Roman Grand Award
ろまんたいしょう
Light novel literary award sponsored by Shueisha.
- Established
- 1992
- Organizer
- Shueisha
- Category
- Light Novels and Web Literature
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Application Deadline
- around January
- Announcement Period
- around August–September
- Status
- Ended
Description
Light novel literary award sponsored and openly called for submissions by Shueisha from 1992 to 2014. Held as Fantasy Roman Grand Award from 1992 to 1995, renamed Roman Grand Award from 1996. Grand Prize winners receive the principal trophy and prize money of 1,000,000 yen; Honorable Mention winners receive the principal trophy and prize money of 500,000 yen. Selected works were published in Cobalt Bunko, Super Fantasy Bunko, Super Dash Bunko, and others.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Principal trophy (shield)
- Cash Prize
- 1,000,000 JPY
- Honorable Mention: principal trophy and prize money of 500,000 yen
- Selected works published in Cobalt Bunko, Super Fantasy Bunko, Super Dash Bunko, etc.
Application Tips
Dos
- Submit an unpublished long novel written in Japanese
- Comply with the submission requirements (250–350 sheets of 400-character vertical manuscript paper)
- Word processor manuscripts are acceptable, so submit in an easy-to-read format
Don''ts
- Do not submit already published works
- Do not exceed the specified page count
- Do not submit works that do not meet the eligibility criteria
Related Awards
- Novel Grand Prize
- Cobalt Bunko
Official Resources
http://cobalt.shueisha.co.jp/award/Past Winners
時泥棒と椿姫の夢 is an award-winning work by 辻村七子 recognized by the ロマン大賞. The bibliographic identifiers were checked at the work level from the title and author information.
時泥棒と椿姫の夢 by 辻村七子 was recognized by the ロマン大賞.
Romanov Grand Duchess: The Tsar’s Love Letter is a historical romance set in the eighteenth-century Russian court. The engagement of Grand Duchess Anna draws together love and political conflict around Peter the Great and the tutor Maria.
Behind the glitter of the Russian court, a love letter unsettles history.
Scarlet Bird: A Rose Blooming in the Sky is a fantasy-tinged romance from the Cobalt Bunko line. Within vivid images of sky and roses, a girl’s love and destiny intertwine with rank, constraint, and the rules of her world.
Like a rose blooming in the sky, love and destiny open vividly.
嘘つきな五月女王 is an award-related work by 白川紺子. It can be introduced through its subject, setting, and the emotional movement of its characters, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when a standalone book edition could be confirmed.
嘘つきな五月女王 offers a concise entry point into the work's setting and concerns.
月下浮世奇談 is an award-related work by 希多美咲. It can be introduced through its subject, setting, and the emotional movement of its characters, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when a standalone book edition could be confirmed.
月下浮世奇談 offers a concise entry point into the work's setting and concerns.
A Heian-period supernatural comedy about a girl who serves as an onmyoji while disguised as a man. It lightly combines courtly apparitions, apprenticeship, and romance.
ひみつの陰陽師 is an award-recognized work that follows its subject through 藍川竜樹's distinct perspective.
A Chinese-inspired court romance about a king scarred by a cursed birth and a beautiful bride brought into the inner palace through a political marriage. Amid palace schemes, the story traces how two isolated people learn to trust one another.
In a palace full of traps, affection begins to reach a closed heart.
A romance about a political marriage between the cold emperor known as the Ice and Snow King and Iris, a provincial count's daughter chosen as empress. Their relationship shifts painfully within a structure that feels like a retelling of history.
A late spring comes to the frozen heart of a king.
“最後のひとりが死に絶えるまで” is a 2009 award-winning work by 我鳥彩子. Bibliographic identifiers are limited to editions that can be confirmed as a standalone book, paperback, or collection, and identifiers for magazine issues are not used.
“最後のひとりが死に絶えるまで” is an important work in the record of 我鳥彩子’s award recognition.
A youth novel about young people carrying feelings that do not easily end. As the original form of a later debut work, it centers on friendship, dreams, and parting.
A youth novel about young people carrying feelings that do not easily end.
A fantasy set in a place suggestive of another world, portraying relations between monsters and humans. Adventure and romance combine as a story of growth.
A fantasy set in a place suggestive of another world, portraying relations between monsters and humans.
A Cobalt Bunko work published as a romantic story around an island and a prince. As its dreamy title suggests, it carries the atmosphere of sleep, an island setting, and young romance.
On a sleeping island, a romance around a prince begins to move.
Mitsuha, a high school girl uneasy with superficial friendships, is drawn to her isolated classmate Kiryu. A dangerous rumor and a stranger’s words push her to search for something she can trust.
Among false relationships, she searches for a place she can believe in.
The death god Thor is ordered to reincarnate the soul of Shiru, a soldier who remains on earth after death. Once known as the legendary demon of Iklaina, Shiru travels toward the country where his beloved daughter lives.
A death god and the soul of a demon set out to sever lingering attachments.
ジュリエットと紅茶を ようこそ、呪殺屋本舗へ is a literary work by 神埜明美. It centers on the situation suggested by its title and presents its characters through a focused, award-winning narrative.
ジュリエットと紅茶を ようこそ、呪殺屋本舗へ is an award-recognized work by 神埜明美.
A Cobalt Bunko novel set in an imagined kingdom, following young characters as their encounters alter the course of their lives. Published from the prize-winning manuscript, it blends courtly intrigue with the emotional momentum of girls' fiction.
The choices of young people drawn into the kingdom's spiral quietly set the story in motion.
A lyrical mystery published under a new title after winning under Girls Review Stay. It traces girls' time, memory, and shifting relationships through the striking image of white flowers falling.
In a time filled with falling white flowers, the girls' secrets and hurt slowly take shape.
A fantasy novel for young readers that begins when Princess Claudia seeks help. Built around adventure and shifting relationships, it moves with the light pace of a girls' paperback imprint.
A princess's plea opens a story of adventure and growth.
An honorable mention in the Roman Grand Award for which no standalone book publication could be confirmed. The title and author are recorded in award information, but no paperback or book identifiers were found in Amazon JP, NDL, or publisher sources.
An award-recognized work with no confirmed standalone book edition.
Set in a near future marked by pollution and rising crime, this light novel follows Ibuki, a junior high school student who can see what others cannot, as he confronts the truth about his power and the so-called new generation. Supernatural ability, urban unease, and self-discovery drive the story.
A boy with visionary powers is forced to ask what he truly is.
A Roman Grand Award work retitled Party no Sono Mae ni on publication. Centered on the tremor before a glamorous gathering, it depicts young characters' expectations, anxieties, and changing relationships.
In the time before the party, unspoken feelings begin to move.
A Cobalt Bunko novel set ten years after an accident at a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Ryusen district. Taro, who lost his parents and hometown, meets a woman photographer pursuing a phantom butterfly and confronts memory, loss, and hope.
A phantom butterfly over a lost hometown awakens a boy's prayer.
花雪小雪 is a light novel by 佐藤 ちあき. It focuses on 舞姫をめぐる華やかさと葛藤を、ロマンティックな物語として描く。
花雪小雪 uses the world suggested by its title to bring people and their times into quiet focus.
つばさ is a light novel by 鷲田 旌刀. It focuses on 翼という象徴に託して、自由や成長への憧れを描く青春ロマン。
つばさ uses the world suggested by its title to bring people and their times into quiet focus.
魂守記-枯骨報恩- is a work by 渡瀬桂子. 幻想性のある物語世界で、恩義、死者、魂のつながりを描くライトノベル系の作品。和風伝奇の気配を帯びています。
魂守記-枯骨報恩- centers on 和風幻想 and presents its characters through a distinctive literary frame.
ミューズに抱かれて is a work by 中井由希恵. 芸術や創作への憧れを背景に、人の心を動かす美と恋愛感情を描くロマン小説。感性の揺れを中心にした作品です。
ミューズに抱かれて centers on 恋愛 and presents its characters through a distinctive literary frame.
高天原なリアル is a work by 下越かほる. It presents its subject through a focused literary frame, drawing out the emotional and social tensions suggested by the Japanese description.
高天原なリアル uses 神話 as an entry point into human feeling and the atmosphere of its time.
1st フレンド is a work by 佐久間佑子. It presents its subject through a focused literary frame, drawing out the emotional and social tensions suggested by the Japanese description.
1st フレンド uses 友情 as an entry point into human feeling and the atmosphere of its time.
冬の日の幻想 is a work by 久和まり. Recognized by the ロマン大賞, it reflects the author's concerns and the literary context around the work.
A work recognized by the ロマン大賞, showing 久和まり's distinctive voice.
カナリア・ファイル 金蚕蠱 is an award-recognized work by 毛利志生子. It leads readers toward the concerns suggested by its title through people, period, society, and memory.
カナリア・ファイル 金蚕蠱 is a work by 毛利志生子 that continues to be read through its award recognition.
パラダイス・ルネッサンス 楽園再生 is an award-recognized work by 谷瑞恵. It leads readers toward the concerns suggested by its title through people, period, society, and memory.
パラダイス・ルネッサンス 楽園再生 is a work by 谷瑞恵 that continues to be read through its award recognition.
シインの毒 is a work by 荻野目悠樹 associated with the ロマン大賞. It can be read as a work that follows its subject through people, time, place, and memory.
Under the title シインの毒, the work foregrounds 荻野目悠樹's engagement with its subject.
マリオ・ボーイの逆説 is a work by 弓原望 associated with the ロマン大賞. It can be read as a work that follows its subject through people, time, place, and memory.
Under the title マリオ・ボーイの逆説, the work foregrounds 弓原望's engagement with its subject.
海のアリーズ is a 文学作品 by 小林栗奈. It is known as a 1995 award-recognized work and can be introduced through its title, genre, and authorial context.
A work that conveys 小林栗奈's style through the world suggested by the title 海のアリーズ.
聚まるは永遠の大地 is a 文学作品 by 柴田明美. It is known as a 1995 award-recognized work and can be introduced through its title, genre, and authorial context.
A work that conveys 柴田明美's style through the world suggested by the title 聚まるは永遠の大地.
A romantic fantasy set in a Chinese-inspired world, using images of moonlight and a white tiger to frame characters facing fate.
皓月に白き虎の啼く uses ファンタジー as an entry point into human emotion.
An entertainment novel driven by growing suspicion and anxiety, with a title that reflects a destabilized sense of reality.
パラノイア7 uses サスペンス as an entry point into human emotion.
龍王の淡海(うみ) is a literary work by 藤原京. Against the atmosphere of its time and place, it portrays relationships, memory, and the weight of choice.
龍王の淡海(うみ) is an award-winning work that concentrates 藤原京’s style and central concerns.
凶の剣士 is a literary work by 田中啓文. Against the atmosphere of its time and place, it portrays relationships, memory, and the weight of choice.
凶の剣士 is an award-winning work that concentrates 田中啓文’s style and central concerns.
A fantasy set in a new village born after the ice and snow around Mount Tenko suddenly melted. It combines the flavor of Shueisha Super Fantasy Bunko with an atmosphere close to local legend.
At the foot of an icy mountain, a sealed time begins to move.
A fantasy war tale built around beauty, charismatic figures, and an inner demonic force. Its vivid cast and ominous movement of power give it the entertainment value associated with the Roman Grand Award's honorable mentions.
Beauty and the demonic move this tale of conflict in a darkly alluring direction.