Kota Nozomi’s Happy Death Day: Suicide Broker Yomiji and Killer Dorian is a darkly comic light novel about a service that arranges ideal deaths and a killer named Dorian, using brisk dialogue and eccentric characters to carry a heavy premise.

The strange premise of selling ideal deaths lets a dark urgency show through lively dialogue.

Eita Nakatani’s award title Transporter A+ was published as Oto-san to Issho! Shojo to Megane to Hyperion, a light novel with science-fiction elements built around an intrusive heroine, a protagonist, and concepts such as Hyperion.

The awarded work was retitled and published as a lively story where a girl, glasses, and Hyperion intersect.

Natsuki no Tane’s Yokai Koisen was published as Ayakashi Maniacs!, a yokai romantic comedy about a boy made popular with supernatural girls by a love spell while struggling to approach the classmate he truly likes.

All the girls drawn to him are supernatural; the love he wants cannot quite reach its target.

Hiumizaka Neko’s Kare to Hitokui no Nichijo follows a high school boy bound by contract to a man-eating yokai, mixing the unease of a deadly bargain with the comedy of the yokai entering school life as his self-proclaimed fiancée.

A contract with a man-eating yokai turns a boy’s daily life into a bind between romance and fear.

Kasahara Arano’s Panpi na Bracaman was published as Brapan!, a supernatural battle comedy about Ayumi Amami, a girl who wants to be ordinary but is dragged into battles through a punch-triggered special power and her own unruly behavior.

She wants to be ordinary, but her fists and powers keep pushing her back into trouble.

Yoichi Hatsumi’s Furyomessiah! is a mistaken-identity youth romantic comedy about Yuma Arakura, a high school boy who wants to be a delinquent but is too earnest to be seen as one, surrounded by equally offbeat heroines.

Around the honor student who wants to be a delinquent, strange girls keep gathering.

Yoichi Morita’s Futago to Osananajimi no Yonnin Goroshi is a school noir in which a boy and beautiful twin girls are drawn into a disturbing case after a suicide, with affection, dependence, and murder darkening their everyday closeness.

A daily life with twins and a childhood friend begins to warp from the moment of a fall.

Hanahana Maron’s Atereko is an expectation-prize work from the first half of the third GA Bunko Award. The selection records confirm the title, and later bibliography links the author to a voice-acting-themed publication, but a standalone publication of this exact award title is not confirmed.

From its title about voice dubbing, the work suggests a story about performance and emotional distance.

Kyushu Shinji’s Ikyo no Omaera is an expectation-prize work from the first half of the third GA Bunko Award. Selection records confirm its progress through the later rounds to the prize, but no standalone book or paperback publication is confirmed.

Only the title, evoking people placed in a foreign land, preserves the outline of this unpublished work.

Originally awarded as Koi no Nantaruka o Oshiete Yaro Janai no, the work was published under the title Ore wa Mada Koi ni Ochite Inai. It is a school romantic comedy in which high-school student Akai Ko meets sisters Emi and Eira and tries to understand love while caught between their clashing personalities.

A boy who insists he has not fallen in love begins to remeasure his own feelings through his encounters with two sisters.