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 19 (2023)
Winners
6 peopleAn MF Bunko J award-winning youth story about a liar who is pulled into a student film project and slowly sheds the mask he wears every day.
The self he hides in lies begins to loosen inside the film project.
An MF Bunko J award-winning school romance in which a betrayal leads a boy and a younger girl into a revenge-shaped relationship.
He answers cheating with cheating.
A high-school boy is pulled into making an indie film and gradually reconsiders the distance between performance and his true self. Through a protagonist who gets by by wearing a mask, the novel captures both the sparkle and awkwardness of a youth spent in front of and behind the camera.
Full of lies, full of mistakes, but this youth will not stop.
A high school boy is picked as an assistant by a self-proclaimed genius detective and is dragged through strange cases and tangled relationships, confronting the danger of “creating” truth through deduction. The book balances romantic-comedy energy with the tension of a mystery that steps into the impossible.
A true detective never errs, because she creates truth itself.
A boy who had been moving freely between parallel worlds is thrown into a crisis when those worlds suddenly merge, forcing him to reconsider what an ideal youth really means. The story drives a chaotic premise straight through as a coming-of-age SF novel.
Cross the parallel worlds and chase the ideal youth.
A school troublemaker and his perfect fiancée collide through daily kisses and constant friction, gradually exposing each other’s circumstances in a school romcom. Their opposition turns into a way for both to reveal dreams and vulnerabilities.
The strongest mismatched youth romcom: a perfect honor student and a reckless problem student!