Content policy

1. What this catalogue is

Professionally produced comics — manhwa and manga — much of it explicit. Everything is drawn fiction. There is no photographic or filmed material of real people anywhere in the catalogue, and no user-uploaded work: nobody can publish here, and every series is added deliberately rather than by anyone with an account.

Every character depicted in a sexual context is an adult. Where a work’s original presentation left that ambiguous, we do not carry it.

2. What we refuse

These are not moderated case by case. They are refused as categories, and the refusal is enforced in the database rather than by policy alone — a work carrying one of these labels cannot be published here even by mistake:

• any sexual depiction of a minor, or of a character presented as one;
• sexual violence presented approvingly, or as entertainment in itself;
• incest;
• bestiality;
• content depicting a real, identifiable person in a sexual context;
• anything unlawful where we operate.

One of those lines is not like the others. Every category except the second turns on what a work contains — it either sexually depicts a minor, an animal or a real person, or it does not — and the label a work arrives with is good evidence either way. The second turns on how a work treats what it depicts, and no label answers that: a content warning is put on works that portray sexual violence critically exactly as readily as on ones that do not.

So a work carrying that label is held rather than dropped. It cannot go live unread, and someone here has to record a decision about that particular series before it can. Held is not published: if we cannot say the second line is satisfied, it stays where it is.

That refusal reads the labels a work arrives with, so it is a backstop under our reading of each series rather than a replacement for it — nothing in a database can see what artwork depicts. The last line is a judgement and is not something code decides.

This list is not a summary of a longer internal one. It is the list, and it does not move for a licensing deal.

3. Age gating

Adult artwork is covered until you confirm you are 18. That confirmation is a setting you can turn off again at any time from your settings, and turning it off re-covers the artwork everywhere.

We do not verify age documents, and we are not going to pretend a checkbox is verification. If the law where you are requires more than this, do not use the service.

4. Reporting something

If you believe something here breaks §2, tell us and we will look at it the same day. Email hello@comicflow.net with the series and, if you can, the episode. You do not need to explain who you are.

Anything credibly reported under §2 is made unreadable while we check, not after. We would rather take down a work that turns out to be fine than leave one up that is not.

5. If a work is yours

If you hold rights in something here and believe we should not be carrying it, write to hello@comicflow.net with:

• the series, and the URL;
• what right you hold, and enough to show it is yours;
• a statement that you believe the use is not authorised;
• how to reach you.

We remove first and correspond after. If we remove something you bought outright, we refund it — see the refund policy.

6. Changes

§2 is a floor. We may add to it; we do not intend ever to subtract from it, and if we did, this page and its date are where you would see it.