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

Edition 29 (2022)

Light novelNewcomer literary award

Winners

6 people
榛名丼 grand prize

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.

296 pages
Self and doubleRomanceComing of ageRetitled work
Shiki Taiga gold prize

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.”

328 pages
TimeCatsMysteryBoy meets girl
彩月レイ gold prize

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.

344 pages
HeroesBattleRestorationDystopia
塩瀬まき Media Works Bunko Award

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.

352 pages
The deadPartingLoveRenewal

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.

Different racesMatchmakingSlapstickFantasy
成東志樹 selection committee encouragement award

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.

224 pages
TransactionHungerBoundariesRelationships