Akiko Nagatani @akikonagatani - Tumblr Blog

Hi everyone!

My name's Kerry, and I'm a current Publishing MA student at Northumbria University, Newcastle. For my dissertation, I'm looking into manga piracy and scanlation and how they affect the publishing industry. As part of my research, I'm conducting a survey into scanlation practices and reader habits, and I would really appreciate it if you could spare a few minutes to complete it. It should take less than 15 minutes and would be a huge help! ✨

The survey is entirely anonymous and confidential - no personal information will be collected at all - and you are able to withdraw your responses at any time (please, please retain a copy of your completion receipt, otherwise you won't be able to withdraw). It's important that you read over the participant information page carefully as it explains how your data will be collected, used and stored.

I'd also like to stress that there's no pressure to take part if you don't feel comfortable doing so 😊

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to message me here, or contact me via my email: [email protected]

Thanks very much!

https://northumbria.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/the-practice-of-manga-scanlation-and-its-effect-on-the-m-2

#manga #scanlation #survey #manga scanlation

"Niche", Tegami Bachi. Ahh I love Asada's artwork! Though, trying to copy it with any sort of accuracy was a lot harder than I expected 😳 Now, what should I draw next...? 🤔

#tegamibachi #niche #テガミバチ #ニッチ

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Osaka, photography art by Elora Pautrat

Prints or phone covers available at Society6 (use code SUMMERART)

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Hey uh op…. where’s your url…

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there’s no url because god sent this post down to us

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Telma Monteiro (POR)

2016 Rio Olympics

Judo

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an anime about cells is on air. what a time to be alive.

wizardshark

“lol Android users be like-” your phone is designed to break down after a year, your apps are all programmed to draw unnecessary power after 2 years, all your accessories and hardware are arbitrarily made with only 1 kind of plug in mind so you can’t use them with anything else or get them from anywhere else, the cables are 150$ and break in a year, your phones will not charge if there is lint in the port, the stores will ask you for 150$ to remove that lint, the phone itself is 900$

But your chat bubbles are blue so that balances it out right

wizardshark

they literally removed the audio plugin and called it a benefit that it can now only work with their arbitrary wireless headphones. They coloured the phones a pinky gold and sold it for twice as much.

This isn’t a drag against you this is a drag against apple, the company. Their products are price hiked to an insane, impossible degree. They aren’t selling you the product, they are selling you the superiority of being able to smugly say you have an iphone.

They deliberately built up a culture of apple supremacy (especially as a class barrier but i aint even gonna go into that), and now people are making posts like “lmao android users have a bad camera” (they dont) or “lmao android users send bad snapchats” (the android version of snap is deliberately coded to force lower resolution images in order to, surprise, get people saying that exact thing to further encourage #iphoneculture)

Buy an iphone if you want lord knows I’ve bought frivolouss things but can you PLEASE recognize youre being deceived??? theyre playing you every single time you make a post about your iphone and buy into their culture to squeeze more and more money out of you and divide the market and inevitably the classes.

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If I ever don’t reblog this assume I’m dead

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The iphone stands as a testament to the power of brand loyalty. theres no qualitative reason to buy iphones.

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Also, “android users be like” commentary p much make no sense cause there’s such a huge variety of android phones out there (Samsung, Sony, Oppo, Huawei, etc) all are android phones, with each brand containing such a wide array of products that it’s so dumb to generalize them as “android phones are so so” cause they’re all so different and it’s great that you can go through them and find at least one or two that’s specifically suited for your needs, hobbies and budget. Apple is kinda just all or nothing with their products