Fantasia Grand Award ふぁんたじあたいしょう
Edition 37 (2024)
Winners
4 peopleA school fantasy in which the relationship with a summoned beast drifts away from ordinary expectations. The distance between the protagonist and the inhuman creature creates both suspicion and intimacy.
A strange shared life with an inhuman summoned beast intrudes on ordinary school life.
A light novel in which an intensely self-conscious narrator breaks apart their sense of the world between fantasy and game logic. Comedy and unease coexist throughout.
The narrator’s exaggerated self-fashioning intensifies the story’s unsettling distortions.
A fantasy novel that builds classic sword-and-prayer motifs between lightness and restrained urgency. It refuses to settle the outlines of good and evil too quickly.
Sword and prayer gradually shift the shape of a straightforward hero story.
A light novel that weaves digital and dystopian vocabulary into a pursuit of the contact point between conflicting worlds. Its structural rigidity and speed coexist at once.
The feel of cloud and thread helps hold together the story’s tension.