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.