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Shogakukan Light Novel Award - Gagaga Bunko Division

Edition 2 (2007)

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Winners

5 people
Sakura Kou Gagaga Award

A school battle light novel in which gardening-club boy Hiro Hainomiya meets Rika Mikoto, a mysterious girl wreathed in roses. Plant-shaped guns and flower-based powers set off romance and combat from an outrageous command.

One line from a rose-wreathed girl begins a school battle of flowers and powers.

264 pages
school battleflowerslight novelromance
Asuka Asou honorable mention

A light novel that turns the odd idea of copying another person's face into grounded character drama. It treats the unease of borrowing a face, being seen, and becoming a substitute with the pace of a school story.

The power to copy faces is not just useful disguise; it unsettles the line between self and other.

248 pages
identityschool lifetransformationlight novel
陸凡鳥 honorable mention

After a worldwide terror event, a postcard to a detective agency begins a fight against an assassin targeting Miiku Nanatose. Terms such as savior, destroyer, and program intersect in a supernatural battle to protect a girl.

To protect a girl, a forbidden program that summons the world's strongest force begins to run.

280 pages
supernatural battlepost-terror worldgirl under threatprogram
Ju Nakazato honorable mention

A yuri light novel in which Hatsuyuki lives as another woman's younger sister for the sake of her real sister. Feelings toward both sisters, a constructed sibling bond, and fairy-tale references overlap in a quietly tense daily life.

Real and false sisterhood quietly bind a girl's daily life.

296 pages
yurisisterhoodfairy talesquiet daily life
土井建太 anticipation award

An award-submitted light novel concept set in an alternate Tokyo, using original terms and a violent school-action framework. Words such as archive districts and invented character systems try to build a large world, and its intensity was noted.

A high-energy school action story attempting to depict an alternate Tokyo through its own vocabulary.

unpublished workalternate Tokyoschool actionoriginal setting