Booru

A booru is a type of imageboard-like website designed primarily for hosting and categorizing large collections of images, typically fan art, anime, manga, or other niche media. The term booru comes from the Japanese word "board" (ボード, bōdo), re-pronounced in a way that mimics how early anime/manga fans would romanize it online. It’s also a nod to Danbooru (Japanese for cardboard), the original and most well-known booru site.[1][2][3]

Boorus were created as a companion to image boards to archive and index posted media, as opposed to the policy of imageboards of deleting them when a post becomes too old. Booru also help international users to find media hosted by non-English gallery host, or hosts which often lack English tags.[4] in particular Pixiv.

Forks and community Boorus

The source code for Danbooru is publicly available on GitHub.[5] The most popular forks of Danbooru include Gelbooru and e621.net, which maintain their own custom feature sets, and allowed post types. Community managed boorus which simply use basic features and host specific types of images are provided by various shared hosting providers.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Danbooru". Know Your Meme.
  2. ^ Baillet, Petrit (2022-10-07). "Concerns Rise Over "AI Art" Drowning Out Original Fanart". Retrieved 2025-07-04. Danbooru is a third party database of reuploaded fanart.
  3. ^ Morisawa, Remi (2023-09-29). "This new AI anime art generator claims to be "clean," functioning without stolen art". AUTOMATON WEST. Retrieved 2025-07-04. Danbooru is an online imageboard
  4. ^ "Image Booru". TV Tropes.
  5. ^ "danbooru/danbooru". Danbooru. 31 May 2025. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
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