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Kodansha Ranobe Bunko Newcomer Award こうだんしゃラノベぶんこしんじんしょう

Edition 1 (2011)

Light novelLiterary award

Winners

5 people
小瀬朧 すみもり あや grand prize

A light novel set in a world where magic is treated as a technology comparable to science. A high school student at a magic school meets a princess from the land of magic through the magic-suppressing substance MISO.

The key to suppressing magic turns out to be miso.

295 pages
magicschoollight novelcomedy
貫井輝 excellence award

A robot-action light novel revised and retitled from a first Kodansha Ranobe Bunko Newcomer Award excellence-prize work. The protagonist becomes involved with a special agency operating humanoid weapons and is drawn into combat and old enmities.

The prize-winning work was retitled and became the starting point of a series about humanoid weapons and old grudges.

326 pages
robotsspecial agencylight novelbattle
告鳥友紀 honorable mention

An occult comedy in which Kaska, a boy who should have died, is revived by his younger sister after she becomes a powerful magician, drawing him into trouble involving lost school life and supernatural powers.

The revived brother's school life twists wildly under the influence of his sister and supernatural outsiders.

280 pages
occultsiblingsschoollight novel
松本楽志 honorable mention

Originally awarded as Maojo Koyuroku, the novel was published as Mao x Nin! 1. It is a school fantasy about a boy helping a princess from the demon realm make friends while rival princesses draw them into increasingly dangerous trouble.

The princess from the demon realm wants not to be feared, but to find real friends.

283 pages
school fantasydemon princessfriendshipharem romantic comedy
廻転寿司 honorable mention

After a failed confession, a boy meets an angel searching for the soul of a doomsday king and another girl who may be a demon. The result is a frantic fantasy comedy built around romance, friendship, and constant comic disruption.

An angel and a demon arrive after a failed confession, bringing a new kind of chaos.

292 pages
angel and demonschool romantic comedydoomsdayslapstick fantasy