Komica, also known as Kdǎo(K Island) (K島) or Zāogāo(Terrible) Dǎo(Island) (糟糕島),¹⁾ is a Chinese bulletin board that was founded by “1883” around May 14, 2005. There is also 2cat, or Shuāng Māo Liánhé Zhàn (雙貓聯合站), which mainly serves as an alternative front page since the merger.

Following 2cha's presumed death, “1883” establishes Komica at “komica.org” on May 14, 2005 with several 2cha refuge boards, then it entered the partnership with 2cat on May 19, 2005. Their combined resources would guarantee much success, so the imageboards were moved onto DreamHost with CoralCDN, and the textboards stayed on ADSL. Some adult boards existed, but moved to “komica2.net” in 2011.

In 2013, there was a hack over alleged nudes,²⁾³⁾⁴⁾ which turned out to be fake.⁵⁾ In 2014, a suicidal bipolar man was successfully stopped,⁶⁾⁷⁾ but reporters misread 'Kdǎo' (K島) as Ketamine (K他命).⁸⁾ In 2017, Komica reportedly violated a DreamHost rule,⁹⁾ breaking the layouts for most boards,¹⁰⁾ but they had backups prepared and resolved the issues this caused after 12 days.¹¹⁾

Following a Soyjak Party raid on July 28, 2023, the “komica.org” domain was suspended on September 16, 2023,¹²⁾ which forced Komica to start using the “komica1.org” domain on September 19, 2023.¹³⁾ In 2024, several servers went offline due to a policy violation that took down the old hosting account, forcing Komica to back up what they could salvage, while also downsizing since it did house way too many boards.¹⁴⁾

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• Komica is named after 'Comic Cast', allegedly the name of a comic rental shop that “1883” used to run, which itself was named after the Sega Dreamcast console distributed to Taiwan in 1998.
• The users are called 'islanders' (島民, dǎomín) and they are, indeed, aware of the 'villagers' from PTT.
• While PTT discovered Gikopoi first,¹⁶⁾ most Chinese users at Gikopoipoi usually mention Komica.
• For some reason, these board use different scripts, which makes reporting confusing. It's usually in the form of a 'del' or 'report' (檢舉, jiǎnjǔ) button, but be aware that your reports may be public.
• At one point, there used to be tons of Gyate-kora or 'Cūnǎi-wán' (粗乃丸) images on the website.

• Komica1 (2cat) + Komica2 - The official front pages for Komica1 and Komica2.
  • 2cat & Komica Official Blog - An external blog for announcements.
• Reko Wiki (Backup) - The spiritual successor to the Komica Wiki after it unceremoniously died.
• @KomicaNews on Twitter - It seems to post random Komica threads until 2019.