What have you been working on?
I've more or less quit three months ago, but I got out a bonus chapter yesterday. Man I'd forgotten how much work this was.
>>284317832I used to typeset some pieces of fanart other anons translated.But they stopped providing translations. Even the fanart itself stopped and the artists switched to gacha.
Someone already picked up the series I left almost a year ago, feels kinda weird, but I really don't want to get back into doing this shit. Maybe I'll do some porn at some point, but I don't know.
>>284318149I have so many series I want to work on that I get happy when someone picks them before I do.I even wish the ones I'm doing to be picked up officially just so I can work on other manga.
Favorite font?
Anyone can rip from this? Even the script can't beat it https://www.hakusensha.co.jp/rakuen/vol49/calendar.php
I read raws for things I really like for fun and practice but I haven't TLed anything since early this year. I've been pretty unmotivated to TL anything since more and more I see people with basic to intermediate JP skill, MTL assistance, native English skill, and a little contextual awareness putting out objectively much higher quality work than diligent human TL with shitty ESL editing. Which is great, it loses enough nuance just going to English that it isn't going to hurt anything if it loses a little more to make the flow natural and not stilted, but it's also made the easy part easy enough that I'm not offering anything of any real value.I'd be interested in learning the finer points of typesetting/cleaning/redrawing since those are the harder part, but I know that that also takes fucking forever to do, and I'm a grown-ass man with a career. It might be fine for some of those little one pager webcomics, but I'd have casual hobby time for it at best.
>>284319239Nvm, figured it out
>>284317832I hacked together a pair of photoshop scripts that made banana redraw extremely efficient. One creates a placeholder layer from selection snd copy the selection to clipboard, the other pastes and fits clipboard content to the placeholder layer and creates a mask automatically.
Still working on it anon-san?
>>284319950Most groups are looking for a competent TL before anything, so if there's any manga without scans you could single-handedly get the ball rolling on scans by just offering to TL it - typesetters will pop out of nowhere so long as a TL shows genuine interest.
>>284319950Just work on the stuff you really like only. That will give you motivation.
>>284317832any new places for scannies to upload to? dont want to use trannydex
>>284317832
>>284322713>https://everythingmoe.com/section/manga?filter=Scanlator%20HubPick your poison. #9 is the only alternative that doesn't compress images.
>>284322733I wish people would agree on a set of common sound effects that don't need to be translated. does the average reader really need a translation for steps and murmur? I don't think so
>>284323011I get why some people feel the need since god knows not everybody reads kana, but I think a lot of the time context should be plenty and doing more than a note in the margins is a waste of time assuming people have zero ability to parse anything that isn't spoonfed to them.
>>284322904or you could just upload to mangadex and remove it after a couple of days when it's gotten scraped by the aggregators
How would you explain and translate the difference between:>先生があなたを呼びます>先生があなたをお呼びですYou do know the difference right?
For real, this time do not reply to the retard.The last time some dude spent days quenching innit's thirst for attention.
>>284325182Ohhh, did you read it did you have no idea what the difference would be?Ohhh, how embarrassing? You didn't go out coping hard that there isn't a difference and that innit just made it up to not have to admit to yourself that you're purely translating by making wild guesses without actually being able to parse Japanese right?
>>284323011Of course. They're a part of the original experience. Only autistic eop weebs argue that manga has to be "silent" in English.
How exactly do the decimals in chapter numbers work? Does 1.5 come after 1.11 (like in math) or does 1.11 come after 1.5 (like in semantic versioning)?
>>284324914>Funimation:>mrs. [teacher's name] wants to see youNintendo of America:>teach wants a word with you dude, whadja do this time?ChatGPT:>you are called the teacher
>>284326389Just wait for the proper tank release, you dumdum.
>>284326526I'm not TLing a manga with tanks
>>284326501You don't know what the difference is right and that top sentence really wouldn't be used in that situation at all?It would require some highly specific situation and context for the top sentence to be used.
>>284326548Tanks are cool, you're missing out.
>>284326934AT THE MOMENT I'm not TLing a manga with tanks, now can someone please tell me
>>284323011It's just one or two SFXs per panel most of the time. Not a lot of work in the grand scheme of things.Only problem that could arise is placement hiding a part of the art. But I personally never seen that happens, regardless of how small the working space is.
>>284326389Usually x.5 is used for okame and bonus chapters. But sometimes the regular chapters uses a decimal pattern like pic related.Rule of thumb is to put them in the numerical order.
>>284327099Why not just translate digital release stuff?
>>284317832What programs do most people use for scanlation? Is CS6 Photoshop still relevant, or has Gimp progressed far enough where it's a good alternative to modern Photoshop?
>>284328704I assume he was more interested in stuff that you couldn't just find online easily.
>>284324914Ohhh, no takers?Ohhh, don't tell me that when you see these two sentences you have no idea what the difference might be and in what situation either would be used?Ohh, that would be so embarrassing if true, just imagine, you thought that you were translating and understood Japanese all this time, but in reality you were just writing down wild guesses based on what suited the context and have no clue about Japanese grammar, quite pathetic really if that were true, it wouldn't actually be true that you have no idea what the very big and obvious difference between both sentences is and why they pretty much have mutually exclusive uses?
>>284329221>has Gimp progressed far enoughNope.>Is CS6 Photoshop still relevantYou'd be gimping yourself pretty bad in redrawing with old version of spot healing brush and no remove tool. If your processor was made less than 17 years ago and supports SSE 4.2, go for a more recent version.
>>284329221>has Gimp progressed far enough where it's a good alternativeLOL
I use Gimp!
>>284329221I've redrawn and typeset for years using CS6 and in some ways the performance was even better than the new versions. I moved to newer versions mostly because of some conveniences and for the high DPI support. CS6 was unusable on a 4k monitor.
>>284329496That is commendable, but if one is burned out, why not go for something easier?
>>284329221I use CC 2015 + IOPaintCovers all of my needs.
>>284320100Any results you can show?
Any good place to find a translator for hire? I have 4 oneshots about 50 pages each that I want to do but can't find somebody willing to do it so I just want to pay someone and get it over with.Also how much do they usually charge? I remember seeing people doing it for about a dollar per page.
>>284330000You speak as if you've never done a service for others (or for your own satisfaction), trying to maintain a level of quality without expecting anything in return.I used to OCR ebooks from pdf to epub and even though I came across thousands of books that needed some care, I only worked on authors and periods I was interested in, until I burned out as well. Sure, I could've picked up a 10 page long short story collection by some young adult author from 2002, that would've been easier, but why bother?
>Got contacted by a Brazilian who wants my PSD files to work on the manga in his own language>Oblige and give it to him>My redrawing isn't done on the whole page, if there are parts hidden by the text I just leave them>He keeps them the same on his releases>He Uses smaller text so the issues are more clearHe's doing fine now but later on there are some hard to do parts. He should fix them otherwise they'll become very apparent.
>>284329221GIMP will not be viable as long as the text rendering remains as wonky as it is now.They've added layer effects now, so there's a step forward, but I don't think they have any of the text handling features Photoshop does yet.
>>284330025Post sth and I'll clean it
>>284331537>sharing your PSD files with people who can't be arsed to do any actual workFor what reason?
>>284332641>Woow, reduplicating work already done is good.
>>284332641Same reason why you would get into scanlation in the first place, I suppose.
>>284332641>sharing your translation with people who can't be arsed to learn the language
>>284331537>>284332641The last time a Brazilian friended me, he asked for some cosmethic in a videogame which I gave him for free since I had a bunch of copies. The next time, out of the blue, he asked me to buy him a 39 usd game.So yeah, hope Anon is at least getting proper attribution.
>>284332738Yeah it's especially stupid when we're all working without pay for people who are too lazy to learn Japanese themselves anyway.
>>284332641It's a hobby. People help each other.Besides, help spreads the manga around.>>284332763He does that. He gives credit to the group and me for the editing work.
>>284332763Lol funnily enough I had a similar experience. Like the same day we started talking he asked me if I could buy him some old niche manga magazine. When I said no he asked for my address asking if he could send it so I could scan it for him and so he wouldn't have to deal with customs. What's with that?
Why is scan thread always dead
>>284335448It's better this way.
>>284335448People don't want to engage in discussion anymore thanks to certain bad actor.
>>284335448I think scanlation as a whole is a bit dead nowadays.
>>284335448No one wants to reply to innit any more and just explain the difference.This was the only thing that kept it alive.
I'm still waiting for someone to respond to my report and update the cover to the manga I'm TLingI've been uploading shit for 8 years on MD alone when the fuck am I getting power uploader manga editing privileges
>>284335713So where are people uploading now that Mangadex bent over and Comick even more so?
>>284335725I think group leaders should be able to do it.
Was the anon I was speaking to about Plustek Opticbook scanners last month still around?desuarchive.org/a/thread/283626880/#283644014If so: I did some subsequent research and emailed Plustek, and it seems like there's no significant differences between the A300 and A300 plus, and I believe not between the 4800 and 4900 A4 models either.I do, actually, have a few books I wish to scan which have page sizes above A4, but the A300 models both cost like 3x the amount of money as A4 ones. I do see a used listing for a A300 for about as much as a 4900, but I have no idea how i'd tell from the listing if it's in good working condition or not. Is there anything I can have the seller scan as a test to then send me the scanned image to look for potential issues?Conversely, I only have a few books with larger then A4 page sizes, and I don't think most of them have edge to edge illustrations, so I probably could still scan them using one of the A4 models, unless resting the book on the top scanning bed portion is gonna be a problem. AFAIK both the 4800 and 4900 (though I think only the 4800 has it shown on the website) can remove the the top lid to make room for overized books though>if you buy OpticBook A300 Plus, the max scan dpi is 600, I think is enough for any book but, I don't know how autistic you are with the resolution From tests I did with National Geographic covers, and a normal ass HP printer-scanner combo, I actually found scanning at higher DPIs was generally inferior to scanning at lower ones, and higher DPI scans had more moire artifacts and visible screentone, but I was also told by anons at the time I tested that, that that's likely just from the scanner having built in postprocessing and scanning at a higher DPI and then downscaling with a better scanner would likely look good. Anyways, if that anon is still around and is willing to speak over email, I'd love to talk further about this, a throwaway of mine is majoraz0000@gmail.com
>>284335713Too much shit has been happening.>AI taking over translations>Mangadex dies>Mangadex's replacement dies>More and more groups are picking dozens of projects only to paywall their releases.The last one in particular is spiraling out of control. I hope Kakao kills them all.
>>284336005I'd be happy to see all of those groups die. There might be some losses, but the problem has growth far too much and people need to learn. I don't know how people can believe some of the justifications they use.
>>284336002Also for any other anons wanting to give me advice (which I'd happily take), keep in mind I am wanting to scan books and magazines with color illustrations, photos etc, not primarily manga.>>284336005Why are people using AI for translation rather then for redrawing the backgrounds behind SFX and stuff? It actually seems like it might be well suited to that.Speaking of, are the anons who were experimenting with using AI to remove moire artifacts/screentone make any headway since I last asked about that a few years ago? Again, less for manga where preserving it would be desirable, and more for color illustrations.https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/257474231/#257515176https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/240174204/#240213465This also has the stuff with the Nat Geo scans I mentioned in >>284336002 I think
>>284336005In my niche it's big groups picking up new series and then proceed to stall for eternity
>>284336087>Why are people using AI for translation rather then for redrawing the backgrounds behind SFX and stuff? It actually seems like it might be well suited to that.It can do both. And as >>284319950 pointed out>more and more I see people with basic to intermediate JP skill, MTL assistance, native English skill, and a little contextual awareness putting out objectively much higher quality work than diligent human TL with shitty ESL editing. Current models are very capable of spewing out a translation that beats an ESL doing honest work. They still fuck up with some names, mistaking a character's gender or not knowing who's talking because they don't have enough context, but it's way faster to QC the AI translation than doing the whole thing yourself.
>>284336087I don't really understand why you think moire is something "not desirable" when scaled down it gets to hardly noticeable levels, but you do you.
>>284336002>Was the anon I was speaking to about Plustek Opticbook scanners last month still around?I'm here>I do see a used listing for a A300 for about as much as a 4900, but I have no idea how i'd tell from the listing if it's in good working condition or not. Is there anything I can have the seller scan as a test to then send me the scanned image to look for potential issues?You can ask it to scan a blank sheet of paper and any image. I mention the blank image because, by adjusting its brightness, you can check if the scanner is in good condition (you can see dust particles if the sensor is dirty or if the glass has any scratches).>is willing to speak over emailI honestly don't know what else I could tell you, although, expect an email from the worst scanner ever from Proton (no joke). Check your spam folder.
>>284336471> They still fuck up with some names, mistaking a character's gender or not knowing who's talkingRarely a problem if your script has speakers tagged.
>>284318149>someone picked up my series>it's not as good as mine>they obviously didn't go back and read the manga from the start to learn the style and quirks of the mangaka>months between chaptersnot allowed to complain but holy shit i feel bad if this is the subpar quality of work that people are left withthis scene is permanently amateur hours with people who simply don't care about making releases good
>>284332641i see people straight up yoink my cleaned pages and translations. i'd rather they not ask because i already have no respect for them and don't want to give them a second of my time
Kinda annoyed they just took my copy where I slightly fucked up stitching the cover and translated to their language, like you can't even buy a digital copy like I did?
>>284335817Is it autistic of me to keep wanting to upload as No Group still
>>284317832Nothing in the past year, but one day I'll get back into it.
Surely one of you knows the difference between “呼びます” and “お呼びです” and where one woud use either right? It's pretty big you know.
>>284337119Assuming you've used them before, yeah, I'd want to have a way to reach you to ask shit. I'm not sure what to make of what you said with proton, though, given what the email says. You have any input on the DPI thing I mentioned/asked? Turns out the national geographic test images weren't in either thread or in https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/240228854/#240239910 , which was the only other past /a/ thread I could find where I asked shit, but here are the uploads75 dpi: https://imgur.com/a/nat-geo-test-75dpi-compressed-YUa5xqo150 dpi: https://imgur.com/a/nat-geo-test-150dpi-hS86mGx300 dpi: https://imgur.com/a/nat-geo-test-300dpi-compressed-JeVOfLR600 dpi: https://imgur.com/a/nat-geo-test-600dpi-compressed-j6Z8CaV1200 dpi with downscaling: https://imgur.com/a/nat-geo-test-1200dpi-downscaled-to-2400px-tall-cubic-interpolation-TUpx7Zw4800 dpi: https://we.tl/t-TCnOLvWghaHere 300 DPI seems to be a sweet spot, 150 just captures less detail, 600 just looks noisy despite the higher resolution. 1200 looks good in terms of detail, there's less noise then 300DPI even when scaled to the same size, but the overall image is brighter/less saturated/has less contrast and at 50% scale or above the screentone is too visible. 4800 (may not be from the same scanner?) has better color/contrast, and doesn't have the screentone as distracting, but the overall image is way too soft.Is any of this indicative of what different DPI scans will get me with the plusteks or not really?I am also considering simply buying a DLSR camera and a tripod to take photos of pages, since I need to buy a camera anyways, but last time I experimented with that, the lack of any sort of way to lock angles on the tripod meant it was a huge pan in the ass to get everything aligned>>284336518In manga, it's usually fine because the moire adds some character to otherwise plain backgrounds. But see the links above for how it looks in higher detail color illustrations
We're working on Gibbet Room and they moved to Take Comic. So i wrote something to rip chapters from their site.https://pastebin.com/TeWUpJt3
>>284335448Part of it is that we really don't have a lot to talk about. And other part is that I think people don't want to post their own work.Personally I think it will be good to ask for assistance on projects here but then most of the thread might devolve into begging. Not even from actual scanlators.>>284335725It's astonishing how slow the whole site is in doing anything.I've wanted to change my username for a long time now but the site doesn't allow you to. Even though it's a highly requested feature. And the solutions they mention doesn't work.
>>284322904weebdex looks promising. Some groups have already migrated there, but most group leaders haven't uploaded anything yet.
>>284336058Lack of knowledge and fear of losing their only source of translation.Tell someone that doesn't know a thing about the inner works of translation that raws cost money and he will give you anything you want.
>>284342086I saw one claiming that paying them helps support the author, because they buy it.
>>284342216>"We're going to buy it, pinky promise!">They just download existing ripsI remember one time some guy messaged me thinking I was the artist of the manga. Took me a while to get it because I really didn't think that someone might do that mistake.I googled his name afterward and he turned out to be a giantess feet stomping fetishest. Dude contacted me because he wanted me to draw his OC.
>>284342079Do nip IPs get autoblocked?
>>284342329Looks like it. I just switch to a US/NL IP when using protonvpn
>>284342469Ass from a usability perspective since I don't think any free VPN provides split tunneling.
>>284342674You can just use a different browser profile and install the protonvpn browser extension. At least, that's what I've been doing whenever I want to use sketchy sites without relying on a system-wide vpn. Forget all that, if you're actually in Japan, wouldn't it be risky to access a manga piracy site without a vpn?
>>284342848With encryption nobody knows what I'm accessing, might just be browsing the index or shitposting in comments if there are any.
if there's vertical text like the image on the left, is it better to keep it vertical or does it look better if I make it horizontal instead?
>>284343273Both of these are good, I'd say. If you've already gone through the trouble of cleaning the whole thing, you might as well go with horizontal.But the most important thing in pages like this one is to not cover the cleavage.
>>284343273Left looks the best.
>>284343273All three good
>>284343390you mean the japanese one or the one in the center with vertical text?
>>284343273Let your dick decide
>>284343273Right looks the best and it's the most easy one to read. But if you ever do the middle at least rotate the text rather than using vertical direction.
>>284343273Takemetothesea
>>284322733what about this? obviously it can't be done in a normal image format, unless maybe you put the TL in the metadata and use a custom viewer to display it on hover
>>284343585"Takemeto thesea"looks better
>>284335713>>284336005It's something that's been steadily happening for years but there are a number of events that have gutted the scan community. The first was the advent of Vtubers, it unironically pulled a bunch of JSL anons out of the anime/manga community since dedicated TLs are also the type to become dedicated fans of seiyuu/VTubers, so a bunch of them became casual or "big name" translators within Vtuber communities. Second is COVID/the enshittifciation of social media. Anyone who was younger than 18 when COVID hit has absolute shit work ethic and skills working in a group compared to older people. People are increasingly losing hobbies to hours of doomscrolling and short form content consumption, and it hits younger people harder since they have trouble even conceptualizing a life without the constant dopamine hits of ragebait and For You algorithmslop. I even have millenial friends who have dropped hobbies, side goals like learning languages because of the 5 hours of free time they have after work, 3+ hours of it are spent on social media now.
>>284343585Let me playamong the fish
>>284344989Use a hyphen + decrease text size.
Has AI not taken your jobs yet?
>>284343585yeah I guess it looks a bit better than >>284344998
>>284346220Why do you think I’m scanning all day with AI
>>284346220AI's a tool and I'm the user.
>Found out a TL I'm working with has been scanlating since 1998How long have you been doing it?
>>2843470442016
>>284347044Since 2005, I think.
>>284347044Since 2018, I'm a baby in the grand scheme of things.
Ganbare, TL anons!
>>284347044Started during covid around 2001 I think, but honestly I don't remember anymore.
>>284347584>TFW started in 2022Meanwhile I give advice to others and they think I'm some experienced scanlator.
A question for my fellow ESL TLs: How often do you catch yourself thinking that you could express a line so much better in your native language?
>>284352472I do PR for one. She asks me to help her with it but rereading the early chapters I did makes me wince. I could have done a lot better than I did.
I've been buying manga volumes digitally off of Amazon and can still use calibre with the dedrm plugin to get pages in reasonable quality (dimensions of about 1388 x 1920).However one of the newest volumes in the series I've been buying has done something different. There's a smaller .azw file of 42 MB (which is less than half the size they normally are) and if I try to dedrm that I get noisy images with smaller dimensions (884 x 1225). There's a second file with this volume, a 197 MB azw.res file. I suspect that higher quality images are locked behind this, but I don't know how to get around the drm. Anyone have experience with azw.res files?
>>284317832Mangadex is kill
>>284354342Nyo...
>>284342674Privado
>>284354342RIP
>>284354342Works on my phone
>>284317832Are you guys still using photoshop? I've become more wary of pirating software recently.
>>284353537I'd like to know to. I bought 私の息子が異世界転生したっぽい フル so I could maybe complete the last two volumes but dedrm isn't working. And I'm on Linux now so just fuck my shit up I need to figure out how to do everything again.
>>284345037worked with someone younger than me. complete misalignment in values and work ethic. no more zoomer collabs, ever
>>284357919Why?
Where do you get photoshop these days? I gotta download this shit again.
I use m0krus, I hope putin doesn’t steal my creds
>>284346220It ain't cheap
>>284346220I’m still cheaper than AI
>>284357937The usual websites have raws for the last 2 volumes (not sure if watermarked, but probably). Or you could use the Spanish version which seems to come from the mag release.The full deal would be great (high res, good redrawing, properly QC'd translation), but as long as the translation is good, most people would probably be happy. More so since reading manga on mobile has turned into a real thing.
>>284357919What else will you use?
>>284361660Oh, Krita is not that bad- except for typesetting. And cleaning up. And opening any document.
>>284346268It doesn't. Pure amateur hour.
>>284362385what would look better then?
I bought the sequel of Mechanical Marie, anyone interested in translating it?
I like sacnning
>>2843470442007, started as a typesetter, then translator and everything else
My post got more upboat than usual, this is why I scan ahh the dopamine hit
>>284366655For me it's the comments.Don't read them, but seeing the number goes up hits just right.
>>284352472Often enough. It's especially bad for certain archetypes like young girls and old fucks.
>>284362717What you already had >>284343273
>>284367892I kept tweaking it a bit and I ended up putting the text back to how it was yeah. I also chose this more legible font. What did you meant by pure amateur hour tho, the fact that I listened to other anons suggestions?
>>284322733How about no SFX indicators? Why do you need them?
>>284368078why cover the image with text when there's all that blank space on the top right?
>>284368370it's a remnant of me trying to cover up the redrawing with the text, but now that you point it out there's nothing ugly enough that it needs to be hidden. I guess I could put it up there yeah.
I wish banana was cheaper
>>284366655>>284367281for me it's the karma on reddit :-)
How do you guys usually process scans before you upload them? I just edit the curves in GIMP so the black levels aren't washed out, but I imagine that there is a better way.
I hate that I can't use em dashes anymore.
>>284372579Why would you abandon a friend?
>>284373778kek
>>284367281There used to be 4 same guys commenting on every chapter of this manga I scanlateNow it's down to 2
>>284372579I use it just to trigger ppl
>>284372579DMM Group actually requires you to use them.
You wouldn't completely miss just how much this email sounds like a stereotypical business email right and miss what the joke is about? You also wouldn't have up till now translated how this character in normal speech uses rather colloquial speech like say ending sentences on “〜じゃん” to standard English so the entire punch of the difference would be lost right?You would've especially not done that while keeping a bunch of honorifics untranslated because you feel it makes such an importance difference while you would've completely fucked this up while part of the role language is that a significantly older wealthy office worker talks casually like a teenager to the protagonist right?That would've been so embarrassing and virginal had you done that, but you're above that right?
>>284335725I am going insaneIs there a group leader here who can help me out
>>284378457Don't get why you need to have 500 approved uploads to become power uploader either. That's stupid and insane. What troll is going to make 400 illigimate ones just to make the 401st a troll upload and even if it were to sometimes happen, everyone's time would be saved by just reverting it then.Mangago.me and bato.to literally only require 3 uploads approved by the admins through manual review until they're like “Yeah probably legitimate”. And who knows, maybe some troll is willing to make 3 legitimate ones to troll the fourth time once in a while but then you just remove it after then and it's worth it to not have to manually review so much and just let the 99% that is legitimate upload.I can see 5, I can even see 10, but 500 is ridiculous.
>>284378457I'm a one-man group leader, give me the file and the link and I'll see if I can update it.
>>284378599Thanks a lothttps://mangadex.org/title/420fac61-50f6-43ee-aa31-5cdd02d68833/kimoota-idol-yarutteyohttps://booth.pximg.net/af60182d-0bfc-456d-adb0-bfdd2dc40959/i/7256550/e753eac6-4f48-4966-8a44-2499c2873366.jpghttps://www.pixiv.net/artworks/133418374Also if you can, can you add the Raw Pixiv link as wellhttps://www.pixiv.net/user/16219481/series/626
>>284335725This post made me realize I have power uploader priviledges and I don't know since when. Might be because I made my own group to upload my solo scanlations.
>>284378689Updated it. The raw link is displayed correctly, and I can see the new covers in the Art tab, but it said "Covers may take a while to update if you changed them", and the current cover is still the same.
>>284378599>>284378885I see the new covers and the link now, thanks a bunch
>>284378334I could have done all that and it still wouldn't be as embarrassing or virginal as the way you post.
>>284335725What series? What needs changing?
>>284379668Ahh, so tell me, you actually wouldn't look at those text messages without context or the lines around it and instantly feel that this is a very stilted over the top business email?How would you translate it though?
[NEWS] Bookwalker is getting a redesign in 2026.Nooe
>>284317832I dont scanlate, never have. But I just want to take this time to thank each and every one of you that do. Thank you
>>284379837>How would you translate it though?
>>284379727Someone already changed it
Where do you find an actually good TL
>>284381450
>>284381450I'm here
What’s the magic behind solo groups? I can’t even handle typesetting 5 pages
The bottleneck used to be translators given how long it took to be competent
>>284378525Mangadex also only requires 1 or a few manually approved uploads to approve you as an uploader.But just as an uploader.They trust you not to do troll uploads, but they don't trust you to make edits. Edits and uploads are completely separate.It's pretty much impossible to get edit permissions on mangadex if you're not a group leader.Their system is literally "if we get sick of processing so many of your 'update this cover' requests, we will give you the permissions so we don't have to deal with you anymore". But if they're so lazy they just don't care about your requests at all, you're fucked. And no one sane would want to submit themselves to the humiliation ritual of submitting so many reports that way in the first place.I got mine by chance, some mangadex mod saw me bitching about no one responding to my reports and how retarded their system is on the mandagex discord server, somehow recognized me as a danbooru janny (the product of 1 month of autism, I got sick of gelbooru's inferior UI so I uploaded 500 loli porn pics to get the power uploader upgrade and be able to see loli pics on danbooru) and gave me the VIP role based on that lol.
>>284382847you can put a youtube video or something in the background to distract yourself, or find a typesetter that will do the work for you
>>284383405Oh yeah that is how it worked, I also remembered it worked like that for adding new database entries to begin with.This idea of a shared page for every single scanlation is simply much less pleasant and convenient. I like the system where every scanlation has its own page that is owned by whoever created it more, especially because on bato.to one can petition the admins that receive control if it if the original group has not uploaded in a long time and one can show one has the next chapter.Also, it works better with different languages which all need a different description obviously.
>>284383500>I like the system where every scanlation has its own page that is owned by whoever created it moreThat sounds strictly worse than the mandagex system. Not only are regular users still unable to edit anything, now even group leaders can no longer edit other manga.
>>284383558Of course, they shouldn't be able to edit a page that belongs to someone else leading to edit wars.One can always edit one's own page of one's own scanlation that one created for oneself of course.
>>284384143Lol no
why do you people care about uploading your work to reader sites
>>284384192Because, if it's not uploaded to a reader site, people can't read it in two-page mode as god intended.
>>284384269but locally installed manga readers have that option
>>284379888You're welcome.
>>284382847YT essays, or audiobooks on a good day.
>>284384907Yesss
Please live
>>284385006Fiction?
>>284386501Yup. Sci-fi and horror.
banaa ts is pretty fun
>>284386524Neat. I've been thinking of going back into it. But got burned by the Culture books. Maybe I should get some fantasy or SoL instead.
>>284386137Ok.
Anyone a translator here?
>>284392987おるよ～
>>284393188sweet are you able to make a pastebin tl of the mafia portion of this >>284387153? we need help on that.
>>284393398Sorry will pass, thought you'd have a simple question. Also not familiar with the series.
>>284393768damn. >>284392987bumping to see if there's any takers.
>>284382847it's just easier not having to deal with other peopleother people is hell
>>284392987bump.
how many of you arent that smart
>>284397158>>284394489>>284392987Are you Brazilian?
>>284342329Works on my IP, both celular and broadband.
>>284378770What also surpises me is group leader can edit basically any entry, not limited to just entries the group is associated for, which I thought was the case before.
>>284379842>Signed, BookWalker GlobalWhat about BookWalker Japan tho?
I wish I could scan faster
>>284317832I NEED a job. I NEED to put my N1-certified translation skills and over a decade of editing skills to work in exchange for MONEY
>>284377886>DMM Groupwhat's that?>picrelisn't that from the Amimaru style guide?
>>284405329What if I pay you in "Thanks!" for translating some obscure manga only 1000 people will read on their phones in the middle of doing something else?
Should I make a page at the end explaining what the words mean here or just try my luck at redrawing it?
>>284406664or just use banana
>>284406935Holy shit AI can do that nowArtists need not release clean versions then
>>284406935How do you do this?
>>284406935Oh wow. I didn't know it was that good. I'm impressed.Thanks for doing it. But I use online scans that drops a week from now since they have a bigger resolution. How do I use the site? Do I just make an account and that's it?
>>284406935it fucks up the art. every human would make this glare circular. the ai extended itnto an oval that reaches the tip because white space from the text was there
>>284405504Nah, that's from the DMM style guide. They're some sort of media zaibatsu.
>>284406981>>284407003https://rentry.co/lazybananaAscanhttps://gemini.google.com/If you have a member with the pro plan you can do up to 100 gens a day. I think free accounts get like 3 banana pro gens a day? idk
Fuck AI
>>284407144you can also typeset SFX with this btw just switch up your prompt.
>>284406935It doesn't work with cleaning anything nsfw or anything it thinks is nsfw, so no ecchi and h stuff
>>284407217that workflow is model agnostic, you can use a uncensored chinese model for that.
>>284407213What is the best way to word the prompt?
>>284407265I don't have that much experience with it, telling it to replace the JP sfx with EN sfx in the same style and a list of JP:EN pairs worked for me. It's way less reliable than CLRD tasks though.
>>284407144Tried it on a random page. The picture at the bottom is blurrier. Need to find a way to fix that. But the results speak for themselves. This will help a lot with real life references and 3D objects, those are always a problem.
Do you really love your series if you slap AI slop all over it
>>284407736His eyes got smudged up bad
No one will notice
>>284407929Yeah, it's a problem I need to find a work around for. Maybe I could copy and paste the redrawn parts, though the edges of those parts stand out on their own. It still needs some touch-ups afterward that's for sure.I don't think regular illustrations get this problem. Even if there are modifying and fixing them is easier.
>>284407957people don't notice bad translations either
>>284408041>noticeable edgeThat’s why you use a 0% hardness brush to unmask it
>>284407929everything got blurry with a dose of artifacts
skill issue
>>284408079You mean something like this?It does offer its own set of problems. Mostly for the larger text on the right. Perhaps fidgeting with content aware fill could do the trick, or it can be covered by the typeset text.
>>284408574Left text, I meant.
Redrawing is the pirate tax (official translators get clean pages).You must pay it to preserve your honor.Like self-flagellation.You mustn't pass it over to AI.
>>284408574
My autism striked again and I want to scanlate a really good 200 page loli doujin. I could handle the typesetting and stuff myself but I’m worried I’ll miss some details if I did the translation by myself. How much would a good translator charge for these many pages? Should I just suck it up and TL it myself? It’s a good learning opportunity, if any.
>>284345037Zoomer here. Shit I see this happening in me (Still faring way better than my zombie colleagues but not good). How do I reverse it? I only use Twitter for art and junior idols but ragebait and polishit still gets through the cracks
>>284408836>official translators get clean pagesDo they though? My impression is that they still need to redraw it.I say it because there are some official scans that has clear signs of redrawing. Summit of the Gods is a good example of this. But that could be due to their age. For a more recent example there is Kengan Omega. I remember one of the chapters had the attack names overlaid over the Japanese ones.>>284408897Seems my mistake was that I tried to use it on the actual layer rather than the mask. I get what you're saying now. It's still noticable but not by much.There was a part at the bottom I had to manually work on but it seems to be an issue of copy+pasting the edges too close early on. The end result could be better if I put more time into it.
>>284409039Oops, wrong one.
>>284409039it depends, some officials receive both manga pages and their clean versions, and other like summit of the gods receive only the manga pages so they have to redraw it.
>>284408958Which part of translation are you worried about? Comprehension or production?If just comprehension, you can always ask in these threads.You could ask production questions here too, but you would risk summoning Innit.Otherwise, you could try using the e-hentai bounty system.
I've been out of the loop for a while. Anyone using Affinity for their typesetting?
>>284409632Comprehension mainly. I worry I won’t do the work justice. I think I’ll try to TL it myself and ask here if I get stuck. Thanks anon!
>>284317832I finally know japaneseWhen do i get to translate,m
>>284377886En dashes are literally a mental illness.There is no reason for them to exist.
>>284409868>Grab any raws from Nyaa>Start translating
>>284410294En-dashes? Not em?
>>284412123Em dashes are fine. En dashes should all just be hyphens (and they are in most cases).
Is banana actually usable now? Last time I tried it’s just now following instructions.
>>284410367Can you be more pathetic?
>>284413602
>>284409868just find something you find interesting and start translatingif you post it on /a/ you might pick up a typesetter and cleaner as well for instancethough it's easier just making a group, or working with everything yourself (though that's time consuming)
I thought my magazine was supposed to come out today but it doesn't come out until the 15th...
Where do I request scanlations of manga that has raws and looks fun but isn't translated/translation got abandoned?
>>284407144Works great, thanks anon.
>>284405244How fast do you scan? I can scan like 1 b/w doujin page per minute at 600 dpi.
>>284418320Reddit
>>28441645113-sai's scanlation is literally done entirely through anons on /a/, right?
How would you describe and translate the difference between:>政府という組織>政府といった組織
>>284378908It's been two days and the cover still hasn't changed to the latest one anon added
stop putting bananas in my manga
>>284416451I hate working with people because I feel guilty about slacking off.
I prefer working solo because I don’t want to talk to people
>>284422622Have to read the fine print>If your role allows you to pick the main coverCover change isn't automatic. There is more permissions above being able to edit the page. I have group leader so I can edit and add covers but I don't have whatever you need to be able to change the main cover. Maybe thats where Power Uploaders come in?
>>284426821Which genius came up with this fucked up hierarchy system
>>284426821That mangadex requires the main cover to be the latest one rather than the first is also an issue. The comments so often are>Hurr durr, the cover has nothing to do with the story.No shit when it's the cover of volume 8 and you're reading the first and the character on it only first appears at the end of volume 6
>>284408053I slap AI RD slop onto my tryhard translation and you can’t do anything about it.
>>284422441>>政府という組織"An organization that is the government">>政府といった組織"An organization like the government"という is when A is the same as B. The organization IS the government, in this case.といった is when A is B, but B is not A. Governments are organizations, but not all organizations are governments.
>>284428241Isn't that just a weeb thing or does MD actually have a rule about that? People update the cover pic on MU too.
>>284428485Mangadex actually enforces it by the rules, not all websites do it. It's far better to have the first cover since people tend to start reading from the start.>>284428421Correct.
>>284423108But bananas are delicious...
>>284318149it feels weird when someone picks up a series you left and their quality is much lower than yours. its almost as if their work also lowers the value of your work by association. which makes me want to get back to it and fix it but also not because someone else is working on it and i did drop it already
Does anyone have any theory as to why all the translators and fans that prefer untranslated honorifics are colossal permavirgins with bad Japanese who never once had a Japanese conversation in their lives and treat Japanese like a substitution cipher for manga English in their head?What could possibly explain this strong correlation?
>>284429747I loved it when this thing I was doing was sniped by someone who used the online matgazine pages while I said I waited for the volume releases because it had explicit sex scenes and the person who sniped me, on top of that, also freely admitted just using machine translation.Absolutely based; the balls. High-test move, I love it. This is how you snipe.
someone redid my old scan with better TL… I want to delete mine but that’d delete the comments too. rip
>>284429785And the tards on MD lapped it right up.
>>284429776>translatorsAutism. Just a different brand to yours. >fansSunk-cost and cope. Weebanese has to closest representation of what it's like to consume animanga in Japanese because otherwise they'd be admitting to themselves they've been consuming and will continue to consume shit.
IT IS MY TRANSLATION.IT IS MY WORK.MINE.GOD PROMISED THIS SCAN 3000 YEARS AGO TO ME.why you're like this?
>>284430790I mean, it can be justified. Obviously it depends on the specifics. Most snipers would never even discover the manga if it wasn't for the original group.
Ugh I read in jp and wanted to share… the old group’s TL is mediocre, I can do a better job… so I sniped
>>284430790Is this antisemitic?
Sniping is always justified
>want to be sniped for years>someone finally does it>leave a comment thanking him and saying I can now quit in peace>he deletes his uploadBack to the mines with me.
>>284431608if you really want an excuse to stop working on it you could just make a new account and snipe yourself
>>284431046I've only really been sniped once, and then they translated like all of the rest of the chapters of what I were working on.Luckily they have them behind shitty coin pay walls, they're MTL, and nobody probably reads them, so it didn't really matter.
>>284420854>13-sai's scanlation is literally done entirely through anons on /a/, right?yeah, they work on both 13-sai and itoko no ko, and it's the same TL and TS.I used to clean and redraw for itoko no ko, but I had to quit because of my new job. I just don't have time for scanlation anymore. Or anything else for that matter right now really.
>>284425029>I hate working with people because I feel guilty about slacking off.I prefer working solo because it's easier and less stressfull just dealing with everything myself, but then again it's more work.
Will anyone ever scan(late) Star of the Giants?
>>284432221No
>>284429810The struggle is real.
>>284431608Reverse psychology, innit.
>>284429810Look at the bright side. Yours is the one that's getting spread around.
>>284329221gimp refuses to modernize, open source programs suffer from a designed by engineers problem. the thought of ui/ux simply doesn't cross their mind at any phase of development and they'll shit on any newcomers who suggest they implement features to improve quality of life and workflow from modern programs. gimp is permanently suck in the early 00s
>>284434879linux is usually 15 years behind windows, but in the case of gimp it's 25 years behind, huh
>>284435732>linux is usually 15 years behind windowsThe whole IT industry disagrees.
>>284362366>KritaThis.I'm not a scanlator, but do you guys really need Photoshop?
>>284435875the only thing linux is good for is serversworkstation linux is a meme
>>284435893
We live
>>284431046No!I called dips!
>>284439712I call chins.
>>284436172Servers, and cars, your phone, your microwave, your router, your smartwatch, and everything else you can think about.And yes, thanks to Microsoft's own fuckups, desktops too now.>>284436799What do you need from Photoshop that Krita can't do?Genuine curiosity.
>>284441921>What do you need from Photoshop that Krita can't do?Not sure what krita offers, but I guess it won't have most of this:plugin support for actually useful stuff like topaz denoise + cleangod tier magic brushphotomergeAnd some more stuff that I use exclusively to make memes.
What to do when there's a transitive verb without an object? It's not like with an ellipsis where you can usually guess what's necessary for English grammar or work around it by also cutting the English one short.
>>284441921Honestly?I'm just familiar with it by this point
Scanlation dramaSome dude just sniped Cinderella Gray and dumped FIFTY chapters all at once on Dex
>>284442249Examples? Unlike literature, manga has a visual component so the object could be deduced from that.If it's not a matter of brevity (i.e., ellipses) but rather intent (keep something hidden), then maybe "it" would suffice? Idk.
idk that series but BASED
HORY BEISU
>Accidently posted the chapter pages out of order>Fixed it as fast as I can>Early readers are commenting over how the pages are out of orderNo one is going to believe them...It never happened...
>>284443514>idk that seriesit's Uma
>>284443695>upload chap with no issues>no one reads or comments for hours>upload chap with issues>instantly people reading and commentingFate is real.
>>284443350I had it a few weeks ago but it just came to mind, so sadly I don't have the example.
Why are some translators (often paid or beg money) so SLOW at their job?I'm a solo scanlator and I could do 1 monthly chapter a day.
>>284445515They're a bunch of lazy assholes that would rather circlejerk in their discord all dayIt sure as shit doesn't take two weeks to do one chapter
>>284445515Because scanlation is a hobby, not a job.
I used an upscale model (IllustJanaiV3) and have uploaded 2 chapters with it, but I've concluded it messes with the color, so I'm probably going to go back and revert the chapters to its original, though perfectly reasonable, quality.No one will won't notice, right?
>>284442871If (You) are 50 chapters behind on a desirable manga you can't really get upset when someone with initiative poaches your series, especially if you spend most of your time circlejerking in Discord instead of working. A hard pill to swallow for some is that other people don't care about the "hobby" or the unwritten rules, they just want to see the results.
I think it's important to realize that the average manga reader:- Does not read manga on a microscope- Does not download your manga and closely inspects it in Photoshop.- Uses a mobile, tablet or small size display.- Spends less than 10-20 seconds on any given page.- Is used to free manga on artifact ridden websites full of malware pop ups.- Is slow to notice flaws unless they're aware of them.Remember this and sleep better. Honestly, high standards are great, but there's a thin line between insanity and good enough. Nobody is going to give you a price for best quality in pirated manga, and you should seek validation in other fields of aspect of your craft.
>>284447186*prize*other fields or aspects
normalfags seem to be easily convinced by "slow = high quality" fallacy
>>284447186I messed up one word and caused an already divisive character to get hated more… still not over it.
it happens
>>284409039>>284408574
>>284447186Good post.
>>284422622I tried giving it another push with my extra privileges, let's see if it goes through now
>>284447186I use AI generative fill and content aware fill on like 95 percent of my redrawing, and otherwise I just use clone tool a little or just cover up the parts that don't look good with big strokes. Honestly it's fine, you won't notice it unless you really try to. And it's fast and efficient.
>>284447186You are correct. I'm not a professional so a mistake or two are fine.However, I still appreciate those who point out mistakes.
>>284446890No, yes, they won't will notice
>>284447186Does your logic extend to the mangaka and editors and original publishers?
>>284452015Yes. That's why Shueisha raws are so low quality that you have to wait for Bilibili to get the official Chinese translation if you want high quality art.
>>284447186>tell readers the quality is significantly worse because I'll now be working with webrips that are half the resolution of the tanks and a little blurry>they universally say they can't tell the differenceI think it's important for the average manga reader to realize this isn't reassuring, it's demoralizing. I put effort in because I think the manga deserves it, not because I think they deserve it. I don't like thinking I'm the only one who cares.
>>284450644It worked, thank you so much anon
>>284453290>I put effort in because I think the manga deserves itIt deserves to get pirated via unlicensed and non approved "fair use", without any input from the original publisher or author?Sounds like you're just making your own rules, anon.
>>284455602How do I go about setting up a translator account on DLSite
>>284453290Osis had a vote if people wanted to wait for volume raws, or just continue with subpar magazine raws (which were pretty bad compared to your usual online web rips). About two thirds just wanted him to continue, so he did that. Honestly I was surprised that so many even wanted him to wait for volume rips to be honest.I myself prefer to work on volume raws if they're available, and otherwise work on the best possible magazine raws (using AI upscaling if it's necessary) since I don't want to wait around for the volume in like half a year or a year or whatever.
>>284406935Banana (and other ai-bots) not only redraw the page as a whole, even if you say it not to, but its also change size, and even aspect ratio. And in case it won't do what you actually wanted, you need to prompt anew, which isn't free. I wish there was some better AI for redrawing manga, preferable local, but which doesn't need supercomputer to run. Lama Cleaner/IO Paint and available models for Chainner and the likes are pretty shit at redrawing, especially anything with screentones.
>284457343your banana complaint is mostly just skill issue. I rarely need to go over 2 tries for a given area with banana pro. And masks exist youknow. For the best local cleaning model try Photoshop 2026 remove tool.
I BOUGHT YHE VOLUME AND THEY'RE LOWER RES THAN THE WEBCOMIC! WHAT GIVES??
>>284458756Houbunsha?
>>284458951From bookwalker for a Weekly Shounen Magazine manga
>>284457343>Lama Cleaner/IO Paint and available models for Chainner and the likes are pretty shit at redrawing, especially anything with screentones.Content aware fill is decent at screentones, so honestly 95 percent or something of redrawing can be done with IOPaint and photoshop content aware fill. Looks more than decent enough.
>>284458756Not like this...
Hello scananonsThoughts on weebdex?Will we eventually see all those mangadex uploads that were taken down resurface there?I imagine mangadex still has all that shit stored on their servers they're just not accessibleIt would be painful to manually upload everything back in
>>284459492What res is the web release?
bump
>>284462798web: 1115x1600volume from SS script: 1070x1600I even zoomed in to look for and quality upgrades, but it looks the same as the web comic. I know they have a better quality available cause I saw one of their tweets showcasing a snippet of a page in super high res. Idk why they didn't release that.
>>284464200Because the volumes of the label are 2:3 instead of 1:1.41 like magazines or normal manga volumes. You see that with other weekly shonen labels as well. In some cases the cut off content, in others they show more or a mix where you get some and lose some.
>>284453290To be frank, I think the people who do have an issue with it will not voice their opinion. They probably think they'll upset you and drop it.
>>284453290Its a combination of toxic positivity and the average reader being an absolute fucking retard that will eat up any slop served to them. These people have zero quality standards.
>>284469066You can't call yourself a scanlator if you can't detect the usage of big strokes to hide shoddy redrawing.
>>284469372
>>284457066If you can't read their instructions, you shouldn't be translating.
>>284469830I just want to know some things before I delve inLike if I offer to translate something will the mangaka learn my ID and stuff like that
>>284464200>I know they have a better quality available cause I saw one of their tweets showcasing a snippet of a page in super high res. Idk why they didn't release that.Bandwidth. Internet is expensive.Check if there's an official Chinese translation on Bilibili, you might find the higher quality there.
>>284469417I'm not judging. I do it myself.
>>284470003NTA but fair enough.
>>284407144Which models are the best for NSFW stuff? Any that's free?
>>284458487>And masks exist youknow.And how to use them with banana? I mean prompts, where to upload, and all that.
>>284472982Install these 2 scripts and adapt the workflow to your needs. >>284407144
FUCK BEING A SCANNIEI CAN'T KEEP DOING THIS SHIT FOR FREEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
is m0nkrus ps2026 stable
>>284474885Then quit
Daga kotowaruTN: daga means but kotowaru means I refuse
live
>>284474885it's a hobby, if you're not having fun the quityou'd be better off in a minimum wage job than trying to make money on scanlation
>>284469066this but unironically
>>284478892What if I have a non-minimum wage job making $100K USD a year and still have scanlating even though it's technically my only hobby?
>>284479435>V2 re-release: *still haTe scanlating
Post your suki TLNs
>>284337119>>284337119>>284340502>>284340502bumping this
If I want to scan a series in hq raw for personal use what’s the tools required? From what I gather I’d need a continuous feed scanner and digital raws for the auto align/cleaning script?
Speaking of TLNs.
>>284479585Feed scanners lower the quality. You need to scan manually with a black backdrop.
>>284479435I'm like almost 40 and make about $100k myself and still scanlate, but it's because it's fun and I'm an enthusiast.I really don't like the people trying to make money on scanlation, they've missed what it's all about entirely.
