Tow Ubukata
{{Short description|Japanese writer}}
{{More footnotes|BLP=yes|date=February 2016|reason=MADB covers his major works ANN has tons of articles to his works}}
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| birth_place = Gifu Prefecture, Japan
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{{Nihongo|Tow Ubukata|冲方 丁|Ubukata Tō|born February 14, 1977 in Gifu Prefecture}} is the pen name of {{Nihongo|Mineo Fujino|藤野峰男}}, a Japanese novelist, mangaka and anime screenwriter who primarily writes fantasy and science fiction. His major works include Mardock Scramble, Le Chevalier D'Eon and Heroic Age. He also did series composition for the Fafner in the Azure series, Ghost in the Shell: Arise, Psycho-Pass 2 and Psycho-Pass 3.
Early life
Ubukata was raised in Singapore and Nepal.
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 Newtype. 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 Nihon SF Taisho Award in 2003. Ubukata has written the novelization and the script for the manga version of Le Chevalier D'Eon, 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,{{cite news | first1=Crystalyn | last1=Hodgkins | url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-08-24/ghost-in-the-shell-arise-writer-tow-ubukata-arrested-on-charges-of-domestic-violence/.92040 | title=Ghost in the Shell Arise Writer Tow Ubukata Arrested on Charges of Domestic Violence | work=Anime News Network | date=2015-08-24 | accessdate=2022-03-24 | archive-date=2022-03-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325070326/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-08-24/ghost-in-the-shell-arise-writer-tow-ubukata-arrested-on-charges-of-domestic-violence/.92040 | url-status=live }} breaking her front tooth.{{cite news | first1=Egan | last1=Loo | url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-10-16/domestic-violence-charges-dropped-against-writer-tow-ubukata/.94250 | title=Domestic Violence Charges Dropped Against Writer Tow Ubukata | work=Anime News Network | date=2015-10-16 | accessdate=2022-03-24 | archive-date=2022-03-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325023121/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-10-16/domestic-violence-charges-dropped-against-writer-tow-ubukata/.94250 | url-status=live }} 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, Mito City mayor Yasushi Takahashi decided to put NHK'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.{{cite news | first1=Karen | last1=Ressler | url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-09-01/tow-ubukata-released-without-indictment-on-domestic-violence-charges/.92411 | title=Tow Ubukata Released Without Indictment on Domestic Violence Charges | work=Anime News Network | date=2015-09-01 | accessdate=2022-03-24 | archive-date=2022-03-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325023119/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-09-01/tow-ubukata-released-without-indictment-on-domestic-violence-charges/.92411 | url-status=live }} 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.{{cite news | first1=Carlos | last1=Cadorniga | url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-11-30/tow-ubukata-talks-about-upcoming-prison-memoir/.95256 | title=Tow Ubukata Talks About Upcoming Prison Memoir | work=Anime News Network | date=2015-11-30 | accessdate=2022-03-24 | archive-date=2022-03-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325001510/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-11-30/tow-ubukata-talks-about-upcoming-prison-memoir/.95256 | url-status=live }} 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.{{cite news | first1=Yasushi | last1=Nishimuta | url=https://news.infoseek.co.jp/article/knuckles_2314/ | title=エンタメ作家・冲方丁の"DV疑惑"に隠された思惑（２） | language=ja | work=Infoseek | date=2016-09-09 | accessdate=2022-03-24 | archive-date=2022-04-08 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408102637/https://news.infoseek.co.jp/article/knuckles_2314/ | url-status=live }}
Bibliography
- Tenchi Meisatsu, 2009 ({{isbn|9784048740135}})
- Mitsukuni-den, 2012 ({{isbn|9784041102749}})
- 12 Suicidal Teens, 2016 ({{isbn|9784163905419}})
- Ikusa no Kuni, 2017 ({{isbn|9784062208048}})
- Kirinji, 2018 ({{isbn|9784041072141}})
- Moonrise, 2018 ({{ASIN|B07M8Z676B}}) English Ebook prologue
- Tsuki to Hi no Kisaki, 2021 ({{isbn|9784569850092}})
- SGU Metropolitan Police Department Special Gun Unit, 2023 ({{isbn|9784866997957}})
- 11 Rebels, 2024 ({{isbn|9784065357088}})
- Moonrise, 2025 ({{isbn|9784867944905|invalid1=yes}}) Trilogy
Filmography
=Anime series=
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| 2006
| Series Composition, Script | |
| 2006
| Original Creator, Series Composition, Script | |
| 2007
| Original Creator, Series Composition | |
| 2013
| Series Composition, Script |
| 2014
| Series Composition |
| 2019
|Series Composition, Script |
| 2022
| Series Composition, Script | {{cite news | url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2229049/full/ | title=新作アニメ『RWBY 氷雪帝国』キャスト発表 早見沙織・日笠陽子・嶋村侑・小清水亜美ら | trans-title=Cast announced for new anime series RWBY: Ice Queendom: Saori Hayami, Yoko Hikasa, Yu Shimamura, and Ami Koshimizu | language=ja | work=Oricon | date=2022-03-25 | accessdate=2022-03-25 | archive-date=2022-03-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325012613/https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2229049/full/ | url-status=live }} |
| 2024
| Original Creator | |
| 2025
| Moonrise | Original Creator | |
=Anime films=
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| 2010
| Mardock Scramble: The First Compression | Original Creator, Script |
| 2011
| Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion | Original Creator, Script |
| 2012
| Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust | Original Creator, Script |
| 2015
|Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie | Script | |
| 2019
| Script | |
| 2020
|Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector | Series Composition, Script |
| 2023
| Series Composition, Script |
=Live action=
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| 2012
|Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer | Original Creator |
| 2019
| Original Creator | |
| 2021
|Kenjusho: Mitsukuni Ko to Ore | Original Creator | |
| 2023
|Farewell, Guns Special Firearms Unit, Metropolitan Police Department | Original Story | |
=Video games =
References
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.kh.rim.or.jp/~tow/}} {{in lang|ja}}
- [http://mediaarts-db.jp/an/anime_series?utf8=✓&asf%5Bkeyword%5D=冲方丁&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=tv_a&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=tv_sp&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=movie&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=ova&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=event&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=personal&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=etc&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=blank Tow Ubkata anime], [http://mediaarts-db.jp/mg/results?utf8=✓&keyword_author=冲方丁&commit=検索 manga] at Media Arts Database {{in lang|ja}}
- [http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ubukata_tow Entry] in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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Category:Japanese expatriates in Nepal
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Category:Japanese science fiction writers