ASCII Media Works

, formerly, is a Japanese publisher and brand company of Kadokawa Future Publishing founded from the legal merger between ASCII and MediaWorks on April 1, 2008. It is the founding father of the brand magazines and book imprints which include such well-known magazines as Dengeki Daioh, and Dengeki G's Magazine, and their Dengeki Bunko light novel publishing imprint.

It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013.

Marketing Overview
The company specializes in the publishing of merchandise focused on ACG topics such as anime, light novels, manga, plastic modelling, and visual novels, mainlt targeted to the male otaku audience. As such, the company pushes its publishing under the Dengeki label covering topics with computing and enterprises related to information technology (IT), such as the publication of Weekly ASCII, along with other PC and IT magazines. In retrospect, they also publish multiple magazines for female audiences such as Character Parfait, Dengeki Girl's Style, and Sylph.

Contests
The company runs yearly contests for original novel and manga submissions.
 * Dengeki Comic Grand Prix
 * Dengeki Taishō