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.