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Dengeki Novel Grand Prize でんげきしょうせつたいしょう

Edition 6 (1999)

Light novelNewcomer literary award

Winners

3 people
円山夢久 まるやま ゆめひさ grand prize

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.

312 pages
high fantasymagicianswar
Erika Nakamura なかむら えりか gold prize

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.

296 pages
supernatural beingsgeneticshumans and nonhuman beingsspecial unitsmurder casesbelonging
Isshiki Ginga いっしき ぎんが silver prize

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.

312 pages
high-school baseballteamworkfriendshipyouthgrowth