Fakku

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Fakku!
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All about hentai
Online publishing
languages English
editorial staff Jacob Grady
user 500,000
Registration Yes
On-line 2006 (currently active)
https://www.fakku.net

Fakku ( proper spelling FAKKU! Or F! ) Is the world's largest English-language publisher of pornographic comics ( hentai ). The website receives over a billion visits per month and has approximately nine million active visitors. Half a million people have a registered account.

At its core, it's about Fakku! a video aggregator , the visitor with Japanese Adult - manga and dōjinshi supplies. Initially, only site administrators were allowed to publish works on the platform. This was later expanded to include the community, which enabled translators to reach a wider readership.

Fakku! and its founder Jacob Grady work together with the Japanese TV personality Danny Choo and have already held several joint community meetings during the Anime Expos from 2010 to 2012, which attracted a large audience.

history

Cosplay during the Anime Expo 2015.

Fakku! was started in December 2006 by Jacob Grady, who was studying computer science in Massachusetts at the time . The development took place under the code name "AAH" or "All About Hentai" - which was later used as the slogan for the website. Brady initially used the money from his student loan to finance the server and bandwidth costs, which quickly turned out to be unsustainable and the site had to be closed shortly afterwards. Only in July 2007 could the site be reopened through crowdfunding .

In July 2011, Fakku signed a streaming license agreement with Kitty Media , a subsidiary of Media Blast , and entered the streaming industry. The first title shown was Immoral Sisters . Both versions, both the OmU and the translated version, were made freely available to the community. In June 2014, the company announced the partnership with the hentai manga publisher Wanimagazine to publish all of the magazine's titles in English on a digital and physical basis. In December 2015, Fakku announced a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.com to publish the work Urotsukidōji of the adult mangaka Toshio Maeda in English. The crowdfunding campaign should be a first step in order to be able to publish more of his works. The campaign started in June 2016 and lasted four weeks. It became a success.

In July 2016, acquired Fakku the ero-guro -Manga Koi no Choujikuuhou the mangaka Shintaro Kago and the Manga Aiko no Ma-chan Arisa Yamamoto. In 2017, Fakku! the three magazines Girls forM , Comic Bavel and Comic Europa in the range. In November of the same year, Fakku took over! Kitty Media. In December 2018, the operator of the fansub hentai streaming site HentaiHaven announced a collaboration with Fakku! known after it was taken offline the day before the announcement due to financial problems. HentaiHaven was reopened on May 12, 2019. In the meantime there were disputes between the publisher and the previous site operator. These have since been resolved. Grady admitted that HentaiHaven was a thorn in his side as the site came before Fakku! In searches on Google for hentai in the United States. was listed although Fakku! is the only official publisher for adult manga and pornographic animation in the USA.

Fakku started a collaboration with the virtual camgirl project Melody . In the course of the global COVID-19 pandemic , Fakku! the “Stay Home. FAKKU! is Free. ” in which the company provides all dōjinshi and adult manga in English for non-registered users to access free of charge.

publishing company

Fakku started in June 2014! a partnership with the Japanese publisher Wanimagazine and opened his own publishing house, Fakku Books, where Wanimagazine's works are published in English.

Kitty Media

After Fakku! had started a partnership with Kitty Media, the company acquired the subsidiary of Media Blasters and its entire catalog. Fakku! has since taken over the digital distribution while the physical distribution is still guaranteed by Media Blasters.

Fakku Games

In 2018, Fakku! under his label Fakku Games, which he founded the year before, Honey Select Unlimited, their first self-developed video game.

Web links

Commons : Fakku  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karen Ressler: Hentai Manga Publisher Fakku Acquires Hentai Anime Publisher Kitty Media. Anime News Network , November 28, 2017, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Danny Choo: Fakku x Culture Meetup Japan. dannychoo.com, June 18, 2011, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  3. ^ Kitty Media Partnership, Immoral Sisters Press Release. Fakku !, June 22, 2011, archived from the original on December 18, 2011 ; accessed on October 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Lynzee Loveridge: Hentai Website Fakku Enters Publishing Business with Japan's Wanimagazine. Anime News Network, June 22, 2014, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Introducing, FAKKU Books. Anime News Network, June 20, 2014, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Kyle Hallmark: Fakku to Launch Kickstarter for Maeda's Urotsukidoji Manga. Anime News Network, December 14, 2015, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Rafael Antonio Pineda: Fakku's Urotsukidoji Manga Kickstarter Campaign Ends Successfully. Anime News Network, July 20, 2016, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Scott Green: Fakku Licenses Manga By Modern Ero-Guro Great Shintaro Kago And Controversial Work By "Attack on Titan" Author's Assistant. Crunchyroll , July 10, 2016, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  9. Jump up ↑ Jamez: HentaiHaven: Publisher saves streaming site. Animenachrichten.de, December 28, 2018, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Megan Peters: Fakku, Hentai Haven War Heats Up, Worrying Fans Worldwide. Comicbook.com, July 9, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ignacio Martinez: Inside the porn civil war between Hentai Haven and FAKKU. The Daily Dot, July 11, 2019, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Cecilia D'Anastasio: Hentai Sites Go To War, Leaving Animated Porn's Future In Doubt. Kotaku , July 8, 2019, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  13. ^ Dexter Tan Guan Hao: Project Melody banned on Twitch one day after being partnered. Dotesports.com, March 2020, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Robin Hirsch: FAKKU! offers free dōjinshi during the Corona period. Anime2you.de, March 30, 2020, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  15. ↑ FAKKU Announces First Game, Honey Select Unlimited. Anime News Network, February 24, 2018, accessed October 23, 2019 .