2hot4you

You knew who you were
but now


You know Nothing.
It is odd
how I can feel
thee.

Thee.

Thou art
but a memory.

A memory of days
past.
Nights lighter than
sunrise.

Thou art,

Thou were


The first love
worth

fighting for,
struggling for.

But never did
I see.

I could not recognise
Thee.



I have never
really
been

someone to attempt poetry.

It's just not my thing.


But tonight
I toast to thee,
to you.

A friend
long passed.

We will never meet again.
I will never hear your voice
one more time.



That time has passed.
I did not know.



And I am left
with nothing but

a memory

of fairies
fair and
heroes strong
and selfless.



But I am
nothing

but the villain.



Let the world return
to nothingness,

dark.

Darker than
the Devil King's own
soul.


We shall never meet again,

but I miss you.



And he,
that guy,

the one we both know.

He's just as
gone
as you.

So where should I look?

How do I find thee?
Find you?

I have been left
alone.

And the World

does not want me.



Dead Means

there's no returning.

No happily ever
after.

Emptiness is left

behind

me.


I walked
Across the Earth

but could  not find
you.

Only you were
nowhere
to be found.

Yeah, but margherita is the cheapest vegetarian pizza (as opposed to salami or ham being the cheapest non-vegetarian pizzas we were talking about)

They say if you want to know if a pizza place is actually good you have to eat a margherita at their place. Minimum ingredients, shows if they do the basics right (dough, sauce, cheese). If that tastes good they make good pizza

I mostly have the sogginess problem with pizzas that either have too many mushrooms or too many fresh tomatoes

I guess since Batoto is gonna go, may as well send it off with my style from 2013 when I first started posting here.

Here's to you o/

If you ever wanna hit me up, i'm on twitter: https://twitter.com/Anonamos_701
Or Discord: advarcher#7098 
Or if Mangadex ever becomes big or includes a forum or community section: https://mangadex.com/user/4407
 

On Saturday i had plans to hang out with my sister and get bubble tea. I was downstairs at my parents house and I was yelling to my mom upstairs that I was about to leave, but then someone rang the doorbell. My mom could see from upstairs who was at the door so she told me it’s two little girls and she told me to not buy anything. She hates the Girl Scouts because she thinks their stuff is over priced and she doesn’t like their cookies. So I opened the door and stepped outside and then I closed the door behind me (high key the house is really messy with my old apartment’s stuff and my kid brother’s dorm stuff sitting in boxes so I didn’t want them to be able to see inside).

They told me they were selling Girl Scout cookies so I internally was like “OH SHITTTTT I LOVE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES”. I don’t know what the coconut things are called but those are my favorite. So then it became a buy or die situation because I didn’t think they sold Girl Scout cookies so early in the year (I thought these were a summer time thing) and I didn’t know when the next cookie season would be so I knew I had to get this shit while I still had the chance. I whispered to them like I was on a mission from god like “Okay listen, I wanna buy, but I can’t let my mom see (c" ತ,_ತ)” cause at that point my mom was not so subtly peeking at us through the window after I closed the door. I really debated what I was about to say next because I knew it was gonna sound REALLY fucked up and sus coming from an adult’s mouth, so I said it really slowly because a part of me was still trying to stop the words from coming out. “Can I meet you on the side of my house at the garage? (c" ತ,_ತ)” As soon as I said that, I felt like I was on some Dateline NBC To Catch A Predator shit for trying to lure them to my garage. But I guess to kinda justify things, my jacket and my wallet were both inside my car anyway so I would have had to walked over to our garage to get my cash out anyway.

Those two kids had no sense of stranger danger so they were like “Yeah, okay!!! ٩( ᐛ )و” and internally I was doing the Mr Burns “Excellent” hands. So then I went back inside and I told my mom I was leaving for real and she said “okay~”. My car’s parked outside, so after I got outta the garage, I hit the remote button to shut the garage door behind me and I grabbed my wallet out of my car. The girls were waiting and when I asked “how much?” they said it was $4. I knew the smallest bill I had was $5 so I said I was gonna give it to them if i could find it (I just came back from vacation so I had an abnormal amount of bills and receipts to dig through) and I told them to keep the extra $1. I was actually extremely late because I was still supposed to meet my sister for bubble tea, and I didn’t have time for these girls to run back across the street to get a $1 bill from their mom to give to me as change.

Anyway, I had all my money wrapped up into a ball (when I get a shit ton of coins back as change I always wrap the receipt and some bills around them to prevent them from sliding out of my wallet), so I struggled to pull the $5 out without dropping all my money. Plus it was extremely windy, so I was worried a bill would fly away because all the bills were flapping in the wind. The entire time I was fiddling with the money, the garage door was still slowly closing behind me, so I suddenly heard the garage door make a mechanical grinding sound but I didn’t think anything of it because the door jams once in a while. Then one of the girls said “UH OH!!! ((((Д)))))))” and I was internally panicked like “FUCK, WAT SHE MEAN BY UH OH?? DID SOME OF MY MONEY FLY AWAY?? ((((Д)))))))”

A second later I finally teased out the $5 bill and got the box of cookies. I was so fucking hype about the coconut cookies, I was celebrating on the inside. Then I fucking turned around and my mom was standing right under the garage door like the Terminator with her hands on her hips. I physically jumped and I yelled “OH SHIIIIIIT” and then the Girl Scouts ran away laughing. Then I heard their mom laughing from a block away. My mom wasn’t laughing at all, she was in a rage like “WHY THE FUCK DID YOU BUY THOSE EXPENSIVE ASS COOKIES??? I TOLD YOU TO SAY NO ( _ゝ´) ” Then I dipped on that question and I was like “WELL WHY ARE YOU EVEN OUTSIDE??? ( _ゝ´) “ Her response was such a Chinese Mom thing, she said she was outside because she was worried I didn’t put on a jacket before I went outside in the cold. My jacket was already in my car, like I was gonna put it on after buying the cookies, so I was internally kicking my own asshole inside out like “oh my fucking god, if only I had brought my jacket inside the house, I would have never been caught buying cookies and embarrassed infront of the little Girl Scouts”. Then I drove my ass away to the bubble tea shop. The end.

Ok then, replied correctly for once then

Hey guys! Long time no see. I came back to say bye. Dunno if any of the old crew are even still around. I may not frequent this site anymore, but I will never, NEVER, forget the integral part this site played in my life. Some of my very best friends, people I've ended up meeting irl, I met here. Hell, the first guy I ever really loved, I met through this site. Batoto was with me through some of the hardest years of my life, years I almost didn't make it through. I will always love this site. 

 

That being said, I completely understand and respect the decision to shut down. Nothing can last forever, sometimes you have to move on. So I'd like to say, thankyou Grumpy. Thankyou, from the bottom of my heart, for building this community. Thank you for every hour you gave to make Batoto possible. Please know that what you did here truly touched my life. I will carry these memories with me until I die. 

 

And so, with tears in my damn eyes, I'd like to say goodbye friends. 

I legitimately don't know what to do. I have been using batoto for just under 7 years now. I didn't even made an account immediately either so I've been using this site even before Nov 2011. I remember back when this site was almost all about Tower of God and it was the big thing that everyone was reading. Since then I've seen a lot of changes to the site. Noticing my favorite series getting DMCAd made me sad, but i was proud that i was using a site that respected the publishers wishes. The fact that scantalators got the proper treatment they deserved made it OK when i was a week behind the latest chapter compared to my friends. The entire issue with being advertiser friendly and removing stuff like Nana to Kaoru was a rough situation but ultimately i felt that if it was best for the site and would help it grow than good. At one point i would try sending links to manga to friends only to have them say they couldn't read without an account. I have no idea when that happened, I've just been signed in for years and years that i haven't noticed. I regretted not using the forums more. I'm just not a a very communicative guy, and i've only used to inform about double uploads and such. You could probably count the number of comments I've made in one hand. All i can remember is reading this one chapter of Terrarium in a drawer and being so blown away that i had to comment. Once for the sake of it, I made a topic on god damn Shield Hero cause that premise still seems way to unrealistic to me. Not to long ago the whole community was in awe of rello, being praised for his impossible pace. I'm glad Helck ended before batoto. How Tomo's comments got shut down for all the meme. One of the best things I've noticed lately is the improvement of the Highest Rated Series, being a good way to find hidden gems. I say lately but a few years ago, i felt that list was completely static, dominated by Tower of God and i Think Noblesse. It seems weird now that you had Naver stuff on here. It's also one of my biggest issues right now. MyAnimeLIst doesn't have either of those series. Even though i've dropped both i still want a record of them somewhere. Sure i exported my follows list but it just is not the same. That reminded me of another regret. I wish i had followed more dropped series. I only started wanting to keep track of the shit series in the past 2 years, with 5 years of dropping manga gone into the either. I dont want to stop typing. I feel like i still have so much i can say about batoto, both the good and the bad. But this already feels like a cluster fuck of half balked nonsense. I regret not putting myself out there, trying to be a recognizable name like Purple Library Guy. I regret all those manga i didn't follow and might be lost forever in the giant sea of manga. I regret that batoto didnt have a better way of sorting out follows, but god damn it, it was the best i had. It was the best that any manga fan had. Ever since i started using this i felt this was the best place to read manga. Even here, today, years later i tried things mangafox withe there shit scans, all of the rip off sites like mangahere, and even though i like mangasee for letting me scroll down instead of page by page, it still didn't beat batoto. Look's like i actually have to go bother learning madokami. I really love batoto. Even with the server issues, even with DMCA, even with the mature content, this place has been with me for years. And now i'm being greeted with a yellow banner saying it's about to be auctioned off. I hope the dream of this site lives on. I hope that all the community members find a new place to read. I hope something actually happens with all the archived data. Of course i hope that Grumpy feels better. I really waited as long as possible. I just don't know what to say, and at the same time i have so much. I just finished reading Tsubasa to Hotaru, thanks to the Highest Rated List of course. I was just struck with the realization that this was going to be the last thing ill ever read on here. I suppose i could read more, find some one shots i have on my plan to read, but that felt artificial. I'm going to miss batoto. That's the TLDR of the thing. I don't want to come back after posting this. I want to move on. So this is it. 2265 days and 1167 follows later. Good Bye batoto. I am definitely going to be carrying this weight. 

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Hello Fellow Bato.to dweller. In a few days we will face "The end of Bato.to (as a comic hosting site) as we know it!"

 

A wonderful little thing about Bato.to that I really love in the monotony of life is the chance for One shots or relatively short series to surface and SHINE!  This chance happen because of the dedicated and passionate niche community that is welcomed and respected in Batoto. In other aggregator one shots and short series doesn't have the mainstream reader to pull them into spotlight as aggregator often put emphasis on ad rev not the community of scanlator. Batoto is different.

 

Now what is this thread?

This thread here is a place for those one shot and short series that you feel is a must read before the dead because of its quality! Either story quality, art quality, general quality and/or entertaining quality! Share it to us!

 

The rules!

-Write title, author, and scanlator! The forum and scanlator probably will last longer than Batoto the comic host!

 

-The comic must be one shots or short enough to binge read without depriving your sleep! It's relative but the idea is that the Riaju of Batoto can fully appreciate it before the shut down! Try to write down estimated reading time

 

-Give short pitch why this title is the must read for Batoto's Last Breath!

 

 

Example that is also my recommendation:

Title : Three Days of Happiness

Author:     Miaki Sugaru
Artist:     TAGUCHI Shouichi

Groups:vgperson

Estimated Reading Time <3 hours

Pitch : The theme of life worth and numbered life time really fit with the current ending of Batoto as comic hosting and community site. This story isn't as depressing as many of the same theme. Nevertheless the story still delivered emotional punch in many variety. A truly must read of Batoto's End proportion!

 

Ciao~, Metroxylonov!

#1 being Aurum herself

I remember the day when a batoto salesman came ro my door to advertize it to me

hey dats pretty gud

Wow.

 

Grumpy - thank you for everything. I joined TheCompany sometime in 2010 because of ToG, Greenboy and a bunch of other comics I liked to read. I remember the wild times with Fubuly, haruki, n0c0. Trebor joined as a snot-faced brat back then.

 

I was there in the IRC channel when the idea behind Batoto started. I was there when you made drunken calculations for maintenance costs. I remember sending you a long list of suggestions on how to make the site more user-friendly and you'd implemented half of them within a few weeks.

 

Despite my retirement years ago, I frequently used this site to read. I'm sad it's shutting down.

 

You'll forever be a legend to me. Thank you for some of the best times of my life.