Tow Ubukata

Tow Ubukata ( Japanese 冲 方 丁 , Ubukata Tō ; born February 14, 1977 in Gifu Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer and screenwriter of animes .

biography

Since he wanted to be a writer, Ubukata took part in a competition by Kadokawa Shoten after graduating from high school in 1996 and won it with Kuroi Kisetsu . He then studied at Waseda University and worked in the games industry from 1997. Together with the illustrator Mami Itō , he produced the manga Pilgrim Jäger in 2001 . He left university without a degree.

In 2003 he won the 24th Japan Science Fiction Grand Prize for Mardock Scramble . His novel Chaos Legion formed the basis for a Capcom video game of the same title. In 2003 he was nominated for Madoromi no Sephirot , in 2004 for Mardock Scramble and in 2007 for Mardock Velocity for the Seiun Prize .

He worked on the manga and anime Le Chevalier D'Eon . He wrote the script for the manga and was involved in drafting the anime's story and script. Both versions differ greatly in the plot. In 2014 he wrote the storyline for the anime Psycho-Pass 2 .

Works

Mardock series

• Kompression , 2006, ISBN 3-453-52176-5 , The First Compression , 2003
• Expansion , 2007, ISBN 3-453-52177-3 , The Second Combustion , 2004
• Implosion , 2007, ISBN 3-453-52179-X , The Third Exhaust , 2005

Single novels

• Kuroi Kisetsu ("The Black Season")
• Bye bye earth
• Madoromi no Sephirot ("The Sleeping Sephirot")
• Storm bring world
• Chaos Legion (7 volumes)

Manga and Anime

• Pilgrim hunter (drawings: Mami Itō)
• Sōkyū no Fafner
• Le Chevalier D'Eon (Drawings: Kiriko Yumeji)
• Heroic Age
• Psycho pass 2

Web links

• Tow Ubukata in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Tow Ubukata in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Tow Ubukata at Open Library
• Tow Ubukata website (Japanese)
• Anime news network about Tow Ubukata