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MF Bunko J Light Novel Newcomer Award えむえふぶんこじぇいらいとのべるしんじんしょう

Edition 7 (2011)

Light novelLiterary prize

Winners

5 people
Yuki Suzuki すずき ゆき best award

A high school boy slow to understand romance meets the eldest of triplets and begins facing both his relationships and his own feelings. As the title suggests, the comedy turns on wanting to change while remaining awkwardly oneself.

Even if he could fly, he would still be himself; a romance-blind boy’s youth begins to move.

262 pages
youth romantic comedytripletsself-changeromantic cluelessness
本村大志 もとむら だいし excellence award

The award title Yokai Asobi! was published as T to Pants to Ii Hanashi. It begins as a school romantic comedy with an absurd accident on the way to school that strangely links the protagonist and a girl’s body.

A very odd body-link romantic comedy begins with a strange accident.

263 pages
retitled publicationschool romantic comedybodily anomalynewcomer award
千羽カモメ ちば かもめ jury special prize

A school comedy set around a baseball club, where a boy becomes involved as the regular catcher for a girls’ team. Forceful young ladies, a cool adviser who knows little about baseball, and other eccentric characters create a string of brisk episodes.

From the catcher’s spot on a girls’ baseball team, lively school trouble begins.

263 pages
baseball clubschool comedygender disguise elementlinked short episodes
Yusa Masahiro ゆさ まさひろ honorable mention

The award work Over Image began publication as Over Image: Golden Mirror, a supernatural battle light novel. A boy is thrown into a white, unreal world and invited by a participant in a game where wishes can be granted.

In a world painted white, a game begins with wishes at stake.

261 pages
supernatural battlewish-granting gameunreal worldretitled publication
小岩井蓮二 こいわい れんじ honorable mention

Yuta suddenly takes in a five-year-old girl named Lily and ends up raising her with his childhood friend Shiori in this school romantic comedy. Their childrearing-like life shifts the distance between childhood friends toward something like family and something like romance.

From the day he takes in a five-year-old girl, the distance to his childhood friend begins to change.

263 pages
childhood friendschildrearing comedyschool romantic comedyfound family