note]](Though he ''had'' stated that said series would be DarkerAndEdgier than the more recent entries in [[Franchise/KamenRider the franchise]]. And it was.)[[/note]] His latest project, ''[[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]]
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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 one of his latest projects was]] given how he worked on a]] [[Series/KamenRiderGaim a tokusatsu series.]][[note]](Though he ''had'' stated that said series would be DarkerAndEdgier than the more recent previous entries in [[Franchise/KamenRider the franchise]]. And it was.)[[/note]] His latest project, 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]]
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: His works stand heavily on the cynical side of the scale, sometimes to the point of being nihilistic, but he says that he used to write works that still have a glimmer of hope in them. [[spoiler: That being said, [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica his]] [[Anime/PsychoPass recent]] [[Anime/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet works]] [[Series/KamenRiderGaim have]] demonstrated a gradual progression away from the cynical end of the scale; see immediately below for details.]]
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: His works stand heavily on the cynical side of the scale, sometimes to the point of being nihilistic, but he says that he used to write works that still have a glimmer of hope in them. [[spoiler: That being said, [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica his]] some]] [[Anime/PsychoPass recent]] of]] [[Anime/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet works]] his]] [[Series/KamenRiderGaim have]] works ]] have demonstrated a gradual progression away from the cynical end of the scale; see immediately below for details.]]
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** 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.
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** In one instance, when ''VisualNovel/SweetPool'' was being developed, Fuchii Kabura (writer) once asked Urobuchi how the story's atmosphere should be. Urobuchi responded to Kabura that "your [[YaoiFangirl audience]] are all over the age of 18 and has grown up, stop giving them sweet romances", further proving this trope.
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** In one instance, when ''VisualNovel/SweetPool'' was being developed, Fuchii Kabura (writer) once asked Urobuchi how the story's atmosphere should be. Urobuchi responded to Kabura that "your [[YaoiFangirl audience]] are all over the age of 18 and has grown up, stop giving them sweet romances", further proving this trope. Urobuchi was later satisfied on how dark and disturbing ''sweet pool'' turned out to be.
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** However, some of his works tend to BlackAndGrayMorality (''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'', ''VisualNovel/KikokugaiTheCyberSlayer'', ''LightNovel/FateZero'', ''Anime/PsychoPass'' and ''Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater'') or WhiteAndGreyMorality (''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' and ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'').
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** However, some of his works tend to BlackAndGrayMorality (''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'', ''VisualNovel/KikokugaiTheCyberSlayer'', ''LightNovel/FateZero'', ''Anime/PsychoPass'' and ''Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater'') or WhiteAndGreyMorality (''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' and ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'').
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This quote was previously deleted for being "unsubstantiated" on June 8, 2019. However, he did in fact make it, it is the Postface of Fate/Zero Volume 1, see here:https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Fate/Zero_Volume_1_Postface
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids[=/=]TrueArtIsAngsty: He is also definitely on the side of those who consider happy stories to be unrealistic, to the point where he has actually suggested that Lighter and Softer stories, by definition, ''contradict the laws of nature'' and are therefore difficult to write and impossible to believe.
-->"I am full of hatred towards men's so-called happiness, and had to push the characters I poured my heart out to create into the abyss of tragedy.
-->"I am full of hatred towards men's so-called happiness, and had to push the characters I poured my heart out to create into the abyss of tragedy.
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** ''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 the 2015 movie, and the main writer for the ''Mandatory Happiness'' visual novel, but after that, he had no involvement with the ''Sinners of the System'' trilogy or season 3. Post-2015, he essentially departed the franchise in favor of ''Series/ThunderboltFantasy'' and his ''Godzilla'' movies.
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** ''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, movie]], and the main writer for the ''Mandatory Happiness'' ''[[VisualNovel/PsychoPassMandatoryHappiness Mandatory Happiness]]'' visual novel, but after that, he had no involvement with the ''Sinners ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System'' System]]'' trilogy or season 3. Post-2015, he essentially departed the franchise in favor of ''Series/ThunderboltFantasy'' and his ''Godzilla'' movies.
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* RapeAsDrama[=/=]RapeAsBackstory: He is not above using rape as a source of drama, including [[VisualNovel/SayaNoUta young]] [[LightNovel/FateZero children]].
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* RapeAsDrama[=/=]RapeAsBackstory: He is not above using rape as a source of drama, including [[VisualNovel/SayaNoUta young]] [[LightNovel/FateZero children]].young]].
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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 ''Phantom of Inferno''), and considers them both his mentors in writing and a major influence on his writing of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica.''
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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 ''Phantom of Inferno''), ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno''), and considers them both his mentors in writing and a major influence on his writing of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica.''
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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 ''Phantom of Inferno''), and considers them both his mentors in writing and a major influence on his writing of ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica.''
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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 ''Phantom of Inferno''), and considers them both his mentors in writing and a major influence on his writing of ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica.''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica.''
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** ''Film/ThunderboltFantasyBewitchingMelodyOfTheWest'' (script and composition)
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** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': He hasn't been involved with anything related to the franchise after the ''Rebellion'' movie.
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** ''Anime/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet'': He provided the plot outline and wrote the script for the first episode, then was largely uninvolved with the rest of the series. He at least came back to do the script for the final episode.
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** ''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 the 2015 movie, and the main writer for the ''Mandatory Happiness'' visual novel, but after that, he had no involvement with the ''Sinners of the System'' trilogy or season 3. Post-2015, he has essentially departed the franchise in favor of ''Series/ThunderboltFantasy'' and his ''Godzilla'' movies.
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** ''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 the 2015 movie, and the main writer for the ''Mandatory Happiness'' visual novel, but after that, he had no involvement with the ''Sinners of the System'' trilogy or season 3. Post-2015, he has essentially departed the franchise in favor of ''Series/ThunderboltFantasy'' and his ''Godzilla'' movies.
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* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: Several series of his have seen his involvement getting rather spotty:
** ''Anime/AldnoahZero'': He infamously left the series after only writing the first three episodes, claiming to be far too busy with ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' at the time. A good chunk of fans who had started watching the show solely for his involvement felt betrayed.
** ''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 the 2015 movie, and the main writer for the ''Mandatory Happiness'' visual novel, but after that, he had no involvement with the ''Sinners of the System'' trilogy or season 3. Post-2015, he has essentially departed the franchise in favor of ''Series/ThunderboltFantasy'' and his ''Godzilla'' movies.
** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': He doesn't seem to be involved with anything related to the franchise after the ''Rebellion'' movie.
** ''Anime/AldnoahZero'': He infamously left the series after only writing the first three episodes, claiming to be far too busy with ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' at the time. A good chunk of fans who had started watching the show solely for his involvement felt betrayed.
** ''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 the 2015 movie, and the main writer for the ''Mandatory Happiness'' visual novel, but after that, he had no involvement with the ''Sinners of the System'' trilogy or season 3. Post-2015, he has essentially departed the franchise in favor of ''Series/ThunderboltFantasy'' and his ''Godzilla'' movies.
** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': He doesn't seem to be involved with anything related to the franchise after the ''Rebellion'' movie.
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* YuriFan: Seems a certainty with LesYay in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' and ''Anime/FateZero'' and outright lesbians in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' and ''Anime/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet''. Goes the other way, too; Waver and Rider (both male) of ''LightNovel/FateZero'' are an OfficialCouple, according to WordOfGay.
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** Two of his 2013 works seem to deconstruct the former. The first is ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'', where Homura [[spoiler:after a conversation with Madoka, realizes that Madoka may not be alright with her HeroicSacrifice and that the only reason why she did it in the first place was because it was the right thing to do. So she takes matters into her own hands and rescues -- well, kidnaps is a more appropriate word -- Madoka and replaces her as the Goddess. Her new universe makes the other characters live happy lives [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans at the cost]] of sealing away their memories, taking away their responsibilities as magical girls, and, worst of all, betraying her best friend Madoka. And she hates herself throughout for having to go through with it, thus hitting this back to a Bittersweet Ending]].
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** Two of his 2013 works seem to deconstruct the former. The first is ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'', where Homura [[spoiler:after a conversation with Madoka, realizes that Madoka may not be alright with her HeroicSacrifice and that the only reason why she did it in the first place was because it was the right thing to do. So she takes matters into her own hands and rescues -- well, kidnaps is a more appropriate word -- Madoka and replaces her as the Goddess.Goddess (making an enemy out of Madoka in the process). Her new universe makes the other characters live happy lives [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans at the cost]] of sealing away their memories, taking away their responsibilities as magical girls, and, worst of all, betraying her best friend Madoka. And she hates herself throughout for having to go through with it, thus hitting this back to a Bittersweet Ending]].
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