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chans for anime discussion Anonymous 10/21/24 (Mon) 16:29:28 No.6681 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

The last good place to discuss niche seasonal anime will die a slow death. I meant 4chan's /a/. Sad.
https://boards.4chan.org/a/thread/272330934

Do you know of any other fairly active chans where you discuss lesser know anime&manga titles?

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Anonymous 02/14/26 (Sat) 21:20:21 No.12980

>>12959
I don't think I've ever had a place to say it, but anyone who visited /new/ in the years before it was shut down already knew it was a white supremacist shithole that did nothing but stoke narratives about race wars and eugenics. It's weird thinking that /an/ of all places has taken on some of its old traits. You can open it most months and find vaccine conspiracy theories, biological determinism for humans, and some form of misogyny-racism combo over dogs. All put together over news story screencaps.

Anonymous 02/16/26 (Mon) 02:24:15 No.12987

Witchan has an oekaki board now!

Anonymous 03/18/26 (Wed) 17:20:38 No.13248

>>12987
It's nice that now there are 4 women-only imageboards (and cc but it's overun by moids so I dont count it) but I disagree with some of the admins decisions, but threads move by so fast… And valuable things are bound to get deleted just because they didn't get traction for a day or two. This chan isn't made to last.

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Underused jobs in BL Anonymous 02/13/26 (Fri) 17:20:37 No.12932 [Reply]

Figured this is best in OT.
Certain careers are overrepresented in BL, such as sports, boybands, and salarymen. But what are some lesser used jobs with homoerotic potential that you would like to see (or see more of)?
This can also include ones which are more common to see in gay male targeted media, such as sailors or cowboys.
Pic is not super relevant but found it cute and didn't have any anime boy pictures that would work.

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Anonymous 02/14/26 (Sat) 15:43:51 No.12975

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>>12954
>I think I trained my brain to really like kannushi and Heisan court robes
Aside from Onmyoji adaptations and HikaSai, I'm always thirsty for more Heian courtier BL. The poetry culture is fun and everyone was having affairs all the time, plus that one diary confirms that there were at least some men fucking. I've always been fascinated by the idea of a male writing poetry pretending to be a woman and it wouldn't even be hard for him to keep it up when visited if he sat behind a screen.

Anonymous 02/14/26 (Sat) 16:39:08 No.12977

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>>12974
>That letter delivery system was called the "Pony Express," never considered it in a BL scenario but it's quite cute
Anon that's just Mouthwashing

Anonymous 02/14/26 (Sat) 19:18:05 No.12978

>>12974
I'm a huge fan of westerns. I can just see like, some bounty hunters ala For A Few Dollars More getting some tip that some pony express guy is carrying some letter with information, and now they're all trying to hunt him down. He can hook up with the brooding Clintwood stand-in, who is out to protect him.

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shitpost thread Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 23:16:46 No.1304 [Reply]

NYAAAAA

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Anonymous 02/14/26 (Sat) 08:59:10 No.12961

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Anonymous 02/14/26 (Sat) 10:50:21 No.12967

>>1304
>>1306
>>1313
>>1539
Am I an Aiden if I want to put these on and have yaoi sex

Anonymous 02/14/26 (Sat) 14:25:21 No.12973

>>12967
You're based

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Historical anime & manga Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 14:36:50 No.9361 [Reply]

A thread dedicated to historical series. Any period and location is fine! Shipping and funposting welcome.

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Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 14:40:08 No.9525

>>9519
Every past era is historical to me. WWII is certainly historical but why shouldn't the Vietnam war or Berlin wall related stories be considered historical?

To be honest I am interested in all periods no matter which, including cave men. Though I will most likely avoid Victorian age stuff unless it's a manga about the Firth of Tay Bridge or something.
I would call everything historical that involves eras or conflicts that are mostly concluded. So the current invasions aren't historical to me, at least not as long as they last, but the Balkan war is, even though it just ended a few decades ago.

Anonymous 02/14/26 (Sat) 09:23:27 No.12965

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Does this count as historical?
>A story based on real-life events in 1966.

Anonymous 02/14/26 (Sat) 12:32:42 No.12971

>>12965
Hmm… Even though it wasn't even 100 years ago, I would say it counts as historical. It seems to be something that's based in the real world and focuses on accuracy, so…

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 22:48:17 No.1271 [Reply]

this rat lived the dream

Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 14:34:02 No.1292

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I wish I was it desu.

Anonymous 02/14/26 (Sat) 08:48:40 No.12958

>>1271
Must be coke poisoning.
>Results demonstrated that "92% of the bills were positive for cocaine with a mean amount of 28.75 ± 139.07 micrograms per bill, a median of 1.37 μg per bill, and a range of 0.01-922.72 μg per bill. Heroin was detected in seven bills in amounts ranging from 0.03 to 168.5 μg per bill: 6-AM and morphine were detected in three bills; methamphetamine and amphetamine in three and one bills, respectively, and PCP was detected in two bills in amounts of 0.78 and 1.87 μg per bill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency

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Scanlation thread Anonymous 09/25/22 (Sun) 23:49:07 No.2575 [Reply]

Let's see if we can get a thread going for scanlators to discuss things.

>general info and tutorials
https://quicksandscans.wordpress.com/resources/

>fonts
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hPV4o8fmxY2Ab9tXi84l0vVOUQEgFIbU
https://mega.nz/folder/8ZUQhCjC#2oz4p8DSIovTPyAFDQVJOw/folder/RJ9ggYQA

>screentones
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BGDLEK9pdCEuly0U_Xz7iHNpzLHEolmx/view?usp=sharing

>translation/proofreading
https://www.wordhippo.com/
https://punpedia.org/
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Anonymous 01/23/26 (Fri) 18:20:56 No.12723

>>12721
I always wonder what's the logic that these people have when translating things like these from anime culture.
Are you going to translate "brocon" as "brotherfucker" too?

Anonymous 01/24/26 (Sat) 00:21:14 No.12725

>>12723
if it’s mean to be vulgar, yeah.

Anonymous 02/04/26 (Wed) 02:44:57 No.12835

>>2575
Could anyone give me tips on physical doujin/manga scanning? I have a bunch of doujins collected that'd I'd like to share on exhentai, but I'm kinda lost and worried that I'll do it wrong. I've tried looking for tons of tutorials on the matter, and most of them are outdated or not very in depth. The biggest issue I have is cleaning and leveling, especially color pages- some pages I accidentally mess up while debinding.

Would people prefer raw scans uploaded instead if I have no idea what I'm doing?

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Fujo Advice Anonymous 02/14/22 (Mon) 19:39:54 No.203 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Thread for advice from fujo to fujos.

-dating advice
-friendship and family advice
-work advice
-advice against creepy men
-fandom advice

And more.

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Anonymous 01/29/26 (Thu) 10:47:27 No.12773

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>>12770
>>12771
I have literally never put pronouns in any of my about mes on any site even back in 2014, I don't know why you think that's necessary.

Tumblr actually has a really good blacklist system you can just hide posts with that tag.

Anonymous 01/29/26 (Thu) 13:54:21 No.12775

>>12773
Back in Tumblr's heyday people would try to cancel you for being a 'crypto terf' if you didn't have pronouns in your bio, maybe that didn't happen to you because you didn't post a lot or interact with popular fandoms.

Anonymous 01/29/26 (Thu) 16:21:49 No.12777

>>12775
I can confirm that. And back in the days tumblr didn't have an option to let you mute or block words and tags. You had to use missing e, which died and then was replaced by xkit. Which also died after someone accused its dev of doing something that literally never happened. And it was all on pc, not on the app of course so avoid troons was hard. However there were almost only FTM fandom losers back then on tumblr. I heard the site has been colonized by MTF since I deactivated my account.

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Animanga blogs Anonymous 11/09/25 (Sun) 16:48:21 No.11923 [Reply]

Do you follow any anime/manga blogs? Which ones? Are you a blogger yourself? Are there any dead/abandoned blogs you miss?

Useful tool:
https://aniblogtracker.app

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Anonymous 11/10/25 (Mon) 08:44:20 No.11934

>>11933
Wasn't that actually, it became apparent the more he switched to video as opposed to blogging that his opinions weren't as well formed as I thought they were when they were just articles. There was a lot more name-calling of shitty anime as opposed to ruminations on the industry as a whole. I'm not sure if I could pinpoint an exact thing that was the final straw so much as a slow realization of, "I don't think this is a well-substantiated point." I stopped following him well before he became a tranny or druggie.

Looking through that tracker, I'm surprised how many blogs are still actively updating. Guess I just assumed it was a more niche medium now.

Anonymous 11/11/25 (Tue) 12:26:42 No.11952

I like Brain vs. Book, interesting selection of titles. Will post more when i remember https://brainvsbook.wordpress.com/

Anonymous 01/24/26 (Sat) 20:32:19 No.12732

https://starcrossedanime.com

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Anonymous 04/27/22 (Wed) 16:06:38 No.1119 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

With a possible twitter exodus approaching, do you think we'll see a new rise of smaller communities coming forward? The return of tumblr, using dreamwidth/lj, someone creating their own fandom alternative, this site actually coming to life.
Not just smaller communities rising, but a possible change in fandom thought again now that the twitter extremists might go away?
Discuss

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Anonymous 01/22/26 (Thu) 17:47:40 No.12713

>>12711
>inb4 bought by China
I hope everyone who had any presence there has already migrated.

Anonymous 01/22/26 (Thu) 18:05:11 No.12715

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>>12713
Anybody who was even remotely active back when strikethrough happened and the following decade of troubles migrated to dreamwidth and/or Ao3. IMO the only things that are in danger are inactive accounts/communities with images/fics that were never put anywhere else and kinkmemes with mostly anon/anon account writers.

China buying it would be very funny. It's been a Russian asset for so long I don't think it would have any viability as a vector for whatever propaganda they'd use it for, although typing this does remind me of the people who were shipping the Russian and Chinese guy in those posters over in /rps/ lmao

Anonymous 01/23/26 (Fri) 05:00:32 No.12718

>>12715
>>12711
your taking this way to lightly, the freedom we have is tenacious and it's naive to think it's something that can be maintained

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/djt/ (Not Really) Daily Japanese Thread Anonymous 03/08/22 (Tue) 05:56:44 No.365 [Reply]

Let's commiserate together about the struggles of learning Japanese to read untranslated BL. Learners of all skill levels are welcome.

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Anonymous 01/20/26 (Tue) 21:55:00 No.12673

About a month ago I bit the bullet and started. It's fun being able to read moonrune posts on Twitter even though I don't know what they say. Every time I sound out shit like "ka-wa-i-i–oh, kawaii!" I get a dopamine hit.

Anonymous 01/22/26 (Thu) 00:57:36 No.12701

>>12673
How'd you start nona? Do you have any recs for learning hiragana?

Anonymous 01/22/26 (Thu) 01:11:05 No.12702

>>12701
I used the Tofugu guides+quiz to learn hiragana and katakana and dropped $200 on the Wanikani lifetime sale to hold myself accountable with kanji lol (I've read that Anki is free and has a similar function and I will add it to the rotation when I feel more grounded). I also downloaded the free textbook .pdfs on Tofugu to my ipad to learn to write (harder than I thought it would be!) which also reinforces the memorization.

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