Kodansha BOX Newcomer Award
こうだんしゃボックスしんじんしょう
A genre-agnostic novel newcomer open submission award hosted by the Kodansha BOX label. Its feature is that editors read all submitted works directly.
- Established
- 2006
- Organizer
- Kodansha BOX
- Category
- Light Novels and Web Literature
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 4 times a year (3 times a year from 2013)
- Status
- Ended
Description
Launched in 2006 as the "Ryūsui Taishō" alongside the launch of the Kodansha BOX literary book label, renamed to "Powers" in 2009. It solicited submissions in the novel, illustration, and criticism/non-fiction categories, but the criticism/non-fiction and illustration categories were later discontinued, and it was discontinued in 2014 and merged into the Mephisto Prize. Under regulations with no upper page limit and a minimum of 350 pages or more, it published selection roundtable discussions and submission numbers on the official site and the bulletin magazine "Pandora".
Prize
- Main Prize
- Book publication of the winning work
Related Awards
- Mephisto Prize
- Faust Prize
- Kodansha Birth
- Gunzō New Writers' Prize
Official Resources
https://web.archive.org/web/20160930012818/http://kodansha-box.jp/powers/index.htmlPast Winners
A Kodansha BOX Newcomer Award Powers winner. As the title suggests, it appears to be a youth novel built around intersecting voices or perspectives like left and right stereo channels, but reliable standalone bibliographic publication could not be confirmed.
A Kodansha BOX Newcomer Award winner with a title suggesting intersecting perspectives and voices.
This youth horror novel follows transfer student Shuji, who is led by the eccentric librarian Mawatari into a strange test called the Spiritual Sensitivity Examination. Beyond supernatural fear, it portrays young people learning kindness and self-acceptance.
A strange examination beginning deep inside the library slowly loosens the hearts of the young characters.
This ensemble youth mystery centers on a boy who can see numbers on people's backs indicating their luck for the day. Young people with different circumstances come together, and events that seem coincidental gradually connect as the story moves toward the truth.
Numbers seen on people's backs turn coincidence into inevitability.
This coming-of-age novel follows a year in the lives of a girlfriend chasing her dream, an incorrigible but likable friend, and a narrator who has not yet decided on a future. It portrays the ordinary time of high school students without special powers as a season that will never return.
A youth novel about an ordinary high-school year that will never come again.
A story in which a high school student from Ibaraki awakens as a Japanese Navy pilot near the end of the Pacific War and is forced to confront life, return, and the pull toward suicide attacks. His bond with a childhood friend in the present becomes the emotional focus across time.
A boy from the present is thrown into the time of young pilots flying into a sky from which they may not return.
A work recorded in connection with the Kodansha BOX Newcomer Award. Searches by title and author did not confirm publication as a standalone book, paperback, or collection.
It remains in award records, but no book publication was confirmed.
A youth novel in which three people searching for a missing cat form a countryside appreciation group and drift into the depths of a small incident. Beneath its relaxed air, the story reveals ties between place and people.
Within breezy everyday life, a small incident changes the outline of home.
Set in the age of Tokugawa Iemitsu, this youth historical fantasy follows the outsider Yagyu Rokumaru as he faces enemies calling themselves Miyamoto Musashi. It fuses swordfighter fiction with a rock sensibility.
A renegade Yagyu rock samurai cuts into an Edo conspiracy with an eight-beat pulse.
A linked story about a girl who manages a forest where those who died by suicide become trees and suffer, then warns people in dreams before they take their own lives. Interwoven lives create a fable about suicide and possible rescue.
Voices of the dead trapped in the forest reach toward the living and their tomorrow.
狼の恋人 is an entertainment novel for younger readers, foregrounding a strong premise and active characters with the momentum expected of a newcomer prize entry.
狼の恋人 is a prize-recognized work by 木村強.
僕と彼女と母の死体 is an entertainment novel for younger readers, foregrounding a strong premise and active characters with the momentum expected of a newcomer prize entry.
僕と彼女と母の死体 is a prize-recognized work by 四季剣一.
シャングリラ is an entertainment novel for younger readers, foregrounding a strong premise and active characters with the momentum expected of a newcomer prize entry.
シャングリラ is a prize-recognized work by 鳥居なごむ.
レッドアローズ is an entertainment novel for younger readers, foregrounding a strong premise and active characters with the momentum expected of a newcomer prize entry.
レッドアローズ is a prize-recognized work by 森野樹.
ネジマキチョウチョ is an entertainment novel for younger readers, foregrounding a strong premise and active characters with the momentum expected of a newcomer prize entry.
ネジマキチョウチョ is a prize-recognized work by 千石サクラ.
syojo is an entertainment novel for younger readers, foregrounding a strong premise and active characters with the momentum expected of a newcomer prize entry.
syojo is a prize-recognized work by 蜺河識夢.
マージナルワールド is an entertainment novel for younger readers, foregrounding a strong premise and active characters with the momentum expected of a newcomer prize entry.
マージナルワールド is a prize-recognized work by 湊利記.
きれいな自殺手 is an entertainment novel for younger readers, foregrounding a strong premise and active characters with the momentum expected of a newcomer prize entry.
きれいな自殺手 is a prize-recognized work by 十町長雨.
戦闘破壊学園ダンゲロス is a work of light novel by 架神恭介. It centers on 青春と非日常 and layers in キャラクター小説, showing the distinct qualities of an award-winning work.
戦闘破壊学園ダンゲロス is an important light novel work in the award history of 架神恭介.
黒式セーラー is a work of light novel by 紅蓮櫻. It centers on 青春と非日常 and layers in キャラクター小説, showing the distinct qualities of an award-winning work.
黒式セーラー is an important light novel work in the award history of 紅蓮櫻.
コロージョンの夏 is a work of light novel by 新沢克海. It centers on 青春と非日常 and layers in キャラクター小説, showing the distinct qualities of an award-winning work.
コロージョンの夏 is an important light novel work in the award history of 新沢克海.
神戯―DEBUG PROGRAM― Operation Phantom Proof is a work of light novel by 神世希. It centers on 青春と非日常 and layers in キャラクター小説, showing the distinct qualities of an award-winning work.
神戯―DEBUG PROGRAM― Operation Phantom Proof is an important light novel work in the award history of 神世希.
僕の中の君が、君の中の僕に挨拶をする is a work of light novel by 井上スナ. It centers on 青春と非日常 and layers in キャラクター小説, showing the distinct qualities of an award-winning work.
僕の中の君が、君の中の僕に挨拶をする is an important light novel work in the award history of 井上スナ.
総理探偵 is a work of light novel by 西陽武十. It centers on 青春と非日常 and layers in キャラクター小説, showing the distinct qualities of an award-winning work.
総理探偵 is an important light novel work in the award history of 西陽武十.
雷撃☆SSガール is a work of light novel by 至道流星. It centers on 青春と非日常 and layers in キャラクター小説, showing the distinct qualities of an award-winning work.
雷撃☆SSガール is an important light novel work in the award history of 至道流星.
R.I.P. レスト・イン・ピース is a work of light novel by 杉山幌. It centers on 青春と非日常 and layers in キャラクター小説, showing the distinct qualities of an award-winning work.
R.I.P. レスト・イン・ピース is an important light novel work in the award history of 杉山幌.
さよなら彦 is a work of light novel by ウノサワスバル. It centers on 青春と非日常 and layers in キャラクター小説, showing the distinct qualities of an award-winning work.
さよなら彦 is an important light novel work in the award history of ウノサワスバル.
'ようこそ、ロバの目の世界へ。' is a winning work of the 講談社BOX新人賞 by Hiroaki Iwaki.
'ようこそ、ロバの目の世界へ。' is a winning work of the 講談社BOX新人賞 by Hiroaki Iwaki.
'P.C.~ペアレンタル・コントロールド~ こんなに近くで 極彩色虚言泡沫絵巻' is a winning work of the 講談社BOX新人賞 by 辻鷹佑.
'P.C.~ペアレンタル・コントロールド~ こんなに近くで 極彩色虚言泡沫絵巻' is a winning work of the 講談社BOX新人賞 by 辻鷹佑.
'白の断章' is a winning work of the 講談社BOX新人賞 by Seiji Kagami.
'白の断章' is a winning work of the 講談社BOX新人賞 by Seiji Kagami.
'マッドドリーム・アンド・マジカルワールド' is a winning work of the 講談社BOX新人賞 by Sho Kurono.
'マッドドリーム・アンド・マジカルワールド' is a winning work of the 講談社BOX新人賞 by Sho Kurono.
'ファイナリスト/M' is a winning work of the 講談社BOX新人賞 by Kiyomi Amahara.
'ファイナリスト/M' is a winning work of the 講談社BOX新人賞 by Kiyomi Amahara.
A fast-moving love story about a game creator whose dull everyday life is overturned by a girl he meets online.
エレGY draws readers in through its focus on online romance.
A Kodansha BOX novel by Azusa about shifting inner states and unstable relationships.
Switch draws readers in through its focus on change.
A youth novel from Kodansha BOX that moves lightly between everyday reality and imagination.
くうそうノンフィク日和 draws readers in through its focus on youth.