Originally co-founded under the name, "The Tempura", The Bento is the self-proclaimed Anime & Manga DC++ hub at the University of Toronto. Founded on February 2, 2008, where beta testing of hub settings took place for several weeks. On the 27th, it was decided amongst the staff that the hub settings were stable enough to come out of beta testing. It was on that evening that the hub was renamed to "The Bento", a name suggested by several prominent members of the community at the time. At the time, the intent was to keep the hub strictly anime and manga related; however, to better serve our community, we now exist to provide a means to chat about Japanese Stuff like Anime, Manga, Dorama, Food, etc. Some may see DC++ as merely a peer-to-peer file-sharing network; however, we do not endorse P2P file sharing nor piracy. The file sharing is merely a "bonus" of sorts to the community.