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Originally Posted by murraypaul
There is a massive amount of manga published in Japan. Manga could be equated to comics, but the range of material published is much wider than is typically available in western comics. There are different types of manga aimed at many different groups of people, and they are seen as much more mainstream than comics.
Most of these manga are never published outside of Japan, only the most popular make it across to the west, and they tend to be several years behind the Japanese releases.
Scanlation is a composite of the two words scan and translation. A scanlation group would be made up of several types of people. The scanner will be someone in Japan who buys new manga releases and scans the pages in to JPG or PNG files. These are known as raws. (Raw scans).
The translators then go through each page and translate the text that appears, both conversations, signs on building, sound effects, and so on. Editors then take the translated text and the raw scans and modify each image to remove the Japanese text and put the English text in its place. (The digital equivalent of using white-out on the Japanese and then writing over with the English).
These modified pages will then be released as the scanlated version of the manga.
There are then various sites that distribute these scanlations, to make them available to a wider audience. In most cases they have no connection to the scanlation groups. There are a large number of scanlation groups, who tend to focus on one or two manga each, but only a few large distribution sites.
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Do scanlation people just do it for love of manga, or do they make money? Both?