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Fantasia Grand Award ふぁんたじあたいしょう

Edition 37 (2024)

Full-length novelLight novel

Winners

4 people
Dachima Inaka grand prize

A 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.

328 pages
light novelschoolsummoningfantasy
Reira gold prize

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.

312 pages
light novelself-consciousnessgame-like worldunease
Hamubane silver prize

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.

328 pages
light novelswordprayerheroic fantasy
Hideo Yokoyama Tachibana Koshi Special Award

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.

342 pages
light noveldystopiadigitalconflict