A cursed tome known as "Shu Koten" grants its bearer uncanny powers, dominates the mind, and distorts fate. Hanako Shinone, heir to this lineage and successor of Sonezaki Shinju, teams up with the physically gifted high-schooler Omimi Dotoku. Together they pursue a series of incidents connected to the cursed texts: a livestreamer exploiting immortality, a classmate who seeks Shinone's life, and a cross-dressing beauty wading through seas of blood. As they investigate, Omimi learns that Shinone's true goal is to "die alongside the classics." A youth story that also stands as the newest shinjuu — lovers' suicide — novel of its era.

This is a coming-of-age story of youth, and beyond its sprint lies the newest lovers' suicide tale of the age.

A girls fantasy set in a post-apocalyptic world where the earth has been shattered into countless floating islands by a catastrophe twenty years prior. Asebi, a young witch who rides the skies using floating ore called irislit, searches for her missing mother. After crash-landing on an isolated island, she encounters Pieris, a mysterious girl who claims to be the control unit of an unmanned weapon. As the two share an unusual cohabitation, they forge a bond that transcends words. This is a story of one summer that connects two witches across farewell and reunion.

"Goodbye, Asebi." "See you again, Pieris."

Aoi Mabara, a high school student living in a rural town, has been composing music since middle school in search of something to be proud of, yet remains completely unnoticed. He seethes with envy toward Nina, a girl his age who shines as an internet singing sensation. When he picks up a stray key one day, he meets the shy and reserved Maii Ninakawa and the two quickly grow close. But when he discovers that she is Nina, he finds himself torn between his growing feelings for her and his persistent jealousy. A bittersweet coming-of-age romantic comedy depicting the dreams, romance, and struggles of youth.

A work that evokes bittersweet emotions and the burning impulse of first ambitions — you just want to keep watching these two earnestly reach toward each other and keep striving.

Azusa, a high school student, meets Asahi at the library -- a mysterious boy who can control rain and speak with animals. The quiet time they share gradually warms her heart. But when rumors spread that he is the son of a murderer, surrounded by icy stares and a dark past, Asahi tries to push her away to protect her. On the night of the Geminid meteor shower they make one promise -- and Asahi vanishes. A bittersweet story of love and miracles called forth by the rain.

Hey, Asahi -- you will come to the library again tomorrow, right?

In the frozen north, a prince of a small western kingdom named Geraldo is imprisoned in a tower, where he encounters a hideous creature named Rouanna. Blind from birth, Geraldo is unswayed by her monstrous appearance and comes to know the beauty of her soul. Growing up together, they eventually break free from the tower, and Geraldo embarks on a grand adventure that will determine the fate of the world. A coming-of-age epic fantasy about growth, encounters, and farewells, centered on a promise made with Rouanna.

A blind boy grows up, meets someone, and says goodbye. And then comes the monster's daughter. A sweeping adventure fantasy centered on a promise made to her.

In a near-future Japan buried under inexplicable sandstorms, a girl named Segume wanders the sand-covered ruins of Tokyo when a mysterious building suddenly appears before her. It is "Apocalypchu," a maid cafe aboard a strange battleship that drifts through the desert carrying wandering survivors. Forced by the captain and head maid Hagoromo to become a trainee maid, Segume is drilled in the ways of maidhood alongside an eccentric cast of maids. A girls fantasy full of laughs, action, and a few tears, setting out to save a harsh world with the power of "cute."

Can "cute" save a dried-out world?

To resolve a severe drought plaguing a small kingdom on the western continent, the king decides to offer a tribute to the ancient dragon Echidna, who has lived for thousands of years. The chosen offering is Silvia, a princess of a conquered nation. Accepting her fate of having her soul devoured, Silvia defiantly confronts the dragon, inadvertently capturing its interest. The dragon needs to consume human souls to maintain its reason, so in exchange for eventually surrendering her soul, Silvia joins Echidna on a journey to witness the beautiful things of the world. A high fantasy tale of a princess and dragon who share a destiny of ruin, driven by gold and wit rather than swords and magic.

A high fantasy driven by gold and wit, not swords and magic. This is exactly what we wanted to read!

In a world where radioactive fallout has contaminated the surface, the giant structure "Top Tower" is governed by the corporation "Yakushima." To survive, children sell off their own bodies piece by piece, replacing lost limbs with machinery. Lucky, a boy who has lost friends and family alike, steals "Providence" — a secretly developed divine power — and installs it into himself. After being ambushed and left with nothing, his only remaining companion is Hikari, a girl called an angel who lives in the underground world known as the "Under." Swearing he will never lose anyone again, Lucky pulls the trigger against a rotten reality. Winner of the Encouragement Prize at the 32nd Dengeki Novel Grand Award, this work features a compelling SF setting and stylish dialogue.

No more hesitation. No more running. Not losing a single person ever again. — "Jackpot."

Shiranui, a supernatural creature that feeds on human "regret," and Haru, the sole survivor of a village Shiranui destroyed because he harbors almost no emotional wavering. The two embark on a strange journey together, seeking humans whose regret Shiranui can consume. Along the way, they encounter a bone village that exhales white smoke, a great serpent guarding a lake, and a colossal furball creature that peeks into human pasts. Through these cruel and quiet encounters, this series of interconnected short stories traces how two beings who should never bond gradually come to wish they could walk the road together forever.

A journey of devouring, as if to fill the void left by the regret that exists nowhere between them.

In 2032, an unprecedented physics theory redefined the laws of the world. Physical phenomena manifested as girls called Phenomenon Fairies, bringing both great benefits and catastrophic disasters to humanity. Seven years after the Phenomenon Fairy Disaster reversed gravity and collapsed Kobe, the city has been rebuilt upside-down. A boy named Kanae lives there in apparent peace until he hears a desperate voice calling for help. The fairy girl who appears confesses: she killed 15 million people at once with her own hands. A boy and a fugitive fairy begin their flight from the world’s secrets. Grand Prize winner of the 31st Dengeki Novel Award. The author Denjiyutai passed away before publication, making this both a debut and posthumous work.

In the upside-down city, I met a fairy who harbored a snow crystal.

Originally submitted as "Kimi no Denpa ni Noise wa Iranai," this Gold Prize-winning entry from the 31st Dengeki Novel Awards tells the story of Hibari Takaya, a self-proclaimed Savior of the Spiritual Realm whose eccentric delusions keep everyone at arm's length, and ordinary high schooler Masaomi Kusunoki, who confesses his feelings to her on a dare. As they navigate their unlikely relationship, Masaomi gradually discovers that Hibari's so-called delusions may have a very real basis. A warmly quirky love story in which a lie slowly becomes the truth.

A lie that becomes real — the curtain rises on a delightfully offbeat love comedy between an eccentric girl and the boy who stumbles into her world.

Nagisa, a ronin student helping at his uncle’s inn, realizes he is trapped in a time loop, reliving August 30th over and over. He discovers that Himari, one of the guests, is caught in the same loop. As the two grow closer during their endless summer on a remote island, Himari reveals a painful truth: when Nagisa finally breaks free of the loop, he will lose all memory of their time together. A pure love story about a romance with a predetermined ending, winner of the 31st Dengeki Novel Grand Award (Media Works Bunko Prize).

"When you finally break free of the loop, you will lose all memory of us."

Kafka is the only child living in a village of elders nestled inside a floating cavern where the sky cannot be seen. Raised on tales of the outside world by her late adventurer grandfather, she longs for something beyond the village walls yet has always obeyed the order never to leave. Everything changes when Hayate, a visitor from the surface, arrives — a beast-man with the features of a dog, whose vivid accounts of life below ignite a spark in Kafka. Defying the protests of the villagers, she climbs into the biplane her grandfather left behind and launches herself into the dawn sky. Along the way she encounters people of all different appearances, finds warmth in the adults who watch over her journey, and makes her first true friends her own age. As the adventure unfolds, she learns of a sorrow-filled past that divides the peoples of this world. Even so, Kafka refuses to stop flying — because every moment of our lives is an adventure. Winner of the 31st Dengeki Novel Grand Award (Dengeki New Literature Prize).

Every moment of your life is a precious adventure — a girl sets out to discover just how wide the sky really is.

Nemo, a delinquent rotting away in a lawless town, encounters Ignis Falfren, a holy woman who has lived for thousands of years and once ruled the world. Having had her powers sealed away in 99 contracts, Ignis wishes to reclaim them all and finally rest in peace. Drawn into her journey, Nemo tumbles into a city inside a giant tortoise and picks up a large-hearted beast-woman investigator named Gagaka along the way, as the trio battles a colorful cast of bizarre enemies. Winner of the 31st Dengeki Novel Prize Silver Award, published under the revised title from the original award-winning entry.

Let's set off on a wild and hilarious adventure! A raucous road-trip fantasy featuring a reckless holy woman, a small-time thug, and a beast-woman on a quest to collect scattered powers.

As magic, once monopolized by the aristocracy, becomes available to the masses, crime rates soar and the empire establishes a Magic Crimes Investigation Bureau. Investigator Rogue is transferred through his superior's scheming to the 6th Branch Office -- a notorious unit that solves magic-related cases alongside witches who once brought calamity to the empire. Imprisoned for their catastrophic power and stripped of most of their magic by enchanted collars, these witches nevertheless drag Rogue along on their own terms. A fantasy-action story in which the protagonist is at the mercy of his captivating witch partners. Grand Prize winner of the 30th Dengeki Novel Award.

There is only one thing I desire -- "fun".

Set in the final years of the Meiji era, seventeen-year-old Shoko travels from Tokyo to Kanazawa to take over the family business of her deceased father. Under the name "Rindo" (Gentian), her father had made his fortune entertaining otherworldly beings called "Okatatoki" who arrive with the coming of night. Now taking up the name of the second-generation Rindo, Shoko faces her first banquet night. A Japanese fantasy tale of elegant horror and nightmarish revels, the novel conceals a stunning narrative device that shocked selection committee members. Grand Prize winner of the 30th Dengeki Novel Award.

The story evolves three times.

A warped object is a supernatural artifact that contains the distortions of this world. The azure sword held by Jin Karamori is one of them. Having wished to live upon the cursed blade that destroys its owner, he carries a fate that curses those around him even as he lives. Together with Archive, an emotionless girl bound by her fate to a certain book, he plunges into brutal incidents and battles involving warped objects to save the girl who became Archives vessel after being caught up in his distortion. Winner of the 30th Dengeki Novel Award Gold Prize.

The boy wished to live. In exchange for that wish, he received a cursed sword that destroys fate.

In the capital of Qin, a nation where two ethnic groups coexist, the body of a woman with her skull removed is discovered. A government official named Shu Minase encounters Enzan Machida, a man of extraordinary beauty and power from the minority Hojo people, at the crime scene. The Hakuhoukyoku, rumored to be the most uneventful department at court, secretly handles the investigation and recovery of the "Hojo-gu," cursed artifacts that materialize the darkness in their owners' hearts and cause supernatural incidents. Drafted into the bureau by order of the prince, Shu joins the investigations, but both the apparitions and Enzan himself prove formidable. This mismatched duo eventually unravels a truth that threatens the entire nation. An oriental court fantasy that won the 30th Dengeki Novel Grand Prix MediaWorks Bunko Award.

An unlikely duo with opposite personalities exorcise the darkness lurking in human hearts.

High school student Tsukishiro Kazuki, tormented by noise he perceives from the shadows of others and on the verge of ending his life, encounters former national idol actress Hoshimiya Miyuki. A girl who can see the future, she stops his suicide and an unusual cohabitation begins. Set against themes of music and love, this youth story of parting overcomes the past and future, and depicts a tale of love that resonates through eternity. Winner of the 30th Dengeki Novel Award Silver Prize.

If there is such a thing as eternal sound, it would take the shape of you.

A reminiscence told by Norman, a boy detained in the fortress city of Baldium, who answers interrogation about the Anrou—exceptional individuals who convert emotions into power. The story recounts his encounters with four beautiful girls named Tearflower, Hellhound, Jewel, and Fairy, and their secret battles against strange incidents threatening the city. As Norman is eventually hunted as a great criminal, a confession offers a glimmer of hope.

Have you ever fallen in love with a monster? — A legend and reminiscence woven by a boy’s confession and four girls.

Tsushima Rindo, an ordinary information master who manipulates information factors to produce supernatural phenomena, takes on a job to escort Holley, daughter of a fallen noble family, out of the Barga Empire. But what begins as a simple escort mission spirals into a web of conspiracy. Their flight is relentlessly pursued not only by the empire’s regular army but also by the feared Six Imperial Swords, the most powerful information masters in the empire. As the truth behind Holley’s hidden identity is revealed, Rindo unleashes the power he has kept concealed for the sake of revenge. When two people bound only by a transaction forge an oath together, all despair is dispelled—an unorthodox tale of a knight unlike any other.

When the two forge their oath, all despair is dispelled. The tale of an unorthodox knight begins!

Kuromatsu Osamu is a high school student with a hidden gift for sculpting beautiful-girl figures, who keeps others at arm's length by calling himself the Eros Demon King. One day Imakami Tsukiko, a medical student in training who secretly writes light novels, asks him to create figures of her novel's characters. To cure her mysterious inability to experience youth, Osamu takes on the challenge while confronting his own past. Winner of the Selection Committee Encouragement Award at the 30th Dengeki Novel Grand Award.

A full-scale youth romantic comedy starring the most wonderfully eccentric cast imaginable -- now begins!

High school student Yuki, drifting through apathetic days, unexpectedly reunites with Sayaka, a girl he once studied painting with six years ago. She now lives in fear of others’ gazes and cannot open her eyes, yet insists that drawing people is her “revenge” and that she will see it through at any cost. Moved by her earnest resolve, Yuki agrees to serve as her subject. As they spend time together, Yuki finds himself drawn to Sayaka’s sincerity, but she harbors another secret she has not told him. A youth love story about a boy and a girl burdened with troubles over school, family, future, and friendship who carve out their own lives through the act of drawing.

A story of love and revenge, painted by a false you and a transparent me.

I am a “replica” who goes to school in someone else’s place, and though I should never be free to act on my own, I fall in love. Published under the retitled name Replica Falls in Love Too, this is a story of youth and self-discovery for a girl who serves as a stand-in.

A first experience of youth.

A college student named Yoichi, who can read the past through a cat’s eyes, meets Miri, a girl who can see the future, and faces a forecast of serial murder and the truth behind it. A Gold Prize winner of the Dengeki Novel Prize where past, future, and present collide.

This is the story of how “I” parted from “you” and how “you” met “I.”

Azuma fights to eliminate the “heroes” that threaten the world, while Kaguya, a researcher, wants to turn them back into humans. The two head to the battlefield while clashing over a reversed premise in which the power to save the world is also the power to destroy it.

Destroy the “heroes” who threaten the world.

Set in Sainokawara Co., the story follows Itaru, who takes a job ferrying the dead across the Sanzu River and faces the varied circumstances of the deceased. Retitled from the submission Sainokawara Co., it is a story of parting and love.

To be loved and needed is harder than it sounds.

At the marriage agency Mary House in an experimental city where 17 races live together, the cat-people’s Anya works tirelessly for the happiness of clients. It is a slapstick matchmaking fantasy retitled from Welcome to Mary House: A Marriage Agency in a Fantasy World.

A chaotic matchmaking fantasy driven by wildly eccentric clients.

A man who bought another and a man who was bought are both starving in the same way, unsettling each other’s way of living and the boundaries between them. Retitled from Translucent Colors Saika, this is a debut Media Works Bunko novel with a dark pull.

The one who bought him and the one who was bought were probably hungry in the same way.

Winner of the Grand Prize in the 28th Dengeki Novel Award, this is an otherworldly noir about a man in a labyrinth city who is called the princess knight's 'kept man' while secretly operating behind the scenes with hidden skill. The story draws strong pull from both the city's rough atmosphere and a relationship that is hard to reduce to either service or romance.

He is not just a kept man. He is the lifeline moving in the princess knight's shadow.

Winner of the Gold Prize in the 28th Dengeki Novel Award, this is a romantic comedy about an ordinary high school boy caught between a cool beauty and a cheerful childhood friend as he watches a triangle romance unfold and confronts his own feelings. It balances brisk dialogue with careful attention to where emotions should finally settle.

Even as a triangle romance, it aims for something other than a simple mess.

Winner of the Gold Prize in the 28th Dengeki Novel Award. In a world where the life-regeneration system Arcadia allows soldiers to return in replacement bodies, Akito of the United States and Filia of an enemy nation are stranded deep underground, beyond the system's reach. This is a story of combat and trust as two antagonistic youths seek a way back to the surface.

On a battlefield beyond death, two enemies join hands to make it home alive.

Itsuki Ume, a first-year literature student, meets Yuki Iwato, an older student in the arts, and falls in love as they spend their nights together. But Yuki lives with an unnamed illness that makes her sleep through the winter. This is a love story about the time that keeps them apart and the feelings they struggle to share.

A story of a missed connection that begins with a woman who hibernates through winter.

In 2041, artificial-body technology known as Mimic has become a reality. After an accident on a mission leaves Captain Chris Armstrong gravely injured, he awakens in a girl-shaped artificial body and joins a makeshift unit of specialists in shooting, hand-to-hand combat, and infiltration: the Mimicry Girls. Disguised as girls, these soldiers take on a lively gun-action mission to protect a president's daughter targeted by an international crime syndicate.

A special-operations team disguised as girls confronts global evil to protect a targeted president's daughter.

The Novelland Imperial Army, led by the dragon-slaying hero Sigibert, has repeatedly been driven back while trying to conquer the legendary island of Eden. His daughter Brunhild is left behind on its shore, rescued by a dragon, and raised as its daughter. Thirteen years later, her father's cannon kills the dragon and brings her back to the empire, where she must choose between the teachings of the being she loved and her desire for revenge.

Will she follow the words of the dragon she loved, or choose the revenge that still burns within her?

Soon after entering high school, Miyama is told by Yukimoto, the girl at the next desk, that she is a king in another world. Unable to decide whether to take her seriously, he joins her in giving shape to a private "other world" through their conversations. This coming-of-age novel follows a relationship born from everyday exchanges as it is tested by an unreasonable event.

A coming-of-age comedy in which two classmates turn a girl's imagined other world into a reality of their own.

In a world where autonomous magical weapons known as Amalgams remain after a continental war, investigator Theo joins a special team pursuing those that fled after the fighting. His partner is Eleven, a weapon who looks like a young girl but does not understand the human heart. As they struggle with the distance between them, the pair confronts violent crimes and terrorists threatening their city.

A buddy suspense story in which an investigator and a girl-shaped weapon pursue rogue Amalgams and crimes that shake their city.

On his twenty-second birthday, university student Masaru Sendagaya sees the seven-year first love he has kept to himself fall apart. After meeting a woman who calls herself a god during a night of drinking, he is granted one wish: the chance to start over in the past. This bittersweet coming-of-age romance follows one long night in which he confronts his first love anew.

For a first love that never came true, an extraordinary night begins.

In a near future where the brain-implant information terminal Your Forma, born from a viral encephalitis crisis, has become part of daily life, gifted electronic investigator Echika enters people's memories to solve crimes. After sending partner after partner to the hospital because of the gap in their abilities, she is assigned Harold, a humanoid robot known as an Amicus. Together they confront electronic crimes involving recorded memories in this science-fiction crime drama.

A solitary electronic investigator and a robot who insists on closing the distance trace memories engraved in the brain and move toward the heart of a case.

Alina became a guild receptionist for the promise of a safe, stable desk job, only to be buried in overtime because a dungeon cannot be cleared. To protect her evenings, she secretly becomes the formidable adventurer known as the Executioner and slays bosses herself, until an encounter with the guild's strongest defender, Jade, puts her secret at risk.

To clock out on time, the strongest receptionist takes on another boss while keeping her identity hidden.

In a world where repeated wars have left most of the earth under the sea, humanity lives in Lean, a paradise of forgetting that controls and conceals weapons, science, and faith. The boy Arum is entrusted with Fluorite, a girl carrying the old world's poison, Arsenon, and must confront the secrets and schemes surrounding them.

In a utopia built on forgetting, young people encounter the secret of the old world.

High-school student Mayuki Nakamura, who streams as the popular cross-dressing creator Kamimura Mayu, becomes the target of stalking enabled through social media. Sociologist Reika Shirasagi and her assistant Himari Anezaki confront the incident threatening Mayuki by tracing both online networks and human relationships.

A female professor, a college student, and a cross-dressing teenage boy take on incidents that begin on the internet.

Kai, who is preparing for art-school entrance exams, travels to Shikarajima in Okinawa to break free from his inability to paint with feeling. There he meets Funo Izena, a girl who sings beneath the moon, and as his feelings for her grow, he confronts the sad fate awaiting them in this summer romance.

I will paint the first summer you gave me onto this canvas.

After high-school student Sakuraku Tagoe loses his sister in a sudden accident, he encounters a so-called god at the ruins of a church on the day of her funeral. He makes a pact with a grim reaper who demands years of life in exchange for restoring the dead, then faces a changed everyday life and the consequences of his choice in the little time he has left.

The price of wishing a dead person back to life is the time left in one's own life.

Yasumi Utatane and Yūhi Yūgure are rookie voice actors at the same high school who host a radio show as a friendly idol-voice-actor duo. Off the air, however, they are a gyaru and a gloomy wallflower who do little but argue. As they continue working together, these opposites must face each other as performers in this coming-of-age entertainment novel.

Behind the public image of a friendly voice-actor duo lies the private reality of two incompatible classmates, setting their after-school and professional story in motion.

A science-minded young man loses consciousness after eating raw pork liver and is reborn as a pig in another world. Cared for by Jess, a girl who can read minds, he confronts the mystery of the harsh fate that threatens her in this fantasy blending romance and investigation.

A pig with no magic or special powers sets out to save a girl through wit, ingenuity, and a keen sense of smell.

Kagari Shitenji, a girl with the blood of a fox spirit, has been persecuted by both demons and humans and has come to hate the world itself. Answering her wish, Saiki Kozu, the strongest holy immortal who sealed himself away a thousand years ago, awakens, and the two set out to change their devastated world.

Human prayers can rewrite the laws of heaven.

Fuu is a lonely girl living in what is said to be the last human country, a settlement in a desert ruled by monstrous beings. Learning through an old radio found at a junk shop, she meets Kazakura, an artificial girl, and confronts the great lie sustaining their world.

With knowledge, courage, and their feelings for a dear friend, the girls set out beyond their closed world.

Toru Kamiya, a high school student who sees his life as colorless and transparent, begins a conditional relationship with Maori Hino after a false confession. As he faces Maori's condition of losing each day's memories whenever she sleeps, the two build irreplaceable memories within their limited time together in this coming-of-age love story.

With a girl who loses her memories day by day, he builds a love that lasts only one day at a time.

Two years after the Mori-Iron War, former sniper Casket serves in the army unit that returns fallen soldiers' belongings and final messages to their families. As he meets the people left behind, he recalls those he lost in battle and moves closer to a truth hidden in his own past.

A former sniper delivering the belongings and last messages of the fallen confronts the memories of war.

Yoshi, a university student studying abroad in Bristol, England, discovers graffiti in the window of his part-time workplace and joins Boudiccia, an older student knowledgeable about art, to find its creator. As he confronts her past as the once-renowned graffiti writer known as the Bristol Ghost, the two face a conspiracy that threatens the city's culture in this coming-of-age novel.

Graffiti: a fleeting magic of images that vividly overwrites even his and her feelings.

Yu Mitsurugi, a high school student once regarded as the strongest in kendo, gave up the sword. Encounters with his kendo-club teammates and Fubuki, known as the Sword Princess, draw him back to the sport. As his past with Kaisei, the strongest competitor in high-school kendo, comes to a head, the students face one another with their own convictions at stake.

A coming-of-age kendo novel about a boy returning to the sport with new teammates and confronting a long-standing rival.

In a world that has emerged from a war with vampires, Minazuki, the sixth Sandalwood automaton built to fight them, awakens after ten years. Confronted with a reality in which his siblings are remembered as murderous machines, he meets the inventor's daughter Kanon and the vampire princess Rita, and searches for his reason to exist and a place in a new everyday life.

A mechanical knight raises the banner of rebellion to save a lonely princess and resist a false world.

At the Library at World's End, on the northern edge of the world, the amnesiac librarian Wallace lives with Lili, a maid without emotions. After meeting Lucia, a girl from the Town of Beginnings, through a mirror, he lends his knowledge to her effort to help the hero defeat the Demon King, only to learn that his own lost memories hold the key to the final battle.

A tender, bittersweet fantasy about the people who supported the hero and the Demon King's final battle from the shadows.

Miyama-so, the aging boarding house where university student Kota Nanase lives, includes dinner and has a reputation as a haunted spot. As strange occurrences mount, its residents welcome even a ghost carrying a sorrowful past to their table and face an unforgettable final meal.

A delicious and bittersweet story of a final supper.

After receiving a heart transplant at thirteen, Ikuto Hozumi begins to dream that he is a girl. Believing the dreams to be memories of Aika Suzushiro, the donor, he falls for her bright way of living, although the two can never meet in reality. This coming-of-age novel follows a boy who comes to know her through memory and confronts an unreachable love and his wish to save her.

A poignant coming-of-age novel about a boy whose heart transplant brings him into contact with another person's memories and love.

In a world where people begin hearing others' thoughts after their first love and continue to do so until adolescence ends, high-school student Makoto Hisaka has vowed never to fall in love again after an early failure. Yet he becomes interested in his classmate Yuka Someya, who has never experienced love and cannot understand other people's feelings. Hiding his true thoughts, Makoto tries to grow closer to her as a friend.

A coming-of-age novel in which a boy afraid of love and a girl unfamiliar with it draw closer in a world where thoughts can be heard.

In Igdadd, a city where crime is tolerated, bounty hunter Ralph and his partner Liza take a job to bring back a runaway girl named Siena. An attack by a Silver User turns the assignment into a deranged kidnapping plot, drawing them into the schemes of a city steeped in blood and gun smoke.

A kidnapping plot surrounding one girl begins in the world's worst crime-ridden city.

Set in the distant future, this science-fiction story follows Sada Godai, a boy who develops Senbazuru, a system intended to save his sister Nozo from the brink of death. It turns the calculations required for drug discovery into digital origami that others can fold, and in a society governed by the artificial intelligence Ayatori no Hime, the system's reliance on kindness and curiosity leads the siblings toward a harsh fate.

Calculations and human hopes entrusted to folded cranes set the fate of two siblings fighting illness in motion.

Tata, a woman claiming to be a magician from another world, appears in a first-year high-school classroom. When every student's and teacher's future dream comes true, the school is cut off in another world. Armed with the dreams they once held, the students face a harsh struggle to return to Japan.

A survival struggle begins as students turn their old dreams into strength and seek a way back from a school lost in another world.

Mizusu Ichizuka, a high-school student who cannot believe in dreams for the future, meets her classmate Tomohiro Azumaya, who builds a rocket from scrap and pursues an impossible dream. Drawn to someone so different from herself, Mizusu comes to face his secret and a promise from childhood.

A coming-of-age fantasy in which a girl meets a boy pursuing his dream and heads toward a promise and a miraculous ending.

Yu meets Yuki Shiina, a mysterious girl who somehow already knows him. Through repeated encounters and partings, they build up fading memories and a promise that seems never to have existed.

A poignant, one-time-only story of two people tracing the memories of a lost love.

Yoki and Shuka, investigators from the sky nation of Central, travel the vast world below to examine ruins, unknown creatures, and strange phenomena. This linked short-story collection follows the mismatched pair as their encounters with people lead them toward its mysteries.

Two investigators set out into a vast world of mysterious ruins and unknown creatures.

In a devastated Japan where the Rust Wind threatens human life, mushroom keeper Bisco Akaboshi searches for Rust Eater, a legendary medicinal mushroom that may save his dying mentor. With the young doctor Milo as his partner, he crosses iron-sand deserts and abandoned railways while confronting persecution and the schemes of those in power.

To save someone dear, a powerful bow shoots through the rust of ruin.

Yoshiwara Hyakka: A Bite of a Dream is a historical novel set in Edo-period Yoshiwara, portraying people's lives and feelings through sweets. It looks beyond the glamorous surface of the pleasure quarter and connects the loneliness and wishes of those who live and work there with memories of sweet flavors.

A single bite of confectionery gently illuminates the dreams and pain of people living in Yoshiwara.

Negau Senno, a university student looking for a job, is captivated by a rakugo performance on a taxi radio and abandons both university and employment to seek apprenticeship with the gifted storyteller Haraku Sofutei. After repeated refusals, Negau becomes a trainee and learns both the difficulty of the craft and the joy of making people laugh, while confronting events involving Nekotaro, the senior apprentice who has looked after him.

A human drama about a young man whose life is changed by rakugo as he learns laughter and the craft in Asakusa.

The Republic of San Magnolia claims that its war against the Legion, an army of autonomous weapons, has no casualties. Behind that fiction, young people exiled to the Eighty-Sixth Sector pilot manned machines and fight at the cost of their lives. Through the encounter between Shin, who leads the battlefield unit, and Lena, a girl directing it by remote communication, the novel confronts the realities of discrimination and war.

On a battlefield said to have no dead, the young people of the supposedly nonexistent Eighty-Sixth Sector are sent out to fight once more.

Takuya Okada, a high-school student who has drifted through life since losing his sister, meets his hospitalized classmate Mamizu Watarase. As he helps fulfill the wishes of Mamizu, who has a condition that makes her glow in moonlight as her death approaches, Takuya's frozen time begins to move again.

A promise to a girl approaching the end helps a boy reclaim the time to live.

Set in late eighteenth-century London, the novel follows Lazarus, a young gambler who unexpectedly wins a large sum, and Leela, an enslaved girl carrying deep emotional wounds. As the two awkwardly grow closer through everyday life, Lazarus is drawn into a high-stakes gamble that could ruin him in order to protect her.

A story of a gambler who refuses to rely on prayer and the wounded girl whose fate becomes entwined with his.

Shogo Kurosaki, a high-school student devoted to the girls' idol arcade game Kirapri, loses his local top-ranking spot to Chizuru Niijima, an elementary-school transfer student. Their conflict over the town's only machine leads them to discover each other's skill and unwavering commitment as they pursue a limited Christmas item.

A contest over a single arcade machine transforms the relationship between two players who take what they love seriously.

Set at the Nichiyo Newspaper in the early Meiji era, this supernatural mystery follows the indolent reporter Kyuma Naito, who writes only about yokai, and Kasumi Inoue, a young woman who comes to confront him. Joined by the former actor En'en, they use strange incidents as clues to help people, while the bond among the three gradually changes.

An early-Meiji supernatural mystery that follows the truths behind ghost stories and the people they can save.

Naozaki, a university student facing the risk of repeating a year, is told to bring back Takaku Kareido, a brilliant student on leave who has immersed himself in watching films. A fire-related incident at a repertory cinema in Shimokitazawa draws Naozaki into mysteries hidden in films and the city alongside the movie-loving Kareido.

A coming-of-age mystery in which a film-loving young man and a university student on the brink of repeating a year pursue a puzzle surrounding a repertory cinema.

Two centuries after humanity began settling Mars in earnest, disasters and civil war have cut its cities apart. Eris, a young long-distance mail carrier, accepts a request to take Kuro, a man with a fully prosthetic body seeking a place to die, to the mailbox said to deliver letters anywhere on the summit of Olympus Mons. Crossing the red wilderness, the two confront their respective pasts.

On twilight Mars, a young mail carrier and a man seeking a place to die head for the mailbox closest to heaven.

On a snowy day, Keita Kakehashi is asked three questions by Chigusa Ono, a woman he has never met, and soon begins living with her as her husband. Their dreamlike new life brings back his painful past with his reclusive older brother and mother, prompting him to reconsider love and the meaning of happiness.

A story of family memories and love that begins with a marriage between strangers.

A middle-school student known as K dies by suicide, leaving a note that names Taku Sugawara as a devil. Conflicting accounts of bullying surround the popular K and the inconspicuous Taku, and the search for the truth exposes a distorted classroom ruled by the peer-ranking system known as the Human Ability Test.

In a broken classroom, one boy's revolution begins.

Rikka Tachibana, a legendary female trader, is dismissed from her securities firm after being framed for illegal trading and then faces a demand for ten billion yen in damages. With the help of the people gathered at a Western-style restaurant in Ningyocho, Shiontei, she pursues the truth behind the vast conspiracy that set her up.

A defeat means ten billion yen in damages: an exhilarating comeback story of a former trader racing through Tokyo's old downtown.

Set in the kitchen of Valhalla, where the gods of Norse mythology live, this adventure fantasy follows Sei, a boar who revives the day after dying and works as an ingredient while being drawn into a crisis in the divine realm. Its lively narration blends boisterous yet warm everyday life among the gods with adventure.

A gentle mythological fantasy in which Sei, a resurrecting boar who works as an ingredient in the gods' kitchen, races through the divine realm.

Joro, a high-school student, is thrilled when Cosmos, the senior he admires, and his childhood friend Himawari both ask to meet him. Instead of declarations of love, however, he receives requests for advice about his best friend. As Joro tries to win their trust, he is watched by Sumireko Sanshokuin, a sharp-tongued girl he cannot stand. This school romantic comedy twists familiar conventions as each character's intentions collide.

The invitations from the two girls he admires lead to an unexpected request for romantic advice.

On the day of the royal succession, Princess Arna is driven from her country with Yufa, the childhood friend and guard sworn to protect her. Joined by Ilna, a wandering girl with cat blood, a talking swallow, and a war dog, they travel through the land of the Red Swallow. This adventure fantasy follows them as royal intrigue and flight lead them toward a truth that could shake their nation and force them to confront their own wishes.

A fantasy of a princess driven from her country and the bloodstained swordsman who guards her.

Rookie security officer Chinami Kuroda is ordered to protect Sengoku warlords who have time-travelled into the present day. Torn between her romantic hopes and her professional duty, she faces the uproar caused by Nagao Kagetora, later known as Uesugi Kenshin, and his fellow warriors in this romantic comedy with historical fantasy elements.

An overly romantic rookie security officer takes on her first mission: protecting Sengoku warlords who have appeared in the present day.

Chisa, an office worker worn down by constant overtime, is helped by Ryusei, a colleague whom everyone at the office finds intimidating, after her heel breaks. A misunderstanding over a courtesy Valentine chocolate makes them pretend to be a couple, and their awkward exchanges, including an exchange diary, gradually bring them closer in this romantic comedy.

A sweet romantic comedy that begins with a misunderstanding over a courtesy chocolate, pairing a fierce-looking but earnest office worker with an overworked woman.

At the private Koimoji Academy, the love-police unit Q-Pits investigates the hidden feelings of students and tries to bring them to a resolution. After a heartbreak on his entrance day, high-schooler Asamichi Hinokata is swept up by its highly individual, relentlessly meddlesome members and into lively, sincere days spent helping others take a chance on love.

The saviors of high-school students troubled by love: the love police, Q-Pits!!

In the age called After, when every piece of land has sunk beneath the sea, fourteen-year-old Aki crosses the ocean as a messenger aboard the Pallas, the boat left to her by her parents. When a White Storm destroys her vessel and strands her on an isolated floating island, she and her parrot frog companion face a harsh fight to survive.

In a world with nothing but blue sea, Aki searches for a course toward survival even after losing her boat.

On Kamiyo Island, where the craft of transforming mysterious cubic hōseki stones into ornaments flourishes, seventeen-year-old craftsman Eisuke Hakudō repairs hōseki and takes in the cursed stones known as maseki, which lead people astray. When he investigates a series of hōseki thefts, he draws closer to a truth connected to his young lodger, Yoko Kurosu.

A contemporary fantasy mystery in which a young craftsman confronts the secrets of an island and its hōseki stones, objects that enchant people and can also drive them mad.

At a school ruled by destiny, a transfer student arrives every Monday and delivers a prophecy before the entire student body. When Shiina predicts that Satsuki Jun will become student council president within the month, he is elated. But the current president, Yumi Igarashi, and her allies try to stop the prediction, drawing Jun into a turbulent struggle over the future he believes has been promised to him.

A lively school comedy about a boy convinced that destiny favors him and a student council determined to resist his prophecy.

In a world shared by humans and beastfolk, Shin was once saved by Kazura, a fox rhetorician, and now travels as a rhetorician who uses words to overcome difficult situations. His encounter with Rea, the young leader of a wolf clan, draws him into an inter-clan conflict and the conspiracy behind it in this fantasy of rhetoric.

Their trump card is rhetoric: a kind-hearted sophisticate and his fox mentor face difficult situations with words.

Iori Sōda, a high-school student and aspiring manga artist, learns that Yuzuriha, the beautiful girl he meets in the hallway, is possessed by the "Manga God," a force that invites trouble. Through a creative slump, a reunion with his first love, and rivalry as an artist, Iori confronts the stories he wants to draw in this coming-of-age romantic comedy.

A trouble-filled youth story shared by a beautiful manga artist possessed by the Manga God and me.

On a snowy Christmas Eve in Shibuya, an ordinary high-school student, Takasago, encounters his classmate Kaoru Ryoke giving a speech calling for people to renounce romance. After joining the Anti-Romantic Youth League, which regards love as an illusion, he and his friends set out to crush Valentine's Day, until a mysterious request that forces them to confront romance unsettles their daily lives.

"All romantic feelings are an illusion!" The Anti-Romantic Youth League steps into a commotion centered on love.

Takashi Aoyama, worn down by exploitative work, is rescued at a station by a man who calls himself Yamamoto. With Yamamoto's support, Takashi gradually begins to reclaim his daily life, only to find a record of a person with that name who died after relentless overwork. This is a story of recovery that asks what it means to work and to live.

A life-affirming story for everyone who works.

The millennium city of Amorot enjoys peace and prosperity under Aegis, an invisible shield that prevents every wound and illness. When an impossible murder occurs, young inquisitor Berhelmina and the informant Kurikara investigate rumors of a Barrier Cracker capable of shattering the shield, drawing them toward truths hidden at the heart of their world.

A murder in a world where no one should be hurt begins to shake the order of a shielded city.

In the year 526 of the Church calendar, sorcery is well known but magic has yet to exist. A beastfallen mercenary who longs to become human meets Zero, a witch searching for the forbidden Grimoire of Zero, and agrees to protect her on the road to the royal capital. As they pursue the sorcerer known as Thirteen, they confront fear of witches and the competing ambitions surrounding a new power.

A grimoire fantasy in which a mercenary seeking his humanity and a witch searching for a book that could change the world set out together.

Shinichi Otokawa, a student council president known as the guardian of school rules, gains the power to turn improvised rhyming words into summoning magic after making a contract with the demon girl Mamirada. Armed with the dangerous ability to draw opponents into rap battles, where the winner can control the loser, he confronts the troublemakers at his academy.

Improvised rhymes become magic, setting microphone battles and life-or-death confrontations in motion at an academy.

Ayumu Kamijo, a first-year middle school student who loves shogi above all else, admires Keika Ohashi, the captain of the shogi club. After meeting girls who are incarnations of shogi pieces, beginning with the lance, Ayumu hones his skill with their help and joins Keika in a tournament to decide the East Japan representative for the middle-school team championship.

Guided by incarnations of shogi pieces, a shogi-loving boy aims for the top alongside the senior he admires in this fresh coming-of-age story.

Tenji, once hailed as a prodigy in the kendo world, has been unable to hold a bamboo sword since the death of his grandfather and teacher. Invited by Rika, a classmate as bright as a sunflower, he joins a club devoted to sodo, a sport fought with wooden spears, and tries to move forward again alongside its lively members.

A coming-of-age novel about a boy who sets aside his sword, takes up a spear, and faces both new companions and himself in the summer wind.

Set around a neglected flower bed in a corner of a high school, this story follows troubled students and their teacher, Taji, as they confront their own uncertainties. As they grow asparagus together, the characters look for ways to move forward even when their problems offer no quick answers.

Asparagus growing in a flower bed at the edge of the school quietly connects a teacher and students carrying private worries.

Sakamoto Akizuki, isolated at school because of his intimidating face, gives up half his lifespan to save a girl named Hikaru Yumemae after a traffic accident. Hikaru's personality then inhabits his body every other day, leaving the two to share a noisy yet heartfelt life through an exchange diary.

A lonely boy and an irrepressible girl, able to meet only in an exchange diary, share a single body and their youth.

In Tohkyo, a city where soul wizards gather to work miracles through magic, Issho Kurono forms a pact with the magical dog Brunhilde and sets out for the summit of the gods. This fantasy follows a wizard carrying grief as encounters with a girl-shaped homunculus and a maid-in-training make him confront his own wishes.

A soul wizard makes a pact with a magical dog and seeks the summit of the gods.

Tenji Ono, once called a prodigy and the grandson of a revered kendo master, can no longer hold a bamboo sword after his grandfather's death. At high school he meets Rika Hayama, a forceful and sunny classmate, and enters the world of sodo, an invented martial art, where he searches for a path chosen by his own will alongside new friends.

A boy who laid down his sword takes up a spear and steps into a new summer.

In Showa 101, people in Jinten, a ruined town in the war-devastated island nation of Yashima, live under the threat of rampaging war machines. While fleeing, a girl named Kanaha meets Kuyo, a boy sleeping in a coffin, and a giant bee, then forms a master-servant contract with him. Kuyo is a super-high-performance strategic weapon called a Kichu, and through his encounters with Kanaha he begins to learn human emotions.

A nonstop action story in a devastated future island nation, where a girl forms a contract with a boy who is a strategic weapon.

Izumo Yasaka, a high school student who hopes to become a folklorist, encounters an event identical to the urban legend Murasaki Kagami while researching it. After meeting a girl who calls herself an Urban Legend Spirit, Murasaki Kagami, Izumo sets out to compile the stories of many such beings into a book.

A supernatural tale in which a high school compiler meets charming yet unsettling urban legends.

In a society whose residential districts are divided by extreme income inequality, seventeen-year-old Jaifa, who comes from an underground slum, meets Harutsuki Fuyuse while attempting a theft on the surface. He becomes Harutsuki's partner in Wizard & Warrior With Money, a competitive game played by teams of a wizard and a warrior, and begins to reconsider a life built on the belief that taking from others is justice.

A battle fantasy in which a boy from an underground slum and a girl from a mansion enter a two-person competition in a deeply unequal society.

Aioi Sakura, a student at Hozuki Academy, can read another person's mind for one minute with an ability called Minutes. He uses it to appear to be a dependable class representative as he pursues his ambition of becoming student-council president. When vice president Haruka Kotomiya discovers his secret, Sakura enters the psychological Baka and Genius Game that she proposes, each trying to gain leverage over the other.

A school romance in which a boy who can read minds for one minute and a girl who learns his secret play a psychological game.

After an unexpected death, high-school sophomore Yuma Fuji is revived as a zombie by Yukiji Takamine, a white necromancer. Learning that a black necromancer is targeting him, Yuma moves in with Yukiji for protection and becomes involved in incidents surrounding necromancy.

A high-school student revived as a zombie lives with a white necromancer while confronting a black necromancer.

After Tsukishima makes a public declaration of love at a school assembly and is suspended, his friend Miyamoto goes to visit him. On the way, he meets Nagase, an expressionless girl who is infatuated with Tsukishima, and becomes caught up in an unusual love triangle in this school comedy.

A school comedy about a suspended boy, his friend, and the girl who has fallen for him after his public confession.

After being defeated by the Hero just short of world conquest, the Demon King Satan is swept from Ente Isla to Sasazuka, Tokyo, where he works at a fast-food restaurant to pay his living expenses. This down-to-earth fantasy begins when Emilia, the Hero who followed him, reunites with him. It won the Silver Prize at the 17th Dengeki Novel Award.

A demon king stranded in Sasazuka, Tokyo, works at a fast-food restaurant to make a living.

In the late Edo period, as isolationists and modernizers clash, Kuse Iori, a scholar of Western learning and a mage at Tekijuku in Osaka, is sent by Ogata Kōan to the Matsue domain to translate an obscure grimoire. This historical fantasy brings magic into the Bakumatsu era. It won the Grand Prize at the 16th Dengeki Novel Award.

A mage studying in Bakumatsu-era Osaka travels to the Matsue domain to translate an obscure grimoire.

In a world where a unified government has begun regulating many forms of art, masterpieces that should have been sealed away appear on walls across the globe. Art terrorists who leave the words 'Freedom for art' beside the paintings are known as the Vandals. As a girl named Ena who bears paintings in her eyes becomes involved, the reason they risk defying the government and their true aim come to light.

An art-themed science-fiction story following the purpose of the Vandals, who paint masterpieces on walls in a world where art is restricted.

A blond girl in a maid uniform suddenly appears before Itsuki Jin, a high-school student devoted to maids. Calling herself the Maid Lady, she overwhelms Jin, who should be her master, and their encounter develops into a series of unconventional incidents that overturn their expected master-servant relationship.

A high-energy romantic comedy in which a maid-loving high-school student and an imposing maid turn their master-servant roles upside down.

One night, Maihara Reo helps Yuzuhara Saya, who has collapsed outside his apartment. With nowhere to return to, Saya begins living with him; as they search for a place to belong, they begin revealing their secrets. This youth ensemble romance begins with a chance shelter from the rain. It won the Selection Committee Encouragement Prize at the 16th Dengeki Novel Award.

Two people brought together by a chance shelter from the rain reveal their secrets as they seek a place to belong.

A bullied boy named Haruyuki steps into battles in a virtual world after meeting Kuroyukihime. It opens as a fast-moving piece of youth entertainment.

Meeting Kuroyukihime changes the boy’s future.

A phone call from a boy who should have died in an accident shakes a girl’s daily life and feelings. It is a bittersweet romance mystery about time and relationships.

A phone call from the boy who should be dead changes a summer of time.

A group drama centered on an ultra-low-interest lender operating in the shadows of Tokyo, where the desires of several people intersect. Heat and danger lurk in the city night.

In Tokyo at night, desire moves the money.

A boy with a god perched above his head gets swept into a job involving a search for gods. It is a lively fantasy that mixes comedy with a mythic feel.

A search for gods by an unlucky boy and a cute(?) god.

A slightly uncanny and very charming after-school story about a boy who meets an itachi girl at school at night. It softens the feel of a yokai tale into something gentle.

A slightly strange after-school story about Itachi-san and me.

A story woven to protect something precious gradually reveals what it really means. Its gentle emotions and late reversal leave a strong impression.

This is a story made for you.

A psycho-mystery that follows the realm beyond death and the people pulled into it. The atmosphere of a midnight station and coin lockers hangs ominously over the story.

At a midnight station, a girl is dragged into the other world.

In a city where alien Apostoli and humans coexist, Manabu meets a girl named Hazakura. The story gradually reveals the circumstances behind the system of cohabitation.

Living with a girl named Hazakura draws him closer to the city’s secrets.

Mimizuku, a girl who offers herself to the king of monsters, begins to change at the edge of despair. The story moves from a quiet beginning into a tale of collapse and rebirth.

A small girl’s collapse and rebirth begin at the edge of despair.

A boy gets caught up in the daily chaos of a family that all possesses extraordinary powers. Domestic comedy and over-the-top world-saving energy coexist.

A boy is pulled into the daily life of an unusually powerful family.

A school romantic comedy about Natsuki, a girl who swings a metal bat called a dream breaker, and a boy who quit baseball. Its momentum and warmth come through clearly.

Summer begins for a girl with a metal bat and a boy who has stalled out.

In an age reminiscent of the Industrial Revolution, a young banshee living in a dwindling fairy sanctuary takes on an important role. It is a fantasy where charm and sadness coexist.

In a fading world of fairies, a banshee girl takes on her duty.

A strange event in an elevator leaves several young people fused with inhuman beings, and they must face the changes in themselves. The story leans heavily on claustrophobic unease and the scent of the uncanny.

Inside a sealed box, the young people become connected to the grotesque.

A peddler named Lawrence begins traveling with Holo, the wolf deity, and rediscovers the world through trade and conversation. It is a travel story driven by economics and shifting relationships.

A merchant and a wolf deity change how each other sees the world.

A linked collection about angels who repair relationships, including the short story ‘Chokokuhaku.’ It is a light, sweet volume of slightly uncanny romantic comedy.

A slightly uncanny linked collection about angels who repair romance.

In a world where humanity has vanished, a lone surviving girl faces solitude and must decide whether to accept the world as it is or try to change it.

The story of the last girl left in a world where humanity has disappeared.

In a town where the night never ends, Nerim begins to search for the truth behind her brother’s disappearance and the secrets of the city. Truth and emotion quietly intertwine inside a closed community.

In a town of endless night, Nerim begins to chase the truth.

Shima lost his family and his body in a violent conflict, and now seeks a way to live again with a cybernetic body. The story blends hard-boiled atmosphere with a sense of regeneration.

A wounded man walks again with a mechanical body.

In a world transformed by one of the worst viruses in epidemiological history, a boy aiming to become a mutant collector enters practical training. It mixes a ruined world with a school setting.

In a changed world, the boy aims to become a collector.

After pillars of salt fall from space and begin turning people into salt, Tokyo approaches social collapse. This story follows a man and a girl named Mana as they live through the crisis and encounter people at their limits. It won the Grand Prize at the 10th Dengeki Novel Award.

Set in a Tokyo nearing collapse after an anomaly turns people into salt, the story follows the lives of a man and a girl.

Takagami Toru, a boy descended from the Mizuchi family, is vulnerable to attacks by supernatural beings. To protect him, his older brother Noboru frees Kuugen Tenko, a powerful fox spirit sealed in a shrine behind their home. Joined by Kuugen and the Mizuchi family's guardian maiden Kou, the brothers become involved in strange incidents involving gods and yokai.

A Japanese-style fantasy about two brothers and a fox guardian spirit freed from a seal, facing troubles involving gods and yokai.

A boy in love with his eccentric senior, Tsubasa, goes UFO-watching with her on Christmas Eve. After aliens abduct them and accidentally swap their brains, the two must navigate school life in each other's bodies in this romantic school comedy.

A school romantic comedy about a senior and a boy whose brains are swapped by aliens.

Kieli, a fourteen-year-old girl who can see the dead, meets Harvey, an undead young man, and the spirit of a sergeant inhabiting a small radio. Set in a devastated world, this fantasy follows their journey through encounters and farewells with ghosts. It won the Grand Prize at the 9th Dengeki Game Novel Award.

A girl who can see the dead travels with an undead young man and the spirit of a sergeant inhabiting a radio.

On a continent where seven major cities each champion a princess said to be the late king's hidden child, nine-year-old orphan Karasumi is chosen as princess of Kassen. Raised under the protection of General Ten Fou and strategist Toel Tau, she faces an invasion from neighboring Tsuzumi at the age of twelve and must confront her own destiny.

An oriental fantasy in which an orphaned girl lives through an age of conflict as a princess on a continent divided among seven cities.

In Prohibition-era New York, the fates of people who seem unconnected—a Camorra organization, a thief couple, mafia brothers, police, and an alchemist—begin to converge. This ensemble fantasy revolves around the return of an elixir of immortality.

An ensemble fantasy in which diverse lives converge around an elixir of immortality in Prohibition-era New York.

Set in Tang-dynasty China, this historical novel features figures who appear in the historical record. Its story world, centered on Luoyang, follows their lives against the backdrop of the Tang era.

A historical novel set in Tang-dynasty China and Luoyang, featuring figures from the historical record.

High-school student Dōjima Kō, whose sister was taken by aliens, meets a girl claiming to be a demon. This fantastical mystery brings together demons, cameras, and UFOs. It won the Silver Prize at the 8th Dengeki Game Novel Award.

A mystery in which demons, cameras, and UFOs converge around a high-school student and a self-proclaimed demon girl.

A fantasy set around a secluded mountain village and the succession of spirit mediums who invoke its guardian deity. It opens the story of Zero, later known as Kohakurei, and Koyuki, another candidate to become a medium.

A fantasy about the succession of spirit mediums in a secluded mountain village.

High-school student Kamo Koreo, who can see spirits, investigates the school's rumored cursed classroom. With Abdel, a seraph he summons as a guardian spirit, he hunts a demon and tries to save Tama, a girl who unconsciously emits a powerful supernatural aura.

A high-school student with spirit sight and a seraph hunt a demon at their school.

Set in the Heian period, this historical fantasy follows Yoshishige no Yasutane, born to a distinguished onmyōdō family but devoted to letters. At Abe no Seimei's request, he investigates an outsider sorcerer and enters a case of curses and resentment haunting the capital. It won the Gold Prize at the 7th Dengeki Game Novel Award.

A Heian-period occult tale in which Yoshishige no Yasutane investigates curses and resentment haunting the capital at Abe no Seimei's request.

In a world threatened with extinction after a runaway atmospheric-control plant and war, Amagi Ren is a young wizard who can manipulate physical laws by rewriting information. Assigned to seize an experimental sample bound for Kobe City, he clashes with Kurosawa Yuichi and brings back a girl named Fia, who holds a secret concerning the city's survival.

A near-future action story in which wizards who rewrite information to control physical laws clash over the secret of an enclosed city.

Set in the Nine Cities, a land of illusion-weaving magicians and one-eyed supernatural beasts, this classic fantasy follows Marni, a magician apprentice chosen by the master Findal. As war threatens the nation, she joins a struggle that will decide its fate. It won the Grand Prize at the 6th Dengeki Game Novel Award.

An apprentice magician becomes the student of a great master and enters a battle for her nation's fate.

Katakura Yuki, who carries both human and ayakashi genes, meets the human young man Yamazaki Taichiro while assisting the special unit EAT. As links emerge between an ayakashi pursuing her and a series of murders three years earlier, the novel asks where she belongs as someone both human and nonhuman.

A girl with both human and ayakashi genes meets a young man from a special unit.

Koji Nishinomiya, once a star player at Koshien, joins the struggling Wakakusa High School baseball club, which is close to disbandment and has many female members. Surrounded by an eccentric team, he helps set the high-school baseball club in motion.

A high-school baseball novel about a former Koshien star joining a coeducational club on the verge of disbandment.

Hannan, a school city in southern Osaka, is controlled by the Byakkotai, a delinquent group backed by the yakuza. Mizuki En and her fellow members of the Misaki Girls' High School karate club resist the pressure and confront the group with Sozaburo, a master of traditional martial arts.

A youth martial-arts novel in which karate-club girls and a master of traditional martial arts confront a delinquent group that controls their school city.

On the desert planet Gehenna, which holds a beautiful ring in its sky, a Deadlydrive pilot known as Burn rescues a mysterious girl named Ice — and finds himself pulled into a battle for humanity's future. As the secret society known as the Kyodan sets its plans in motion, the truth behind Burn's buried past and the planet Gehenna itself is revealed. A science fiction adventure set on the ruins of a far-future Earth.

On a ruined future Earth that lost its moon, the Deadlydrive riders still race across the sky.

A light novel that depicts the boundary between the extraordinary and everyday life through a reordered ensemble narrative. The singular presence of Boogiepop confronts the “enemy of the world.”

The extraordinary rises quietly beneath everyday life.

A debut work published in upper and lower volumes. Within a loss-heavy, SF-inflected setting, the protagonist works toward choosing a future anew.

Beyond loss, a future can still be chosen again.

A brisk school-age romantic comedy built around the cohabitation of a vampire girl and a high school boy. Their distance narrows through humor and battles.

The story begins with the promise, “Don’t drink my blood.”

In a parallel-world Berlin where Nazi Germany is beginning to stir, Walter and the engineer Paul complete Kaiserburg, a flying warship capable of leaving the atmosphere. Their pursuit by the military drives this aerial-action story, a Gold Prize winner at the 3rd Dengeki Game Novel Award.

A young man and an engineer build a flying warship for spaceflight, setting off aerial battles with the military.

An award-winning Dengeki Bunko novel set in a near-future Osaka, following an adventure that crosses the boundary between the human world and the uncanny.

A story begins in a place where Osaka and the otherworld overlap.

A work by Saya Amou that received a Silver Prize at the 3rd Dengeki Game Novel Award.

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HOLOGRAM SEED is a novel that received a Silver Prize in the third Dengeki Game Novel Award under the name Masa Ayato, later known as Matsuri Akeneya. No published edition or detailed synopsis has been confirmed.

An award-winning manuscript for which no publication record or detailed synopsis has been confirmed.

A debut novel written while the author was still at Capcom. It combines game-like structure with cyberpunk elements.

Furuhashi Hideyuki’s debut novel, where games and cyberpunk meet.

Yamaihachikara ~Special-Man~ is recorded as a prize work, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed.

Details about Yamaihachikara ~Special-Man~ remain in award records.

A work that uses 戸籍係の憂鬱 to pick up the dissonance hidden within roles and institutions.

Dissonance hidden within roles gradually takes shape.

An opening volume of a light-novel series about adventures and battles centered on the power of five spirits.

An adventure centered on five spirits gets underway.

A fantasy-forward novel with the structure of another world and an heroic tale. Destiny and adventure unfold around chaos itself.

An heroic tale begins in the midst of chaos.

A light novel series with illustrations by MEIMU. In two volumes, it follows the adventures of the merchant Amurafi as she sails the seas.

The tale of Amurafi, a merchant who races across the sea in search of adventure and profit.

雲ゆきあやし、雨にならんや is recorded as a prize work, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed.

Details about 雲ゆきあやし、雨にならんや remain in award records.