Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Grand Award
このライトノベルがすごい!たいしょう
An open submission literary award for light novels hosted by Takarajimasha from 2010 to 2014.
- Established
- 2010
- Organizer
- Takarajimasha
- Category
- Light Novels and Web Literature
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Open
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Application Deadline
- around January
- Announcement Period
- around July–August
- Status
- Ended
Description
An award born from the mook "Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!", with the concept of "producing truly entertaining works," soliciting long light novel works from both professionals and amateurs. Works receiving Excellence Award or higher were published under the company's bunko label, and works passing the first selection and beyond had their synopses and evaluation comments published on the official website.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Publication of winning works
- Cash Prize
- 5,000,000 JPY
- Grand Prize (2 million yen prize money, publication of winning work)
- Excellence Award (1 million yen prize money, publication of winning work)
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| First selection | Selection committee | — | Announced on the official website |
| Second selection | Selection committee | — | Announced on the official website |
| Final selection | Selection committee | — | Announced on the official website |
Criteria
- Entertainment value
- Originality
- Story appeal
Related Awards
- "Kono Mystery ga Sugoi!" Grand Award
- Japan Love Story Grand Prize
- "Kono Manga ga Sugoi!" Grand Award
Official Resources
https://konorano.jp/Past Winners
ロリコンするウレタン・ボア生地製熊のぬいぐるみ is an award-winning work by はまだ語録. The available bibliographic record identifies it as the work associated with this award entry.
ロリコンするウレタン・ボア生地製熊のぬいぐるみ by はまだ語録.
勇者は口数がそんなに多くない傾向にあるのか is an award-winning work by 加藤雅利. The available bibliographic record identifies it as the work associated with this award entry.
勇者は口数がそんなに多くない傾向にあるのか by 加藤雅利.
A slice-of-life comedy in which a boy joining the drama club is pushed around by eccentric upperclassmen who use acting as a tool in human relationships. Rather than driving toward a single goal, it invites readers to enjoy the dialogue and clubroom atmosphere.
In the drama club room, excessive everyday life with five upperclassmen begins.
A school fantasy in which a user of the obscure magic of spoons works with friends ahead of a magic academy tournament. Its unusual ability is tied to a story of inferiority and growth.
With humble spoon magic, the boy challenges the academy’s battles.
A yokai romantic-comedy battle story in which a spiritually gifted boy investigates strange school incidents with a fox-eared girl fused with a Kokkuri-san apparition. It combines light banter with occult investigation.
After meeting a fox-eared girl, the boy is drawn into strange incidents at school.
非モテの呪いで俺の彼女が大変なことに is a work by 藤瀬雅輝. It is recorded as a prize-related title from 2013, and the available bibliographic sources were checked for standalone book identifiers.
非モテの呪いで俺の彼女が大変なことに was checked as an award-listed work by 藤瀬雅輝.
A fantasy in which the mercenary Alphonse investigates a princess's strange death caused by a necromancer and meets Lieselotte, a Dullahan spirit who hunts those who distort the fate of death. The Dullahan is portrayed as both sorrowful and formidable.
The tale of a silver-haired Dullahan who hunts those who tamper with the fate of death.
A youth club story about making anime, revised from the submission title Gitai Shojo wa Yume o Miru. A boy whose drawing is discovered during class is pressured by a girl to make an anime, and his ordinary high school life changes dramatically.
A summons to the rooftop begins a turbulent youth story about making anime.
A comic fantasy about Ragna, a hero strong enough to defeat a demon lord instantly, who longs for cheerful companionship and a peaceful family life but is pushed away from ordinary happiness by his own strength. While searching for a way to become weaker, he discovers he carries a vast number of curses.
What the overpowered hero wants is not victory, but a small and ordinary happiness.
A school supernatural comedy in which Arata Mitarai, given an embarrassingly unfortunate epithet at a school for children with special talents, enters a battle tournament to seek a new name. In a world where epithets trigger powers, the story turns the link between names and abilities into comedy.
To escape his unfortunate epithet, the boy challenges the Golden Cup.
A work confirmed as a Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Award winner. No bibliographic record for a standalone book or paperback edition could be confirmed, and public information about the work appears limited to award listings.
The title remains in award records, but a standalone publication could not be confirmed.
A sword-fighting fantasy set in a near-future Japan where three great houses are permitted to carry blades. Tsunayoshi Kamiizumi returns home after his father is attacked by the mysterious Sword Hunter and meets a girl who calls herself the cursed blade Muramasa. The story centers on the resolve of those who live by the sword and heated battles around the sword-girl.
Meeting a girl who calls herself Muramasa awakens the resolve of those who live by the sword.
Originally titled Womanize Generator, it was published as Motemote na Boku wa Sekai made Sukucchaundaze (Naki). It is a harem comedy about a boy whose compulsive flirting draws both romantic chaos and a world-scale crisis toward him.
A boy who flirts as naturally as breathing brings both romance and a crisis for the world.
Originally titled B-class Girl, it was published as Bishoujo wo Kirai na Kore dake no Riyuu. In a world where beautiful girls exist as a distinct species with perfect looks and strange abilities, an ordinary boy is pulled into their problems.
In a world where beautiful girls are a species, an ordinary boy's life begins to warp.
Claire, a witch raised in the demon realm, infiltrates a girls' school to meet the conditions for a wish-granting spell. The novel turns an outrageous premise into comedy as its sadistic heroine is thrown off balance by people she cannot control.
A witch who expects to punish others becomes the center of chaos at a school she cannot control.
Originally titled Koiiro Ghost, it was published as Boku to Shimai to Ghost no Yakusoku. A spiritually sensitive boy meets the ghost of a classmate and tries to resolve the regrets that keep her from passing on.
The lingering regret of a ghost met in a classroom begins to reshape the boy's life with his sisters.
Originally titled Uchinukenai no wa Tenshi to Hahen, it was published as R.I.P. Tenshi wa Kagami to Dangan wo Idaku. After helping a girl escape attackers, a young man is drawn into a larger disaster in a story colored by gunfire and loss.
A chance rescue leads into a greater disaster shaped by mirrors and bullets.
コトモノオト is an entertainment novel for younger readers, foregrounding a strong premise and active characters with the momentum expected of a newcomer prize entry.
コトモノオト is a prize-recognized work by 泉貴大.
僕たちは、監視されている is an entertainment novel for younger readers, foregrounding a strong premise and active characters with the momentum expected of a newcomer prize entry.
僕たちは、監視されている is a prize-recognized work by 里野修平.
Set around the port of Yokohama, this light novel follows Mouse, whose stagnant days in a warehouse are thrown into chaos when a girl suddenly appears and demands marriage. Its rough, high-speed narration and action-driven turns give the story a strongly individual flavor.
Mouse is content in a corner of the harbor until an abrupt proposal turns his life into an emergency.
This offbeat fantasy follows Kashiwagi, a broke college student with no desire to work, after he finds an amnesiac girl in ruins deep in the mountains. His shabby plan to exploit her poetic gift grows into an odd life together and a much larger incident.
A man's selfish decision to take in a gifted girl as his sister swells into a mythlike commotion touched with humor and pathos.
On the day he enters high school, a fantasy-prone boy has his collarbone broken by a girl who drops from the school gate. Forced to help the violent yet magnetic girl make friends, his school life turns into a noisy romantic comedy.
A runaway girl and a daydreaming boy shake up their school under the pretext of making friends.