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Shogakukan Light Novel Award - Gagaga Bunko Division

Edition 4 (2009)

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Winners

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Wandervogel Gagaga Award

An RPG-like fantasy set on a floating continent, where twin apprentice adventurers are drawn into a voyage on an exploration ship. It combines the comic idea of an unheroic hero with the excitement of leaving training life for the wider world.

An unheroic boy and his twin sister set out on an adventure beyond the floating continent.

360 pages
fantasyadventureRPG-like worldtwins
相磯巴 Gagaga Award

A youth romantic comedy in which a girl who should exist only in manga appears in reality and disrupts the protagonist’s life. The work foregrounds otaku-culture parody and the noisy collapse of the boundary between fiction and everyday life.

The admired Nanaka is no longer beyond the screen; she is standing in reality.

276 pages
youth rom-comotaku culturereality and fictionparody
東部陽村 excellence award

A light novel set in a world covered by a twilight that invades vulnerable hearts and leads people toward death. A girl who can restore the blue sky and a young man sent to seize her travel together in an apocalyptic chase story.

In a world sealed under red twilight, a flight begins around the girl who can bring back the blue sky.

294 pages
apocalyptic worldchase storygirl and young manpurification
石川あまね excellence award

An unpublished submitted work whose title suggests a massive creature or strange presence. It was announced as an Excellence Award winner in the fourth Shogakukan Light Novel Award and was noted among an unusual group of works.

Even by title alone, the work calls up the presence of a creature outside ordinary life.

unpublished submissionstrangenesslight novelnew writer award
大谷久 jury special prize

A supernatural battle story set in an imperial capital, where cursed siblings and other gifted figures confront the invasion of the Boys’ Society Rabbit Corps. The prize-winning title became part of the published Ibara no Majinaishi series, with this material developed in the third volume.

In an imperial capital threatened by a flying castle and a zombie army, the siblings fight for their bond.

296 pages
supernatural battlesiblingsimperial capitalinvasion