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Kodansha, AIC to Make Anime of Light Novel Prize Winner
posted on by Egan Loo
The Japanese publisher Nico Nico Douga plans to stream the resulting original anime. The Grand Prize winner will also receive 3 million yen ($35,000), while the runners-up will receive 1 million yen (US$12,000) and 300,000 yen (US$3,500).
Kodansha also confirmed that the deadline of the prize has been extended one month to May 31, in the aftermath of last month's Great Eastern Japan Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts).
The Kodansha Box imprint, the electronic magazine AiR, and King Record's Starchild label run a separate BOX-AiR program which offers to "consider" adapting the monthly published writings into anime. However, unlike BOX-AiR, the organizers of the 1st Kodansha Light Novel Bunko New Author Prize state without qualifications that their Grand Prize-winning entry will be made into anime.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
Update: More background information added.
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