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. 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.
大好きな家族がいて、親友がいて、時には笑い、時には泣く、そんなどこにでもある日常。見滝原中学校に通う、普通の中学二年生・鹿目まどかも、そんな日常の中で暮らす一人。ある日、彼女に不思議な出会いが訪れる。この出会いは偶然なのか、必然なのか、彼女はまだ知らない。それは、彼女の運命を変えてしまうような出会い―― それは、新たなる魔法少女物語の始まり――。