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ese publishing company MediaWorks. Most of their magazines center around
anime is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...
,
manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...
,
bishōjo game A or is "a type of Japanese video game centered on interactions with attractive girls". ''Bishōjo'' games are similar to ''Choose Your Own Adventure'' books in the way of narrative, in which the game tells a story but the player may make c ...
s, or
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s. The vast majority of MediaWorks' magazines carry the title which precedes the title of a given magazine; the ''Dengeki'' label is also used on publishing labels, and contests held by the company, making it a well-known trademark for MediaWorks.


Magazines


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was a Japanese sports magazine published by MediaWorks. It ran between March 1995 and September 1998. The magazine featured information relating to
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.


Dengeki Adventures

was a Japanese gaming magazine published by MediaWorks that featured content relating to
tabletop role-playing games A tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG or TRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a kind of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech and sometimes movements. Participants d ...
. It started its run in January 1994 and ended in June 1998, containing twenty-seven issues. The magazine also serialized some
light novel A is a type of Genre fiction, popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting Adolescence, teens to Young adult, twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging. The abbr ...
s.


Featured content

;Tabletop RPGs *''Āsudōn'' *''Fortune Quest'' *''Kurisutania'' *''Misutara Mokushiroku'' *''Ōkahōushin'' ;Comics *''Maraya'' *''Ōkahōushin'' ;Light novels *''Jaja Hime Buyūden'' *''Kyōkagaku Hunter Rei'' *''A Little Dragon'' *''Mōryūsen Senki Madara'' *''Yaminabe no Inbō'' *''Yōhei Densetsu''


Dengeki AniMaga

was a Japanese
anime is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...
magazine published by MediaWorks. The magazine started its run in April 1999 when it was entitled ''Dengeki Animation Magazine''. In August 2002, the name was changed to ''Dengeki AniMaga''. The magazine was succeeded by ''
Dengeki G's Magazine was a Japanese magazine published by ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) and sold monthly on the thirtieth that primarily contains information on bishōjo games, but also includes an entire section on anime based on bishōjo games, and seri ...
'' in 2005 when the last issue of ''Dengeki AniMaga'' was published. The magazine had nineteen issues along with two "Best Issues" that ended the magazine's run.


Magazine covers


Dengeki Comic Gao!

was a Japanese shōnen
manga magazine are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics an ...
featuring
bishōjo In Japanese popular culture, a , also romanized as ''bishojo'' or ''bishoujo'', is a cute girl character. characters appear ubiquitously in media including manga, anime, and computerized games (especially in the ''bishojo'' game genre), and al ...
characters which was published between December 1992 and February 2008 by MediaWorks and contained bishōjo
manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...
and information about those series. The ''Gao'' in the magazine's title is a childish form of the sound ''Grr''. Many manga serialized in ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' were adapted from
light novel A is a type of Genre fiction, popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting Adolescence, teens to Young adult, twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging. The abbr ...
s published under MediaWorks' ''
Dengeki Bunko is a publishing imprint (trade name), imprint affiliated with the Japanese publishing company ASCII Media Works (a division of Kadokawa Future Publishing formerly called MediaWorks (publisher), MediaWorks). It was established in June 1993 with th ...
'' label. The magazine was sold every month on the twenty-seventh. When ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' was first published, many of the manga that ran in the magazine had transferred from
Kadokawa Shoten , formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013. Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines ...
's ''Comic Comp'' magazine, though many of the titles were slightly altered. This caused the readers of ''Comic Comp'' to become interested in ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' and in October 1994, ''Comic Comp'' ceased publication. Gradually, it became apparent that MediaWorks' similar manga magazine ''
Dengeki Daioh is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) under the ''Dengeki'' brand. Many manga serialized in ''Dengeki Daioh'' were later published in ''tankōbon'' volumes under ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Comi ...
'' was much more popular, and in response, ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' was reformatted starting with the February 2007 issue on December 27, 2006. This was also when the ''Gao'' as printed on the magazine cover was changed from being spelled in
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to being spelled in
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stylized as ''gao''. On December 9, 2006, the first issue of a special edition version of ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' called ''Comic Sylph'' was published, and is sold quarterly.


Dengeki Dreamcast

was a Japanese gaming magazine published by MediaWorks that featured content pertaining to the
Dreamcast The is the final home video game console manufactured by Sega. It was released in Japan on November 27, 1998, in North America on September 9, 1999 and in Europe on October 14, 1999. It was the first sixth-generation video game console, prec ...
consumer console. The magazine was originally entitled ''Dengeki Mega Drive'' and first went on sale in January 1993. In 1996, the magazine was renamed to ''Dengeki Sega EX'' and then was renamed again in 1997 to ''Dengeki Sega Saturn''. In 1998, the magazine changed its name for the final time, ending with ''Dengeki Dreamcast'' and was discontinued in 2000.


Dengeki hp

was a Japanese
seinen is an editorial category of Japanese comics marketed toward young adult men. In Japanese, the word means "youth", but the term " manga" is also used to describe the target audience of magazines like '' Weekly Manga Times'' and '' Weekly Man ...
magazine published by MediaWorks centered on publishing
light novel A is a type of Genre fiction, popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting Adolescence, teens to Young adult, twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging. The abbr ...
s. The first issue was released on December 18, 1998, and for the first eight issues was published
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; after this, it was being published
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