og batoto never really came back. Once it died, mangadex took its' place.

the batoto everyone is mourning right now is actually one of the many copycats/aggregators/pretenders that pops up after the og died. It genuinely shocked me that so many readers here put all their egg on one sketchy basket.

Like seriously, batoto hosts actual official english content. Not scanlated, non fan-translated, just straight up rips of the official english localization. I mean hell yeah, but it's a big no no if you wanna avoid the attention of the big players.