, formerly , is a Japanese
publisher and
brand company of
Kadokawa Corporation. It originally formed on April 1, 2008 as a result of a
merger between
ASCII and
MediaWorks where MediaWorks legally absorbed ASCII. Despite this, the former president of ASCII, Kiyoshi Takano, became the president of ASCII Media Works. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013.