Building an audience before having anything to offer it.
A social app is only worth something if people meet there. And every week, anime and manga fans ask the same questions: when the episode comes out, which volume to buy, how long it takes to catch up on a series, what order to watch it in.
Nakama, the outlet, answers them page by page, right where those questions are asked. It lives alongside the Nakama app, under the same name but without depending on it, and is building today the audience the app will welcome tomorrow.
A real newspaper, not a blog.
The sections, where people read them.
A media outlet, held by three deliberate choices.
Answering the questions people actually type
When the episode comes out, which volume hits the shelves, what order to watch in, how long it takes to catch up: every section answers a precise search, with figures that are calculated rather than estimated.
Checking before publishing
Every news flash rests on an official source: the studio, the publisher or the platform. A rumour stays a rumour, and when the outlet gets something wrong, the correction is published.
An audience that will know where to go
The outlet carries the app's name without depending on it. It gets found where fans ask their questions, and when the time comes, it will show them where to follow their series with friends.
One newsroom, thousands of pages, and almost nothing done by hand.
Thousands of pages that keep themselves up to date
Every morning, the schedules, releases, guides and more than 3,900 title pages rebuild themselves from our own database, without anyone having to rewrite them.
No wrong figure gets through
Before publishing, every number, date and episode count is compared with the data. At the slightest mismatch, the page keeps its previous version, and the morning report says why.
Writing and publishing without touching code
An in-house newsroom tool: individual accounts, writer and editor roles, drafts, review, scheduling, version history and public corrections.
The announcement spotted, the decision human
A monitoring system follows official announcements and prepares a draft as soon as a story matters. Nothing is published without being reviewed and approved by the newsroom.
Built to be found
One permanent address per page, an automatic redirect when a title changes, a sitemap per section and a share image generated for every single page.
Light, even on a phone
Pages arrive complete and almost script-free. On phones, they score 100 out of 100 for accessibility and search in Google's tests.
Counting visits, not people
Audience is measured without cookies. Full tracking only starts after consent, and refusing is as visible as accepting.
Checked every five minutes
A probe checks the site's health every five minutes, and every morning a report sums up the pages created, updated or held back.