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Gained popularity on manga/anime sites where the #--- visitor got a free drawing. That was the kiriban number or kiriban art.

Now it's being used more for an exclamation of achievement, as hitting the #whatever view of your website is a kiriban.
Mangapunksai hit the kiriban number on her webpage and will make a commerative piece of art because of it.

Baka-chan had a contest for whoever hit the kiriban number and will make a kiriban piece for that person, a gift art.

People came from all over to give kiriban to damphyr for winning the contest.

Kiriban to you for finding my obscure webpage!
Kiriban by renonevada August 12, 2004
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If you break the word down, you'll see that "kiri" is the Japanese way of saying "kilo"--the metric word for 1000. "ban," when using the kanji 番, is the Japanese word for "number."

Therefore, it's the thousandth number, and is generally used as a view counts landmark.
Thanks, everyone!! 5000 kiriban! ZOMG i'm sooo happy! TT~TT

15,000 kiriban contest! Send me a pic of my pageviews at 15,000 pageviews and I'll send you a prize!!
kiriban by Oh, just some guy. November 23, 2011
Related Words

Kiriban Fishing 

A term that is used when a random deviant (or SheezyArt user) stumbles on a another userpage and waits for the number of unique pageviews to reach the target number in order to get a free drawing from the person as a gift. In order to achieve it, the user must quickly screenscap the exact number of unique pageviews and send the deviant (or SheezyArt user) who set the kiriban value a note to prove it or else no reward.
I'm gonna go kiriban fishing today to find if I'm the 1,337th visitor to SockArmy's userpage.

Whoever goes kiriban fishing and becomes the 100th watcher, gets a free gifty from me.
Kiriban Fishing by Rainbow March 6, 2005

Kiribaku 

A pairing from My Hero Academia (or Boku No Hero Academia) concerning Katsuki Bakugou and Eijirou Kirishima. It is one of the most popular pairings on the show and is literally 99.9% canon. Many people like this ship for a number of reasons but mostly because they share a lot of extremely gay moments both in the show and the manga as well as the fact that they both have bde.
I was up until three a.m. last night thinking of how wonderfully gay Kiribaku is
Kiribaku by changkyunsguccislider November 27, 2018

Kiribaku 

Two dude friends who claim they are not gay,but clearly are.
Dude 1: Alan and Ryan are such a Kiribaku.
Alan and Ryan: No dude we are straight. *makes out*
Kiribaku by ChaChaRealSmooth666 November 2, 2019

kiribaku 

Kiribaku is from My Hero Academia, or Boku No Hero Academia if you're annoying, it's between Kacchan and Shitty Hair. It's g8 mate rate it 8/8!!!
Kiribaku is the #1 BNHA ship, aside from Tododeku
kiribaku by Violoafforprez February 10, 2018

Kiribaku 

Tbh, they just some bros, they like homies you know
kirishima: bro is it gay to kiss the homies goodnight?
bakugou: hell no, c’mere
that’s pretty much how kiribaku works
Kiribaku by Beetastic🐝 April 21, 2020