Shogakukan Light Novel Award - Rururu Bunko Division
The Rururu Bunko division of the Shogakukan Light Novel Award, covering the women-oriented light novel line through 2015.
- Established
- 2006
- Organizer
- Shogakukan
- Category
- Light Novels and Web Literature
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Application Deadline
- around September
- Announcement Period
- around March–April
- Status
- Ended
Description
The Rururu Bunko division of the Shogakukan Light Novel Award. It covers winners associated with the women-oriented Rururu Bunko line, whose submissions ended in 2015. The Gagaga Bunko division is managed separately.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Grand Prize works are published by Gagaga Bunko or Rururu Bunko and awarded 2 million yen.
- Cash Prize
- 2,000,000 JPY
- Gagaga Prize 1 million yen
- Rururu Prize 1 million yen
- Honorable Mention 500,000 yen
- Promising Award 100,000 yen + 20,000 yen × 12 months
- Super Hero Comics Original Work Award 300,000 yen and comic adaptation rights
Related Awards
- List of Japanese novelists
- List of light novel writers
- Palette Novel Grand Award
Official Resources
https://gagagabunko.jp/grandprix/Past Winners
鬼へ鳴く月へ笑う is a work by 青暮波緒受賞・候補作品。賞の記録で作品名は確認できるが、Amazon JP、NDL OPAC、出版社公式で同名の単行本・文庫・短編集として確実に対応する書誌を確認できなかったため、雑誌号や応募原稿の識別子は採用しない。
Verified information on 鬼へ鳴く月へ笑う is organized as prize-work data.
A girls’ light novel candidate whose title evokes a hazy moonlit night, suggesting romance layered with fantasy.
朧月夜のしらべ is a work by 深波刹那 whose profile can be outlined through award records and bibliographic checks.
Published as Hao no Musume, this historical romance follows a warrior rewarded with marriage to a princess of a former enemy state, leading to an unusual married life and the secrets of a kingdom.
A marriage granted as a reward for military service leads into secrets surrounding a white divine dragon.
A romantic fantasy set in an ancient-style land, where a princess granted the power of words meets a young moon god. Through courtship and festival scenes, it explores the power of language and the uncertainty of love.
A princess troubled by the power of words comes to know love through an encounter with a quiet moon god.
This work is introduced as a literary award-winning title. It focuses on its central motif and characters while reflecting the genre and period in which it appeared.
月華の楼閣 invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.
This work is introduced as a literary award-winning title. It focuses on its central motif and characters while reflecting the genre and period in which it appeared.
山姫と黒の皇子さま~遠まわりな非政略結婚~ invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.
バルベスタールの秘婚 is a work by 平川深空. Available descriptions point to a readable structure and a clearly defined premise.
バルベスタールの秘婚 offers a clear entry point into the qualities recognized by the award.
お針子人魚メロウ~吸血鬼の花嫁衣裳~ is a work by 天正紗夜. Available descriptions point to a readable structure and a clearly defined premise.
お針子人魚メロウ~吸血鬼の花嫁衣裳~ offers a clear entry point into the qualities recognized by the award.
人魚姫 is a work by 珠城みう. Available descriptions point to a readable structure and a clearly defined premise.
人魚姫 offers a clear entry point into the qualities recognized by the award.
レポクエ―赤点勇者とゆかいな仲間たち― is a work by 四方山蒿. Award records show that the premise and conception were central to its recognition.
レポクエ―赤点勇者とゆかいな仲間たち― offers a clear entry point into the qualities recognized by the award.
Saara leaves behind the fiancé in the household where she had been staying and becomes the seventeenth bride of Count Cordon, known as the Ghost Earl. A heroine with an almost outrageous will carves her way through an uncanny marriage fantasy.
The Ghost Earl's seventeenth bride moves married life forward by stepping lightly beyond common sense.
This girls' light novel centers its title on a causal bond between magic and art. It approaches, through fantasy, the feeling that acts of creation can move reality and the human heart.
The causality of magic and art links creation with transformation.
Ryuan Kamei takes its title from an idiom about passing through dark willows into a village bright with flowers. The award-winning girls' light novel carries the sense of moving from a closed situation toward unexpected light.
A story with the feeling of a turning point, finding floral light beyond darkness.
A girls' fantasy in which a young woman with powers tied to art pushes into the secrets of a ducal household. Published as Oshikake Ejutsushi to Koshakuke no Himitsu, the story brings together art, noble society, and mystery.
A young art-mage draws out the secrets hidden inside a ducal house.
A gothic romance in which Iris, an exorcist candidate, meets the enigmatic boy Notte and confronts the gap between the church’s ideals and reality.
A girl called a heretic meets a boy whose name means night.
A historical fantasy for girls in a world reminiscent of late-Sengoku Osaka Castle, where a princess’s first love meets supernatural intrigue. The published title differs from the award title.
At Osaka Castle, a princess’s love becomes entwined with a supernatural presence.
An encouragement-prize work in the Lululu Bunko category with a wintry, fantastic title. It is confirmed as an award-winning manuscript, but no standalone book publication was confirmed.
The title remains in the award record, but publication as a book was not confirmed.
七番目の世界 is a light novel that uses an extraordinary setting to portray young characters’ uncertainty and growth. Blending romance and adventure, it reads as a search for one’s place.
七番目の世界 is a light novel that uses an extraordinary setting to portray young characters’ uncertainty and growth.
夜半の太陽 is nonfiction that patiently approaches its subject and connects individual experience with social structures. It draws the distortions of its time from concrete scenes.
夜半の太陽 is nonfiction that patiently approaches its subject and connects individual experience with social structures.
悪役令嬢ヴィクトリア ~花洗う雨の紅茶屋~ is a light novel that uses an extraordinary setting to portray young characters’ uncertainty and growth. Blending romance and adventure, it reads as a search for one’s place.
悪役令嬢ヴィクトリア ~花洗う雨の紅茶屋~ is a light novel that uses an extraordinary setting to portray young characters’ uncertainty and growth.
悪い魔法使いはいりませんか? is a light novel that uses an extraordinary setting to portray young characters’ uncertainty and growth. Blending romance and adventure, it reads as a search for one’s place.
悪い魔法使いはいりませんか? is a light novel that uses an extraordinary setting to portray young characters’ uncertainty and growth.
After a coup drives Princess Cuerva from her kingdom, she takes the name Lucia and rises to save her imprisoned family and country. Political intrigue and adventure become a story of a princess's growth.
A princess under a new name begins a journey to reclaim her family and kingdom.
To reunite with the healing princess who can work miracles, trainee physician Minawa earns the demanding qualification of temple doctor. The person she meets again is a beautiful man, and after being named his attendant she is drawn into an incident in a mining city.
The healing princess she adored is a man. Their reunion sets an incident in a medical kingdom in motion.
After her childhood friend Louis disappears, Liza sets out believing he is alive. Meeting the knight Telius, she learns that her mother was a shadow-user who protected the kingdom, drawing her toward the power to manipulate shadows and the kingdom's secrets.
A journey after a vanished childhood friend leads to the power of shadow-users and the kingdom's secrets.
A girls' fantasy centered on Noto, a shrine maiden who supports the king, and young King Kanon, depicting court secrets and the distance of love. Their roles bind their feelings while palace incidents unsettle their relationship.
The distance between a proud shrine maiden and a young king is gradually shaken by palace secrets.
Rabisa, a cross-dressing girl raised in a sacred desert place, sets out to find a town worthy of receiving the seed of a miraculous water-giving tree. After an attack, she meets the boy Zizet and begins a fateful journey across the desert.
A girl entrusted with the seed of a miraculous tree searches the desert for a new age.
A girls’ light novel in which a girl puts on a ring brought by her dog and is drawn into the demon realm with a tiny prince, mixing romance, adventure, and comic danger.
The ring opens the way to a tiny prince and the demon realm.
Shuka Ryoran is a girls' fantasy set in an imagined East Asian-style world. Published by Lululu Bunko after the award, it became the starting point of a later series.
In a vivid courtly world, romance and intrigue begin to move.
The award title Jajauma Musume to Shinigami Kishidandan! was published as Cho no Tairiku: Ogon no Emilia. A girl descended from a legendary swordswoman rises with temple knights to protect a city in crisis.
A girl carrying a legend takes up the sword in a city facing destruction.
The award work C+P was published as CP: Shindo-kun no Yuutsu. Centered on Manato Shindo, a high school student who wants a peaceful school life, it follows everyday chaos with a comic touch.
Shindo wants peace, but school-life chaos keeps rushing toward him.
The award title Kin no Kishi wa Gin no Himegimi o Sarau was published under the author name Midori Amane as BURAI na Yatsura: Ruro no Ojo. It is a classic fantasy about a princess driven from her country who travels in male disguise.
A princess driven from her kingdom sets out on a wandering journey in male disguise.
Gin no Myojo is recorded as an encouragement-prize work in the first Shogakukan Light Novel Award Lululu Bunko division. Searches of Amazon JP, NDL-related records, and publisher/bookstore sources did not confirm a standalone book or paperback publication of the award work.
An award-recorded work for which standalone book publication could not be confirmed.