Just had to check through my comment history to see what I have read this year.

I will limit it to volumes I have read / reread this year so it’s quite limited.

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Best Volume

<Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore’s Fifth Year at the Royal Academy> - Vol. 01

New bookworm, what’s not to love?

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Best Debut

<Abducted Princess Running Rampant: Wielding Forbidden Magic in the Demon King’s Castle>

Only newly released series I read but it was great.

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Best Protagonist

Hannelore - <Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore’s Fifth Year at the Royal Academy> - Vol. 01

Everyone’s favourite friend of Myne Dunkelfelgeron.

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Best Antagonist

Hannelore (More accurately her prayer rather than herself) - <Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore’s Fifth Year at the Royal Academy> - Vol. 01

Who is there to blame but the girl herself?

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Best Supporting Character

Myne - <Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore’s Fifth Year at the Royal Academy> - Vol. 01

Myne not taking centerstage was strange but she still shone (literally)

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Best Couple or Duo

Ray & Raul - <Secrets of the silent witch>

Everyone loves a good introvert-extrovert duo

Nero & Neros Minion Bartholomeus - <Secrets of the silent witch>

Cool meets cool

Chise & Teto - <Making magic>

Who doesn’t love them?

Fran & Teacher - <Reincarnated as a sword>

Every girl needs her sword with her.

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Best Author

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Best Illustrator

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Best Worldbuilding

<Saving 80000 Gold in another world for my retirement>

FUNA strikes again

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Best Overall Series

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Best Emotional Moment

The ships spirit saying goodbye to its sailors as the goddess took it home - <Saving 80000 Gold in another world for my retirement>

Who didn’t cry as the goddess took the ship to her final destination?

• Best Volume : Zilbagias the Demon Prince: How the Seventh Prince Brought Down the Kingdom - Volume 5

Love the internal struggle of MC.

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• Best Debut : The Accursed Chef and His Pair of Furry Foodies

The new series from Yuu Tanaka of Sword Tensei fame.

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• Best Protagonist: Devil Princess Yulucia from “The Devil Princess”

I have a thing for main characters that aren’t shackled by fake morality (you know the type that kills 1000 underlings without a thought but then is too “good” to kill the actual boss pulling their strings). And this year there wasn’t a character more ruthless than sweet Yulucia.

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• Best Antagonist: The human heroes in Zilbagias the Demon Prince

Even if I were to disregard the whole flipped good/evil plot and just look at them as a counter to MC they are still written with a clear motivation and individual personalities that stay consistent.

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• Best Supporting Character: Louis (Secrets of the Silent Witch)

Got even his own spin-off. He’s that good.

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• Best Couple or Duo: Ai-Fa and Asuta (Cooking With Wild Game)

As always.

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• Best Author: Matsuri Isora (Secrets of the Silent Witch)

Clearly written like Ascendance of a Bookworm with a clear outline of the entire plot already laid out.

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• Best Worldbuilding: The world of Ascendance of a Bookworm

My favorite light novel world got fleshed out more in the Hannelore spin-off series.

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• Best Overall Series: Cooking With Wild Game

Even though many of this year’s volumes were an arc that I didn’t like very much it’s still consistently great to read and every volume is a highlight for me. Silent Witch is getting there.

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• Best Emotional Moment: The opening to “Welcome to Monstrous Miss Sophie’s Enchanted Salon of Healing”

Not going to spoil it, but man… God damn it man.

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I don’t think I’ve seen anything this year that clearly stood out for the Illustration award, so I pass this one.

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