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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 31 (2012, held 3 times in year)

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Winners

5 people
スガノ すがの gold prize

The gold-award work in the free fiction division of Jump Novel Grand Prix '12 Winter, later retitled Chronicle of the Wandering Sentence for publication. It is a linked fantasy about Chronico, a boy sentenced to wander worlds forever, and the people he meets across them.

A fantastical journey of a boy burdened with a sentence that makes him wander worlds forever.

240 pages
fantasywanderingpunishmentother worldsencounters
蓮華ゆい れんげゆい bronze prize

A bronze-award work in the free fiction division of Jump Novel Grand Prix '12 Winter. It is introduced as a suspense story about an innocent girl living on a ruined island and the automated machine partner that supports her life there.

A quietly unsettling suspense story of a girl and her machine companion living on a ruined island.

suspenseruined islandgirlautomated machineunpublished manuscript
草部貴史 くさべたかし gold prize

The gold-award work in the theme-fiction division of Jump Novel Grand Prix '12 Winter. It is described as a short story that combines war-movie conventions with the absurd premise of U.S. Marines suddenly being forced into bunny-girl uniforms.

A short story that pushes the theme of uniforms through an absurd collision of the military and bunny outfits.

uniformswar filmsabsurditycomedyunpublished manuscript
成上真 なるうえしん bronze prize

A bronze-award work in the theme-fiction division of Jump Novel Grand Prix '12 Winter. Its conversational title suggests a prize-winning manuscript built around a meta-comic idea about fighting heroines and love.

A prize-winning manuscript that reconsiders what fighting heroines need through love and a light meta-comic touch.

fighting heroinelovemetafictionuniform themeunpublished manuscript
佐藤春子 さとうはるこ special award

A special-award work in the free fiction division of Jump Novel Grand Prix '12 Winter. The title carries an affirmative tone toward voicing weakness and remains in the official award record.

A Jump Novel Grand Prix manuscript that places the act of admitting weakness at the doorway to story.

weaknessyouthJump Novel Grand Prixunpublished manuscript