Shogakukan Light Novel Award - Gagaga Bunko Division
Edition 1 (2006)
Winners
9 peopleThe award-submission title Ai to Satsui to Kyokai Ningen was published by Gagaga Bunko as Marginal, a psychological suspense novel. A high school student is drawn into a disturbing case involving an underground site for people fascinated by murder and a serial killer.
A psychological suspense story where an underground site and murderous intent intersect.
A light novel set at a strict star-training high school, mixing a school-produced variety show, romance, and comic chaos among aspiring idols.
School life inside a television show accelerates romance and chaos.
This light novel begins with the bizarre premise that the protagonist wakes up transformed into a mobile phone, turning an everyday object into a source of comic confusion and unstable identity.
One morning, my body had become a mobile phone.
A high school student who saw war as a hollow, distant spectacle is forced to confront violence under everyday life when a classmate points a gun at him. It is a new kind of war story about death drawing close.
A war that seemed confined to television moves dangerously close to the classroom.
The award title Midori no Yami was published by Gagaga Bunko as Colorful World: Midori no Yami. Detailed summaries are limited, but bibliographic records confirm the retitled paperback publication.
A work that retained its award title while gaining a series title for paperback publication.
A gothic-tinged romantic comedy about an empty-handed magician and a translucent flying girl. The first volume was based on the award work and builds its story around lively exchanges and mysterious powers.
A magician's empty hands set the story in motion through his encounter with a translucent girl.
Sachi Yoshioka, a high school girl in love with love itself, is thrown into an unexpected fate after deciding to confess her feelings. Her gentle everyday life changes abruptly, and she must fight the person who has only just returned her feelings.
After love seems to bloom, the world begins to reveal a chain of misfortune.
Ichiro, a young man with multiple personalities, and Iko, a high school girl often absent from school, investigate disappearances linked to the urban-legend-like Star Eater. It is a supernatural suspense story where searchers and night-dwellers cross paths.
In the night of Michinomori City, disappearances linked to the Star Eater begin to unfold.
The award title Kyosu no Niwa was retitled Mystic Eye for publication. It begins with art-club girls lingering in a dormitory during winter break and moves from playful intimacy and a love triangle into fantasy and mystery.
In a closed girls' dormitory, idle games turn into a fantasy yuri mystery.