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of a Japanese novelist and anime screenwriter. His major works include '' Mardock Scramble'', ''

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'' and '' Heroic Age''. He also did series composition for the ''

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'' series, '' Ghost in the Shell: Arise'', ''

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'' and ''

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Early life

Ubukata was raised in

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and later

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Career

In high school, Ubukata received several writer's awards. In 1996, he debuted as a writer of short stories and won the Kadokawa Sneaker Award with his story ''Black Season''. In 2009, he won the Eiji Yoshikawa Award for New Writers with his story ''Tenchi Meisatsu''. In 2012, he won the Fūtarō Yamada Award for his story ''Mitsukuni-den''. Ubukata writes for the Japanese visual culture magazine ''

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''. His serialized segments, called "A Gambler's Life", are comedic, often-satiric expository pieces. They chronicle his day-to-day experiences and interactions with people, such as his wife. In these segments, he dubs himself "The Kamikazi Wordsmith". These segments were also published in the American counterpart, Newtype USA, which is now discontinued. Ubukata won the 24th

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in 2003. Ubukata has written the novelization and the script for the manga version of ''

'', and has contributed to the screenplay and the overall story plot of the animated version.

Personal life

On August 21, 2015, Ubukata allegedly hit his then-wife in her jaw and mouth area at their home in Aoyama, Minato Ward of Tokyo, breaking her front tooth. She reported the incident to the police the next day, leading to his arrest on August 24, 2015. Ubukata admitted they had an argument but denied hitting her. On August 26, 2015,

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mayor

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decided to put

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's offer to film a live-action ''taiga'' drama adaptation of Ubukuta's novel, ''Mitsukuni-den'', in the city itself on hold. Ubukata was released on September 1, 2015 without indictment. The Public Prosecutors Office dropped charges against him in October 2015, with one reason being that his wife did not want to press charges. Following the incident, Ubukata announced that he planned on writing a memoir based on his experiences in jail, titled, ''9 Days Trapped''. In 2016, one year after his arrest and release, Ubukata revealed that he and his wife had divorced, with his wife taking custody of their children.

Filmography

Anime

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References

''Newtype USA''. . Miya, Shotaro ''et al''. "Le Chevalier D'Eon". ''Newtype USA''. 6 (1) pp. 52-53. . . Ubukata, Tow. "Taking on a TV interview". ''Newtype USA''. 6 (7) p. 30. . .

External links

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