Fakku was created in December 2006 by Jacob Grady while he was studying
Computer Science in
Massachusetts. Fakku was developed under the codename "AAH" or "All About Hentai" (which later became the site's subtitle). Jacob originally used money from student loans to pay for server and bandwidth costs, but that quickly became unsustainable and shortly after its launch Fakku was forced to shut down. It was brought back up after user donations rescued the site in July 2007. As of July 2011 Fakku entered into a
streaming licensing deal with
Kitty Media, a subsidiary of
Media Blasters. The deal allows Fakku to stream select anime titles at its discretion, starting with
Immoral Sisters. Both the
subtitled and
dubbed editions of
Immoral Sisters were made available to users of Fakku at no charge. On June 19, 2014, Fakku announced that it had entered into a partnership with
Wanimagazine to publish its entire catalog of hentai manga in English. This was the start of their transition into a publisher of only legally-licensed content; by the end of 2015, Fakku had removed all unlicensed scanlations from the site. The Kickstarter launched on June 19, 2016, and concluded on July 19, 2016, having met its goal. On July 7, 2016, Fakku announced the acquisition of
Shintaro Kago's
ero guro manga
Koi no Choujikuuhou and Arisa Yamamoto's non-hentai manga
Aiko no Ma-chan. On July 3, 2017, Fakku announced the addition of three magazines to the service: Girls forM, Comic Bavel, and Comic Europa. On November 27, 2017, Fakku announced the acquisition of Kitty Media. In December 2018, hentai streaming and
fansubbing website Hentai Haven closed down but announced that they had partnered with Fakku to re-establish the site. On July 7, 2019, PapaHH—the founder of Hentai Haven—posted a message on the home page of the website, claiming that "Fakku ha[d] completely taken over and booted [him] out." It was announced a day later that Grady and PapaHH had settled the issue in private, and the website was put back online. On July 12, 2019, PapaHH explained that the "whole situation played out over a misunderstanding" and that Hentai Haven would "continue as an independent entity, with Fakku helping [them] achieve [their] goal of legitimacy." On April 1, 2021, Fakku announced Fakku Audio, a "hands-free hentai experience" featuring the voices of several YouTube personalities, which was later revealed to be an
April Fool's Day prank. On August 31, 2021, the Fakku online store that was hosted by a third party provider went down, and was unable to take digital and physical orders. Digital purchases were made available again on October 8, 2021. On April 24, 2023, the Fakku Team announced that the Fakku Unlimited subscription price would increase for the first time since 2015 on May 24, 2023. Users with an active subscription are not affected by the price change while their subscription remains active, but new or returning subscribers will now pay $14.95 monthly instead of $12.95. In the same announcement, they revealed that they had published over 150 000 pages of new content since the launch of their subscription service. On May 5, 2023, the addition of Comic Gunjoh (successor to Comic Aoha) was announced. == Divisions ==