死神を主人公に据えたライトノベル系受賞作。題名はコミカルな誤認や運命のずれを想起させるが、一般流通書籍としては確認できない。

死神が間違えるとき、運命は別の方向へ動き出す。

落第とピエロ、喜劇論という語を重ねたライトノベル系受賞作。笑いと敗北を軸にした物語がうかがえるが、刊行書籍は確認できない。

落第したピエロは、どんな喜劇を語るのか。

神の存在する世界で、人と獣の境界や夢をめぐる物語を描くライトノベル。刊行時には表記や著者名が変わっている可能性を確認した上で、紙書籍の ISBN を採用した。

神がいる世界で、獣は人の夢を見る。

強い倫理的問いを題名に含むライトノベル系受賞作。死者の名をめぐる記憶と責任を想起させるが、市販書籍化は確認できない。

骸にも名前があるという事実が、物語の倫理を突きつける。

The award-title was Fools and smoke, later published as Suicide Girl. It follows a twisted high school student who spends his time on a forbidden rooftop and begins intruding into the inner life of an upperclassman who repeatedly gives up on suicide.

In a place where fools and smoke gather, lonely youth slowly changes shape.

The award-title was caNcel -2 to 3-, later published as Himegoto no Iro: The Eyes of Blood. It is a youth mystery in which a live-in student worker at a grand mansion is drawn into the secrets surrounding three sisters.

A youth mystery where blood-colored vision intersects with rumors hidden inside a mansion.

A school light mystery in which literature-club members pursue a chain of bullying and blackmail. Even after catching one culprit, they discover another layer of coercion and move toward the mechanism behind the leaked secrets and the hidden purpose.

A nested blackmail drama in which one person's secret is used to control another.

猫のいる店、猫のいた場所 is a work by 紫野一歩 recognized in this award edition. Award records, public bibliographic data, and retail bibliographies were checked, with standalone book identifiers separated from items that could not be verified.

Bibliographic notes on the award-recognized work 猫のいる店、猫のいた場所.

業焔の大魔導士 〜まだファイアーボールしか使えない魔法使いだけど異世界最強〜 is a work by 鬱沢色素 recognized in this award edition. Award records, public bibliographic data, and retail bibliographies were checked, with standalone book identifiers separated from items that could not be verified.

Bibliographic notes on the award-recognized work 業焔の大魔導士 〜まだファイアーボールしか使えない魔法使いだけど異世界最強〜.

だからオカズは選べない is a work by 天秤☆矢口 recognized in this award edition. Award records, public bibliographic data, and retail bibliographies were checked, with standalone book identifiers separated from items that could not be verified.

Bibliographic notes on the award-recognized work だからオカズは選べない.

A cycling youth light novel published after receiving an excellence prize in the Kodansha Ranobe Challenge Cup. A former road racer who left competition because of injury becomes involved in coaching a girls' cycling club, tracing recovery and team growth.

A fallen road racer starts moving again with a girls' cycling club.

墓守のバラッド by 髙橋右手 is introduced as a work that draws its force from its subject and setting, inviting readers to follow the author’s central question through a focused literary or critical structure.

墓守のバラッド leads readers into its world through ライトノベル新人賞.

スベテ観察記 by 域端更志 is introduced as a work that draws its force from its subject and setting, inviting readers to follow the author’s central question through a focused literary or critical structure.

スベテ観察記 leads readers into its world through ライトノベル新人賞.

超真面目くんと超不思議ちゃん 恋は戦いだ by 子魔都つむぎ is introduced as a work that draws its force from its subject and setting, inviting readers to follow the author’s central question through a focused literary or critical structure.

超真面目くんと超不思議ちゃん 恋は戦いだ leads readers into its world through ライトノベル新人賞.

ぜんぶ死神が無能なせい is an award-winning work by 広重若冲. The available bibliographic record identifies it as the work associated with this award entry.

ぜんぶ死神が無能なせい by 広重若冲.

雛菊こころの深層心理 is an award-winning work by ひなた華月. The available bibliographic record identifies it as the work associated with this award entry.

雛菊こころの深層心理 by ひなた華月.

隣にいつも is an award-winning work by 雪崎ハルカ. The available bibliographic record identifies it as the work associated with this award entry.

隣にいつも by 雪崎ハルカ.

イー・ヘブン is an award-winning work by 奥村惇一朗. The available bibliographic record identifies it as the work associated with this award entry.

イー・ヘブン by 奥村惇一朗.

A fantasy featuring a quick-tongued but unreliable young man, a swordswoman who seems perfect yet has a soft side, and a perceptive dragon. After the award, it was revised from a web-origin work and published in two volumes.

A young man befriended by a dragon is drawn into trouble at the royal court.

A youth story combining everyday life and danger, with a tone closer to general fiction than typical light novels. Award commentary is confirmed, but no standalone book or paperback publication could be verified.

It depicts danger close to everyday life in a youth-fiction voice.

A youth romance that sets a triangle among an ordinary high school student, the student council president, and the classmate he admires into motion through a revealed secret. Rather than flashy incidents, it centers on unrequited feelings and tangled relationships.

A crush and a secret complicate the relationship among three student council members.

A secretive school romantic comedy in which each seemingly perfect twin girl has a hidden side, and only the protagonist ends up sharing those secrets. It collides tomboyishness, perversity, and ordinariness into a noisy relationship among the twins and the boy.

The moment an ordinary boy learns the perfect twins' secrets, his everyday life turns loud and complicated.

An isekai fantasy in which high school student Renji is transported to another world on his way home from the entrance ceremony and meets Alti, a girl of the witch race, while fleeing a black mist monster. The death curse marked on both their hands binds domestic companionship and resistance against fate into one story.

Rather than wait for the day of ending, the boy takes up a sword and steps toward the future.

A battle story centered on mechanical girls that reached the final selection. Judges noted that the rival and his mechanical-girl servant received more substantial treatment than the protagonist side, and that the work needed expansion as a full-length novel.

An unpublished finalist remembered for the strong impression left by its mechanical-girl master-servant relationship.

A school romantic comedy in which ordinary Ranmaru becomes entangled with a top student and then gains Lidi, a genius girl from Russia, as his stepsister. Lidi's extreme attachment and rivalry between talented girls turn his daily life noisy.

The original romance-manual title became the genius-stepsister romantic comedy Sis x Tora in publication.

A boy who keeps being rescued by magical girls meets an upperclassman who calls herself a witch and becomes involved in a plan to eradicate magical girls. The novel turns the magical-girl premise inside out as a school dark fantasy.

A boy used to being rescued begins to question the whole structure around magical girls.

A boy fascinated by unusual powers is forced into a strange club that helps people afflicted by a shrine curse return home. It blends school club comedy with supernatural incidents.

A strange going-home club begins its work to break a curse that prevents people from returning.

Originally awarded as Akaneko no Beni-san, it was published as Beni Complex 1. It is a Japanese-style romantic comedy about a boy with an ancient bloodline and a red-cat guardian who also declares herself a bride candidate.

An eight-hundred-year-old red-cat spirit disrupts the boy's life as both guardian and bride candidate.

Originally awarded as Mahotsukai no Jisshusei, it was published as Ginshi no Mahoshiki 1: Mahotsukai no Jisshusei. A young apartment caretaker in a seaside town takes in a silver-haired apprentice mage and is drawn into magical incidents.

In a seaside town, living with an apprentice mage brings one incident after another.