Scanlation
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scanlation
(countable and uncountable; plural scanlations)- (comics, chiefly manga) The process of scanning and translating foreign language comics (especially Japanese manga or Korean manhwa) into the translator's language, for free distribution over the Internet.
- (comics) a comic that has been scanned, translated, and with translation overlaid onto the original text to produce a second language version of the comic; a scanlated comic