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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 6 (2011)

Literary awardCell phone novel

Winners

5 people
水野ユーリ みずのゆーり grand prize

Chizuru, worn down by bullying and unable to attend school, meets a mysterious boy named Yukio. Her grandmother’s crisis opens a story of promises across time and the ties that sustain life.

In a summer shadowed by despair, a promise arrives to reconnect life.

249 pages
bullyinglifegrandmother and grandchildpromises across timeyouth
なぁな なぁな excellence award

Sumire, a proud high school girl, carries guilt over a man who died protecting her in a traffic accident. Her love for Yuki forces her to face memory, loss, and the courage to change.

A girl burdened by guilt learns, through love, to choose tomorrow again.

275 pages
pure loveguilttraffic accidentgrowthcourage
樹香梨 excellence award

A cell phone novel combining first love with time travel. Through a journey into the past, the protagonist reconsiders family and romantic memories, wavering between a past she wants to change and feelings she cannot erase.

Even across time, the pain and brightness of first love remain.

245 pages
first lovetime travelfamilyyouthregret
tomo4 TSUTAYA Award

Ai, unable to fall in love because of past hurt, is supported by her friend Maria and Maria’s boyfriend Satoru. As she watches Satoru’s devotion, her own feelings change and she suffers at the boundary between friendship and love.

A painful youth romance about falling for the boyfriend of a cherished friend.

221 pages
friendshipunrequited lovelove triangletraumayouth romance
あちゃみ あちゃみ special award

On the morning of her high school entrance ceremony, Rina meets Kyohei, an isolated classmate. She is drawn to his awkward kindness, but as their bond deepens, something begins to happen to his body.

The will to keep believing lights their brief season together.

301 pages
pure loveillness and partinghigh school lifetrustemotional romance