31 Facts About Nisio Isin

Nisio Isin, often stylized as NISIOISIN to emphasize the palindrome, is a pseudonymous Japanese novelist, manga author, and screenplay writer.

Nisio Isin has collaborated with Death Note writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata to write the light novel Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases.

Nisio Isin is viewed as an author that blends regular novels and light novels, going through the genres of mystery, sekaikei, and shindenki, with frequent references to other manga and anime.

Nisio Isin was a manga enthusiast since childhood and wanted to become a mangaka.

Nisio Isin attended the Ritsumeikan University College of Policy Science and left the university without graduating.

In 2002, Nisio Isin debuted with the first novel of the Zaregoto series, Kubikiri Cycle: The Blue Savant and the Nonsense User, earning him the 23rd Mephisto Prize.

Nisio Isin was twenty years of age at the time, and his slogan was "Nisio Isin, the 20-year-old from Kyoto".

Nisio Isin published his Katanagatari series as twelve volumes over twelve months for the Kodansha Box line in 2007; Ryusui Seiryoin was matching this output, and the Kodansha Box website stated that it was the first time in the world two authors had done twelve-volume monthly novel series simultaneously.

Nisio Isin is best known for the Monogatari series, which began as a trilogy of short stories on the Mephisto magazine in 2005, and developed into a series with 28 volumes.

Vertical is translating other titles and series by Nisio Isin, including Monogatari, Katanagatari, Pretty Boy Detective Club, and Imperfect Girl.

From 2009 to 2016, Nisio Isin was one of the top 10 best-selling authors in Japan, achieving a place in the top 3 for three years and, in 2012 and 2014, ranking first place as the best-selling author in the country.

The Publishers Weekly's Translation Database reported that from 2008 to 2018,19 of Nisio Isin's novels were translated into English, putting him as the second author with the most English translations of that period in the US.

Nisio Isin's works are characterized by a sense of literature that is amid the so-called "Shindenki" mystery-light novel genre, in which insane characters attempt to solve a mystery in a situation that would be impossible or unlikely in reality; and inexhaustible quotations of anime and manga from the past.

Nisio Isin is well regarded as an author who has blended the conventions of mystery novels and character-driven light novels.

Nisio Isin has made no secret of his policy of not doing crossover or linking in his Zaregoto series.

Nisio Isin still maintains a steady writing pace and develops several series at the same time, but until Mazemonogatari, he did not link his works to each other.

Nisio Isin has a unique way of naming his characters.

Nisio Isin seeks to define his characters by their names, and he does not simply give them unusual names, but instead establishes some rules for them, although he will occasionally deviate from these rules.

Nisio Isin said he learned much from the novels of Kiyoshi Kasai, Hiroshi Mori, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Ryusui Seiryoin and Kouhei Kadono.

Nisio Isin has stated the five writers were, metaphorically speaking, God-like beings, who had shaped and molded his writing style.

Kiyoshi Kasai talking about light novels in the 2004 special edition of Eureka, commented that, although having the Zaregoto series ranked in a guide for light novels could be out of place, the influences Nisio Isin had in his writing are easy to see, such as Kimi to Boku no Kowareta Sekai's academy romance, fighting pretty girls, moe characters, and Sekaikei-like settings, so it is not strange to see his works through the lenses of light novels.

The Zaregoto series is written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Take.

The Japan Detectives Club was created by Ryusui Seiryoin, and Nisio Isin is one of several authors to write novels using that setting.

On January 25,2023, Nisio Isin announced a new novel that was published on May 17,2023, continuing the series.

The "Pretty Boy Detective Club" was originally intended to be a group that would appear in the Bokyaku Tantei series, but during the story's development, Nisio Isin decided it could be published as an independent title.

Nisio Isin has published several single-volume works, with some of them receiving manga adaptations.

Since the release of the Bakemonogatari Anime Complete Guidebook on October 28,2010, Nisio Isin has written more than 60 short stories related to the anime or manga adaptation.

Medaka Box is a Japanese shonen manga series written by Nisio Isin and drawn by Akira Akatsuki.

Shonen Shojo is a Japanese shonen manga series written by Nisio Isin and drawn by Akira Akatsuki.

Cipher Academy is a Japanese shonen manga written by Nisio Isin and drawn by Iwasaki Yuji.

Nisio Isin has several adaptations of his novels for manga and since most of his novels are published by Kodansha, most of them comes out in magazines of the publisher.