Famitsu Bunko Grand Award
ふぁみつうぶんこたいしょう
A Famitsu Bunko newcomer award held on Kakuyomu for entertainment fiction, with publication through Famitsu Bunko or book format as a prize.
- Established
- 2019
- Organizer
- KADOKAWA / Famitsu Bunko Editorial Department / Kakuyomu
- Category
- Light Novels and Web Literature
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Open
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Application Deadline
- around September–October
- Announcement Period
- around March–April
- Status
- Ended
Description
This award is the newcomer prize for the light novel literary award hosted by Famitsu Bunko, using Kakuyomu as the submission portal, conducted from 2019 to 2020. Grand Prize and Excellence Award winners are guaranteed debut publication with Famitsu Bunko, and a "Game Novel Special Prize" was established for works themed around games. No reader selection was conducted; all judging was handled by the editorial department. It is the successor to the Enterbrain Entame Grand Prize Light Novel Famitsu Bunko category.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Grand Prize winners are guaranteed debut with Famitsu Bunko.
- Excellence Award
- Special Prize
- Game Novel Special Prize
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Final Selection | Famitsu Bunko Editorial Department | — | Announced on Kakuyomu |
Related Awards
- Enterbrain Entame Grand Prize Light Novel Famitsu Bunko Category
Official Resources
https://famitsubunko.jp/award/top.htmlPast Winners
Ronnie, a noble boy dismissed as a failure because he cannot use magic, regains memories of a previous life as a scientist on his sixteenth birthday. His desire to understand magic through science leads to an encounter with a spirit and opens a path toward growth in another world.
A fantasy of growth in which scientific memory becomes the key to unraveling magic.
A fantasy in another world about a boy who regains the memory of his former life as a scientist and tries to explain magic through reason. The story centers on how a boy once dismissed as a failure gains strength through research and experimentation.
A reversal story in which magic is unraveled with scientific insight.
A romantic comedy that begins when the protagonist lends a small amount of money to a friend and the friend's younger sister turns up as repayment. A confusing, sweet relationship develops with a beautiful girl known for caring deeply about her brother.
A tiny loan sets an unexpected live-in romantic comedy in motion.
A girl starting a VRMMORPG is thrown into a dangerous dungeon filled with high-level monsters as the service officially begins. Through repeated deaths and restarts, she uses a beginner's perspective and persistence to carve a path through the game world.
A beginner dies, returns, and begins writing her own chronicle on the harshest continent.
A success comedy set in a modern world where dungeon-exploration videos bring fame and money. A low-level high-school adventurer grows with advice from a self-proclaimed demon lord.
With a demon lord’s wisdom, a high-school adventurer climbs the rankings.
A story about an elderly woman and a young man transported to another world by an accident. Drawing on practical wisdom and help from townspeople, it brings a warm perspective to isekai adventure.
A powerful elderly support character and a young man build a life and adventure in another world.
A death-game novel in which unfamiliar high-school students are forced into a mysterious game and driven into suspicion by assigned roles and survival rules. The protagonist’s unusual role creates the central tension.
An extreme game of roles and survival begins in an unfamiliar classroom.
An isekai comedy in which a BL-loving woman reincarnated as a villainess in an otome-game world pushes ahead with spreading her beloved culture rather than worrying about death flags. Its forceful fandom energy and brisk dialogue drive the story.
Even reincarnated as a villainess, her passion for spreading what she loves does not stop.