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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.