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The Ultimate FAQ

  1. What is this page?
  2. Who made this fantastic archive?
  3. What is the Ultimate Animanga Archive?
  4. What is the Hentai Zone?
  5. What is Anime & Manga?
  6. Are the images public domain?
  7. How do I download the fullsize images?
  8. I can't download any images! What is wrong?
  9. Where do I get that nice java LED sign you are using?
  10. I try to download a page as an archive, but get "no such file". Why?
  11. Do you have any images from [insert your favorite series]?
  12. Why is the page download option not available in the Hentai Zone?
  13. Can I download the images via FTP?
  14. Can I add a link to the archive from my homepage?
  15. Can I use images from the archive on my homepage?
  16. Can I sponsor the archive?
  17. Why can't I download hentai images?
  18. Why can't I save images on my hard drive?
  19. Why did you censor the Hentai Zone images?

1: What is this page?

This is a small FAQ for the Ultimate Animanga Archive and the Hentai Zone. If there is something you think I should add, please tell me about it!

2: Who made this fantastic archive?

Well, I did. I am David Hedbor and I was born in November 1974. Right now I live in Seattle, WA, USA, but I originally came from Sweden. I moved here in the summer of 1996. If you want to know more about me, you can check out my home site.

Also I thank everyone that has sent contributions to me. Without you the archive wouldn't be what it is today!

Oh, before I forget - I am not an anime / manga guru. The total number of series /movies I have seen is less than the number of QAs in this FAQ. I have NEVER read any manga. It might be disappointing to you, but I am just a normal guy who happened to start collecting images! I plan to see and learn more anime though (and I know ALOT more now than I did when I started this project).

3: What is the Ultimate Animanga Archive?

The UAA is a large Anime and Manga image archive with around 2200 images from around 70 different series. I also have some movie and sound clips, even though they are very rare.

I started this archive sometime in March/April, 1995.

4: What is the Hentai Zone?

It is what the Ultimate Animanga Archive was in the beginning - and archive with anime/manga style erotic images. Some of the images could be considered PG-13 (swimsuits etc), but most of them are definatly XXX rated:

hentai
Abnormality. Sexual perversion. Used also to describe a certain class of anime or otaku (as in "H-Anime"). Lit. "Change of State", two Kanji.

5: What is Anime & Manga?

Anime is japanese animation (cartoons) and Manga is japanese comics. For more information read http://www.iaw.on.ca/~phoenix/anime/what_a_m.htm or http://cafe.berkeley.edu/~davidxu/anime.html

6: Are the images public domain?

Some of them might be. Most images are copyright their respective author/creator/distributor/whatever though. Support them by buying anime & manga!

Note that all images I have are collected from the net. See the question about ftp access to see a couple of sites where anime & manga images are available from.

7: How do I download the fullsize images?

Just click on the thumbnail of the image you want to download.

8: I can't download any images! What is wrong?

There are several possible reasons. These are two of them.

Note that a non-functional download most probably is a client side error, and there nothing I can do about that. Don't send me any mails about it, unless you are absolutely sure that it isn't your fault.

9: Where do I get that nice java LED sign you are using?

The LED Sign is a scriptable java scroller, made by Darrick Brown (dbrown@cs.hope.edu). If you want it yourself, just download if from ftp://ftp.cs.hope.edu/pub/LEDSign/LEDSignV27.tar.gz.

Please don't write me and ask me how to set it up. It is described very well in the documentation. If you don't know what java is, take a look at http://java.sun.com/ and/or Gamelan.

10: I try to download a page as an archive, but get "no such file". Why?

The reason that happens, is that the files are made on the fly. If you haven't started fetching the file within three minutes, the temporarely file is removed. Try again, and it might work better. If it doesn't you have a very slow Internet connection.

Someone reported that it worked when they turned off their proxy and someone else said that the problem disappeared when they switched from MSIE to Netscape.

11: Do you have any images from [insert your favorite series]?

Well, this is a very common question and the answer is pretty short. I most probably don't have any, if they aren't on my pages. If you know where to get images from any unfeatured series, I can possibly add them (if the quality is good enough).

12: Why is the page download option not available in the Hentai Zone?

Because of the load it would generate. I tried once to turn on the page download option in the Hentai Zone for a while, but it slowed down the whole server, so I had to turn it off. Sorry.

13: Can I download the images via FTP?

No you can't, atleast not from my site. There are many other ftp sites out there though. Try ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/tv+movies/anime-manga/ or ftp://venice.tcp.com/pub/anime-manga/

14: Can I add a link to the archive from my homepage?

Of course you can! Please don't load images from my site on your page, or link directly to images, as they might move without notice. I get enough erranous bug reports as it is.

15: Can I use images from the archive on my homepage?

Sure, as long as you download the images to your own server first (see above). I downloaded most of the images via Internet myself (one way or another). Don't forget to add a link back to the archive!

16: Can I sponsor the archive?

Yes, of course you can. Either you can just give me a disk (SCSI-II or better), money or whatever you feel like or you can sponsor it by buying banner advertising. Please contact me if you have any questions!

17: Why can't I download hentai images?

This is a quote from the bottom of all the Hentai Zone pages:
The page download feature from the Ultimate Animanga Archive is not available in the Hentai Zone, due to the load it generated. Live with it! You can of course download induvidual pictures by clicking them.
You can of course, as it says, download individual images, just as on any page.

18: Why can't I save images on my hard drive?

You can. However you need to make sure you don't save the page the image is on. When you click on an imagemap, you get to another HTML page with the image inlined (if your browser can handle it). If you click on the inlined image, you will come to a page which is the image only. Save that one and not the HTML page!

19: Why did you censor the Hentai Zone images?

I didn't and I would never consider doing it. Check here if you want to know why they are censored. Whatever you do, DO NOT MAIL ME ABOUT IT!



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