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 3 (2012)
Winners
6 peopleA 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.