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

Edition 7 (2000)

Light novelNewcomer literary award

Winners

3 people
Kei Sato さとう けい gold prize

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.

264 pages
schooldemonsspirit sightangelssupernatural phenomenacomedy
Watase Soichiro わたせ そういちろう gold prize

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.

360 pages
Heian periodonmyōdōcurses
Reiichi Saegusa さえぐさ れいいち silver prize

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.

376 pages
near futurewizardsenclosed citieswarartificial intelligencechoices