BL Award 2025 Names Noumi-senpai no Benmei and More as Winners

The winners of sandias‘ BL Award 2025 have been announced. 

Among the victors is Koala Omugi‘s Noumi-senpai no Benmei, which won in the Comics and Emotional categories (Omugi released a commemorative illustration to celebrate the wins). The manga’s main characters are philosophy students Masataka and Eito — the former isn’t exactly a model student, while the younger Eito is diligent and handsome. The Kobunsha-published series received its first tankoubon volume in October 2024 and has 100 thousand copies in circulation as of January 2025.

Other winners include:

• Series category: Pink Heart Jam beat 1 by Shikke (published by Homesha)
• Romantic comedy category: Perfect Addiction 2 by Kaoruko Miyama (published by Kaiohsha)
• Fetish category: Mayonaka no Ore o Mite by Luria (published by Shu Cream) 
• Deep category: The Betrayer Sings A Love Song (Uragiri Mono no Love Song) by Mottasu Tonoka (published by Libre)
• Next Generation category: Can you kiss me first? (Omae no Hou kara Kiss shitekureyo) by Yamayade (published by Takeshobo)
• Novels category: Heaven Official’s Blessing 3: Tian Guan Ci Fu by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (illustrations by ZeldaCW, cover art by tai3_3, published by Frontier Works)
• BLCD category: Touching your night (Kimi no Yoru ni Fureru) by Moyori Mori (published by Shu Cream)
• webtoon category: Painter of the Night (Yagachou) by Beonduck (published by Frontier Works)
• BL Sommelier category: BUDDIES Part 1 by Pariko London (published by Tokuma Shoten)

Voting for the BL Award 2025 took place from January 31 JST to February 9 JST, and the results were announced on April 18 JST. Voting was generally open to registered members of the ChillChill BL review site, while the BL Sommelier category was reserved for “ChillChill Certified BL Sommelier[s].”

More details about the award’s process can be found on its webpage (available in English).

Source: Press release