Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27996636-20171206104646/@comment-32271305-20180102110547

Yes, stories sometimes can be lies. But as far as I know, Toriyama never said, "this is a story about a kid named Goku, his adventures actually happened, these aren't drawings, and Saiyans are real, enjoy."

So he never lied, and not all fictional stories are lies, a lot of them are just stories. The same way paintings and statues have never pretended to be real people.