, also known as ''Dengeki Gao!'' was a Japanese shōnen manga magazine that primarily contained

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and information about series featuring bishōjo characters. It was published from December 1992 to February 2008 by MediaWorks. The ''Gao'' in the magazine's title is a childish form of the sound ''Grr''. Many manga serialized in ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' were adapted from light novels published under MediaWorks' '' Dengeki Bunko'' label. The magazine was sold every month on the twenty-seventh. When ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' was first published, many of the manga that ran in the magazine had transferred from

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's ''Comic Comp'' magazine, though many of the titles were slightly altered. This caused the readers of ''Comic Comp'' to become interested in ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' and in October 1994, ''Comic Comp'' ceased publication. Gradually, it became apparent that MediaWorks' similar manga magazine ''

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'' was much more popular, and in response, ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' was reformatted starting with the February 2007 issue on December 27, 2006. This was also when the ''Gao'' as printed on the magazine cover was changed from being spelled in katakana to being spelled in English stylized as ''gao''. On December 9, 2006, the first issue of a special edition version of ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' called ''

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'' was published, and is sold quarterly; starting with volume six, ''Comic Sylph'' became a special edition version of ''

'' on March 21, 2008. The last issue, nicknamed , was sold on February 27, 2008 with most of the currently serialized titles reaching their final chapters, while some others continued publication in MediaWorks's similarly themed magazine ''

''.

List of serialized titles

References

External links

''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' official website

MediaWorks' ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' website
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