Bamboo Cutter Layover is both a simple command line program written in C++, and a basic website that takes a URL from a east Asian comic aggregation site (colloquialy a "manga reader" as most of the content on those websites are Japanese comics), and creates a redirect link to guya.moe, a robust comic book reader that focuses on a specific series, using its proxy feature.
You can either compile from source or download the latest releases. Windows users that use Windows Subsystem for Linux, Cygwin, or MSYS2 can download the Unix builds, as these builds will work natively.
Now you can simple visit a website to convert your URL's! That can be found here. Since it is simply a HTML file and client side JS, once you go to the website, you don't need an internet connection to interact with it! Nothing gets pinged to a server whatsoever.
- mangadex.org
- nhentai.net
- The content on this site is designed for users above the age of 18. I am not liable if you access this site illegally, due to being a minor or laws in your region regarding its content.
- imgur.com
- readmanhwa.com
The program is functional but lacks some optimization. Please see the releases page for compiled builds of the C++ version. Please see the deployed site for deployed version of the site. Check the issues tab for any issues.
- Toonily is a site that's supported by default, but I am unable to get the proxy to work manually.
- Add support for sites the use the FoOlSlide reader, since guya.moe supports them.
The name is a reference to three things:
- The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a classical Japanese novel/folktale
- The Japanese comic book series, Kaguya-sama: Love is War (かぐや様は告らせたい ～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～, Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Ren'ai Zunōsen, lit. "Kaguya Wants to Make Him Confess: The Geniuses' War of Hearts and Minds")
- The song "Flight of the Bamboo Cutter" (竹取飛翔, Taketori Hishou) by DARK PHOENiX (a remix of a song from the Touhou series of videogames).
- The folktale focuses on a princess named Kaguya, a princess from the moon who was discovered as a baby in a bamboo stalk. As an adult, her beauty attracts many suitors, all of whom she turns away with an impossible task. At the end of the story, she reveals that she is in fact from the moon and returns there.
- Many characters in modern Japanese fiction are influenced by Princess Kaguya, and the female protagonist of Kagauya-sama, Kaguya Shinomiya, is one example. Hence her name.
- As Princess Kaguya is often known as the "bamboo cutter", as she was raised by bamboo farmers, I took that and made the name a play on a connecting flight as opposed to a direct flight.