Mar20 🇲🇺

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[Dragon Ball Perfect Shots @DBPerfectShots]

Old Goku by Akira Toriyama, 1989: “That's why I don't really know when Dragon Ball will end or what will happen in the future. Maybe Goku will end up becoming an old man like this…”

Old Goku by Toyotaro, 2026: “Back in 1989, Toriyama sensei drew an art of an elderly Goku in the Dragon Ball Z Anime Special book, joking «when Dragon Ball will end Goku might end up becoming an old man like this…».

37 years later… Dragon Ball is still not over in 2026!

Mr. Toriyama! The day may come when we can see Goku in this form!”

[i. adan @Imman_Adan]

There’s no bigger sign you’ve failed as a parent than your child breaking down at a stranger showing them love and acceptance.

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

these are the people we want in acting industry btw

[Robie✨ @RobieFigure]

The most "We should've been a synchro gauge character" arts ever dude oh my God 😭😭😭

[Boichi @Boichi_Bo1]

In 2016, I received an email from an aspiring manga artist in Morocco.

It began like this:
“I want to become a mangaka, but there is no manga publishing industry in Morocco.”

Many people around the world love manga and read it, but when you look globally, there are many countries where manga is simply not published at all.
In some places, there is not even a publishing system(including publishing, translation, and distribution) in place.

Even where books exist, the infrastructure for printing, distribution, and bookstores is often lacking, making it very difficult for a true industry to develop.

Telling manga fans in those countries, “Your country has a relatively high GDP per capita, so you should buy manga,” is meaningless if there is no actual way for them to buy it.

That is something I find deeply painful.
Why is it that the manga industry has not been able to properly serve those regions?

Even in countries where publishing exists, manga books are often too expensive.
The price of a single tankōbon book is $ 15 to $ 20, which is high even in the United States, especially when today’s digital entertainment offers so many alternatives at much lower prices.

So, this is why I believe the future of manga is clearly not limited to print publishing, but must include digital services—manga that can be enjoyed in a reasonably accessible and affordable way.
If such systems are established globally, I believe the manga industry could grow dramatically.
In North America alone, a tenfold expansion would not be unrealistic.
Even countries without any publishing tradition could develop sustainable manga industries.

Once official digital services exist in each country, they can generate tax revenue, and governments can more seriously address piracy.
At that point, creators and aspiring manga artists can also demand proper enforcement and protection.
Most importantly, it would create opportunities for local aspiring manga artists.
And those opportunities would, in turn, strengthen the global industry as a whole.

When a country’s manga ecosystem develops properly, it becomes a cultural export industry.
From a government perspective, piracy then becomes something that can and should be actively addressed.

The first people to pay for legitimate manga services will, in many cases, be the very readers who once relied on piracy. They are not enemies of the industry—they are its earliest supporters in waiting.

Pirated manga readers are not our opponents.
They are our future audience.
They are proof that demand already exists.

In late 1990s Korea, manga piracy was widespread, and attitudes were often very hostile toward paid content.
Many believed that paying for manga was unnecessary, or even that the industry itself should not exist.

At the time, Steve and I did not fully understand this.
We were wrong in many ways.
But later, when proper legal services were introduced in Korea, readers were more than willing to support them. They paid for content gladly, and the Korean webtoon industry grew stronger, eventually becoming a major source of IP for film and television.

We learned, through experience, that the joy of not paying cannot compare to the deeper satisfaction of supporting and sustaining the culture you love.
Piracy users were never the enemy.
They were simply manga fans.
And all manga fans, in the end, are on the same side.

Through our mistakes, Steve and I came to understand this more clearly.

What needs to be done is simple: build proper digital manga services.
Ensure fair pricing.
And most importantly, help each country develop its own manga ecosystem.
Because only then can a truly global manga industry exist.
And only then can the works we create truly reach the world.

To be continued...

[Pikku 感情的 - 「イチガチバチ宗教家」 #TENOÍ @PikkuProgram]

"Pirated manga readers are not our opponents. They are our future audience. They are proof that demand already exists"

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Look at the date.

[📺 holo_ @holo303_]

CHANGE THE FUTURE_
[ DRAGON BALL ]

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#レジェンズ

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

His victim had to have her tampon surgically removed.

[daily naruto @dailyhokage]

Brazil volleyball team recreated the famous Naruto’s squad pose from the Sasuke rescue arc 🇧🇷

[𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓪 🐸 @princesalamwane]

Désolée mais je pense que dépenser de l’argent pour rendre la vie impossible aux SDF plutôt que pour les aider c’est le symbole parfait d’un système dépourvu d’humanité

[fafa @faroria_]

Bardella pour moi c’est un mystère, il est d’origine algérienne et italienne, sa mère est italienne née en Italie donc il a lui même littéralement profité du droit du sol qu’il veut abroger vraiment c’est trop bizarre pour moi le niveau de racisme qu’il faut avoir développé quand t’es toi même issu de l’immigration

[❀༺cover༻❀ 🇵🇸she’s signifiant @mefollowpassrx]

comment tu peux entendre une enfant hurler comme ça et penser la rendre à son bourreau

[pretti @Nujagoat]

@pubity White straight men from the UK and USA getting ready to complain about this

[✰ @juicenotthekid_]

The president of the United States is a pedophile why aren’t you tweeting about that?

[石黒正数 @masakazuishi]

@CzShO65M1PLDv5U 私が…作者です

[Animetrends @AnimetrendsLA]

Boichi, el autor de "Dr. STONE", afirma lo siguiente:

«Los lectores de manga pirata NO SON NUESTROS ADVERSARIOS. Son nuestro público futuro. Son la prueba de que la demanda ya existe».

Boichi explica que muchos fans del manga en todo el mundo aún carecen de acceso a manga legal porque algunos países NO CUENTAN con infraestructura editorial, sistemas de traducción ni redes de distribución.

«Decirles a los fans del manga en esos países: "Deberían comprar manga", no tiene sentido si no tienen forma de adquirirlo».

Sostiene que los servicios de manga digital asequibles son clave para expandir la industria a nivel global y crear oportunidades para futuros creadores.

¡LO ENTENDIÓ TODO! 🙏