Burichan was an short-lived English bulletin board that “terra”¹⁾ ran from December 23, 2003²⁾ to September 2, 2005.³⁾ It was mainly focused on fictional, non-traditional pornography. Today, it's mostly forgotten, but lives on as the inspiration for 4chan's “Yotsuba Blue” (Yotsuba B) theme.

On December 23, 2003,⁴⁾ “terra” established Burichan, using the “Futabally” script, and originally described the website as a “Gay 4chan” at first.⁵⁾ The website borrows its name from Bridget (ブリジット, Burijitto) from Guilty Gear whom the owner dubs the “posterboy of Yaoi”⁶⁾ since the character, at the time, identified as male after it was revealed that Bridget was biologically male but raised as a woman.

As for the website, Burichan saw flooding⁷⁾ which forced their database to be reset on June 22, 2004,⁸⁾ then they would migrate to the “Wakaba” script by January 7, 2005.⁹⁾ Burichan reportedly closed in April 2005, citing bandwidth issues and understaffing,¹⁰⁾¹¹⁾ then returned with a moderation team, new boards, and a full list of rules since the “unspoken rules” system wasn't working.

For reasons that are lost to time,¹²⁾ Burichan would announce its shutdown on Friday, September 2, 2005,¹³⁾ then everything on Burichan was essentially deleted except for a temporary archive of their “Bridget” (/b/) board which stood for a few more weeks.¹⁴⁾ After that, the “burichan.pyoko.org” subdomain ceased to exist by November 24, 2005 and, from there, automatically takes you to the “pyoko.org” directory.¹⁵⁾

• The founder and administrator of Burichan was “terra !hv8fIUoYQw”,¹⁶⁾ while the moderators were “chinji !!y7n1/lYk”, “Kurama”, and “Mitosis !rRQYQNJpMg” when it shut down.
  • During the temporary closure in April 2006, “terra” admits that the purpose of Burichan was to collect new images of Bridget that they hadn't seen before.¹⁷⁾
• The “pyoko.org” domain was often used for hosting and IRC channels back then. If the URL looks very familiar, you might remember it housing I Wanna Be the Guy at “kayin.pyoko.org”.
• “Poserporn” (Poser porn) was pornography that was made in Poser, which generally looked bad. Nobody talks about it nowadays since it's proprietary and people moved onto Daz Studio.

• Not4chan

• Burichan [Archive] - The front page of Burichan, archived August 29, 2005.