No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is alphapolis.co.jp legit or a scam?
Official site of established Japanese manga publisher AlphaPolis with clean IP reputation and active business registration since 2000.
Analysis Summary
AI Security Analysis
The domain belongs to AlphaPolis Co., Ltd., a real company founded in 2000 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange with substantial capital. Our research confirms it operates a legitimate novel and manga platform with matching entries on Wikipedia, app stores, and company announcements. The single scam mention is the company's own public warning about fraudulent emails impersonating them, not any issue with the site itself. No complaints or negative reports appear against the domain. The hosting IP shows zero abuse history and the SSL certificate is valid.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for alphapolis.co.jp, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official site of AlphaPolis Co., Ltd., Japanese light novel/manga publisher founded 2000 in Shibuya, Tokyo.
- Publishes popular series including GATE, Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy; operates novel/manga posting platform and apps.
- Company issues public warning about fraudulent emails impersonating Alphapolis using spoofed domains.
- Wikipedia page, Anime News Network entry, multiple PR Times releases, Google Play/Apple App Store listings confirm legitimacy.
- Employee review sites (e.g., en-hyouban, OpenWork) list company details with mixed but non-scam-related feedback.
- No evidence of the domain itself being involved in scams; one third-party scanner gives 100/100 trust score.
- Domain hosts active content: novel submissions, manga, business books, contests.
- alphapolis.co.jpopen
"【重要】アルファポリスを装った詐欺メールにご注意ください ... なお、メールはアルファポリスから送っているようにドメインを偽装されているケースがあることが報告されております。"
- gridinsoft.comopen
"We reviewed alphapolis . co . jp and found strong legitimacy signals. Current checks point to an established low-risk profile, with a trust score of 100/100"
AlphaPolis Co., Ltd. (株式会社アルファポリス), established August 2000, capital 864 million yen (as of 2024), headquartered at 4-20-3 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Ebisu Garden Place Tower 19F). Listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange (code 9467).
Our research located the company's official warning about fraudulent emails impersonating AlphaPolis via spoofed domains. No complaints or scam reports target the actual domain. Business records confirm an active, publicly listed Japanese publisher operating since 2000 with matching details across multiple sources.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://alphapolis.co.jp/
- 2301https://alphapolis.co.jp/
- 3202https://www.alphapolis.co.jp/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
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- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on alphapolis.co.jp. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- alphapolis.co.jp passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. alphapolis.co.jp presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, expiring in 216 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. alphapolis.co.jp is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- alphapolis.co.jp resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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