noun. 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.

noun. 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

"If every title (the few they are) I read as a scanlation were available legally to view online serialized, I would stop reading them illegally and wait for the legal, pay, serialized chapters instead."

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