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is a well-known Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese publisher, based in Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
. Kadokawa has published many manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
 titles as well as magazines, such as Newtype
Newtype (magazine)

is a popular monthly magazine publication originating from Japan, covering anime and manga . It was launched by publishing company Kadokawa Shoten on March 8, 1985 with its April issue, and has since seen regular release on the 10th of every month in its home country....
. In recent years, it has expanded into the multimedia
Multimedia

Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content format. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms....
 sector (namely video games) and now owns the former Daiei Motion Picture Company
Kadokawa Pictures

is a Japanese movie studio....
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is a well-known Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese publisher, based in Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
. Kadokawa has published many manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
 titles as well as magazines, such as Newtype
Newtype (magazine)

is a popular monthly magazine publication originating from Japan, covering anime and manga . It was launched by publishing company Kadokawa Shoten on March 8, 1985 with its April issue, and has since seen regular release on the 10th of every month in its home country....
. In recent years, it has expanded into the multimedia
Multimedia

Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content format. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms....
 sector (namely video games) and now owns the former Daiei Motion Picture Company
Kadokawa Pictures

is a Japanese movie studio....
.

Magazines published

  • Asuka
  • CIEL
  • Comp Ace
    Comp Ace

    is a Japanese computer game and manga magazine published by Kadokawa Shoten. Comp Ace began as a special edition version of another one of Kadokawa Shoten's magazines, Comptiq....
  • Comptiq
    Comptiq

    is a Japanese computer game magazine, first published in 1983, by Kadokawa Shoten. The name "Comptiq" came from combining the words "computer" and "boutique"....
  • Gundam Ace
    Gundam Ace

    is a monthly Japanese shonen manga magazine published by Kadokawa Shoten, it largely focus on the Gundam franchise. There is a chinese version published by Kadokawa Media Co., Ltd....
  • Kerokero Ace
    Kerokero Ace

    is a Japanese language shonen manga magazine published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten. The magazine is aimed at boys between 9 to 13 years old. It is directly focused on the Sgt....
  • Monthly Ace Next (discontinued)
  • Newtype
    Newtype (magazine)

    is a popular monthly magazine publication originating from Japan, covering anime and manga . It was launched by publishing company Kadokawa Shoten on March 8, 1985 with its April issue, and has since seen regular release on the 10th of every month in its home country....
  • Shonen Ace
    Shonen Ace

    is a monthly shonen manga magazine in Japan published by Kadokawa Shoten, started in 1994. Unlike the big shonen weeklies with circulation figures in the millions, Ace is aimed at a less mainstream audience, and has a particular emphasis on anime tie-ins....
  • The Sneaker
    The Sneaker

    is a Japanese language light novel magazine published by Kadokawa Shoten, that is aimed at young adult males. It serializes many popular light novels, including the Suzumiya Haruhi and Trinity Blood series, and recently the novel adaptations of the Code Geass anime series....


Manga titles published

  • .hack//Legend of the Twilight
    .hack//Legend of the Twilight

    is a 3 volume manga series written by Tatsuya Hamazaki and drawn by Rei Izumi which has been adapted into a 12-episode anime of the same name. The series is set four years after the events of .hack//Quarantine, the last of the four .hack from the first .hack project....
  • Angelic Layer
    Angelic Layer

    is a manga series released by Clamp . The manga is published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten, and in English language by Tokyopop. It is the group's first work to use a quite different art style unseen in any other CLAMP series, which uses a more distinctly pared down style....
  • Brain Powered
  • Chrono Crusade
  • Cloverfield/Kishin
    Cloverfield/Kishin

    is a manga and cross-media marketing tie-in to the 2008 film Cloverfield. It is published once a month on Kadokawa Shoten's website and consists of four chapters....
     (prequel to movie
    Cloverfield

    Cloverfield is a 2008 in film monster movie directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard.Before the film's release Paramount Pictures carried out a viral marketing campaign to promote the film....
    )
  • Cowboy Bebop
    Cowboy Bebop

    is a Japanese Anime Television program. Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and written by Keiko Nobumoto, Cowboy Bebop was produced by Sunrise . Consisting of 26 episodes, the series follows the adventures of a group of bounty hunters, or "cowboys", traveling on their spaceship, the Bebop, in the year 2071....
    • Cowboy Bebop: Shooting Star
  • Dragon Half
    Dragon Half

    is a manga created by Ryusuke Mita and serialized in Monthly Dragon Magazine from 1988 to 1994. It was adapted into a two episode anime OVA series in 1993....
  • Guyver
    Guyver

    is a long-running manga series written by Yoshiki Takaya. The Guyver itself is a symbiosis techno-organic device that enhances the capabilities of its host....
  • Hakkenden
    Hakkenden

    Hakkenden and variations on it, may refer to:* Nanso Satomi Hakkenden, an epic 19th century serial novel by Kyokutei BakinOr one of a vast number of adaptations of the story, including:...
  • Highschool of the Dead
    Highschool of the Dead

    is a manga series written by Daisuke Sato and illustrated by Shouji Sato, published in Fujimi Shobo's Monthly Dragon Age since September 2006.The series follows a group of Japanese high school students caught in the middle of a zombie apocalypse....
  • Junjo Romantica
    Junjo Romantica

    , stylized as Junjo Romantica ~Pure Romance~, is a yaoi series by Shungiku Nakamura. It focuses on not only a main couple but two other male couples ....
  • Kannazuki no Miko
    Kannazuki no Miko

    is a manga series created by the duo Kaishaku . The series was serialized in fourteen chapters by Kadokawa Shoten and in Shonen Ace in 2004 and 2005, and collected in two tankobon....
  • Kerberos Panzer Cop
    Kerberos Panzer Cop

    Kerberos Panzer Cop, also known as Kerberos Panzer Cops literally , is a 1988 to 2000 manga written by Mamoru Oshii and illustrated by Kamui Fujiwara with mechanical design by Yutaka Izubuchi....
  • Legal Drug
    Legal Drug

    is a manga series by Clamp . The main artist in this serialization is Tsubaki Nekoi, formerly Mick Nekoi. It is published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten and it is published in English language by Tokyopop who have currently released 3 volumes....
  • Lucky Star
  • Ludwig II
  • Marionette Generation
  • Martian Successor Nadesico
    Martian Successor Nadesico

    is a science fiction comedy anime TV series, and a later manga series created by Kia Asamiya. The manga, published in English language by CPM Manga, is significantly different from the anime....
  • Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
    Miyuki-chan in Wonderland

    is a Yuri manga series created by Clamp and serialised by Kadokawa Shoten in its Japanese edition of Newtype from 1993 to 1995. In 1995, an and an OVA version of the first two stories was released....
  • MPD Psycho
    MPD Psycho

    is a manga series written by and illustrated by , published in Kadokawa Shoten's Comic Charge since 1997.The series follows a police detective suffering from multiple personality disorder....
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion
    Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga)

    is a long-running manga series by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and published by Kadokawa Shoten; begun in the February issue of Shonen Ace in December 1994, it is still running and consists of 11 volumes, each comprised of several "stages" or chapters, out of a planned 12 volumes....
  • The One I Love
    The One I Love (manga)

    is a twelve story anthology by Clamp . It is a collection of short manga vignettes and essays about various unnamed heroines dealing with various aspects and hardships of love....
  • Record of Lodoss War
    Record of Lodoss War

    is a franchise of fantasy novels by Ryo Mizuno based around the work he originally created for a world called Forcelia for role-playing games....
  • Sgt. Frog
    Sgt. Frog

    is a manga series by Mine Yoshizaki. It was later serialized into a TV anime series directed by Junichi Sato. Both the anime and manga are comedies that follow the attempts of a platoon of frog-like alien invaders to conquer Earth....
  • Sh15uya
    Sh15uya

    is a Japanese television drama that premiered on TV Asahi on January 10 2005. It ran for 12 episodes until its conclusion on March 10, 2005. Set in a virtual simulation of Shibuya, Tokyo which is regulated by an entity named Piece which does not allow inhabitants to live, the series focuses on a fifteen-year-old boy named Tsuyoshi who seeks to fin...
  • Shirahime-Syo
  • Slayers
    Slayers

    is a series of over 50 light novels written by Hajime Kanzaka and illustrated by Rui Araizumi. It was later developed into several manga titles, five televised anime series, two three-episode original video animations , and five movies....
  • Tenchi Muyo!
    Tenchi Muyo!

    , is a Japanese anime, light novel, and manga series created by Masaki Kajishima and Hiroki Hayashi about a boy named Tenchi Masaki, which has grown into a larger franchise....
  • The Tale of Taro Yamada
  • Tokumei Kakaricho Tadano Hitoshi
    Tokumei Kakaricho Tadano Hitoshi

    is a Japanese television drama, or Japanese television drama based on the popular manga of the same name by Kimio Yanagisawa. The title literally translates as Mission Section Chief Hitoshi Tadano....
    • Shin Tokumei Kakaricho Tadano Hitoshi
  • The Vision of Escaflowne
    The Vision of Escaflowne

    is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise and directed by Kazuki Akane. It premiered in Japan on April 2, 1996 on TV Tokyo, with the final episode airing on September 24, 1996....
  • Trinity Blood
    Trinity Blood

    is a series of Japanese light novels written by Sunao Yoshida with illustrations by Thores Shibamoto and originally serialized in The Sneaker. Set 900 years after an apocalyptic war between humans and vampires, the series focuses on the on-going cold war between the Vatican and the Empire....
  • X/1999


Video game related

Published
  • Abarenbou Princess
  • Sorcerous Stabber Orphen
    Sorcerous Stabber Orphen

    is a series of Japanese fantasy adventure novels and manga, two anime television series , and a video game....


Developed
  • Record of Lodoss War
    Record of Lodoss War

    is a franchise of fantasy novels by Ryo Mizuno based around the work he originally created for a world called Forcelia for role-playing games....
  • Lunar The Silver Star Story Complete


See also

  • ASCII Media Works
    ASCII Media Works

    is a Japanese Publishing in the Kadokawa Group Holdings#Kadokawa Group which formed on April 1 2008 as a result of a Mergers and acquisitions between ASCII and MediaWorks where MediaWorks legally absorbed ASCII....
  • Fujimi Shobo
    Fujimi Shobo

    is a Japanese publishing company that specializes in the publication of light novels, manga, Japanese role-playing gamess and collectible card games....
  • Kadokawa Group Holdings
    Kadokawa Group Holdings

    is a Japanese holding company of the Kadokawa Group under Kadokawa Shoten. The company was founded on April 2 1954 and is located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan....
  • Kadokawa Pictures
    Kadokawa Pictures

    is a Japanese movie studio....
  • Light Novel Award
    Light Novel Award

    The is a literary award handed out by the Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten for light novels, and was first held in 2007. The novels which are applicable to receive the award are either published by Kadokawa Shoten under their Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko light novel label, or by three other publishing companies affiliated with Kadokawa Shoten in t...


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