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Fantasia Grand Award ふぁんたじあたいしょう

Edition 31 (2018)

Full-length novelLight novel

Winners

7 people
Dachima Inaka grand prize

In a world locked in war through bullet magic, the young soldier Rain obtains a devil's bullet that erases the existence and achievements of its target. Together with a girl calling herself a ghost, he attempts to rewrite the war itself.

A single bullet rewrites the battlefield and the world's memory.

376 pages
warbullet magicaltered memorychild soldiers
Reira gold prize

At a prestigious magic academy now better known for its cafeteria than for magic, the cook Kyle accepts a challenge from student council president Lectia. The fantasy combines cooking and academy battles as knives and magic cross paths.

A battle for a magic academy's honor begins with a cook's knife work.

340 pages
magic academycookingschool battlesrecovery
Hamubane gold prize

A school romantic comedy published under the new title Hani Tora wa Kikanai. Eiyu dakara ne, Ore, based on the Fantasia Grand Prize Gold Prize winner Hani Tora nante Kowakunai!. Yusuke Eaka, the hero who ended the war against monsters on his own, enters school to reclaim his youth, only to find that nations have sent charming agents to lure him to their side.

Around the hero who saved the world, national schemes and romantic traps collide on campus.

344 pages
a hero's school lifehoney trapsyouth after another-world warinternational maneuveringromantic comedy
Hideo Yokoyama silver prize

A creative youth romantic comedy retitled from the Fantasia Grand Prize Silver Prize winner Gyaru no Pantsu to Pen Tablet. Arata, a barely active manga club member, discovers that the popular school gyaru Ema Ayasaki is also a charismatic artist and is drawn into helping her create a doujinshi.

A secretly otaku gyaru and a manga club boy grow closer through making a doujinshi together.

280 pages
creative youthdoujinshi productionsecret otaku identitygyaru heroineschool romantic comedy
Hayashiya Taihei silver prize

A supernatural case story retitled from the Fantasia Grand Prize Silver Prize winner Shinizokonai to Kokoro no Mikata. In a Sapporo troubled by rising ability-related crimes, the residents of Minasuke-so in Shiroishi Ward act as a self-governing group, and Koki Fujisaka, who can come back to life after dying, encounters the hidden worries of a new resident, Kokoro Hachino.

A boy who rises even after death faces both Sapporo's incidents and a girl's wounded heart.

328 pages
supernatural crimeSappororevival abilityhidden feelingsself-governing group
Sheena Ringo silver prize

A cohabitation romantic comedy with an older instructor, retitled from the Fantasia Grand Prize Silver Prize winner Nondakure Kyokan to Jiko Gisei Yaro. After a former student is injured while protecting the instructor he loves, the beautiful instructor feels responsible and insists on supporting him, beginning a sweet and noisy life together.

A self-sacrificing boy is swept up in the overwhelming affection of his older instructor.

328 pages
older heroinecohabitation romantic comedyself-sacrificeinstructor and former studentbattle against demons
Takayuki Yamamoto special award

A school romantic comedy about rap, retitled from the Fantasia Grand Prize Special Jury Prize winner In ni Insuru JK to Inkya no Boku. A gloomy boy who writes his resentment toward popular classmates in a notebook is approached by Sanshin, the most beautiful girl in his year, who asks him to diss her, and their secret rap sessions begin to transform his school life.

A gloomy boy's words become the weapon of rap and start moving his youth forward.

326 pages
rap battlesintroverted protagonistgyaru heroineself-expressionschool youth