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Japan Cell Phone Novel Grand Award にほんケータイしょうせつたいしょう

Edition 1 (2006)

Literary awardCell phone novel

Winners

6 people
十和 とわ grand prize

A mobile-phone novel in which Leo, a host, and Sakura, a university student, meet and seek genuine love while carrying wounds. It depicts a longing for purity and pain through urgent young romance.

A romance about two people who meet in society's shadows and search for a clear love.

281 pages
romancemobile-phone novellonelinesswoundspure love
yuki ゆき excellence award

A long romance about Yuri and Yu, high school students whose love passes through separation, reunion, and sudden loss. It portrays a way of living not by forgetting the beloved but by carrying memories forward.

A romance about living on with memories after losing someone precious.

441 pages
romancelosshigh school studentsmemoryhealing
貞次シュウ ていじしゅう excellence award

A mobile-phone novel about the final day before the end of the world. Within a limited span of time, the characters reconsider their feelings for loved ones and the meaning of their own lives.

A youth novel about what people choose when only one day remains.

227 pages
apocalypseyouthtimeromancechoice
陽末 ようまつ TSUTAYA Award

A mobile-phone love story selected in the first Japan Cell Phone Novel Grand Prize. It follows romance and loneliness in direct language close to young readers' everyday lives.

A story born on a mobile fiction site, portraying love and vulnerability at an intimate scale.

mobile fictionromanceyouthful loneliness
流奈 るな jury special prize

A mobile-born romance and youth story selected in the first Japan Cell Phone Novel Grand Prize. True to its starlit title, it layers flashes of feeling and unease in brief prose.

A mobile novel about youthful wavering set against the emotional distance suggested by a starlit sky.

mobile fictionyouthromance
アポロ あぽろ jury special prize

A romance selected in the first Japan Cell Phone Novel Grand Prize. As the title suggests, it portrays insecurity and suspicion in love with the immediacy typical of mobile fiction.

A mobile-born story about the closeness of love and the pain produced by doubt.

mobile fictionromantic insecurityyouth psychology