WRITER

Gen Urobuchi

1972 - Today

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Gen Urobuchi (Japanese: 虚淵 玄, Hepburn: Urobuchi Gen, born December 20, 1972) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gen Urobuchi has received more than 1,287,685 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gen Urobuchi is the 5,879th most popular writer, the 1,509th most popular biography from Japan and the 109th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 51.99

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gen Urobuchi ranks 5,879 out of 7,302. Before him are David Garnett, Justine Siegemund, Patrick Rambaud, Booth Tarkington, Stephen Leacock, and Mark Strand. After him are Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Kazimierz Brodziński, Eric Van Lustbader, R. A. Lafferty, Lyman Abbott, and Jurga Ivanauskaitė.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Gen Urobuchi ranks 255. Before him are Nikka Costa, Fernando Picun, Ivete Sangalo, Abel Xavier, Arturo Gatti, and Haim Revivo. After him are Concha Buika, Björn Höcke, Florin Cîțu, Brian Tyler, Alex Kapranos, and Takashi Shimizu.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Gen Urobuchi ranks 1,509 out of 6,245. Before him are Minoru Honda (1913), Atsuji Miyahara (1958), Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (1936), Hideo Nomo (1968), Masaaki Kato (1958), and Takeshi Kawaharazuka (1975). After him are Shohei Ohtani (1994), Kiyohiko Azuma (1968), Masako Yoshida (1957), Soichi Noguchi (1965), Kamui Kobayashi (1986), and Hiroki Sakai (1990).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Gen Urobuchi ranks 109. Before him are Kenjirō Tokutomi (1868), Takashi Tezuka (1960), Kitamura Tokoku (1868), Aya Kitō (1962), Michio Mado (1909), and Marie Kondo (1984). After him are Tomoji Abe (1903), Reki Kawahara (1974), Mieko Kawakami (1976), Jun Maeda (1975), Reiko Yoshida (1967), and Phyllis A. Whitney (1903).

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