First we would like to thank all new and returning members to AK, like to explain best I can about where we stand today and what we’re planning in the future for AK. As many returning members know, AK was once a site dedicated to showing anime, some manga and linking in to sites. What it greatly lacked was the best way to do this, as many would know if the link  went dead, the link became pointless.

At the same time, AK was working to create a network to distribute legal anime online via streaming. Unfortunately a competitor (Crunchyroll) had jumped in before we could ever raise enough capital to even start negotiations with the Anime/Manga Industries. After spending some tens of thousands in capital, talks with some of the industry, we decided to place AK on temporary halt and work on other projects and to go back to the drawing board to redo the site’s core function.

Today – now, some three years later we have laid out our new intentions for the site, idea, and goals. Anime Kiosk will be just what the name implies, a kiosk to find everything anime, manga, jpop, hentai. We started to crawl the web about three weeks ago, this is a personalized search engine on the homepage, you will not find anything else like it. We have multiple servers working 24/7 to crawl, update, and change links. It will even get better as we increase the links, which we’re slowly doing to not cause too much strain on the databases, also an image search is already in the works and thousands of thumbnails are being taken for a visual web search engine. You can always check out the main blog about posts on whats going on with site. You can even add your site or a site you know of if it’s not indexed already by going to the add your site.

MyAK – is a personal community for our user base to create blogs, chat with friends, create and join groups, email friends, and all in all, general social networking. You can use the Comic theme to host a comic/manga on your blog. Galleries can be added as well for showing off cosplay, etc. You can link into any video sites to embed media on your blog and yes, if your site receives enough traffic, it can become an official AK networked blog and receive revenue for your blog posts.

Costs – None, there are no costs to the user. The only fees that can apply is if the user wants to have a dedicated blog networked into the AK network without banner ads and more than 5mb of hosting. We have not even discussed this yet, but its for future development. Everything you see and can access now will stay free, forever. Some users may remember OtakuShrines, the sister site of AK, well MyAK is like a super OS.

Feedback – we’d love to hear feedback from our users. Don’t even hesitate to shout out to us if you need help or would like to suggest something! We’re all ears, it’s most important to us that our community enjoys the site, after all, it’s you who make such a great community flourish and continue. You can send feedback multiple ways, the easiest is to send it through the main page (search engine) on the right hand side, the feedback link.

Keep in touch

Ayame

AK Team