Otakumole [upd] Jun 2026

It originally launched as a sister site to the infamous —the undisputed king of Japanese anonymous forums. While 2ch covered everything from politics to cooking, Otakumole was the designated underground bunker for people who just wanted to talk about Bleach shipping wars without their boss finding out.

Otakumole isn’t a museum. It’s a living, breathing, slightly grumpy old man who has been arguing about the same mecha show since 2007. otakumole

The site is legendary for its raw spoiler threads. Every Wednesday (or Tuesday, depending on the magazine), a user will post a photo of Shonen Jump taken on a potato phone from a convenience store at 4 AM. Then, the collective hive mind of Mole translates, analyzes, and memes the entire chapter before it’s officially published. It originally launched as a sister site to

: It was often the "end of the trail" for rare reads, containing translations for hundreds of chapters of series that official publishers or mainstream scanlation groups had not yet reached. The "Death" of Otakumole It’s a living, breathing, slightly grumpy old man