List of magazines published by ASCII Media Works
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This is a list of magazines published by the Japanese publishing company ASCII Media Works
. After the merger of ASCII
and MediaWorks
on April 1, 2008, the two company's active magazines continued publication. Most of their magazines center around anime
, manga
, bishōjo game
s, or video games. The majority of ASCII Media Works' 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 ASCII Media Works. Other magazines center around computers and information technology
.
ASCII Media Works
is a Japanese publishing company in the Kadokawa Group which formed on April 1, 2008 as a result of a merger between ASCII and MediaWorks where MediaWorks legally absorbed ASCII. Despite this, the former president of ASCII, Kiyoshi Takano, became the president of ASCII Media Works. The company...
. After the merger of ASCII
ASCII (company)
was a publishing company based in Tokyo, Japan. It became a subsidiary of Kadokawa Group Holdings in 2004, and merged with another Kadokawa subsidiary MediaWorks on April 1, 2008, and became ASCII Media Works. The company published Monthly ASCII as the main publication...
and MediaWorks
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, the two company's active magazines continued publication. Most of their magazines center around anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
, manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
, bishōjo game
Bishojo game
A , or , is "a type of Japanese video game centered on interactions with attractive anime-style girls". These games are a sub-genre of dating sims targeted towards a male audience....
s, or video games. The majority of ASCII Media Works' 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 ASCII Media Works. Other magazines center around computers and information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
.
Active
Title | Magazine type | Frequency | First published |
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ASCII Dot PC | PC Personal computer A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator... , IT Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... |
Monthly | June 2006 |
ASCII.technologies | PC, IT | Monthly | May 23, 2009 |
Character Parfait | Video game | Bimonthly | December 15, 2006 |
Dengeki Arcade Game | Trading card game | Quarterly | November 29, 2006 |
Dengeki Bunko Magazine Dengeki Bunko Magazine is a Japanese light novel magazine published by ASCII Media Works . The magazine succeeded the light novel magazine Dengeki hp, and originally was published as a special edition issue of Dengeki Daioh for the first two issues; the first issue was released on December 10, 2007... |
Light novel Light novel A is a style of Japanese novel primarily targeting junior high and high school students . The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. Light novels are often called or for short... |
Bimonthly | December 10, 2007 |
Dengeki Comic Japan | Manga Manga Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th... |
Monthly | December 24, 2010 |
Dengeki Daioh Dengeki Daioh is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by ASCII Media Works under the Dengeki brand. Many manga serialized in Dengeki Daioh were later published in tankōbon volumes under ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Comics imprint. The magazine is sold every month on the 27th... |
Manga | Monthly | April 18, 1994 |
Dengeki G's Magazine Dengeki G's Magazine is a Japanese magazine published by ASCII Media Works 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 serializes manga and light novels based on such games. The "G's" in the title... |
Bishōjo game Bishojo game A , or , is "a type of Japanese video game centered on interactions with attractive anime-style girls". These games are a sub-genre of dating sims targeted towards a male audience.... , manga |
Monthly | December 26, 1992 |
Dengeki Hime Dengeki Hime is a Japanese magazine published monthly by ASCII Media Works publishing information mainly on adult visual novels. The magazine started as a special issue of the now discontinued Dengeki Oh in 1997, and in 2001 it became its own entity. Originally, it held information on boys love series but... |
Bishōjo game, eroge Eroge An or Ero-ga is a Japanese video or computer game that features erotic content, usually in the form of anime-style artwork. Eroge originated from galge, but unlike galge, they feature erotic/pornographic content.-History:... |
Monthly | 1997 |
Dengeki Hobby Magazine Dengeki Hobby Magazine is a Japanese magazine published by ASCII Media Works centering around information relating to plastic models. It first went on sale on November 25, 1998... |
Plastic model Plastic model thumb|300px||4-year-old boy starts painting a plastic model he has assembled of the South Goodwin LightshipPlastic models, often called scale models, are models manufactured as kits which are assembled by hobbyists, and intended for static display.... |
Monthly | November 25, 1998 |
Dengeki Layers | Cosplay Cosplay , short for "costume play", is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and science fiction... |
Bimonthly | August 25, 2003 |
Dengeki Maoh Dengeki Maoh is a Japanese seinen magazine published by ASCII Media Works . It first went on sale on October 27, 2005 and is sold every month on the twenty-seventh. The magazine features information on video games, manga, and light novels... |
Light novel, manga, video game | Monthly | December 27, 1992 |
Dengeki Nintendo DS Dengeki Nintendo DS is a Japanese gaming magazine published by ASCII Media Works . The magazine mainly covers information pertaining to the Nintendo DS, but also carries information on the Wii as well. The magazine was originally named Dengeki Super Nintendo and first went on sale on December 26, 1992... |
Video game | Monthly | December 26, 1992 |
Dengeki PlayStation Dengeki PlayStation is a Japanese gaming magazine published by ASCII Media Works . The magazine originally featured information pertaining to PlayStation video games, but since then has also incorporated information from PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable games... |
Video game | Monthly | December 1994 |
Figure Maniacs Otome Gumi | Figurine Figurine A figurine is a statuette that represents a human, deity or animal. Figurines may be realistic or iconic, depending on the skill and intention of the creator. The earliest were made of stone or clay... |
Bimonthly | 1999 |
Hoshi Navi | Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth... |
Monthly | December 2000 |
MacPeople | PC, IT | Monthly | |
Macpower | PC, IT | Monthly | January 19, 1990 |
Mobile ASCII | Mobile phone Mobile phone A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator... |
Quarterly | June 29, 2010 |
Papier* | Girl's fashion | Bimonthly | October 28, 2009 |
Sylph Sylph (magazine) is a Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by ASCII Media Works and is sold monthly. The magazine was originally published on December 9, 2006 as a special edition version of MediaWorks' now-defunct Dengeki Comic Gao! under the title as a quarterly publication... |
Shōjo manga | Monthly | December 9, 2006 |
Ubuntu Magazine Japan | Ubuntu Ubuntu (operating system) Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu... , IT |
Bimonthly | September 29, 2009 |
Weekly ASCII | PC, IT | Weekly | April 24, 2006 |
Special editions
Title | Parent magazine | Magazine type | Frequency | First published |
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Character Parfait Comic | Character Parfait | Manga | Variable | April 27, 2010 |
Dengeki 5pb. | ASCII Dot PC | Video game | Variable | December 24, 2010 |
Dengeki Daioh Genesis | Sylph | Manga | Quarterly | January 19, 2010 |
Dengeki Festival! Heaven | Dengeki G's Magazine | Shōjo manga | Variable | July 9, 2008 |
Dengeki G's Festival! | Dengeki G's Magazine | Bishōjo game, eroge | Variable | December 16, 2004 |
Dengeki G's Festival! Anime | Dengeki G's Magazine | Anime, bishōjo game | Variable | February 9, 2008 |
Dengeki G's Festival! Comic | Dengeki G's Magazine | Manga | Bimonthly | November 26, 2007 |
Dengeki G's Festival! Deluxe | Dengeki G's Magazine | Bishōjo game, eroge | Variable | November 30, 2007 |
Dengeki FPS | Dengeki Girl's Style | Video game | Variable | September 2, 2010 |
Dengeki Games | Dengeki Nintendo DS | Video game | Monthly | October 13, 2006 |
Dengeki Girl's Style | Dengeki PlayStation | Otome game Otome game An is a video game that is targeted towards a female market, where one of the main goals, besides the plot goal, is to develop a romantic relationship between the female player character and one of several male characters. This genre is most established in Japan. The label includes both visual... |
Bimonthly | December 4, 2003 |
Dengeki Moeoh | Dengeki Daioh | Manga | Bimonthly | March 26, 2002 |
Dengeki PSP | Dengeki PlayStation | Video game | Variable | December 3, 2004 |
Dengeki PlayStation 3 | Dengeki PlayStation | Video game | Variable | May 15, 2009 |
i-mode de Asobu! | Dengeki Maoh | Mobile phone Mobile phone A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator... |
Bimonthly | March 28, 2001 |
Rekishidama | Dengeki Bunko Magazine | History | Variable | December 6, 2010 |
Visualboy Brush | ASCII Dot PC | Pop culture males | Quarterly | November 10, 2008 |
Discontinued
Title | Magazine type | Frequency | Magazine run |
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Business ASCII | IT business | Monthly | June 18, 1977–January 23, 2010 |
Network Magazine | PC, IT | Monthly | April 1998–April 29, 2009 |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... Magazine |
PC, IT | Quarterly | November 1986–June 18, 2009 |
Special editions
Title | Parent magazine | Magazine type | Frequency | Magazine run |
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CLaCLa | Dengeki Hime | Yaoi Yaoi In careful Japanese enunciation, all three vowels are pronounced separately, for a three-mora word, . The English equivalent is . also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by... manga Manga Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th... & light novel |
Quarterly | October 30, 2007–April 30, 2008 |
Dengeki Black Maoh | Dengeki Maoh | Light novel, manga, video game | Quarterly | September 19, 2007–June 19, 2010 |
Dengeki Scale Modeler | Dengeki Hobby Magazine | Scale model Scale model A scale model is a physical model, a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object, which seeks to maintain the relative proportions of the physical size of the original object. Very often the scale model is used as a guide to making the object in... |
Bimonthly | July 25, 2007–May 24, 2008 |