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Japanese novelist

In this Japanese name, the surname is Nisio.

Nisio Isin (Japanese: 西尾維新, Hepburn: Nishio Ishin, born ), often stylized as NISIOISIN to emphasize the palindrome, is a pseudonymous Japanese novelist, manga author, and screenplay writer.

Nisio debuted in with the novel The Beheading Cycle (the first in his Zaregoto series), which earned him the 23rd Mephisto Prize at twenty years of age. In , he began his long-running Monogatari novel series, which was published in 29 volumes as of , and was later adapted as a highly-successful animated series of the same name, produced by Shaft.

His Katanagatari novels, Medaka Box manga series, Jūni Taisen novel, and The Beheading Cycle have also been adapted as anime. He has also 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.

Between and , he ranked among the top 10 best-sell