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.