Komica, also known as K Island (K島, K Dǎo) and Bad Island (糟糕島, Zāogāo Dǎo), is a Chinese¹⁾ bulletin board website founded by “1883” around May 14, 2005. 2cat (雙貓聯合站, Shuāng Māo Liánhé Zhàn) is a separate website that acts as an alternative front page.

Before Komica, there was a Futaba Channel-inspired website called “2cha” which opened in October 2003, but suddenly closed on May 4, 2005.²⁾ Shortly after, “1883” launched Komica on May 14, 2005 with a few 2cha refuge boards. Komica quickly partnered with 2cat on May 19, 2005, though both sites decided to keep their own homepages instead of merging them, with Komica keeping a traditional “frames” homepage.

The success of Komica and 2cat is mainly attributed to the resources that they had combined.³⁾ Due to the amount of traffic, Komica moved its imageboards from 8Mbps/640kbps ADSL onto DreamHost with CoralCDN and left their textboards on ADSL. Between 2006 and 2011, a number of adult boards were set up, but they would be listed on “Komica2” due to concerns about content restrictions.

In 2013, there was a hack⁴⁾ over fake nudes⁵⁾⁶⁾ that turned out to be slander.⁷⁾ Then in 2014, a bipolar man attempted suicide but the authorities were alerted in time,⁸⁾ though users noted that “K島” was misread as Ketamine in the report.⁹⁾ In 2017, Komica allegedly violated a rule with DreamHost,¹⁰⁾ which broke their layouts for most boards,¹¹⁾ but they did have backups so everything got resolved within 12 days.¹²⁾

Following a Soyjak Party raid on Komica around July 28, 2023, the “komica.org” domain was suspended by their registrar on September 16, 2023,¹³⁾ which forced Komica to migrate to the “komica1.org” domain on September 19, 2023.¹⁴⁾ Then on May 16, 2024, the servers went offline due to a policy violation, forcing the website to back up all of its data and slowly repair all the boards.¹⁵⁾

^{Note: This list was retrieved on 2024-05-22. It may have changed since then. ☠️ - Domain was lost.}

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• The term “Komica” stems from “Comic Cast”, a comic rental shop that “1883” ran in the past, with the predecessor's name being an obvious homage to the Sega Dreamcast.
• Komica users are called “dǎomín” (島民, lit. “islanders”), from “zāogāo dǎo” (糟糕島, lit. “bad island”).
• For those wondering, the PTT Villagers and Komica Islanders are aware of each other.
  • While it's true that PTT was the first to discover Gikopoi,¹⁷⁾ most of the Chinese users that recently use and migrated over to Gikopoipoi will usually mention Komica instead.
• The board software varies per board, which can make reporting spam posts confusing. It'll usually be in the form of a “del” or “jiǎnjǔ” (檢舉) button, but be aware that 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 - The official front pages for Komica and 2cat.
  • Komica2 - The website that houses Komica's porn boards.
  • Komica Wiki - The official Komica Wiki. Runs on MediaWiki and requires registration.
• 2cat & Komica Official Blog - Self-explanatory.
• @KomicaNews on Twitter - It seems to post random Komica threads from time to time.