🪦Bato.to is gone for good. It was good while it lasted.

#manga #otaku #filesharing

With artificial intelligence supercharging manga piracy online, Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs announced it’s developing an AI-backed system to help fight the spread, but is it coming too late? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/01/19/tech/manga-anime-piracy-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #tech #intellectualproperty #copyrights #anime #manga

Evening #QuestionOfTheDay What's a work/game/artist/author/series/brand/franchise/etc that sucks but you keep coming back to it anyway?

#fiction #books #music #musicals #ttrpg #ccgs #videogames #gaming #movies #tv #television #comics #comicbooks #anime #manga

This week on the #AniMangaPictureChallenge, we're looking to block enemy attacks with our:

🛡️ Shields ⛨

Show us pictures of your favorite shields from #anime or #manga by @-ing @apc and by using the hashtag #AniMangaFoundIt to help make sure your post is seen. Get your entires in by Jan 25th to be included in the community collage.

Evening #QuestionOfTheDay What's a work/game/artist/author/series/brand/franchise/etc that sucks but you keep coming back to it anyway?

#fiction #books #music #musicals #ttrpg #ccgs #videogames #gaming #movies #tv #television #comics #comicbooks #anime #manga

#QuestionOfTheDay what's something (a character, a theme, a plot point, a scene, etc) in a work that you enjoy which you find people (audiences/fans/critics, etc) regularly misunderstand or miss the entire point of and it bugs you? This can even include people misunderstanding authorial intent or the message of the work, etc

use spoiler warnings as needed

#fiction #books #movies #film #TV #television #comics #comicbooks #anime #manga #videogames #ttrpg #CCGs #music #musicals

#QuestionOfTheDay what's something (a character, a theme, a plot point, a scene, etc) in a work that you enjoy which you find people (audiences/fans/critics, etc) regularly misunderstand or miss the entire point of and it bugs you? This can even include people misunderstanding authorial intent or the message of the work, etc

use spoiler warnings as needed

#fiction #books #movies #film #TV #television #comics #comicbooks #anime #manga #videogames #ttrpg #CCGs #music #musicals

This is a longshot, but yesterday I gave a 3-hour (!?) lecture at the Kyoto International Manga Museum to a group of students from the Fashion Institute of Technology on the history of #manga, and before I could finish answering a student's question about yuri, we ran out time and had to clear the room. So on the off chance that one of the students might search my name and find this account, here's the full answer. #FashionInstituteOfTechnology #KyotoInternationalMangaMuseum 1/8

This is a longshot, but yesterday I gave a 3-hour (!?) lecture at the Kyoto International Manga Museum to a group of students from the Fashion Institute of Technology on the history of #manga, and before I could finish answering a student's question about yuri, we ran out time and had to clear the room. So on the off chance that one of the students might search my name and find this account, here's the full answer. #FashionInstituteOfTechnology #KyotoInternationalMangaMuseum 1/8

#QuestionOfTheDay most disappointing villain reveal in a work of fiction you otherwise enjoyed?

#fiction #books #videogames #superheroes #ttrpg #ccgs #comics #comicbooks #anime #manga #musicals #film #movies #TV #Television

#introduction
Hello! I am Originalbarbas and I have recently joined this server. I am a physicist, currently researching #quantum technologies in #Vigo. I build things with lasers on them, basically. Sometimes I also build the lasers too. I have lived in many places, recently in #Scotland and #Catalunya.

I like #videgames (currently playing through Expedition 33), #tabletopgames, #ttrpgs, #manga, #anime, #books (I read everything that I get my hands into, but I specially like #scifi, #fantasy and #murdermysteries), #comics (european mostly, but also american and basically every genre I can find), #bouldering and recently #aikido and #iaido.

Pleased to be in your nice company!

P.S. I might write another in Spanish, maybe tomorrow.

#introduction
Hello! I am Originalbarbas and I have recently joined this server. I am a physicist, currently researching #quantum technologies in #Vigo. I build things with lasers on them, basically. Sometimes I also build the lasers too. I have lived in many places, recently in #Scotland and #Catalunya.

I like #videgames (currently playing through Expedition 33), #tabletopgames, #ttrpgs, #manga, #anime, #books (I read everything that I get my hands into, but I specially like #scifi, #fantasy and #murdermysteries), #comics (european mostly, but also american and basically every genre I can find), #bouldering and recently #aikido and #iaido.

Pleased to be in your nice company!

P.S. I might write another in Spanish, maybe tomorrow.

Weekly Round-Up, 24-31 December 2025: Internationally Streaming Takarazuka, FTC Anime Industry Investigation, and Gal x Gal

https://www.animefeminist.com/weekly-round-up-24-31-december-2025/

#anime #ftc #takarazuka #castlevania #japan #news #lgbtq #manga

Weekly Round-Up, 24-31 December 2025: Internationally Streaming Takarazuka, FTC Anime Industry Investigation, and Gal x Gal

https://www.animefeminist.com/weekly-round-up-24-31-december-2025/

#anime #ftc #takarazuka #castlevania #japan #news #lgbtq #manga

The items listed above are #manga that should, as best as I can tell, be in the #PublicDomain in Japan and in the US.

Their English translations are still under copyright, but I remembered recently that I have several friends who read Japanese and at least two of them are on board with translating some manga.

Once, drawings for anime ended up in garbage bins, now they are the focus of exhibitions in Japan’s biggest museums and galleries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/12/27/art/anime-manga-exhibitions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #art #anime #manga #evangelion #ghostintheshell #exhibitions #gundam #animetokyostation #2025inreview

"Deca-Dence": The Fight for a Better World - Joshua Baron examines 2020 anime series Deca-Dence, and the way the series approaches its themes of social justice, worker rights, and activism, and the forces of inertia and apathy that must be overcome for these elements to effect lasting change.

Link: https://hera.fyi/decadence

#anime #manga #decadence

#Introduction for my (recreated) solo instance 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️ Hello! I go by Leora online, late-20s, pronouns she/her ❥ I am happily married! ❥ I am a 🐈 #cat mom to 3 and a 🐶 #doggo mom to 1 very crazy #whippet. I will likely be posting a lot of pictures of my #cats Saria, Majora, and Link, along with the occasional Mabel picture. ❥ I am a Linux Server Administrator. ❥ I currently live in Arkansas in the US, but I'm trying my hardest to relocate out of the South for obvious reasons. ❥ My memory is absolutely terrible, can't really recall a majority of my past. ❥ I’m reasonably confident in my programming ability; my projects are often less so. ❥ Took a 🇯🇵 #Japanese language course in high school only to forget it all the next year. Currently working on relearning what I've forgotten. ❥ Use to be super involved with 🎭 #theatre. I was in a mime troupe in high school; I learned mime stuff, stilt & ball walking, small bit of 🤸 acrobatic stuff, diabolo stuff. I was active on stage and behind the curtains for several shows throughout high school and college. My social anxiety has mostly put an end to that chapter of my life, though. ❥ In my free time I'm either tinkering with my #homelab, watching #jellyfin or youtube, reading #manga or #webtoons, playing video games (sometimes on #Twitch), or taking 📸 pictures of my cats. Feel free to add me, I enjoy meeting new people! Other various interests & relevant tags: #intro #trans #lgbt #linux #cyberSecurity #programming #yuri #videoGames #zelda #rimworld #dog

"Deca-Dence": The Fight for a Better World - Joshua Baron examines 2020 anime series Deca-Dence, and the way the series approaches its themes of social justice, worker rights, and activism, and the forces of inertia and apathy that must be overcome for these elements to effect lasting change.

Link: https://hera.fyi/decadence

#anime #manga #decadence

I'm in the hospital waiting for a scan, entertain me, give me your favorite knockoff characters/media/games where it's clear they wanted to do X but don't have the rights to X but they barely try to hide it (not something that started out as one thing but changed into something else)

#fiction #books #videogames #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #anime #manga #film #movies #TV #television