So is this a work of fiction or not?

leptosome said:
One page in chapter 1 includes a line which says something you'd read from other fictional works, "This story is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, etc. that appear are purely fictitious."
But seriously, is this a work of fiction?
First page of the manga even says, "This is not a work of fiction. They are, in fact, events of a real incident."
Aaaaaaa
Akidearest was right. Even after reading, you wouldn't know what to believe.
After reading the first line, I thought, "Oh so this is based on true events."
After reading that line in chapter 1, I thought, "So, it's not true after all? Hmmm."
As I was reading the last chapter, I thought, "Ah, I hope this is true after all..."

Considering the narrative is told from the POV of an (or possibly the) author and how the last chapter made reference to other actual novels of the author, I think it wouldn't be a bad thing to wish for this story to be true, or at least based on true events the author went through.
Of course, I know that these things and that saying "This is not a work of fiction" in a work of fiction doesn't guarantee at all that this story is true.

So what do you think?
Or maybe if you have read the novel, or if you have read the author's other works as well, do you know if this is a work of fiction or not?

In any case, this sort of technique, whatever you call it, is really nice :>
I loved it.

AstralBread said:


I’m absolutely certain that the general outline of the story is real events that happened to Nisio Isin. Why? Because it would explain the origin of many details and common narrative threads you can find in his writing. Just on a very surface level you have “a girl attacks the MC and destroys his bike,” “a little girl is killed by a truck,” and “the MC shares a dramatic moment with a loli in a bath” (these are all in Monogatari). And then there are more abstract themes of “the MC is a broken person that helps even more broken girls,” “a girl is a victim of parental abuse,” “the characters are rich but it has nothing to do with their psychological problems,” “the MC is familiar with judo,” etc.

There are really only two explanations for all of these things being in Shoujo Fujuubun at once:
1) It happened to Nisio in real life and affected him so deeply, he keeps bringing it up in his writing.
2) Nisio is such a 500IQ genius that he consciously made a fictional story the subtext of which retroactively matches everything he ever wrote in his career in order to deliberately make it look like case 1.
Just take an Occam’s razor to that.

leptosome said:


I'm not sure if I got that right...

So are you saying this whole story is an entire event in his life? That there exists this girl with that twisted upbringing, that she kidnapped Nisio Isin, that he got to know what's behind the girl's behavior... And that in the end he told her those stories? That all this happened as a whole?

Or are saying that this story was made from various little events (which are not necessarily connected to each other) in the his life?

tldr. Are you saying that this whole event happened to Nisio Isin as a whole? Or that it's a compilation of his anecdotes turned into a story?