Fantia, a platform where manga artists and cosplayers can build fan clubs and sell NSFW artwork, recently announced they will implement stricter “censorship and mosaic standards” for their creators.
This policy revision is scheduled to go into effect on May 25th, 2026, with one significant point: it applies not only to new posts made after the revision, but also retroactively to previously published works.
Fantia’s new guidelines forces creators to apply mosaic or blur treatments so dense that a viewer can no longer discern shape or texture. Transparent mosaics or subtle blurs are now considered uniformly insufficient.
Additionally, thumbnails and eye-catch images must also meet the same standards as the main content itself.
For high-resolution content or videos, even properly processed subjects may become clearly visible when shrunk down on screens. As a result, they require one level deeper, even more intense mosaic treatment than static images.
Fantia have provided some helpful visual guidelines that we have taken the liberty of translating below:
Alternatively, creators could delist their past works by setting them to private, but as of now, there is no bulk function to achieve this easily. This naturally means a creator with hundreds or thousands of past art will have to change the setting for each and every piece individually.
Fantia further states that after the revision date, creators will be sent correction requests. Works could be delisted or deleted on a case-by-case basis. If there are no improvements to be seen, then the creators fan club could be frozen or closed permanently.
If more malicious violations are suspected, they might even take harsher measures, including filing formal police reports.
Artists have taken to social media to express their departure from the platform. Some creators have thousands of backdated works and it would be impossible to retroactively censor all of them in order to comply with the new guidelines.
Why now? In an amazing development, on May 21st, just two days later, Fantia announced that they are releasing a major “Translation Update” to their website. This allows global fans to translate posts, plan descriptions, and product overviews with just a click of a button. Supporting languages are English, Chinese, and Korean.
The writing’s on the wall. Fantia is opening up their market to an international audience, but in order to do so, they have to comply to strict censorship laws imposed by payment processing companies. And it is well known these companies have been tightening their hold on what can and cannot be purchased online in recent years.
As Fantia prepares its May 25th deadline, the question remains: Will this regulatory tightening push creators to abandon the platform entirely and switch to a different one? Or will they embrace the censorship and extra work with the possibility of gaining more sales from a global fanbase?
