Hentai Foundry Review

An art community that polices its own provenance

The rule that defines Hentai Foundry sits in section 1 of its submission policy: you must be the copyright holder of what you post. Staff reject traced work, art lifted from other artists, screenshots, photography of people, and since December 2022, anything generated by machine learning systems. Six other adult manga sites in this index host scanned and translated published works. This one hosts drawings made by the accounts that uploaded them, which is a different product entirely and explains why it carries roughly 7,300 ranking keywords off artist and character names rather than title searches.

The content controls are unusually granular for the category. Submissions carry advisory labels across nudity, violence, profanity, racism and sexual content, each with four intensity levels, plus separate toggles for tags including guro, incest, bestiality and non consent. You set those filters before you browse rather than discovering the content and backing out. The submission policy also states plainly that characters who look to be or are stated to be under 18 cannot be accepted, and staff reserve the right to remove violations without warning.

The genuine criticism is the paperwork. The terms of service page carries a revision date of 17 September 2012, and there is no separate privacy policy anywhere on the site. That matters because the 2012 document is where the data commitments live, and it reserves the right to retain material after removal, stating that content may not be truly deleted from the database. You can close your account from your profile settings, but the same page describes closure as deactivation rather than a purge. For a site that has otherwise thought carefully about what it will and will not host, the privacy side reads as unfinished.