5 days into winter

[5 days into winter @ShittySwordsman]

Luffy recreated by various mangaka:

[cookie ☆ HIATUS @cookiesketches]

They've been married for 7 years, officer

Also this suits audio is so them 🙂‍↕️

#fmab #royai

[Awebo @Awebobird972]

너무좋다..

[𝜗℘ @lacedli]

The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.

[Morgan Wright 💎 @byMorganWright]

This🤣🤣!!

[El Diaz @SoyDaniloDiaz]

Yo quiero que me expliquen por qué cuando era pequeño salía del colegio, almorzaba, jugaba en la calle, hacía los deberes, veía la tele, me bañaba, jugaba en casa, leía y eran las 7:00pm todavía. Ahora te tomas un café y ya son las 11 de la noche.

[coco 🌱 @ JapEx Paris Q749 @coco__glez]

indubitably the main character of wanpi

[Orihime @Orihime_chan0]

"Anime can't make a grown man cry."

​Meanwhile this anime: 🥺

[Beauty of music and nature 🌺🌺 @Axaxia88]

Wolf: I am wild and dangerous.

Man: frees wolf

Wolf: I am now domesticated and awaiting further instructions.

[nanda @mafernandayumi]

hoje aprendi um novo insulto no trabalho
"trabalhar com vc é como trabalhar sozinho, porém mais difícil"

[ивус @ogivus]

Так даже лучше

Риелтор из Японии не разобралась, как убрать её напарника в хромакее из видео, и выставила его как есть. В результате ролик набрал 810 000 просмотров за сутки, хотя предыдущие видео собирали максимум несколько тысяч.

[Brooke from Let’s Not Date @TheLetsNotDate]

Every family celebrates Father’s Day differently. I celebrate by convincing men the woman that they just sent unsolicited penile photography to is their daughter.

[ju☆ ⋆𖦹⋆ˎˊ˗ @movumiee]

i hate mondays

[Rezi☆ @ReziJellyfish]

Repost (1/2)

[(ФωФ) @Azezazel]

bro was so scared katara had a type
#kataang

[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...

[Sila || IZUKU'S MONTH @Silanotes1]

I just realized there's no need for that because Bones Studio already did it

THIS IS THEIR SON TOO!!!

[JJK Dose @jjk_dose]

But he surely didn't like popcorn 🍿😭

[.ܸ .ܸ @user129384061]

siempre feminista porque lo único que me separa de las víctimas de feminicidio es simple suerte

[ᯓ aimon .ᐟ.ᐟ @ punk hazard @aimonnova]

everytime i see elbaph luffy hes always so blushy and cute i NEED to reach elbaph faster