On the other hand, she uses the death – which occurs prior to the events of the novel – to index the ways in which Japanese youth navigate recessionary Japan. On the one hand, Kirino deploys the death of the maternal figure, which is committed by a teenage male, to critique systemic violence against women. This article considers the textual importance of matricide in Kirino Natsuo’s 2004 novel Real World. Although the prospects are bleak, whether there is emancipation for the women on the fringes, in reality and fiction, is what the paper hopes to explore. Along with exploring the various meanings of the title, the paper also seeks to relate these women's experiences with reality in Japan. The paper hopes to explore the various ways these women are 'out' and their own quests to get 'out' of their precarious, lonely, oppressive lives. Women are forced to live outside society, and climbing the social and economic ladder is quite difficult, making them pariahs forever, which the title 'Out' alludes to. This complication opens up many cracks, often invisible in the patriarchal Japanese society, like precarity of employment, domestic violence and systematic discrimination at the workplace. Putting these seemingly victimised women on the other side of the law while showing their struggles, Kirino complicates their position. Here, the topic of deliberation is Kirino's first detective fiction novel, Out, which explores the lives of four women working in a bento factory who commit a heinous crime. Natsuo Kirino is a Japanese writer who focuses on the systematic oppression of women in late 20th and early 21st century Japan.
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