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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 on April 1, 2008, and became ASCII Media Works. They mainly catered to the Japanese male otaku crowd, covering such topics as anime, light novels, manga, plastic modelling, and visual novels. However, MediaWorks had published three magazines targeted towards females—''Comic Sylph'', ''Dengeki Girl's Style'', and ''Character Parfait''—but each one was a special edition version of another magazine. MediaWorks ran yearly contests for original novel and manga submissions, such as the light novel Dengeki Novel Prize contest.
In addition to publishing printed material, MediaWorks had been involved with the production of other media. They had developed and published visual novels for popular Japanese media franchises where many different forms of media are published for a given series. Such well-known series included ''Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl'', ''Shakugan no Shana'', and ''Strawberry Marshmallow''. MediaWorks had also been involved in the production of anime television and original video animation series.
==History==
In 1992, Kadokawa Shoten's president Haruki Kadokawa was devoting himself to the movie business, and his younger brother and vice-president of the company, Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, was in charge of magazines the company published. At the same time, Tsuguhiko was the president of Kadokawa's subsidiary Kadokawa Media Office which was in charge of publishing video game magazines like ''Comptiq'', and manga magazines targeted towards the male otaku crowd in Japan centered around "media mix" Japanese series where many different forms of media are published for a given series. Citing differences in the interests of business direction, Tsuguhiko resigned from Kadokawa Shoten to start MediaWorks on October 15, 1992, with a large contingent from Kadokawa Shoten employees joining him.
In 1993, due to an influence from the Tokyo Shock Boys, known in Japan as the , MediaWorks launched a series of magazines under the ''Dengeki'' line. These magazines were taken from previous publications that Kadokawa Media Office had published. The new magazines were named ''Dengeki Super Famicom'' (from Kadokawa's former magazine ''Marushō Super Famicom''), ''Dengeki PC Engine'' (from Kadokawa's former magazine ''Marushō PC Engine''), ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' (from Kadokawa's former magazine ''Comic Comp''), the now-defunct ''Dengeki Oh'' (taken from ''Comptiq''), and the now-defunct ''Dengeki Megadrive'' (originally a special edition of ''Dengeki PC Engine''). Also in 1993, Haruki Kadokawa was arrested for cocaine smuggling and lost his presidency at Kadokawa Shoten, which was soon taken over by Tsuguhiko Kadokawa in addition to his presidency of MediaWorks; MediaWorks was later made a subsidiary of Kadokawa Shoten in 2002. MediaWorks became a member of Kadokawa Group Holdings, and after Enterbrain became a member of the same group, Enterbrain's ''Famitsu'' line and MediaWorks' ''Dengeki'' line started to compete against each other, especially in terms of presenting information pertaining to bishōjo games. By 2001, MediaWorks specialized in publishing light novels, manga, video games, and magazines pertaining to such media. The company was merged with ASCII on April 1, 2008, and became ASCII Media Works.〔〔
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