[What he considers his most important experience as a screenwriter, relating to Maho Shojo Madoka Magica (2011)] Before I worked on Madoka, I worked with Ichirô Itano on Blassreiter (2008), and he taught me what it meant to work on a screenplay, and then with Yôsuke Kuroda, who taught me the spirit behind screenplays. I consider both of them my mentors. Show less «