Kyoto Animation
Since 2009, Kyoto Animation has hosted the annual Kyoto Animation Awards in three categories: original novels, manga, and scenarios. Some winning submissions are published under the company's KA Esuma Bunko imprint, and have a chance of being later adapted as anime. "Love, Chunibyo &amp; Other Delusions", "Free!", "Beyond the Boundary" and "Myriad Colors Phantom World" were based on novels that received an honorable mention in this competition. In 2014, the novel "Violet Evergarden" became the first and only work so far to win a grand prize in any of the three categories.