Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Futaba Channel (ふたば☆ちゃんねる), or Futaba for short, is a popular, anonymous bulletin board system based in Japan. It is related to the heavily popular Japanese mega-BBS 2ch. (If you know how they are related, please write it here.) Futaba is best known for its image boards, where anyone in Japan can anonymously post a picture for the world to see. These image boards usually do not distingush between pornographic and "clean" content, but there is a strict barrier between two-dimensional (drawn) and three-dimensional (CG and photographic) pictures that is heavily enforced and debated. Futaba has a culture of its own, including: Waha, Musu and Choia, three cute-looking girls featured in the erotic game "Suigetsu" which were embraced and reinvented by Futabaites. Yaranaika? Literally means "shall we do it?" As it does in English, in Japanese this phrase can have an erotic subtext. It was used in a homosexual erotic comic book which was endlessly parodied by Futabaites. Heika, a strange-looking man with a pointed hat on of unknown origin, is featured as a sort of master pimp on Futaba. The Futaba bulletin board system is so popular that it has a small American following. Since non-Japanese people canot post to the image boards, the Americans created "4chan", which is similar to Futaba except that the major board divisions are between pornographic and non-pornographic content rather than between two-dimensional and three-dimensional content, and the primary language is English. External Links Futaba Channel 4chan/Yotsuba, an American version of Futaba This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.