“why don't we gore the boys more? what's up with that”
– Anonymous¹⁾

Gurochan is an English guro-focused bulletin board that was founded by “Keito” (later “orz”) and initially ran from 2004 to 2014. The website has since rebooted numerous times under different owners, vaguely keeping an archive from the third iteration running.

When 4chan removed the “Guro” (/g/) board on November 15, 2004, “Keito”²⁾ utilized Start Network's free hosting service to launch Gurochan using Wakaba Zero on November 17, 2004.³⁾ They would later move to “gurochan.net” on January 8, 2005,⁴⁾ switched to Wakaba and Kareha,⁵⁾⁶⁾ then “Chiisai” (!CHIISaIHgs) would offer shared hosting space for Gurochan and, effectively, became the website's co-administrator.⁷⁾

Later that year, Gurochan was revealed to be using DreamHost's services.⁸⁾ By 2007, their administration decided to become more anonymous. Then on March 1, 2010, the host asked Gurochan to move from their shared server to a private server, so they used this as an opportunity to switch to Kusaba X⁹⁾ while keeping an archive.¹⁰⁾ Gurochan then vanished around March 15, 2014.¹¹⁾

The second iteration began at “guroch.org” using Kusaba X on April 3, 2014,¹²⁾ then Worldstream axed it on August 27, 2014.¹³⁾ The third iteration of Gurochan, co-founded by “ryonaloli” and “enclaved”, would then emerge at “gurochan.ch” using a Vichan fork on September 10, 2014.¹⁴⁾ Following an RKN notice, they had temporarily banned lolicon and shotacon content from May 22, 2015 to June 13, 2015.¹⁵⁾

Gurochan briefly had clearnet issues in 2017,¹⁶⁾ overhauled the front page, then they lost the “gurochan.ch” domain around October 2018. Two months later, the staff would salvage their database and restore it at “gurochan.cx” using base Vichan on December 2, 2018.¹⁷⁾ In 2020, they tried banning “art depicting minors”,¹⁸⁾ but lost the domain anyways around May 7, 2020.¹⁹⁾

The fifth iteration of Gurochan started at “gurochan.ga” using TinyIB on January 29, 2021,²⁰⁾ along with an archive of the previous iteration.²¹⁾ Due to TinyIB's lack of features,²²⁾ after the brief power struggle,²³⁾²⁴⁾ Gurochan switched to Kokonotsuba on March 16, 2021.²⁵⁾²⁶⁾ They'd then move to “guro.wtf”, declare “Kaguya” owner on June 6, 2021,²⁷⁾ then Namecheap forced a move to “guro.cx” on July 18, 2021.²⁸⁾

On December 10, 2022, the website deemed Kokonotsuba underdeveloped and switched to Vichan, which was when the old database merged with the new database.²⁹⁾ Then on December 10, 2025, the website announced that Vichan was “no longer maintained”³⁰⁾ and switched back to the in-house Kokonotsuba as they had several years to improve said software.³¹⁾

• The old administrator “Chiisai” revealed his name in an old article about The Gathering.³²⁾
• Around 2012, an image dump torrent preserving nearly every image uploaded to Gurochan's /g/ board during the Wakaba era, from January 6, 2006 to February 26, 2010, was uploaded.
• In 2025, the Chinese-language Lost Media Wiki were searching for a 'cruel' version of AIR and they found an ancient Gurochan torrent, but later determined, from one image, that it was a hoax.³³⁾

• not4chan

• Gurochan - The front page of Gurochan.