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JUMP Novel Grand Prix じゃんぷしょうせつしんじんしょう

Edition 1 (1991)

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Winners

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前野兆治 grand prize

Kawasaki Dream is a novel by Choji Maeno about baseball culture and the heat of spectators around Kawasaki Stadium. As the subtitle Kawasaki Stadium on the Day the Crowds Came suggests, it draws the world of professional baseball and fan memory into fiction.

Through a day when people gather at a usually quiet stadium, it depicts the dream and heat of a ballpark.

baseballKawasaki Stadiumfan culturedocumentary texture
定金伸治 grand prize

Jihad is a historical adventure novel by Shinji Sadakane. Set amid the conflict between the Crusaders and Islamic forces, it follows the strategy and pride of Valery, a European nobleman who has left his homeland, in a struggle over the Holy Land.

Amid the storm of the Crusades, a young man who has left his homeland enters the battle for the Holy Land through strategy.

276 pages
historical fictionCrusadesstrategyfaith and war
村山由佳 honorable mention

A young adult fantasy about Takeshi Yazaki, a high school student drawn into intense deja vu after seeing an unfamiliar landscape on television. Each blackout carries him into memories of the Sengoku period, where past-life fate and present-day love begin to overlap.

Memories that return across time begin to shape a boy’s love and fate.

268 pages
past-life memoryyouthromanceSengoku periodfate
夢幻 effort award

The first volume of a light novel series by Mugen. It opens as a school-tinged adventure with a nocturnal, magical atmosphere, accompanied by illustrations by Yasuhiro Kano and forming part of the early Jump J-Books lineup.

A nocturnal sense of magic drives the young characters into adventure.

244 pages
light novelmagicschool adventureseries opener
渋谷英樹 effort award

A humorous Jump J-Books title that looks at human society from a feline angle. Co-written by Hideki Shibuya and Yuko Tone, it uses a cat-centered conceit to playfully overturn everyday assumptions.

When cats stand at the center of the world, human life begins to look a little different.

244 pages
catshumorinverted everyday lifeyoung adult fiction