Japanese Literary Awards

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Edition 2 (2011)

Novels

Winners

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叡惟匡見 encouragement award

Kizuna no Phantom Pain is a fantasy in which a group called Doctors of Souls Without Borders is formed to save people whose souls have been infected by a plague that turns humans into magical beasts. It frames illness and monstrosity as a story of healing, travel, and bonds.

Against a plague that eats into the soul, the doctors take bonds as their guide.

249 pages
fantasyplaguehealingbonds
いおりべゆう encouragement award

Vermilion in the Dark was published under the revised title Vermilion Sprite. The fantasy follows Akari, an extremely shy girl taken in as an apprentice by an organization that fights ayakashi, as she faces her hidden potential.

A shy girl discovers her power in the world of Yamibashiri, an organization that fights ayakashi.

251 pages
Japanese-style fantasyayakashigrowthapprenticeship
野口祐加 encouragement award

Replica Doll is a fantasy in which Ruri, a high-school student controlled by a childhood friend who knows her weakness, is tricked into drinking his blood and gains the power of a Doll Master. Drawn into monitoring illegal entrants from another world to Earth, she confronts control, obsession, and otherworldly crime.

A girl granted the power of a Doll Master pursues dangerous shadows arriving from another world.

269 pages
other worldDoll Mastercontrolspecial mission
J太郎 encouragement award

Colorful is recorded as an encouragement-prize entry by J Taro in the second Genro Award. Publicly available information did not confirm a later book or novels publication title, so it is treated as an unpublished or publication-unconfirmed fantasy entry preserved in award lists.

The title remains in award records, but publication as a book could not be confirmed.

new writer award entryfantasypublication unconfirmed
深山キリ encouragement award

Fantasy Sekai is recorded as an encouragement-prize entry by Kiri Miyama in the second Genro Award. Public bibliographic searches did not confirm publication under this title or a revised title, so it is treated as a publication-unconfirmed award entry.

The title appears in award lists, but no reliable link to a published bibliographic record could be confirmed.

new writer award entryfantasypublication unconfirmed