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Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Grand Award このライトノベルがすごい!たいしょう

Edition 2 (2011)

Light novelLiterary award

Winners

5 people
谷春慶 たにはる けい grand prize

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.

284 pages
harem comedyworld crisiscompulsive flirtingretitled award winner
遠藤浅蜊 えんどう あさり Kuriyama Chiaki Award

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.

253 pages
beautiful girls as a speciesinterspecies comedylocal lifehigh-concept premise
藍上ゆう あいがみ ゆう excellence award

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.

265 pages
witchgirls' schoolerotic comedywish-granting magic
喜多南 きた みなみ excellence award

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.

284 pages
ghostspiritual sensitivitysistersunresolved regrets
深沢仁 ふかさわ じん excellence award

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.

235 pages
gunfireangel imagerylossnoir tone