# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gen-urobuchi
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:11:16.652Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gen-urobuchi"
name: "Gen Urobuchi"
slug: "gen-urobuchi"
description: "Gen Urobuchi  is a Japanese novelist, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter. He is known for being the co-creator of the highly acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which earned him the Tokyo Anime Award for Best Scriptwriter, as well as the writer of the 2003 visual novel Saya no Uta, the 2012 anime Psycho-Pass, the light novel and anime Fate/Zero, and the 2013–2014 tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Gaim. He currently works at Nitroplus and Nitro+chiral. Anime written by Urobuchi that have won the Newtype Anime Awards have been Puella Magi Madoka Magica in 2011, Fate/Zero in 2012 and Psycho-Pass: The Movie in 2015."
tagline: "Japanese writer of visual novels, light novels, and anime"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1972-12-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump