Japanese Literary Awards

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Enterbrain Entame Grand Award Light Novel Famitsu Bunko Division えんたーぶれいんえんためたいしょうらいとのべるふぁみつうぶんこぶもん

Edition 3 (2001)

Light novelLight Novel: Famitsu Bunko division

Winners

2 people
Nomura Mizuki のむら みづき best award

Mizuki Nomura's debut novel follows a group of university women who go to Gunma in search of a missing friend and become caught up in strange events involving a table-tennis hall on Mount Akagi and a table-tennis deity. Chorus, friendship, table tennis, and wild fantasy mix with brisk energy.

At a table-tennis hall on Mount Akagi, friendship, singing voices, and outlandish events bounce together.

252 pages
light novelfriendshiptable tenniscomedy
上島拓海 うえしま たくみ honorable mention

Takumi Ueshima's light novel centers on a promise of magic and a limited span of three months, depicting young people's choices, changes, and the premonition of parting. It has the freshness of an award-winning debut and the poignancy created by a time limit.

A three-month magic illuminates the time of meeting and parting.

214 pages
light novelmagicyouthtime limit