Originally awarded as Deadly Heavenly Dead and published under the title Kimi wa Hito, Boku wa Shisha. Sekai wa Tokidoki Hikkurikaeru, this Gagaga Bunko novel is set in a world divided into Heaven and the Underland. Dead, a dead boy, meets Phi, a human girl who falls from the sky, and faces both impossible love and a world about to turn over.

When a human girl and a dead boy meet, the balance of their divided worlds begins to tremble.

Originally awarded as Reiwa Umare no Mado Shoka: Zenten Jikan Shoshitsu Trick and published as Schrodinger no Neko Sagashi, this Gagaga Bunko novel pairs a boy who dislikes detectives with a labyrinth-making witch who wants to preserve mysteries rather than solve them. Their contest unfolds at the boundary between mystery and fantasy.

Against detectives who solve mysteries, the witch casts them into a labyrinth and preserves their wonder.

Originally awarded as Santa Claus o Koroshita. Hatsukoi ga Owatta and published as Santa Claus o Koroshita. Soshite, Kiss o Shita, this Gagaga Bunko novel begins when a young man reeling from heartbreak meets a girl with a notebook that grants only unwanted wishes. To erase Christmas, they begin a simulated romance.

A pretend romance begun to erase Christmas draws a supposedly ended first love back into motion.

Originally awarded as Fake Town Blues and published as Kono Nukumori o Kimi to Yobunda, this Gagaga Bunko novel is set in an underground city covered by artificial sky and sun. Lenny, a girl who rejects everything fake, meets Toka and searches for real warmth in a manufactured world.

Under an artificial sky, the warmth of a held hand becomes the one real thing.

The award-winning manuscript titled Love Comedy That Never Lets Love Comedy Happen was published under the title Who Says We Cannot Make a Romantic Comedy in Real Life? It follows a high school boy obsessed with romantic comedies as he tries to turn reality into his ideal rom-com through data analysis and repeated practice rather than chance.

A boy begins an experiment built on the belief that a romantic comedy is not something that happens, but something to be engineered.