From its inception, the label sponsored the Kodansha Box Newcomer Award, and actively introduced new authors and illustrators to the world.
Instead, Naoki Akimoto, who had been in charge of Soji Shimada, Kenji Takemoto, Yukito Ayatsuji, and Yutaka Maya at Kodansha Novels, became the second department head (from December 2008).
It also sponsored the Kodansha BOX Newcomer Award from its inception, and from 2008 to 2009 also published the magazine Pandora as a branch from Faust.
In the early and middle years of the label's history, it also conducted a number of special projects without regard to profitability.
[3] In 2010, Ōta, who had left Kodansha Box's planning and editing division in 2008, launched a new company, Seikaisha, and became vice president.
The launch of Kodansha Box was based on the success of Faust, first published in 2003, but the literary movement of the 00s' fusion of light novels, genre novels, and literature subsided, and no star authors emerged to follow Nisio Isin, Ōtarō Maijō, Yuya Sato, Kinoko Nasu, etc.