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Yūichirō Oguro

b. 1964

Japanese screenwriter

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Born 1964. Yūichirō Oguro is a Japanese screenwriter.

is a Japanese writer. He co-created the 1997 television anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena and its 1999 film sequel Adolescence of Utena as a member of the production group Be-Papas. He is also the editor-in-chief of the digital magazine Anime Style.

He is primarily involved in editing anime magazines, planning, and scriptwriting, and is known by the nickname "Anime-sama." His pseudonyms include and .

Works Magazines Animage – "I want to talk to this person" feature (November 1998 issue–present) (Tokuma Shoten) Bijutsu Techō special issue – Anime Style (Bijutsu Shuppan-sha) Monthly Anime Style (Style) Anime Style (Media Pal Mook) Comic Newtype (Kadokawa Shoten)

Television Dragon Ball (1988) – Script (as Satsuki Hajime) Shin Bikkuriman (1989) – Script (as Satsuki Hajime) Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) – Planning Cyber Team in Akihabara (1998) – Planning support Gekiganger III (1998) – Script Doki Doki School Hours (2004) – Publicity support Kemonozume (2006) – Planning support, literature management, script (as Ogikubo Nana) Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei (2008) – Series composition, adaptation Hanamaru Kindergarten (2010) – Series composition, script

Film Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince of Darkness (1998) – Head of publicity Adolescence of Utena (1999) – Planning Cyber Team in Akihabara: Summer Vacation of 2011 (1999) – Head of publicity In This Corner of the World (2016) – Special thanks

OVA Doki Doki School Hours Gold (2004) – Publicity support

Video packaging Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) – LaserDisc cover structuring, writing Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) – LaserDisc cover and liner notes structuring, writing

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Who is Yūichirō Oguro?

Japanese screenwriter

When was Yūichirō Oguro born?

Yūichirō Oguro was born on 1 May 1964 in Saitama Prefecture.

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Yūichirō Oguro is a screenwriter.

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Yūichirō Oguro is Japanese.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Yūichirō Oguro

· Wikidata: Q11464519

· DBpedia: Yūichirō Oguro

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