Gen Urobuchi
Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese novelist, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter.
Works
Kamen Rider
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
Release Date1971-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count45
Vote Count92
Psycho-Pass
In the year 2113, people are given brain scans to determine how likely they are to commit a crime. Those who fail are apprehended, or even killed.
Release Date2012-10-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count11
Vote Count444
Fate/Zero
The Fourth Holy Grail War has begun, and seven mages must summon heroes from history to battle each other to the death. Only one mage-and-hero pair will remain to claim the Grail and have their wishes granted! Kiritsugu Emiya was once an assassin but now fights in this war to save the world from those who would destroy it with the Grail’s power.
Release Date2011-10-02
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count25
Vote Count357
Aldnoah.Zero
In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission discovered a hypergate to Mars on the surface of the moon. Soon a war breaks out between Earth and Mars, and Martian soldiers begin to descend from the sky, riding steel giants, intent on exterminating humanity.
Release Date2014-07-05
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Series Creator
Vote Count143
Thunderbolt Fantasy
In an Eastern-styled fantasy setting, a brother and sister team of sacred guardians is beset by the Xuan Gui Zong, minions of Miè Tian Hai, who seeks the Tian Xing Jiàn sword that they possess. Hai showing up himself leads to the defeat of the brother, but his sister, Dan Fei, jumps off a cliff to temporary safety. Later, a wandering swordsman comes across a ruined temple where a statue of Buddha is protected by an umbrella against the rain. When he takes the umbrella for himself, a man resting under a tree nearby informs him the he must be compassionate to the next traveler he meets as trade-off for taking the umbrella. But the next traveler is Dan Fei, who is still being pursued by the Xuan Gui Zong minions, and between that and the sorcery of the other man he finds himself unable to avoid getting involved.
Release Date2016-07-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count51
Vote Count10
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time... Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn't know if it happened by chance or by fate yet. This is a fateful encounter that can change her destiny. This is a beginning of the new story of the magical witch girls.
Release Date2011-01-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Vote Count350
Revenger
As master assassin Usui Yuen looks into a series of assassinations made on the grand samurai clan, the Satsuma, he encounters Kurima Raizo, member and survivor of one of the attacks. Together, they discover the true nature of these murders is bigger than over stolen resources. As they get closer to the truth, will they come out alive to exact revenge?
Release Date2023-01-05
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count12
Vote Count36
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
While fighting an intense inter-galactic war, a mecha pilot is accidentally warped into a space-time neither he nor his computer recognize. After waking up from a long-time hibernation, he finds himself trapped on a planet, with human residents talking in an unknown form of language, using inferior technologies, and - most shocking to him - naturally breathable air.
Release Date2013-04-07
DepartmentWriting
JobSeries Composition
Episode Count13
Vote Count72
Blassreiter
The story is set in a fictional Germany and centers around the outbreak of bio-mechanical creatures named "Demoniacs", who rise from corpses and attack people mindlessly. All the while, a number of human-turned-Demoniacs appear. Some use their powers for good whilst others for evil. One will rise above all other Demoniacs to become the "Blassreiter".
Release Date2008-04-05
DepartmentWriting
JobSeries Composition
Episode Count24
Vote Count13
RWBY: Ice Queendom
In the world of Remnant, a place where science and fairy tales coexist, human civilization is plagued by deadly monsters known as the Grimm. For a time, victory by the Grimm seemed all but certain, if not for the heroism of those sworn to protect humanity -- Huntsmen and Huntresses. These warriors are trained and assembled into teams at schools like Beacon Academy, where Ruby meets Weiss and Blake -- forming Team RWBY along with Ruby’s sister, Yang. While team RWBY studies to become the greatest Huntresses the world of Remnant has ever known, they are faced with a horrifying threat...
Release Date2022-07-03
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Concept
Episode Count12
Vote Count15
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom
Mafia is rife in America where assassinations are a regular occurrence on the streets. Inferno, a mysterious company, is behind most of these dealings through the use of their near-invincible human weapon, "Phantom." One day, a Japanese tourist accidentally witnesses Phantom's latest murder. Desperate to escape, the tourist hides in a secluded building. However, Phantom, revealed to be a young woman named Ein, and the leader of Inferno "Scythe Master" captures the tourist and brainwashes him. Given the name "Zwei," this once peaceful tourist is now a puppet of Inferno with no memories. Drawn into a world of lies, deceit, and violence, Zwei must fight to survive, hopefully to one day regain his memories and escape from this world where he is constantly on the brink of death.
Release Date2009-04-02
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count26
Vote Count33
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation
A.D. 2115—the island nation once called Japan is now known as the "17th Far East Imperial City Management District." The citizens were promised a life of peace in exchange for some of the comfort they were used to having. People believed their lives would never change and tomorrow will be the same as today. No one suspected the impending doom which their society was about to face. "Degradation"—a rare disease which led to the total disintegration of the human body to a mere pile of sand was slowly but surely spreading throughout the world. Tohru Kazasumi, an ordinary student becomes embroiled in a multi universal battle between his world and the parallel world of "Frontier S (Stratos)." This meant that Tohru must fight himself from an alternate world. Their futures collide as their paths cross. Will both worlds ever find peace?
Release Date2015-04-04
DepartmentWriting
JobSeries Composition
Episode Count12
Vote Count10
Godzilla: The Planet Eater
With no means for defeating Godzilla Earth, mankind watches as King Ghidorah, clad in a golden light, descends on the planet. The heavens and earth shake once again as the war moves to a higher dimension.
Release Date2018-11-09
DepartmentWriting
JobSeries Composition
Vote Count389
Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters
A desperate group of refugees attempts to recolonize Earth 20,000 years after Godzilla took over. But one young man wants revenge above all else.
Release Date2017-11-17
DepartmentWriting
JobSeries Composition
Vote Count537
Concrete Revolutio
What if every fabled superhuman existed at the same time, in the same place? Titans from outer space, life forms from a mystical world, phantoms and goblins from ancient times. In another Japan, it’s not just a question of "what if"—it's a reality.
Release Date2015-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count16
Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Sword of Life and Death
A theatrical spinoff of the 'Thunderbolt Fantasy' television series which explores the backstory of Shā Wú Shēng, the Screaming Phoenix Killer, and bridges the events of the first and second seasons.
Release Date2017-12-02
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count4
Thunderbolt Fantasy: Bewitching Melody of the West
Làng Wū Yáo is a boy born with a supernatural singing voice. Secluded in the snowy mountains, he is put through severe training by his blind mother. Her wish is for her son's voice to be unrivaled, so that it will be heard by the imperial court. But the intense training results in a tragic accident, where she dies. Left an orphan as a result, Làng wanders the land. His voice is used as a tool by the wicked and greedy, with his heart being ground down in the process. Eventually his strange singing catches the ear of the princess of Xī Yōu, and Làng is elevated to the stage his mother had dreamt of. But what awaits him is a life or death battle performance against other musicians for the amusement of the members of the court.
Release Date2019-10-25
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count2
Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Final Chapter
In a world inhabited by cool puppets, brave heroes fight to prevent magic swords from falling into the wrong hands. Stylishly choreographed duels, double-crossings, mystical powers, and cool one-liners…
Release Date2025-02-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Obsolete
In 2014, aliens revealed themselves to request trade with humanity. In exchange for limestone, they would provide a consciousness-controlled general-use robot known as an "Exoframe." Cheaper than an aircraft, tank, or firearm, and easy enough for anyone to operate, the "Exoframe" spreads change throughout the world in the blink of an eye...
Release Date2019-12-03
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Concept
Episode Count12
Vote Count7
Chaos Dragon: Sekiryuu Sen'eki
The story takes place in Huanli (the Year of Dazzling) 3015. Donatia and Kouran, two countries fighting for supremacy, are causing the world to be torn apart due to the constant war. Amidst the strife is the island country Nil Kamui, which has lost its independence. Red Dragon, the guardian god of Nil Kamui, goes out of control. Will the island country be able to regain its independence?
Release Date2015-07-02
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count12
Vote Count33
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion
Following Madoka's rewriting of the universe, sacrificing herself and her happy normal days to save all magical girls from the cruel fate that awaited them by wiping witches out of existence, the despair still manifest into creatures known as nightmares. Magical girl Homura Akemi continues to fight alone in the hope that she will be able to see Madoka smile again.
Release Date2013-10-26
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count195
Bubble
In an abandoned Tokyo overrun by bubbles and gravitational abnormalities, one gifted young man has a fateful meeting with a mysterious girl.
Release Date2022-02-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count456
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings
Madoka Kaname, an ordinary middle-schooler, along with her best friend Sayaka Miki, are offered the chance to have any wish they want granted by the mysterious Kyubey, and become magical girls and fight witches. However, fellow magical girl Homura Akemi seems intent on stopping Madoka from becoming a magical girl at any cost. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings is a retelling of the first half of the TV anime series.
Release Date2012-10-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count133
Kamen Rider Gaim
In Zawame City, the Yggdrasil Corporation's roots are everywhere. To escape from the corporation's stifling presence, the dancing Beat Rider teams compete for street cred. But when Beat Riders start settling turf disputes using strange devices called Lockseeds, dimensional tears open across the city, unleashing the monstrous Inves. When ex-Beat Rider Kouta Kazuraba is caught up in an attack by a berserk Inves, he stumbles upon a high-tech device allowing him to transform into "Armored Rider Gaim" and defend his friends & the city. Bad news: Kouta's not the only Armored Rider in Zawame with something to prove, and soon a modern version of the Warring States era erupts between the masked warriors. Soon the Riders will learn this was never just a game...
Release Date2013-10-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count11
Vote Count1
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-
After the events of Rebellion, the world appears to be in balance—but that peace is fragile. As a new threat connected to Walpurgisnacht emerges, Homura Akemi is forced to face the consequences of her choices and question how far she is willing to go to protect Madoka.
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
Humanity's desperate battle to reclaim the Earth from Godzilla continues. The key to defeating the King of the Monsters may be Mechagodzilla, a robotic weapon thought to have been lost nearly 20,000 years ago.
Release Date2018-05-18
DepartmentWriting
JobSeries Composition
Vote Count389
PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie
In a futuristic Japan, the Sibyl System is charged with keeping the peace. When the state of SEAUn brings the Sibyl System in to test its effectiveness, it becomes a haven of peace and safety—for a time. Eventually, terrorists from SEAUn begin appearing in Japan, somehow slipping through the System's security and attacking from within. Desperate for answers, Inspector Akane Tsunemori is sent overseas to bring the terrorists to justice. But when her investigation forces her into a standoff with an old ally, will she be able to pull the trigger?
Release Date2015-01-09
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count231
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal
As the young girls have discovered the truth about the cruel fate of a magical girl, one magical girl after another is destroyed. Throughout it all, there is one magical girl who continues to fight alone - Homura Akemi. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal is a retelling of the second half of the TV anime series.
Release Date2012-10-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count113
Expelled from Paradise
A.D. 2400, DEVA's central council detects an incident of unauthorized access into their mainframe. Someone on Earth was trying to hack into the system. The only information DEVA was able to retrieve was that hacker referred to themselves as "Frontier Setter." To investigate the mysterious hacker's motives, the high officials of DEVA dispatch system Security Third Officer Angela Balzac to the Earth's surface. Equipped with a prosthetic "material body," Angela attempts to make contact with a local agent Dingo, but what awaited her instead was a swarm of Sandworms now infesting the Earth's surface. Angela intercepts the gruesome pests with her exoskeleton powered suit Arhan.
Release Date2014-11-15
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count98
Psycho-Pass: Providence
While attending a meeting as a Chief Inspector of the Public Security Bureau, Akane Tsunemori received a report that an incident had occurred on a foreign vessel , and this was the beginning of a big and unexpected case.
Release Date2023-05-12
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count41
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Inspector Kei Mikhail Ignatov finds himself involved with an organization named Bifrost with the possibility of freeing his wife if he betrays Unit One. Koichi Azusawa coordinates an assault on the Public Safety Bureau tower using his hacker Obata, locking down the building and kidnapping Inspector Arata Shindo. Azusawa demands that governor Karina Komiya resign from her position.
Release Date2020-03-27
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count104
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian
2112; the summer before Akane Tsunemori was assigned to Division One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Department. Teppei Sugo, an accomplished pilot of the Defense Army's 15th Integrated Task Force, joins the military operation in Okinawa. Three months later, an unmanned combat drone opens fire on the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo. Enforcer Tomomi Masaoka of CID Division One is dispatched to Sugo's military base to investigate the truth behind this case.
Release Date2019-02-15
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count78
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment
In the winter of 2117, a runaway vehicle crashes into the Public Safety Bureau Building. The driver is identified as Izumi Yasaka, a psychological counselor at the Sanctuary, a Latent Criminal Isolation Facility in Aomori Prefecture. But right before her interrogation, Inspector Mika Shimotsuki and Enforcer Nobuchika Ginoza are tasked with promptly escorting Yasaka back to Aomori. What awaits them there is a False Paradise.
Release Date2019-01-25
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count97
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate
Following the incident in the Southeast Asia Union in 2116, Shinya Kogami resumes his vagrant journey. In a small South Asian nation, Kogami rescues a bus of refugees under attack by armed guerrilla forces. Among the refugees is a young lady by the name of Tenzin, who begs Kogami to teach her how to retaliate against the enemy. Just what does the girl who wishes for revenge and the man who has exacted revenge see as they gaze upon the edge of a world from which there is no escape?
Release Date2019-03-18
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count69
Liberated from Paradise: Resonance of the Heart
Anime movie sequel of Expelled from Paradise.
Release Date2026-11-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Saya
Adaptation of the visual novel created by Gen Urobuchi
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Aldnoah.Zero (Re+)
A movie compilation of the first and second cours of Aldnoah.Zero and also includes the new animation to conclude the series, Aldnoah.Zero: The Penultimate Truth.
Release Date2025-02-28
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count4
Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica: Concept Movie
A short four-minute concept film unveiled in surprise at Studio SHAFT's 40th anniversary event in winter 2015, Madogatari. The first animated Puella Magi Madoka Magica work since Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion, it features the return of the full Madoka Magica cast and staff.
Release Date2015-11-27
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count9
Kamen Rider Gaim: Final Stage
Those who have died - Hase, Sid, Yoko, Kaito, the Professor and Over Lords - are gathered together by a mysterious being known as Maja, who seeks to take over the world. He brainwashes them to do his bidding. Kamen Rider Maja once was a presence that witnessed the erosion of the Earth brought on by Helheim and Sagara, and now he takes action to claim the Earth for himself. Gaim attempts to rush in to stop Maja, but has his memory and combat ability taken away. He came to Zawame and met with Jonouchi and the others, having forgotten everything. With the invasion of Maja in progress, Gaim has to regain his memory and confront Maja…
Release Date2015-02-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Phantom: The Animation
Zwei was an ordinary person, until one day, while walking the streets a night, he witnessed a brutal assassination. He managed to avoid the sniper, a young girl named Ein, but was soon captured, and had the memories of his former life erased. He is spared death only by accepting a condition: to train to become an assassin alongside Ein. Now he must find a way to free himself from this shady world and reclaim his life once again.
Release Date2004-02-27
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count4
Kamen Rider Zangetsu the Stage -Gaim Gaiden-
Takatora Kureshima (Kamen Rider Zangetsu) visits a former Yggdrasill Corporation experimental project site located in the poverty and conflict stricken Republic of Torukia. He is visiting the site for the first time in 8 years, and is suddenly attacked! Suprised he stumble and falls into a giant hole which leads into an underground city. This underground city is the most dangerous place in the republic, in which many young men are killed defending themselves while trying to survive. These men use Lock Seeds and Drivers to transform into Armored Riders. Due to the fall Takatora has lost his memory. He is helped by the leader of Team Orange Ride. Unbeknownst to them, there are cameras hidden all around the underground city. The ones behind the cameras are responsible for the conflicts in the city. One man in particular is seeking revenge on Takatora for a specific reason...
Release Date2019-10-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobStage Director
Eisen Flügel
In a world where dragons rule the skies, mankind still dreams of flight, of someday dominating the heavens in their stead. Even in times of war, the passionate young pilot Karl Schuniz continues to chase his dreams, taking up his wings of steel - the revolutionary new aircraft, the Blitz Vogel - to challenge the Kaiser Drache, the fastest dragon that can fly at supersonic speeds.
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Ghost of Tsushima: Legends
Based on the multiplayer game of the same name. Plot TBA.
DepartmentWriting
JobSeries Composition
Episode Count1