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
IIRC the peasant housing is just dirty wood on top of dirty white stone. I would have to reread the first novels to check but I don’t think that Miya Kazuki would leave such an obvious error when everything else is so meticulously planned and crafted.
And apart from some real heavy hitters in the fantasy genre I don’t know many better than Bookworm in terms of details for the given scope of the series. This is an intimate story on a relatively small scale and not some globe spanning, end of the world epic. it has a unique and detailed magic system, unique and detailed class system, religious systems with their own pantheon that has his own individual story, unique and detailed political systems that don’t flip flop whenever it’s convenient for the direction the author wants to take. Systems that become important later on being introduced to the plot and explained 20 volumes earlier. Stuff like that is what makes me lose myself in a story. If there are some minor things that could be pointed out like people not inventing pancakes then that’s something that I can look past.