Bunko Shelf

Parental Control

Parental Control limits the titles a user can see according to their age rating. It applies to manga, books, search results, and offline downloads. For the protection to work correctly, titles need an age rating and each account needs a date of birth.

Administrator setting

Only an administrator can enable parental control for the application. When it is disabled globally, no content restrictions are applied to any account.

Enable parental control

1

Open the parental control settings

Sign in with an administrator account and go to Settings > Parental Control, or navigate to /en/settings/parental-control.

2

Enable global parental control

Turn on Parental Control. This activates age-based protection for every minor account and allows adult accounts to configure their own filter.

3

Choose a global level

  • Flexible: Minor accounts are limited to content appropriate for their age. Titles without an age rating remain visible.

  • Strict: Minor accounts are limited to content appropriate for their age, up to 15+, and titles without an age rating are hidden.

How restrictions are applied

AccountFlexibleStrict

Minor with a date of birth

Shows titles rated up to the user's current age. Unrated titles are visible.

Shows titles rated up to the user's current age, with a maximum of 15+. Unrated titles are hidden.

Account without a birth year

Shows titles rated up to 15+. Unrated titles are hidden.

Shows titles rated up to 15+. Unrated titles are hidden.

Adult account

The user can turn the filter on or off from their profile. If enabled, it hides 18+ titles.

The user can turn the filter on or off from their profile. If enabled, it hides titles rated 16+ and unrated titles.

Keep dates of birth up to date

An administrator sets each user's date of birth when creating or editing the account. An account without a birth year receives the protected 15+ limit until this information is provided.

Adult account preferences

Adults can manage their own filter only while global parental control is enabled. Go to Profile > Parental Control, or navigate to /en/profile/parental-control, then enable the filter and choose a level:

  • Flexible: Hides only titles rated 18+.

  • Strict: Hides titles rated 16+ and any title without an age rating.

Minor accounts cannot change these preferences because their limit is applied automatically from their date of birth and the global level selected by the administrator.