Ow, if there ever were to be some deal between LINE and Tapastic, I do hope that would only mean that Tapastic would get more funds to implement more features and increase the experience. I really do not like how, on LINE, it feels like users aren't allowed to have much of an identity (no avatar, no profile page, no wall posts, no way for creators to communicate to their audience out of the series...)
(Also LINE has one of the most awful UI I have ever seen, it's really part of why I'm still not posting there even though I'd like to. It feels disembodying. The larger userbase is the only thing that attracts me. It doesn't feel fit for Western culture at all.)