The is an award handed out semiannually (since 2004) and annually (since 2010) by the Japanese publisher ASCII Media Works

ASCII Media Works

is a Japanese publishing company in the Kadokawa Group which formed on April 1, 2008 as a result of a merger between ASCII and MediaWorks where MediaWorks legally absorbed ASCII. Despite this, the former president of ASCII, Kiyoshi Takano, became the president of ASCII Media Works. The company...

 (formerly MediaWorks

MediaWorks (publisher)

was a Japanese publishing company in the Kadokawa Group known for their brand magazines and book labels. These included such well-known magazines as Dengeki Daioh, and Dengeki G's Magazine, along with MediaWorks' main light novel publishing imprint Dengeki Bunko. The company was merged with ASCII...

) for original one-shot manga

Manga

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. Between the first and fifth contests held, there were two divisions: original and anthology

Anthology

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. This was changed with the sixth contest to a Daioh

Dengeki Daioh

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/Gao!

Dengeki Comic Gao!

, also known as Dengeki Gao! as was a Japanese shōnen manga magazine that primarily contained manga and information about series featuring bishōjo characters. It was published from December 1992 to February 2008 by MediaWorks. The Gao in the magazine's title is a childish form of the sound Grr...

division which covered shōnen manga, and a Sylph

Sylph (magazine)

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division which covered shōjo manga. From the seventh contest on, the two divisions were changed to simply shōnen and shōjo manga. There are three types of prizes given out each contest: the Grand Prix Prize (2 million yen

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), the Semi-Grand Prix Prize (500,000 yen), and the Excellence Prize (300,000 yen). The Grand Prix Prize has only been handed out three times in the contest's history: in 2004, 2005 and 2010. There was also once a Dengeki Moeoh Grand Prize division which was held twice with a Grand Prize and Honorable Mentions.

Prize winners

#	Year	Division
01	2004	Original				Anthology
		Grand Prix	Semi-Grand Prix	Excellence Prize	Honorable Mention	Grand Prix	Semi-Grand Prix	Excellence Prize	Honorable Mention
		Akarui Raise no Tsukurikata Ruiki Akiba	Seeds Atsushi Suzumi Atsushi Suzumi is a Japanese manga artist.-Works:*Amefurashi*Venus Versus Virus*Haridama Magic Cram School*Nightmare Go Round-External links:*...	Sekaiichi no Mikata Yomi Namiki	Gabriel no Ryōken Nato Mikio	Not awarded	Chika no Baai Yutaka Masaki	Melancholy Ryūi Masui	Lottery Lolita Shō Hōjō
								Natsubate Taisaku Mari Manishi	Suppai Ichigo Mashimaro Terapii
02	2005	Not awarded	Murder Rabbit Wanted Yoshino Koyoka	Nekora wa Minna Ikiteru Junkō Miruzumi	Ofuro no Keroyo Kami Inakai		Not awarded	What's Going on the Anthology? Hayashi Imano	7 Haku 8-nichi 300-yen Rei Yūhana
				Mahōya e Yōkoso! Kiyoshi Nanoya	Hitori Omoi Hanashi Nyūmon Shukue Kawanaka				Strawberry Spice Everyday Yun Kōsaka
03		Green Wheezers Sachi Kurafugi	Ihabu Kajiki Nora	Hi! How are you today? Tō Haibara	On Rei Shi Yuzi		DearS Hunting Suiren Matsukaze	Matsuri no Tamago Sumire Aoi	Mihane no Kōsaku Aoba Matsukaze
			Oni Aka Hota.		Shugo Seishi Tenko Nekomaru Nekoyashiki				Halloween Mashimaro + Iroiro Mashimaro Ichi Kyojūgawa
04	2006	Not awarded	Tomi o Kakeru Majo Ginyūshijin	Domestic Medicaloid Satsuki Rō Mishidia	Ri-Writing Noa Sayaka Iaoi		Not awarded	Katsuteba Kangun! Takahiro Sakaki	Not awarded
					Burokura - Tōhō Matsuriki Kōsaku Makaze
05			Land's End Takahiro Endō	Early Service-like Nichijō Imigimuru	Koto no wa Techō Mei Fumizuki			Not awarded
				Wake Ari! My Room Junko Ogino
				Aru Shimai to Kuma Yūsu Kurahashi
06	2007	Daioh/Gao				Sylph
		Not awarded	Gosenzo-sama! Itadakimasu! Azusa Shitō	Hankōki × Hanjūryoku Inei Inei	Haiiro Shōjo ni Sekai wa Seijakusuru Sako Sorakogen	Not awarded	Wheel Roads Tōri no Akuma Tsukai Fūka Mizuya	Guida ＝ File Yuzu Morino	Deep Forest Sei Kanzaki
				Ichigo Shinbunhaitatsu Hiyori! Maitake				Tenohira no Kioku Inagi Fūmori
07		Shōnen manga				Shōjo manga
		Not awarded	Can you Fly? Tatsu Nohana	Yūhigaoka Dōbutsuen no Kōtei-san Mikan Tōno	Toriaizu Reset de Nell	Not awarded		Shōjo Rinbu Yōko Ito	Oretachi no Hōhō Nao Ōsawa
			Yuina Sayaka Yoshimoto		Merry Sei...! Ryūji Gen			Yoi Hitoya Mizu Kogai	Kaze no Yakusoku Utako Sadō
08	2008		Rin Nana Idol to Issho! Ryū Kōtei	3LDKM Bukubu Ōkawa	Akane Mōke Yutaka Ōhori			La Vie en rose Miharu Ihara	My×Bodyguard Midori Murasaki
					Furufuru Seek Saneatsu Gōno			Sweet Life Giga Chōjū	Which? Tobira Mizuki
					Demons Heights Tsukudani
09			Uchū no Tamago to Emu no Riron Kashi	Mahō Shōjo Senmon Gakkō no Hitobito Hoppō Ōshū	Karen na Otome no Supremacy Kazuma Takauchi			Chiisana Bokura no Takaramono Mayu Fujita	Goshujin-sama wa Aku no Sōtō Moa Hato
				Bluebell Kaziya					Kimi no Sachiare!! Maata
10	2009		Shōjo M Hiroki Hiromoto	Angie no Ren'ai Jōju Sangensoku Rakko Asakura	Dakimakura no Kamisama Takenobu			Engage Battle Min Sakusaka	Inu Mimi!! Satoru Okamoto
					Mainichi ga Dramatic Nagi Nakahara				Futsū no Ko. Sakura
					2×1 Yukako
11			Fukukami!? Sōmatō	Kuromiko Fumitaka Morizuki	Siren to Gomiyashiki Yūki Abe	Not awarded	Yūgure Junction Haruta Mayuzumi	Not awarded	Cafe T Cherry Tomohiro Fujii (story) Chiyo (art)
			Ashita kara Ganbaru Morichika		Popokuro Atsuto Sakayaki				Dame ni Peki! Non Meeda
12	2010	Black Theater Shunsei	Sagiri Mairu! Taisuke Umeki	Figure Planet Chazuke Ume	Not awarded		Weather Report Nagami	Megane no Kuni no Alice Emu	Not awarded
			Bake-mono-cation Kōsuke Kurata	Supuravu Toravu Mercre

External links

• Dengeki Comic Grand Prix official website