, also known as ''Dengeki Gao!'' was a Japanese shōnen

manga magazine are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics an ...

that primarily contained

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and information about series featuring

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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

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s published under MediaWorks' ''

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'' 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 '' Dengeki Daioh'' 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

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

List of serialized titles

References

External links

''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' official website

MediaWorks' ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' website
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