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Gen Urobuchi

️Tue Mar 07 2023

“	I am very honored to join this Godzilla project as one of its Japanese creators. I'm grateful for all the support and really excited to bringing this content to fans worldwide.	„
	— Urobuchi on working on GODZILLA: Planet of the Monsters

Gen Urobuchi (虚淵玄 Urobuchi Gen) is a Japanese novelist, visual novel writer, and anime screenwriter. Urobuchi began his career writing visual novels in the early 2000s, but became most well-known for writing the acclaimed anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica in 2011. Since then, Urobuchi has written for anime such as Psycho Pass and Fate/Zero and tokusatsu series such as Kamen Rider Gaim. Urobuchi's work is characterized by dark and nihilistic themes, prominent gore, and tragic plot twists which often involve the brutal deaths of main characters, earning him the nickname "Urobutcher" among fans.

Biography

GODZILLA: Planet of the Monsters press notes

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Gen Urobuchi was born in 1972. He is a scenario writer / novelist who works for Nitroplus. He won “Best Scriptwriter” from the Tokyo Anime Award for his work on the TV anime PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA. He has written screenplays of various anime, including PSYCHO-PASS, GARGANTIA ON THE VERDUROUS PLANET (翠星のガルガンティア, Suisei no Garugantia, 2013) and EXPELLED FROM PARADISE (楽園追放 -Expelled From Paradise-, Rakuen Tsuihoo -Expelled From Paradise-, 2014). He also developed the story and wrote screenplays for the television series KAMEN RIDER GAIM (仮面ライダー鎧武（ガイム）, Kamen Raidaa Gaimu, 2013-2014) and was script supervisor on the film KAMEN RIDER GAIM: GREAT SOCCER BATTLE! GOLDEN FRUITS CUP! (劇場版仮面ライダー鎧武サッカー大決戦！黄金の果実争奪杯！, Gekijooban Kamen Raidaa Gaimu Sakkaa Daisakusen! Kogane no Kajitsu Soodatsu-hai!, 2014).^[1]

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Selected filmography

GODZILLA: Planet of the Monsters (2017) - Storywriter / screenwriter / series composition [with Sadayuki Murai]
GODZILLA: City on the Edge of Battle (2018) - Storywriter / screenwriter [with Sadayuki Murai, Tetsuya Yamada] / series composition [with Sadayuki Murai]
GODZILLA: The Planet Eater (2018) - Storywriter / screenwriter / series composition [with Sadayuki Murai]

Selected bibliography

GODZILLA: Monster Apocalypse (2017) - Supervisor
GODZILLA: Project Mechagodzilla (2018) - Supervisor
GODZILLA: Planet of the Monsters (2018) - Supervisor
GODZILLA: The Planet Eater (2018) - Supervisor

Gallery

References

This is a list of references for Gen Urobuchi. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

↑ GODZILLA: PLANET OF THE MONSTERS Press Notes From Toho - SciFi Japan

Staff members

Directors

Drama directors	Adam Wingard • Daisuke Sato • Ernest Schoedsack • Eugène Lourié • Gareth Edwards • Grant Sputore • Hideaki Anno • Hirochika Muraishi • Hiroto Yokokawa • Hiroyuki Seshita • Ishiro Honda • John Guillermin • Jordan Vogt-Roberts • Jun Fukuda • Kazuhiro Nakagawa • Kazuki Omori • Kensho Yamashita • Kimiyoshi Yasuda • Kiyotaka Taguchi‎‎ • Kobun Shizuno • Koji Hashimoto • Kunio Miyoshi • Masaaki Hisamatsu • Masaaki Tezuka • Masaji Nonagase • Merian C. Cooper • Michael Dougherty • Minoru Kawasaki • Motoyoshi Oda • Noriaki Yuasa • Okihiro Yoneda • Peter Jackson • Roland Emmerich • Ryuhei Kitamura • Ryuichi Ichino • Shinji Higuchi • Shinpei Hayashiya • Shizuo Nakajima • Shusuke Kaneko • Takao Okawara • Takashi Miike • Takashi Yamazaki • Takeshi Yagi • Takuya Uenishi • Tomoo Haraguchi • Tokuzo Tanaka • Willis O'Brien • Yoshikazu Ishii • Yoshimitsu Banno • Yusuke Ishida

Effects directors	Eiichi Asada • Eiji Tsuburaya • Hiromasa Mitsudome • Hiroshi Butsuda • Isao Kaneko • Junkichi Oki • Katsuro Onoue • Kazuo Sagawa • Kenji Suzuki • Kiyoko Shibuya • Koichi Takano • Koichi Kawakita • Makoto Kamiya • Sadamasa Arikawa • Shinichi Kamisawa • Teruyoshi Nakano • Toru Matoba • Yoichi Manoda • Yoshio Tabuchi • Yoshiyuki Kuroda • Yuichi Kikuchi

Assistant directors	Hideki Oka • Ken Sano • Kiyotaka Matsumoto • Koji Kajita • Linto Ueda • Masakatsu Asai • Seiji Tani • Shogo Kiyosu • Takeharu Ikebuchi • Toshifumi Shimizu • Tsunesaburo Nishikawa • Yosuke Nakano

Writers

Screenwriters	David Callaham • Dean Devlin • Ei Ogawa • Gen Urobuchi • Hiroshi Aramata • Hiroshi Kashiwabara • Hiroyasu Yamaura • Kaoru Mabuchi • Kazuhiro Inaba • Kazuma Yoneyama • Kazunori Ito • Masahiro Yokotani • Masakazu Migita • Max Borenstein • Nisan Takahashi • Nobuhiko Ishii • Ruth Rose • Ryuzo Nakanishi • Shinichi Sekizawa • Shinichiro Kobayashi • Takeshi Nakazawa • Takeo Murata • Terry Rossio • Tetsuro Yoshida • Tetsuya Yamada • Toshio Yasumi • Wataru Mimura • Yukiko Takayama • Yusuke Watanabe • Zach Shields

Authors	August Ragone • Chiharu Sakazaki • Greg Keyes • Hideo Unagami • Ken Kuronuma • Kohan Kawauchi • Sakyo Komatsu • Satoshi Nakamura • Shigeru Kayama • Steve Ryfle

Producers

Executive producers	Dino De Laurentiis • Eric McLeod • Fumio Tanaka • Henry G. Saperstein • Hidemasa Nagata • Hiro Matsuoka • James H. Nicholson • John Beck • Keiji Ota • Kenji Okuhira • Masaichi Nagata • Minami Ichikawa • Osamu Tanaka • Reuben Bercovitch • Samuel Z. Arkoff • Shogo Tomiyama • Takahide Morichi • Tomoyuki Tanaka • Tsuguhiko Kadokawa • Yoshishige Shimatani

Producers/planners	Alex Garcia • Brian Rogers • Go Miyazaki • J.J. Abrams • Jon Jashni • Kazunari Yamanaka • Mary Parent • Ritsuko Suzuki • Takashi Yoshizawa • Thomas Tull • Yonejiro Saito

Camera & lighting

Cinematographers	Hajime Koizumi • Hajime Tsuburaya • Kazufumi Fujii • Keiichi Sakurai • Keizo Suzuki • Kenichi Eguchi • Kenya Mukai • Motoyoshi Tomioka • Takeshi Yamamoto • Tokimaro Karasawa • Toshimitsu Oneda • Yuzo Kaneko

Lighting technicians	Kuichiro Kishida

Artists

Production designers	Akihiko Iguchi • Akira Inoue • Akira Sakuragi • Akira Watanabe • Hiromasa Shirai • Hiroshi Komura • Jiro Shirasaki • Owen Paterson • Takeo Kita • Tohl Narita • Toshio Miike • Toshiro Aoki • Yasuyuki Inoue • Yoshio Irie • Yoshio Suzuki

Illustrators	Bob Eggleton • Fuchimu Shimakura • Hideki Oka • James Stokoe • Jeff Zornow • Mahiro Maeda • Mario Larrinaga • Matt Frank • Minoru Yoshida • Noriyoshi Ohrai • Patrick Tatopoulos • Priscilla Tramontano • "Hurricane" Ryu Hariken • Shinichiro Kobayashi • Shinji Nishikawa • Sophie Campbell • William Reynold Brown

Propmakers	Akira Yamada • Carlo Rambaldi • Eizo Kaimai • Fumihiko Yagi • Fuminori Ohashi • Fuyuki Shinada • Hidenori Yamaoka • Kakusei Fujiwara • Kanju Yagi and Yasuei Yagi • Keizo Murase • Marcel Delgado • Masao Yagi • Masayuki Kurahashi • Nobuhiro Ekubo • Nobuyuki Yasumaru • Norihiro "Nori" Honda • Rick Baker • Ryosaku Takayama • Shigeaki Ito • Shigeru Kawaguchi • Shinichi Wakasa • Shuichi Murakami • Teizo Toshimitsu • Tomoki Kobayashi • Tsutomu Kobayashi • Yuji Sakai

Musicians

Composers & arrangers	Akira Ifukube • Alexandre Desplat • Bear McCreary • Chumei Watanabe • Henry Jackman • Ikuma Dan • Keith Emerson • Kenjiro Hirose • Kow Otani • Kunio Miyauchi • Masaru Sato • Michiru Oshima • Naoki Sato • Reijiro Koroku • Riichiro Manabe • Sei Ikeno • Shiro Sagisu • Shunsuke Kikuchi • Takayuki Hattori • Tom Holkenborg • Yuji Koseki

Singers/performers	Emi Ito and Yumi Ito • Masato Shimon • XAI

Miscellaneous

Sound & editing	Bob Ducsay • Erik Aadahl • Hideyo Sasaki • Hisashi Shimonaga • Kazuji Taira • Ted Cheesman • Yoshitami Kuroiwa

Effects people	Hiroshi Mukoyama • Jim Rygiel • Kyuzo Yamamoto • Minoru Nakano • Pete Peterson • Ray Harryhausen • Sadao Iizuka • Satoshi Narumi • Shuzaburo Araki • Tadaaki Watanabe • Tetsuo Ohya • Yukio Manoda

Miscellaneous	Kanzo Uni • Takashi Nakao • Yasuaki Sakamoto

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