People

Personal Sites

• Cidoku
  Really cool Flash animations and art. The mascot and stars of the site are especially lovely. Interesting writing too. A role model for simplistic site design.


• MayDB
  Owner of the Deluoode! forum.


• Pantsu Prophet
  A friend who is both well read and a good writer. He has very interesting Personal Thoughts, and wonderfully made lectures on Philosophy and Religion. He also makes very charming art of cute 2D women. A role model for anyone aspiring to be an independent scholar.


• Baowee
  Rather inactive site of a friend. Posts nice film/anime edits and music compilations on Youtube.


• Deoster
  A personal site ran by a Philosophy student. A creative person who has made many personal works from games, to music, to writing, to art, and to animation. Also a citizen of the OPPAI ORACLE forum.


• Luke Smith
  Classic Internet independence, GNU/Linux, suckless, UNIX philosophy software guy.


• Richard Stallman
  The Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project. FREEDOM now!


• RABBIT0
  A member of the OPPAI ORACLE forum with similar interests in otaku media. Site doesn't have much yet, but I look forward to its growth.


• TastyFish
  Funny, insightful, and thought-provoking site on technology and society. Contains very controversial opinions, and must be approached with an open mind. Most of the site is hidden away, but can be accessed rather easily if you know what you're doing.


• Thricegreat's Webpage
  Simple and and insightful writings on topics such as Philosophy, Hermeticism, and simple life. Proof that you can make good points while saying less, and good looking sites with pure HTML and txt files.

Forums/Imageboards

• Deluoode!
  A Science Adventure and otaku forum ran by MayDB. The world changes if you click it.


• Kissu.moe
  Otaku-centric imageboard.


• OPPAI ORACLE
  Forum ran by Pantsu Prophet. Has a variety of topics such as Academic subjects, Technology and Internet Freedom, Japanese and Otaku culture, Gaming, etc...

Otaku Culture and Media

• The Denpa Archive
  Digital archive for denpa related content and discussions on denpa in general hosted by an independent fan translator.


• VNDB
  The Visual Novel Database. Rest in peace to the late owner, Yorhel.


• Aioba Den
  Aioba makes some nice blogs on otaku media. I especially look forward to more developments in the series on Understanding Lolicon and Type Moon.


• Animétudes
  Blog dedicated to researching the art and history of anime. Also contains a nice bibliography for anime and otaku studies.


• CoconatsuPLUS
  Journal dedicated to critical, theoretical, and philosophical writings on Otaku media and culture.


• Japanese BBS Directory
  An English Directory of Japanese BBS.


• Keksi/Weksi (Youtube)
  You've got to be squidding! A good example of how anitubers SHOULD be. Only posts on Youtube and Twitter.


• Lolita History
  History on Lolita Fashion and a good gallery for out of print fashion magazines.


• Suruga-ya
  Shop for secondhand items from Japan. I primarily use this to buy otaku goods, but you can use it for other things too. Free Shipping from Japan is almost always available.

Culture

Philosophy

• The Information Philosopher
  Focuses on solving problems of Free Will, Objective Ethics, and Epistemology with a philosophical method in line with a modern understanding of Science, namely in Physics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology, and Information Science.


• Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Wikipedia for Philosophy. Informative and understandable entries.

Religion/Spirituality

• Archive of the Sealed Gods
  An exploration and documentation of the esoteric in Touhou and associated media. Covers both traditions featured in Touhou, the concept of Touhou as a souled entity, and a practice of the spiritual traditions of Touhou.


• Internet Sacred Text Archive
  A massive archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore, and the esoteric.


• Justin Sledge
  Runs the Esoterica YouTube channel. Excellent videos primarily on Western/Near Eastern Esotericism and Philosophy. The Esoterica Library provides a particularly good list of resources for those interested in studying Western and Near Eastern Esoterica.

Psychology

• Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages
  Professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka's website compiling visual and optical illusions. The humanoid characters sometimes illustrated are also very moe.


• Sociotype
  A big collection of Tests and References on Personality Typology Systems such as Socionics, Enneagram, Big Five, Attachment Style, and Schwartz Values.


• Wikisocion Archive
  Static Archive of the Wikisocion website. My preferred resources for Socionics.

Mathematics

• 3Blue1Brown
  Some of the greatest Mathematics communicators in Youtube. Developed Manim, the a python based animation engine, the community version of which is widely used for explanatory maths videos. Site uses Youtube embeds for main contents.


• Christopher Staecker
  A professor of mathematics with some nice videos on old computing devices, math research, math lectures posted on Youtube. Most content on this site are supplements to his youtube videos.


• ProofWiki
  An online compendium of mathematical proofs.


• Terence Tao
  The blog of Terry, the world famous mathematician.

Language Learning

Japanese

• Animecards Site
  Site focused on learning Japanese through Anki, Yomitan, and Mining.


• CureDolly Transcript (by nunko, Mordraug, and kellenok)
  Complete transcription of Cure Dolly's Organic Japanese videos, which are excellent resources on on Japanese Grammar and Expression. Explains the language in an intuitive and logical without imposing assumptions of languages outside of Japanese. A good contrast/supplement to textbook resources.


• TheMoeWay
  Learn Japanese the moe way. Guides on digital tools and resources to use, technical setup, anki mining, etc...

Technology

• Just Fucking Use HTML
  Self explanatory.


• JustFuckingUse.com
  More sites in the style of the above.


• Land Chad
  Stop being an Internet Peasant and become a Landlord instead.


• W3schools
  A nice resource for learning some code, such as HTML and CSS. Use this to learn how to make your own sites or to look for new things to use on your own website.


• Website Obesity
  The Internet is filled with bloated websites. This page will make it very clear for you.