Japanese Literary Awards

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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 2 (2012)

Light novelLiterary award

Winners

5 people
安生正 grand prize

A school-tinged comedy about Masato, a boy who becomes a local deity and is drawn into divine troubles while granting visitors' wishes and protecting the land. The arrival of a plague god sets Masato and Chidori, who wants to rise in divine rank, into motion.

Being a god is busier than granting wishes, and Masato is about to learn how demanding it can be.

341 pages
local deitiesdivine comedyplague godcoming of age
新藤卓広 excellence award

A supernatural action comedy in which Ryoma is dragged into the orbit of a mysterious girl known as Jack the Ripper, who targets bicycle thieves, and together they confront the bicycle theft ring Rip-Off. The odd limit that her power only works on bicycle thieves drives both the humor and the action.

She can cut down only bicycle thieves, and that oddly specific justice races through the city.

321 pages
bicycle thievessupernatural actionlimited powersboy-girl partnership
柊サナカ excellence award

A supernatural suspense story that begins when Hajime Mitaka meets Totori, a girl wearing a large bag like clothing, at an airport after a flight. Armed attackers pursue her because of the human error she carries, and Hajime decides to protect her while confronting the error within himself.

A boy and girl burdened by inconvenient errors meet, setting a story of flight and choice in motion.

295 pages
human errorflightboy and girlsupernatural suspense
あいま祐樹 honorable mention

A romantic comedy about Toya, a game-loving student who tries to stay unnoticed, only to be asked by a classmate to win over a heroine inside a game and cross the boundary between reality and play. Its core is the irony of a boy who wants to remain a background character being pushed into the center.

A boy who wants to stay in the background receives a protagonist-level request: win over the heroine.

293 pages
game worldbackground characterheroine routeschool romantic comedy
殿井歩 honorable mention

A youth comedy in which Takuma meets Yuhi, a self-proclaimed summoner, on the day of his entrance ceremony and is drawn into her chuunibyou training. With occult-flavored powers and eccentric girls, it follows an isolated boy entering a noisy circle of relationships.

Chuunibyou becomes both a joke and the first contract that gives him a place to belong.

301 pages
chuunibyouschool comedymysterious powersfinding company