#batoto

[meowmeowkri]

"i hope u kys" boring, unoriginal

"i hope ur fav manga site gets shut down, the only place that had the perfect translation to your favourite manga,the funniest comments and the list of your top reads"

its real, its scary, it happening to me edit: to everyone asking for the new site, sadly the new site has also been shut down and if there are any new sites, please refrain from putting them in the comment section

[missworld28]

The library of Alexandria (batoto) has burned down (been taken down permanently) and I am helpless to watch as the knowledge of thousands of great minds accumulated over the years is lost forever (I can’t read the comments on my fav yaois anymore).

[yourdeargatsby]

[arkaniist]

so devastating to lose bato only a year after i found it. :'( nowhere else has the library size or diversity, nowhere else has the COMMUNITY, the memes and insightful comments... it felt like weeb solidarity in a way i have not felt since anime and manga went mainstream in the west and got taken over by feelings yakuza. so crushed to know i won't be able to finish a chapter and go find my fellow deranged fujos in the comments anymore. 😭😭😭

[crazyaboutto]

RIP BATOTO

You’ll be solely missed 😭😭😭😭

Library of Alexandria burnt for the second time 😭

All those ancient fan translated manga/manhua/manhwas are just gone now 😭

Not to mention all those webtoons which are cancelled and removed from official websites 😭😭

[the-dormant-ocean]

Bato is gone. They burned the great library of Alexandria twice.

[maidragoste]

DUDE I WANT TO CRY I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT BATO 😭😭😭

[orv-spotter]

i miss bato so much. genuinely it feels so much lonelier reading now, which is a new feeling to me. i have always been a person who reads for companionship and escapism and to feel less lonely, and it’s always worked. but damn if i don’t feel the loss of the comments section & the unique bato community vibe every time i finish a chapter on another site (including official sites! even webtoon, which DOES have a comment section. no other site is built to support ease of commenting & conversation like bato was, especially also how easy and fun it was to react with images — which makes total sense given it was a community that revolved around comics).

i especially miss the game i made out of finding ORV mentions & ORV screenshots in the comments. it was so silly but it brought me so much joy, so many little joys, to craft my whole account around ORV spotting & throwing out ORV SPOTTED comments left and right.

it’s a small thing. but i miss it nonetheless.