Hello Bookworms,

the votes have been counted and I present you the

2024 Lemmy LightNovel Awards Winners!

Best Volume

WINNER: Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 12 (a.k.a. Part 5: Avatar of a Goddess Vol.12)

Runner Up: Didn’t I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?! - Vol. 18

Best Debut

WINNER: Exp Is Golden: Volume 1

Runner Up: Zilbagias the Demon Prince: How the Seventh Prince Brought Down the Kingdom Volume 1

Best Protagonist

WINNER: Rozemyne (Myne) from Ascendance of a Bookworm

Runner Up: Fran from Reincarnated as a Sword

Best Antagonist

WINNER: Gervasio from Ascendance of a Bookworm

Runner Up: Erwaermen from Ascendance of a Bookworm

Best Supporting Character

WINNER: Hartmut from Ascendance of a Bookworm

Runner Up: Karion from Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

Best Couple or Duo

WINNER: Karion & Urion from Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

Runner Up: Fran & Teacher from Reincarnated as a Sword

Best Author

WINNER: Miya Kazuki for Ascendance of a Bookworm

Runner Up: Hiro Ainana for Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

Best Illustrator

WINNER: You Shiina for Ascendance of a Bookworm

Runner Up: Llo for Reincarnated as a Sword

Best Worldbuilding

WINNER: Ascendance of a Bookworm

Runner Up: Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

Best Overall Series

WINNER: Ascendance of a Bookworm

Runner Up: Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

Congratulations to all the Winners. Thanks to everyone that participated ba nominating and voting and special thanks to @wjs018@ani.social for doing all the behind the scenes work to make this possible.

Also check out the winners for the Manga and Anime sister awards.

And if anyone is interested in the raw data they can view it here

  • MercuriEnglish
    5·
    18 days ago

    I demand a recount! It was rigged against Fran and Teacher!

    • I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ@lemmy.sdf.orgMEnglish
      4·
      17 days ago

      It looks like they won the scoring round but lost the run off round.

      I don’t know about STAR Scoring to know what’s happened. But just know they were the people favourite but the goddesses changed the results.

      Victory to Karion and Urion!

      • wjs018English
        3·
        17 days ago

        Here’s what happened. Fortunately, there are few enough ballots that we can look at it pretty easily. There are two steps to STAR voting. First is the scoring and then the runoff. Here are the ballots for the category (I narrowed it down to just those two candidates, the full list of ballots is here):

        Karion & Urion Fran & Teacher
        4 3
        5 4
        1 0
        4 5
        1 5
        0 0

        Scoring Round

        This simply totals up the points earned for each candidate to select the top two scorers to move on to the runoff. Looking at the ballots above, Fran & Teacher win this round.

        • Total points for Fran & Teacher: 17
        • Total points for Karion & Urion: 15

        Runoff Round

        This round looks at all the ballots and counts the number of ballots that prefer one of the two runoff contestants over the other. So, let’s look again at our ballots and see which one each prefers:

        Karion & Urion Fran & Teacher Voter Preference
        4 3 Karion & Urion
        5 4 Karion & Urion
        1 0 Karion & Urion
        4 5 Fran & Teacher
        1 5 Fran & Teacher
        0 0 No Preference

        So, tallying up who is preferred among a larger portion of the electorate we get 3 voters prefer Karion & Urion, 2 voters prefer Fran & Teacher, and 1 voter has no preference. So, Karion & Urion is the winner.