Strawbellies

Piano no Mori and Song of the Long March have some of the best characterisations and character developments I've ever seen. 

Sure, leaving out all that stuff, I'd suggest you give a try to Attaque, Bisan, Hikaru no Go, Jugeume Gwanhayeo, Mayple-san no Koucha Jikan, Noru, Satougashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai, Shards of Sin, Shino-chan wa Jibun no Namae ga Ienai, Shion no Ou, Telling Through the Colors, Chuu x2 Trap, My Girl (SAHARA Mizu), Onee-chan ga Mamotte Ageru!, Hatsukanezumi no Jikan, Kakukaku Shikajika, Nanika Mochigattemasu ka and Ayeshah's Secret

 

Good luck finding something to read.....oh, and by the way, all of these are completely scanlated, even if you can't find 'em here, they're definitely out there somewhere to read in their entirety

Heyyy! 

 

I'm Lily Ive been on batoto for a couple of years now but I havent actually been active on here, just upload chapters that my group releases^^

 

But then i realized that Batoto is hella active and I like active places...so HERE I AM.

Uhh what to know about me...I like food. Like alot. I dont think you understand but I can eat a whole pint of icecream in 30 mins O_O

It's a problem..no worries guys...I'm gonna hit teh gym starting May haha

 

Another fun fact...My favorite show right now is New Girl!! sooo hilarious and I finally caught up to season 5 after a month of watching it.

My favorite show as a kid was suite life of zach and cody and winx

BISH I WAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE STELLA.

 

loll what else...I like reading josei,shoujo,romance,comedy,smut...yup your basic b mangas. Cant help it, Im a sucker for them...

but I like to scanlate fantasy, supernatural, with a hint of romance and comedy...something I would never my self actually read...which is super wierd! But I like doing stuff that I usually am not comfortable with..it really widens your horizons! 

 

I'm also currently tryng to find out what I want to do with my life so any suggestions pls comment. My parents are drilling me every day about it and I'm panicking atm. LOL 

 

I think that's it for now..hope to get to know you guys better as well^^

I'm getting tired of studying for tests...

The language for Kimi to Yuriika Ch. 1 by Akira Scans has been mislabelled as English. I believe it should've been Spanish.

I write this announcement about becoming private, meaning that only members will be able to browse this site (or a portion of it).
 
I post this with quite a bit of reluctance because it's something I wanted to avoid. Since pretty much the beginning, there have been requests to make this site private or to increase security of this site so that it doesn't become simply the source for all the other manga aggregates. But I have always said no because I envisioned this site being as open as possible and available to as many as possible. That principle is why, for basic reading, this site even runs without javascript, flash, or pretty much anything beyond most basic requirements--something few sites do today. These two goals of openness and security are both something we want to achieve but they are contradictory to the other and in the end I've chosen ease of use for the users. Times are changing though and it's getting increasingly difficult to maintain this site while being as open as it is now.
 
Currently, Batoto is undoubtedly the go-to source for hundreds other aggregates. Changes and additions made on this site gets automatically updated elsewhere, like this love of ponies (if that link stops working). People uploading here did not intend for their works to be copied everywhere else. Complete prevention of a copy is not an achievable goal, but making it inconvenient--creating a deterrence is possible. And that is making contents viewable by members only.
 
The change kind of scares me to be honest. From an administrator's point of view. Batoto is very optimized to be viewed by guests because guests make up roughly 90% of the visitors--and it's much easier to optimize for guests as they require less dynamic actions. When they all become members, many of existing optimizations made over the years become useless. I don't know if our current system can handle the increased load. I don't know if decrease in bot load will be significant enough. I don't know if it'll make more members leave us. I don't know if ad revenues will be enough to support the system once it's changed. There's quite a lot of unknowns.
 
I feel the change is (most likely) inevitable. However, the question of how it changes is not certain yet. I'm open to hear suggestions and ideas on this.

 

Few things.

• We don't really care about SEO. Bare minimum of it is sufficient. It has never been a big thing for us. So, don't worry about that.
• The easier the hurdle to pass, the less useful it will be, but more user friendly.
• This change will break a lot of other sites and apps that rely on Batoto to function.
• Opting for partial private may also be possible. Like newly uploaded are visible for few days without registration.
• Objective: No more crawly crawly on this site.

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Edits:

 

Well, this is certainly the hottest announcement topic.

 

I want to clarify something. I post this now and here not because I want to play police, ego or some stuff like that. If it was, I would've changed a long ago. I post this now, I change my objective as someone who maintains this site. I want to shave off a few million page hits a day. With great thanks to kenshin, our bandwidth costs don't increase that much with increased traffic. I still maintain my original image source nodes, so it's not a big shave off in cost, but it is completely manageable. What's biggest (always has been) cost is the HTML of this site, processing the pages that needs to be served. These run on farm of really beefy CPU servers with SSD and I'm currently looking to see if it's necessary to purchase another to handle the load. And one of my ad networks haven't paid me in 3 months. So I'm running on a red.

 

We have over 10,000 comics. And over 300,000 chapters. When 100 other crawlers think they need this content, some of it on a few minute basis (to check for new chapters)! Numbers REALLY add up. Humans don't do this. Because there is follows. You don't need to visit 10,000 comics just to see if there's something new.

 

There are number of anti-crawl features on this site already. All of which I tried to make that doesn't hinder normal users at all. It has caught a few real people using download scripts too. But it's insufficient; it's too lightweight. Pretty much since year 1 of Batoto, other crawlers have been using IP distributed crawls. Without further tracking tools for me, they're just not possible to track.

 

Hitting some of the new chapters are less of a concern. It's the deep crawl that concerns me.

 

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Edit 2:

 

For those saying just don't do it. The alternative is to shut down. Crawling is non-sustainable. Have to do something.

Shoujo / Josei

 

(This is probably overdue... but better late than never)

Dear readers, fans, contributors, authors and friends,

Through this small letter of mine to you, I hope to let everyone understand what Batoto is all about -- why we exist, what we wish to exist for and why we must exist. Batoto at a glance is just another online comic reader, an aggregate of comics. But we exist for a goal much different than the others. We exist so that the community, the ecology, and the value, the economy, of comics have a place to exist.

I'm sure almost all of you have found your way here to read a scanlation -- a derivative work created by fans for the fans of an original comic. Scanlations exist because there is no other way. Without scanlations much of the world populous would be unable to read your favorite comics, whether it be a manga (Japanese), manhwa (Korean), manhua (Chinese) or any other origin, due to barriers of language and barriers of finances. Ordering a comic that you cannot read from a country far away where shipping will easily out price the comic 3 to 1 is just not possible for many of us. I'm sure you've had moments where you laughed and cried (or you didn't read enough!) as you read them. But the joy that it brought to you is a moment that everyone deserves and a moment that we hope to share. And that is why scanlation exist. As much as many of us wish that all of this can be done for free of charge, free of hassle, that is not possible. There are expenses; you need to pay for your comics, you need to buy equipments to make the process possible, you need to pay for hosting your content, and etc. Then there are those who earn through this process; your hosting company earned, even your electric power company earned, and etc. You see, everything in the world has an intricate active economy no matter what. Sometimes you need to spend more, sometimes less. And when the costs end up being too high, you may have to just stop. And that is why Batoto exists. Batoto hosts not only your comics but also the groups' own ads with them for participating groups. This gives them the chance to recoup their costs through their own advertiser(s) for who need it. This may not be a lot, but through their earnings, it secures their ability to continue and motivate to do more. (While this crossed out statement is still within Batoto's ideals, we are currently unable to do so due to changes in ad networks' function. We will re-enable this feature if/when we can.)

Now that is why we exist today, but we want be and do so much more. Primarily we want to be a place where you can publish your own. Next, we also want to truly be part of the economy of comics. Today, there is no place where you can publish your own comics without heavy restrictions or retain your rights to your work except through self publication. But if you were to publish your own web comics on your own website, vast majority will struggle to even get hundreds of views. Numbers like these will not be able to financially help the author. So, just like we make the impact for scanlation, we want to do the same for self published work. A place where they'll retain full rights and immediately be introduced to potentially millions of viewers. Then, perhaps, they can spend their energy in creativity of their work rather than worrying about their next meal. Another wish for Batoto is to be able to be in a position to buy licenses to increase our reaches to more comics in more languages than ever before. This way, our existence benefits the ecology and the economy of the comic world.

Lastly, Batoto must exist. Today, there is a growing trend in the comic world that's quite frightening and making me grumpy. That is: loss of respect. Some of our competitors are doing things that are just wrong. Some are doing things against the wishes of their scanlators, publishers and/or authors. Hosting the content even when requested not to. Frequently even ignoring DMCA notices as the reaches of the law are often powerless in the Internet. Some are even going as far as claiming that the works are their own. What can we do when even the law can't? We can show people that there is a better way. We can educate people to do things the right way. And we want to show that doing right way doesn't even require more effort or cost. Though we may not be able to eliminate those who disrespect others, we hope to diminish their effects and their powers by simply being the better alternative.

Batoto is a publisher that just wants to make things right.

Sincerely,
Founder of Batoto, the one who is grumpy about what's wrong.

Just curious, but are you Silver too? o:

i usually end up at G3 haha

Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines

 

RPG where you create your clan and mate your characters with gods to have stronger childrens that will be your new characters, all of this to defeat Seimei that cursed your clan members to the short lifespan of two years(If you're lucky).

Some children sometimes gain characteristics like fox ears or oriental dragon's horns. It depends what god mate with the parent

 

some of y'all are sharing too much right now, what the fuck.

now that I'm working I'm too tired to do anything when I come home tbh so I don't really have any hobbies right now.

I absolutely HATE when people try to sing happy birthday in a really fancy way, like theyll try to harmonize or like theyll try crazy hard to hit crazy notes, while everyone else is just singing the birthday song like normal, well adjusted, decent human beings. There's a time and a place for everything, you don't need to fucking turn up like beyonce while this dude is getting ready to blow his hot ass breath over a cake. Everytime this happens I just want to roll my eyes so hard they just lop out of my skull because they are just doing wayyyyyyy too much at the wrong time. They all need to just sit down and hush up for a split second, like this shit is just too crazy for me to even handle

Comic: http://vatoto.com/comic/_/comics/biyaku-caf%C3%A9-r6327

Page 15 and Page 24 need to switch places. 

 

Edit: Chapter 24. In English.

 

I hope I'm at the right place for this.

 

Thanks,

 

It is now Fixed. Thank you for reportin.

Why did you first become interested in Manga/Manwha?

Year 9 (8th grade). It's been 5 years. My friends watched Bleach, and recommended it to me. So I did, and things carried on from there.

 

 

What was going on in your life at the time? Where were you headed?

Nowhere. I was pretty lost back then - just wanted to finish school off and get a job, since I didn't really know what I wanted to study in uni and so on. I was pretty much headed towards being, perhaps, some guy with a professional desk job.

 

 

How has Manga/Manwha influenced you? Have you noticed any changes in your Identity or personality that you would attribute to Manga/Manwha?

Manga made me a scanlator, a hobby which I've devoted a lot of time to. I guess it also made me more introverted than I already was, though thanks to manga, I've met new friends. I'm also less secretive about liking manga and anime now, and people have called me weird for that, but I've learned that at the end of the day, I really couldn't care less. So manga has given me a little resilience. It's also opened my eyes to other forms of Japanese-styled entertainment, such as VNs, anime, and so on.

 

 

What is Manga/Manwha to you?

All in all, I see manga as a great way to relax, and I don't see it any differently than I see books or TV shows - it's all entertainment to me. Manga tells stories and invokes readers' imaginations. It can be exhilarating, depressing, whatever you want it to be. Which is great and all, but manga isn't really that important to me.

 

 

Has Manga/Manhwa ever caused you to question or change your values and/or beliefs?

Nope. It's purely entertainment. Anything that's fiction never really gets me, and I haven't read a manga that's really changed my views towards anything yet. I have read a few manga that I really loved though, and sometimes when I make decisions, I think back to similar situations that I read about in manga (I read a lot of slice-of-life and school-life manga, and those really hit home with me).

3) For Images of any size, or Text approximately larger than five lines, use Spoiler Tags.

I don't like this part. I can understand it for pictures, because in some comic's comments section, the picturespam is kinda annoying. But I have trouble understanding why actual text above a certain amount has to be packed in spoilers. Not only does it make any actually thought-out, lenghty contribution seem unwelcome by being "banned" to the spoiler or forum section. But most importantly, it conflicts the actual function of the spoiler function which makes the second part of 2) necessary.

 

So what is going to happen concerning actual discussions is either the comment section becoming a parade of spoiler sections or those discussions "disappearing" into the forums where only very few people actually ever look and participate.

 

 

On another note, I would propose adding a little "Comment rules" link to the rules next to the "Add comment" button, so people can easily look them up even if they only start posting comments after the announcement has disappeared from the front page again.