She isn't actually aware of it. We see from the time that
Zenkichi uses Parasite Seeing on Ajimu that she doesn't literally see the other characters as fictional, she
just sees them as worthless.
She has no direct perception of that. Metatextually, we're aware of how that coincidence lines up, but within the text itself, she isn't actually aware.
Here are the events of that chapter:
- Medaka stops Ajimu from killing herself.
- Medaka and Kamome explain that Ajimu has the "Simulated Reality" complex, where people who see things that are too perfect begin to believe they're living in a fictional world. Eventually these people realise that they're wrong, but Ajimu actually believes this.
- Ajimu crafted the events of the past arc, and submitted certain Not Equals, to hint at this view of hers. Ajimu did this to make it more manga-like.
- Medaka explains that usually people will realise they're wrong when they experience misfortune, but that Ajimu is too strong for that, and so she sought out the impossible. The Flask Plan was her latest attempt at this. She was hoping to fail, to prove that something would be impossible for her, to prove that the world is real.
- The entire student body base yells "THERE'S NO WAY THIS WORLD IS JUST A MANGA!"
- Ajimu dismisses them as not real, then begins to recount, I'm going to bold this and link to it since it's that important. She says that because she was so blessed to be born from nothing, and to have a universe appear, that there's no way the world could be real. We are literally, explicitly told that her view of the world as fictional is a conclusion she drew, and we're told the evidence she had for this, which is not direct meta-awareness.
- She then explains that she purposefully tried to find something impossible. And that upon not finding anything impossible, she found the fake world too boring, and so decided to kill herself.
- Medaka admonishes Ajimu for this, says she won't let Ajimu die, and so her impossibility will be her killing herself. Medaka will use Ajimu's life to teach her about reality.
- Ajimu agrees that dying is still an impossibility for her, and the last self-imposed Bookmaker screw dissolves.
HOW DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE IF SHE LITERALLY SEES IT AS FICTION??????
Explain how she can say that because she was so blessed, that there's no way the world could be real, if she literally had fourth-wall awareness.
Explain why she would kill herself after proving the world is fake
by not finding anything impossible to do, if she literally had fourth-wall awareness.
It's like you're stopping at her saying "I don't feel any reality from you people" and not processing anything else in the chapter.
Yeah it sucks that Nisio muddled things up by having that TV-watching scene. But that narrative framing for an anime episode has no reason to be given more weight than the culmination of her arc which explicitly and repeatedly says that she has no direct meta-awareness.
It's not a vision I'm pulling from nowhere, it's one I'm grabbing straight from the the text of the most important scene about her character.
That has absolutely no relation to the other arguments you're making.
- It's the name of a skill. It has zero relation to the mechanics of their physical reality.
- Its brief description is "Thread governing skill", its name referencing string theory is just a play on words, not a serious statement about the cosmology of reality.
- Its brief description is "Thread governing skill", there's no reason to believe that, simply because of the name, she can do anything about string theory.
- Even if it did have something about her being able to mess with string theory, string theory is a theory for our physical reality, and so fictional universes in line with it will still be rated similarly to the destruction of our reality; destroying/creating a string theory universe is only a 3-A feat, since the extra dimensions are compactified.
- Even if it was a noteworthy feat, it would not in any way support the idea that she sees the world as fictional; those two ideas are largely uncorrelated.
- The name of that ability was mistranslated, as you can read in the raws, it's actually "Hyper String Theory" (ハイパーストリングテオリー). There is no physical theory called "hyper string theory".
It's not the power itself being a metaphor, it's that comment about the power.
lmao no they aren't. I think it's used once or twice as a metaphor for Iihiko's power, and that's it.
No. Most of them came from Fukurou Tsurubami, one of them came from Kamome Tsurubami, and Medaka managed to mimic one of Fukurou's. These were just powers that humans developed.
Yes they can. The only weird interactions styles have are with Medaka (due to her not being able to communicate in a human-way, especially initially), and with Iihiko (due to communication being able to reach him, while abnormalities and minuses can't).
We regularly see characters interact with and influence styles. There's absolutely nothing preventing that. They're simply a different set of powers in the series.
No it isn't. It's an awkward bit of translation, from a translation which was notoriously riddled with errors. From
reading the raws and knowing the context, while 次元 can mean "dimension", it can also mean "perspective", and 越える simply means crossing boundaries. Physically that means, like, water overflowing a river, or a plane flying across the ocean. More abstractly, it can mean understanding something which previously wasn't understood, helping people with different backgrounds understand where the other is coming from.
You fundamentally cannot get "this ability originates in higher dimensions" from that, no matter how much you torture the words.
In fact, we can get a meaning from it which is exactly in line with the themes of that part of Medaka Box.
Given all of that context, doesn't it seem likely that the translation of that line should actually be something like "even when a style connects with his perspective"? Why would the author invoke higher dimensions out of nowhere, especially when one of the primary ideas of this part of the series is how styles are communication, exploring how different characters engage with and are capable of that.
Also, even if you were right about Ajimu having some sort of meta-aware perspective, this seems to confer no meaningful physical benefit to her, and 1-A's strict standards on anti-feats would prevent her from ever getting that tier through "seeing Medaka Box as fiction".
Trust me, we have thought about this far more than you have. The arguments you have presented, and many more, have been brought to us over the years. They are not on the profiles because even better arguments have been presented. Ones that don't rely on torturing one-off statements and bad translations.
