is a Japanese radio program broadcast by

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, and

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which first aired in October 1994, and is produced by

ASCII Media Works ASCII ( ), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Because of ...

(formerly MediaWorks). The program airs late at night on the weekend ranging between either 1:00-1:30 AM, 1:30-2:00 AM, or 2:00-2:30 AM depending on the broadcasting channel. The program contains any news updates related to ASCII Media Works and light novels published under their

light novel A light novel (, Hepburn: ''raito noberu'') is a style of young adult novel primarily targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a ''wasei-eigo'', or a Japanese term formed from words in the English languag ...

imprint

Dengeki Bunko is a publishing imprint affiliated with the Japanese publishing company ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks). It was established in June 1993 with the publication of '' Hyōryū Densetsu Crystania'' volume one, and is a light novel imprint a ...

. Additionally,

radio dramas Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...

air on the program based from light novels under Dengeki Bunko. Listeners can send in post cards to the program which may end up being read on the air, and any questions asked by listeners via the postcards are answered.

History

''Dengeki Taishō'' first aired in October 1994 and was originally started to work in connection with MediaWorks'

award, the

Dengeki Novel Prize The is a literary award handed out annually (since 1994) by the Japanese publisher ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) for their Dengeki Bunko light novel imprint. The contest has discovered many popular and successful light novelists, like K ...

, which was first held in 1994. After MediaWorks started their male-oriented light novel imprint

in June 1993, the first round of the contest was held the following year, which awarded the Gold Prize to Kyoichiro Takahata for his novel ''Criss Cross: Konton no Maoh''. Due to this, the original title for the radio program was , but this was changed in April 1995 to , and then again in April 1996 when it was changed to the current title. While primarily being an informational program,

radio drama Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...

s also air on ''Dengeki Taishō'' based from light novels under Dengeki Bunko. The show has been through a series of different hosts, each time working as a pair (except the first three months of broadcast which had a single host) and the hosts change frequently. The longest time a host continued with the show was with

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between January 1999 and September 2003. As of April 2013, the host pair is

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and

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. For the broadcast on November 4, 2006, the program's title temporarily reverted to the previous ''Dengeki Daisakusen'' and was hosted by three previous hosts—

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, and Taiki Matsuno—the first two of which were the hosts during the time the show was actually called ''Dengeki Daisakusen''.

Hosts

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(October—December 1994) #:During this time, the program aired every Sunday between 9:00-9:30 PM. #

and

(April 1995—March 1996) #:From April 1995 onwards, the program aired late at night around 1:00 or 2:00 AM. #

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and

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(April 1996—March 1998) # Tetsuya Iwanaga and

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(April—December 1998) # Mae Kuribayashi and

(January—December 1999) #Taiki Matsuno and

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(January 2000—March 2003) # Kanako Irie and Taiki Matsuno (April—September 2003) #

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and

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(October 2003—September 2004) #Takayo Kashiwagi and

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(October 2004—September 2007) #

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and Masakazu Morita (October 2007—March 2008) #Rina Akiyama and

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(April 2008—December 2008) #Rina Akiyama and

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(January 2009—September 2011) #

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and

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(October 2011—March 2013) #

and

(April 2013—ongoing)

Air times

*Chō! A&G+: Thursday from 5:00-5:30 PM and Friday from 7:00-7:30 AM *

: Saturday from 2:00-2:30 AM *

: Sunday from 1:00-1:30 AM *

: Sunday from 1:30-2:00 AM

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dengeki Taisho ASCII Media Works Japanese talk radio programs 1994 radio programme debuts MediaWorks (publisher)