Weebdex is kill and I've got nowhere to upload

>>287236835
The series I was working on got sniped by some MTL group that puts out chapters twice as fast and all the comments are praising them

Trying as much as I can not to pick up anything else because I'm already biting over more than I can chew. Honestly I feel like dropping something.

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>>287236945
Bro, your Mangadex?
>>287237000
That's weird. Usually they would call that out if the MTL is obvious, unless you spent a lot of time between uploads that it looks like you dropped it.

Anyone interested in picking up this? First chapter released today.
https://mangadex.org/title/c0727be3-cccf-4cfd-99de-13c52c0f23be/kyomu-nee-chan-wa-kamatte-hoshii
I was sort of thinking of picking it up myself, but I already have too much on my plate.

>>287237000
What series?

>>287237070
Yeah, sounds kinda fishy. Usually the readers get mad if a proper hq group gets sniped, but my guess is that he was slow with releases, or the other group is actually doing a decent job. Not every fast group is MTL.

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>>287237072
>A romcom about a girlfailure hag
Give it a week or two and it will be picked up. Maybe reccomened it to Squiggles or that gremlin fox group if it took too long.

>>287237070
>>287237101
LOL LMAO
NTA but you live in the past. If you're not "fast enough" for them they will slobber all over low quality snipes.

"Fast enough" is very arbitrary btw. Easily outpacing the author is definitely not enough from personal experience. Your releases feeling slow to them is the only criteria. Also, readers don't give a shit about quality as long as it's "readable". Manga is product meant to be consoomed so you can move on asap and consoom another product.

>>287237266
>Manga is product meant to be consoomed so you can move on asap and consoom another product.
This makes even more sense if you check raws. Like if you check a random magazine you'll notice that only a handful of series ever get a translation, official or scanlation. Probably less than 10 percent of manga ever get translated, and it's already hard to have oversight of English translated manga. Now multiple that with ten and you have the Japanese scene.
Manga is made for quick consumption and is dispensable in an oversaturated market. Always has been.

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>series dropped below 8.00 on dex
it's over

>>287237266
Not going to defend the lack of standards by some but I've seen people constantly calling out low quality snipes when the scanlator is active. They let it pass if the quality is better but even that doesn't happen so often. We don't know anything about the details of what happened to that anon though so it's all just speculation.
>>287237459
Nyo...

I recently discovered many mangaka don't personally choose their fonts or typeset. They handwrite the script for the editor, who picks whatever fonts they think are appropriate and lazily slaps text in bubbles without even centering. After years of autists demanding my typesetting slavishly match the arbitrary Japanese or I'm disrespecting the artist I feel vindicated.

>>287237266
>"Fast enough" is very arbitrary btw. Easily outpacing the author is definitely not enough from personal experience. Your releases feeling slow to them is the only criteria.
Reminds me of the times I've had readers beg for someone to snipe me because my scans are too slow. When the manga is on hiatus and I'm up to date.

>>287236945
your scansite on blogspot.

>>287237266
sad fact but that's how it is. people go to whatever that have english, quality or not

>>287237980
>I recently discovered many mangaka don't personally choose their fonts or typeset. They handwrite the script for the editor, who picks whatever fonts they think are appropriate and lazily slaps text in bubbles without even centering. After years of autists demanding my typesetting slavishly match the arbitrary Japanese or I'm disrespecting the artist I feel vindicated.
Huh, that explains why an artist I've seen drawing on youtube never fills in text. Color me surprised.

>>287237925
It's impossible to get on the same page without specific examples. But the reality is if the snipe quality level manages to reach
>EOPs not able to immediately tell the "translator" doesn't know nip (or english), raws and TS look "fine" to an untrained eye
then your HQ scans have about a week to be "appreciated". If they're slower than that the snipe isn't getting shat on (by more than one or two commenters).

I've got nothing to do today so we can do an experiment if you have a manga that fits the bill.

>>287238513
do this one
>>287237072

>>287238784
Nice try.

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Editing manga fills the void
The wait for TLs to send me a script is always the worst

>>287239291
I'd say the worst part as a solo scanlator is the typesetting. Definitely what I dread the most. And I'm not even putting in a lot of effort doing it, but still it's a major chore compared to the rest.

>>287238847
it was worth a shot

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>>287237072
I'm intrigued.
How does comic walker work for raw releases? Will all chapters be available for free and then removed after a while like other sites?

>>287236835
For fucks sake, I really can't fucking stay out of this shit hole for good, I've been out for more than a year and decided to make a dumb msgk goblin porn doujin. Maybe I'll finish it today, maybe I won't.

https://files.catbox.moe/eqgjto.png

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Is 4chan ready to have this debate?

>>287241150
Based tl making pedo coomers seethe.

>>287241015
the ones there are web only on dora dora sharp, they'll be removed when there's volume releases, but usually stays free until then
you might want to upscale the raws if you want to work on them, I've used upscayl with ultramix balanced settings on other manga from the magazine and they've looked fairly well, but I guess any upscaling works
of course the quality isn't that terrible that you can't work with them as is either I guess, but it's a bit bothersome that the resolution is so low

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>>287236835

>>287241150
It's true. We used to have endless debates about it when one of these pedo=loli zoomers was still alive.

>>287239518
Typesetting, I'll say, is boring because it's monotonous. Even when the fonts are different. Redrawing can take a long time but it's fun because of how different each case is.

>>287241150
No. Do you really want to have that kind of argument in this of all threads?

>>287241092
Kino

>>287241270
It's baffling too, considering that the MC then proceeds to fuck a 10yo and groom a 6yo.

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>>287237072
>>287241015
holy sexo

>>287242595
title?

>>287242595
>It's baffling too, considering that the MC then proceeds to fuck a 10yo and groom a 6yo.
I was just in a birthdays party with a 9 and 10 year old girls, and it kind of baffles me that anyone would even think of them sexually. Might as well fuck a boy.
Though I guess that's what pedos do.

>>287237070
>That's weird. Usually they would call that out if the MTL is obvious, unless you spent a lot of time between uploads that it looks like you dropped it.
Check the latest Mieruko-chan chapter. The enshittification is already over

>>287243276
The best time to learn Japanese is now.
Genki 1
https://files.catbox.moe/sronwq.zip
Genki 2
https://files.catbox.moe/mt4rtu.zip
Genki teacher
https://files.catbox.moe/hrnkdx.zip
Hiragana/Katakana/Kangxi radicals Anki decks and Yotsuba Learning Pack
https://files.catbox.moe/9x3me2.zip
Anki 2k6k
https://mega.nz/folder/iZU2QL5R#2Xcqyk__-Qqa0YAwJh6M7Q
Honestly at this point I'm fairly certain the vast majority of groups are using MTL.

Who wants to clean and typeset paper scan like the good old days for a 30 page one shot >>286814231?

>>287243332
I was one of the few ones pointing out the ridiculously low quality since I read the raw first.

>>287243345
Raw if any takers
https://litter.catbox.moe/gl0xytzadoovfjf7.rar

>>287241150
>>287242478
What's there to debate. You google (in japanese) if there's a difference between lolicon and pedophile and nip normalfags will tell you without any uncertainty that there isn't.

>>287241150
They use 2 different terms in Japanese so...

>>287243525
>normalfags
Sure.

>>287241150
Two distinct meanings:
>liking kids
lolicon
>what Trump did on Epstein's island
not lolicon

>>287243868
But lolicons in your porn mango do to lolis what trump did on the island.

>>287243868
He said "I'm a lolicon" and then fucked what in-world was a real 10yo girl.
We're not talking about an otaku that just watches lucky star and faps to H-manga. This "lolicon" character actually puts his dick inside children.
>>287242765
ないしょのえっちごっこ

>>287244119
considering that there are women that are lolicons as well that just think lolis are adorable, I think it's fairly safe to say there a pretty big and disctinct meaning between the words

>>287243937
Nah he's more like the awwright president.

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Welp. Weebdex is dead. Mangadex won't allow me to upload my series. Guess I'm done here, folks. Been real.

>>287244234
>women that are lolicons
Women can be pedophiles too. And just like men they might be morally inclined to never act on it. That doesn't make their attraction to children (philia = attraction, pedo = children) any less real.
Lolicon is just a synonym that sounds slightly less harsh because it's new and less known than the word pedophilia which has been demonized for the past century.

>>287244417
thank god you're finally free

>>287243868
it's hard taking people seriously when they claim people being attracted to 16-17 year olds are pedophiles
that's such a reddit level of delusions it's hard to take seriously

>>287244448
Yeah. Sure. I'll just go hang out with my many friends, which I totally do have, then.

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>>287244119
I would have gone with "lolicon". At this point, he's not acting on it, so it's basically like any anon stating their preference in women, pure speculation. I feel like he's also likely to go for the softer, more euphemistic term.

Also, I only skimmed it, but it almost looks like they were the ones who groomed him.

>>287244488
Those aren't people.

>>287244417
How they aren't allowing you to upload?
One of our series got hit by the last purge but we can upload normally.

>>287244547
>Those aren't people.
you've got a point there
honestly if people think being attracted to a ten year old and a 17 year old is the same then they're beyond help

>>287244563
I made a new account and always use it with vpn. Since they haven't got any restrictions about uploading for the dmca'd titles, and they don't remove your releases, I've just been continuing uploading to mangadex. The releases get scraped by the aggregators automatically anyway, so it doesn't matter if mangadex kicks the bucket after a while.

>>287244547
He's afraid his sister will kick him out if she finds out he's an "X."
Pretty sure that wholesome thoughts about fictional kids are not what make him scared of being found out.

>>287244547
Breh. The dude literally give you an insight what the average nip (his sister) thinks a lolicon is on the page you posted. Why would she kick him out of the house if lolicon just meant you like kids platonically.

The MTL and AI slops situation on panda is crazy. I'm surprised they don't ban people who upload those craps, they're just eating the disk spaces
>>287236835
>What have you been working on?
Oh, just some doujinshi

>>287244678
And I'm pretty sure he's not fucking kids in there every night.

>>287244720
Oh no, I'm not saying it's platonic, I do think it's not exclusively sexual attraction, but it is about the complex rather than the act, while pedophilia is both. I'm sure there are native Japanese speakers who haven't given it as much though as I have that would disagree with me, but this is the budding mound I chose to die on.

>>287244829
What's worse, nobody seems to notice. You get doujins with barely comprehensible English, characters that make no sense, egregious mistakes, and still a lot of the comments are thanking the translator and calling it a good job.
Has humanity gotten dumber?

>>287244899
I don't know what to tell you anon.
Your arguments devolved into "pedophiles aren't pedophiles unless they're fucking children 24/7" and "I know this language better than natives, trust me."
At this point I'm just replying to a completely delusional pedophile trying to cope about his condition with cute words like lolicon, or just a troll set out to waste my time for nothing.

>>287245114
I don't think I need to tell you anything either, because you clearly can't read.

Can someone here help translate
https://mangadex.org/title/7f6ee9cf-c706-4f74-80bd-2467fd02aeab/ore-no-ichizu-o-jama-suru-aitsu
when it's out in three weeks?

>>287243332
Are Genki books still a good source to learn? Arent they outdated af and focused on what burger boomers thought they needed to know when working on japanese offices instead of actually being fluent in japanese?

>>287245644
They're fine and honestly better than Tae Kim.
Doesn't really matter that much though as long as you just read something, it's not the grammar that's going to be your vice, it's the vocabulary.

>>287245644
>outdated
The chapters on gal speech are チョベリバ.

>>287245892
I don't dig, is that not how groovy cats speak these days?

>>287243444
I can try my hand at cleaning this if you don't mind that I'm a complete beginner

>>287245644
Takeshi and Mary are a rite of passage.

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>>287243332
>Anki 2k6k
I would recommend Kaishi 1.5k and then mining over that deck tbqh.
I'm still doing my dailies with it but since it's basically common words out of newspapers, the sorting is all kinds of retarded.
I remember learning words like "National diet" or "telephone tube" before things like "lung" or "bottom". It also has a few mistakes and doesn't fully convey verb transitivity and that kind of things.

And btw, never ever follow any advice from that Tatsumoto grifter btw, and his shitty Ankidrone essentials decks which are full of mistakes and retardedly kanjifications (who the fuck learns 只今 as N5).

>>287248128
>And btw, never ever follow any advice from that Tatsumoto grifter btw, and his shitty Ankidrone essentials decks which are full of mistakes and retardedly kanjifications (who the fuck learns 只今 as N5).
it's sad that he has managed to get so much influence as he has, considering that he's basically trolling people into ruining their lives
normal people probably figure out easily that his guides are pure garbage, but retards and spergs probably don't realize it until it's too late
he's almost as bad as the guys who trick people to troon out

>>287248128
anki 2k6k works, it doesn't have to be perfect as long as you put in the work
trying to do perfect optimalization never works anyway and just burns you out

>tfw no one is translating from the dust
Mfs stopped halfway through

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>>287244234
"I like kids" has the same wildly varying connotation as this guy's example. If you're a woman and you say "I like kids" you're just motherly, but if you're a guy and you say "I like kids" then you're a probably a diddler. Same thing happens with 'Lolican'

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I moved to a new PC but when I paste something with special symbols or japanese text photoshop breaks. It used to work on my old PC but I don't remember what the setting was

>>287248704
Doesn't that just mean whatever font you're using is missing the glyph you're trying to paste?

>>287248704
Possibly Japanese Locale? It's always part of my new PC set up process due to VNs and eroge.

>>287248746
It does, I'm using Anime Ace font and it's missing anything non-english like 「 」 or , but on my old PC photoshop seemed to be smart enough to pick it up from another font

>>287248793
Seems like a bug. Try using a font that has glyphs with those utf8 values and maybe the glyphs will get cached...

>>287248269
pretty much this, practicing literally anything is better than practicing nothing

>>287248704
if it's a windows machine then you just just go to your language settings and download Japanese, if it's some other OS then I can't help you

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>>287248704
You probably mean this option, but the default fallback font often also misses those gylphs (hearts, music notes etc...) so it's useless bullshit.

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>>287249010
>>287249150
>>287249216
Seems that it does actually work, Photoshop falls back to Kozuka Gothic Pr6N when it has a non-standard character which does include 「」 and the heart symbol. I had just assumed the whole thing had broken because the maru symbol wasn't working, but I guess that's explicitly Japanese and not a common symbol

>>287244669
>The releases get scraped by the aggregators automatically anyway, so it doesn't matter if mangadex kicks the bucket after a while
Same. That's the reason I keep using MD. As long as the releases float online afterward there is no stopping it.

>>287248649
>Death Toll Scans
100% it's a redrawer shortage. If you can do it you can apply to them.

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>>287236835
Scanlate THIS!
*uploads image*

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Any translator planning to work on Mii-chan's manga at some point?
If you're too lazy we can do it together.

>>287250190
>>287250048
good quality raws?
no worky otherwise

>>287250256
I am not sure but the official site lets you read some chapters maybe rip those?

>>287250256
Does DLraw watermarked rips (up to volume 3) suffice?

I wish the stupid japanese sites had an actual tag system, can't find shota manga for shit unless they're popular

>>287250727
can we kill the assholes who run pixiv and DLsite already, goddamn these tags suck ass

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Confess your sins and you shall be forgiven, lost scanlators.

>>287251663
I once drew white rectangles instead of redrawing

>>287251663
I'm procrastinating from typesetting stuff.

>>287251875
Get yourself a typesetter lackey who does it for you.

>>287246385
Yeah, go ahead.
Just note the mistake in >>286822695
>*If I do nothing here then I'm no good!!
Should be
>*I have to do something here

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>>287236835
scanlation scene is pretty much dead DEAD.
/a/ will never get to enjoy Mii-chan's greatness

>>287243276
>Check the latest Mieruko-chan chapter. The enshittification is already over
Mieruko-chan's scanlation was never good. the translation was always burgerized garbage.

>want to help with the scanlation of a manga I like since the releases are always delayed.
>would result in me spoiling myself while working at it.
>drop the idea again
I had this exact situation several times in my life.
How do you deal with this.

>>287241150
Lolicon IS pedophile, though?

Westerners hate it simply because being pedophile is considered the highest crime of humanity in the western world. even though pedophilia is no different from any other sexual interest / fetish, logically speaking, it's harmless if the pedophiles don't act on it. But the masses are afraid and emotional, they DON'T WAN TTO empathize with the pedophiles, so they do everything to shun and ostracize them.

So lolicons cope by saying lolicon = 2d, pedo = 3d to save face.

>weebdex is no more
this shit sucks

>>287249390
nope it's back, have glyph protection and alternates enable in type settings but it's still failing to work. Booted my old PC and compared settings but couldn't see any difference
last resort is installing PS 2026

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>>287236835
How good is this place?

https://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsd---?p=1&qsd=true&author=%E6%A6%9B%E9%87%8E%E3%81%AA%E3%81%AA%E6%81%B5&ptk=03

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>>287254391
2026 didn't work but I figured it out, it's the fucking text input currently set. If you leave it as English it defaults to Myriad Pro and the symbols break. If you set it to Japanese-English then it defaults to Kozuka and fills in the symbols correctly

>>287237072
And it got translated already

Weebdex is still up though?

>>287256355
Only until April 7th, IIRC.

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>>287237072
It's a meh version of this meh manga

>start another project
>check how many pages are left
>4,500 pages, of which at least 800 are in color
I hate this so much

>>287256528
>schrodinger's ntr: the manga

>>287256786
The manga went to shit as soon as the schrodinger NTR got resolved.

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>>287251663
I have been playing vidya instead of translating, mengo typesetter-kun.

Top 10 is so close bros...

>>287251663
I didn't motiontrack some signs because I was too lazy to pirate mocha and couldn't be assed to do it manually

>>287253847
>Westerners
Sounds more like Americans, though. I don't think the French or Italians are like that.

>>287253847
honestly if there's anything I've learned over the years, it's the people being the most aggressive about it that are the ones who actually commits the crime
it's always like the closed gay hating on faggots or the christian patrician being overly interested in little boys
it's just projection in the end most likely

>>287237447
not true. I follow tons of raws and only two types of comics never get TLs:
isekais, because there's a fuck ton of it and way too many for there to be enough groups for each and every one of them.
geniunely garbage manga. bullshit seinen that seemingly appeals to only genuinely broken people or emo 15yos, shoujo nobody reads because the women are all on kdramas (or the tiktok slop china would call drama), or are just objectively bad.
every other work has an 80% chance to be (or been) on md, and the rest are likely to appear in the next few months. maybe the numbers are different for twitter and pixiv slop but who cares.

>>287259227
there are other magazines than the weekly souhnen ones you know. and even weekly shounen champion has only a handful of series translated

>>287259291
I follow series from across at least 15 different websites

Are mangataro or mangaball decent places to upload?

>>287259543
the alternatives right now since weebdex is closing down are basically mangatoro, mangaball, and mangago
I'd probably post it on places like here and the manga subreddit as well since people aren't going to see it if not
it'll probably spread around to other aggregators if it's popular enough

>weebdex is kill
>supposedly someone got the site source code when they asked about what language the reader was coded in
please for the love of God someone share that source code. At the very least let some fuck use the reader since it actually has dual page view with page offset built into it. The holy grail would be someone somehow converting it into a local or desktop app that takes your local files only.

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>>287241150

https://exhentai.org/g/3874649/7af482c96f/
This is a fucking MTL, right?

>>287259305
No magazines?

>>287259797
Try posting a link that actually works.

>>287259890
Bruh...
https://e-hentai.org/g/3874649/7af482c96f/

>>287259868
websites are way easier, and I don't enjoy the idea of waiting on some nigger to post the newest book on nyaa, always paranoid of him quitting cold turkey.
not having control over what I get access to is a major reason to do raws to begin with.

>>287259642
>That's because you envy the young.
Case closed, nothing to see here.

>>287259950
>not having control over what I get access to is a major reason to do raws to begin with.
And yet you claim that everything is on Mangadex?
Why won't you pay for manga? Websites are always going to be behind and you'll only get the full selection when you actually spend money.

I deleted my mangadex account because I came to the conclusion that scanlation is stealing.

>>287236835
Is there a rivalry between Gimp and PS I'm not aware of?

what's a good model for cleaning, redraw, upscale, oct, typesetting today?

>>287259890
>Try posting a link that actually works.
Anon, I...

>>287260084
He clearly made a type in the URL, see >>287259920 for the working link.

>>287260042
>what's a good model for cleaning, redraw, upscale, oct, typesetting today?
I use Panel Cleaner for cleaning and OCR, IOPaint and photoshop content aware fill for redrawing, upscayl for upscaling, and basically just regular photoshop for typesetting but I guess using TypeR extension or something would've worked as well. My photoshop version doesn't support it for some reason though and I'm too lazy to get a new one.

>>287260102
E-hentai is the "clean" version of Exhentai which you can visit without an account
Exhentai is the full version of the site where you can see loli/shota doujin but you have to have an account

>>287260104
interesting

>>287260185
honestly there's probably new and better alternatives these days, but I haven't been catching up. I've been using these for like two years now or something

>>287259920
MTL or not that's pretty bad.

Where do maps posts their raws these days aside from dlraw?

>>287260149
That sounds unnecessarily complicated. Why are loli doujin excluded but commercial loli eromanga is fine?

>>287260609
Maps?

hows mangadotnet? anyone here have experience uploading there?

>>287260627
I meant japs

I fucking hate working with adhd zoomers they take forever to do anything

>>287260636
>>287260609
Kobo, Bookwalker, EBJ, cmoa and so on.

>>287260149
don't spoonfeed tourists, retard

>>287260675
Nah, he won't be able to get in anyway.

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>>287259890
lol, lmao even
>>287260675
nobody can get past the panda

>>287260609
>Where do maps posts their raws these days aside from dlraw?
https://888dl.ps/
https://ww4.manga-zip.app/
https://dl-raw.ac/
https://ww1.manga-zip.tv/
https://dlraw.cc/
https://manga-zip.is/post
I must admit that I mostly rip volumes from Kobo or Bookwalker myself if I'm scanlating something to get the best possible quality, but for magazines I usually just use publicly available raws from these places or Nyaa.
Also of course places like Comic Walker and other web readers, which I mostly use Hakuneko and the Scanlation School Script to rip from.

>>287260763
What panda?

>>287260702
I don't see why anybody would want to.

>>287260792
NTA, but I was searching for tank raws for a certain series and some volumes are only low-res rips with those annoying rawlazy watermarks (I got it from manga-zip). Maybe I'll just grab the individual chapter rip from rawkuma, since the quality is better. Are the raws on those other sites just basically same as from manga-zip?

>>287260856
it depends, a lot are the same but you can find better quality raws once in a while

>>287253710
You'll get to enjoy it in December... Or you can make do with the 15 translated chapter... that are MTL.

>>287253772
>Getting to read the manga before others
What's bad about that?
If it's such an issue you can just work on the group's other projects to lessen their load. It will get them on that projects if they are overwhelmed.

>>287260856
Kobo and Bookwalker will usually have the best quality available.

>>287259642
all this is saying is "lolicon may apply to liking girls 14~17 but pedo certainly doesn't"
far from a slam dunk on all the lolicon vs pedo debates
it doesn't even mention fiction when talking about lolicon, which just destroys the anti-pedo camp that claim that lolicon is fiction only

>>287260660
>>287260792
>kobo, bookwalker.
Are those the ones that use caliber? Do they accept paypal?
>cmoa
I thought you couldn't rip from them.

>>287261201
You can use the scanlation school script with cmoa.
https://files.catbox.moe/qp0u73.js
Use it with firefox and violentmonkey.

>>287261201
kobo.com accepts Paypal, books.rakuten.co.jp/e-book/ does not. They have the same content but the latter has more coupon options.
Bookwalker accepts Paypal but doesn't have a Calibre plugin.

>>287261201
bot kobo and bookwalker accepts paypal
the scanlation school script works with bookwalker, but it's slow and it takes like 20 minutes to rip a volume (since you have to scroll through all the pages). but it's decent when you use the subscription or get free volumes like you do a lot from bookwalker

>>287244547
>I would have gone with "lolicon". At this point, he's not acting on it, so it's basically like any anon stating their preference in women, pure speculation.
The last bubble literally says "I won't do anything because it wouldn't be worth the punishment for the crime".
He would fuck them if he wasn't afraid of his sister and the police.
He's a pedo.

>>287244899
>And I'm pretty sure he's not fucking kids in there every night.
child molester and pedophile are completely different concepts
you don't need to act on it to be a pedophile
the stats actually say that most child molesters are not even pedophiles

Someone can post the scan guide and the pack of fonts please?

>>287248704
Use better fonts. Here's the scanlation school fonts pack.
https://files.catbox.moe/pi24nf.zip

>>287255857
>using microsoft IME
get google's

>>287261326
Why Google over Mozc?

>>287259634
>At the very least let some fuck use the reader since it actually has dual page view with page offset built into it.
guya/cubari.moe is open-source

>>287261305
What's the crime, officer? Having indecent thoughts?

>>287261357
Are you too retarded to understand hypotheticals?

>>287261315
I know that and you know that, but most people will still call both of these things pedophilia.

>>287261343
>Mozc is a Japanese input method editor (IME) (...). This OpenSource project originates from Google Japanese Input.
>The differences between Mozc and Google Japanese Input are described in detail at the project's About Branding page, but in short, Mozc's open-source code does not include Google's extensive word conversion tables (so called "dictionaries"), so its conversion quality is not equivalent to that of Google's branded product

>>287261321
>Someone can post the scan guide
not sure what you mean, the scanlation school has one but it's full of terrible advice
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scanlation/wiki/faq/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scanlation/wiki/faq/
>>287261321
>and the pack of fonts please?
>>287261322
>https://files.catbox.moe/pi24nf.zip
the one over at their site struggles with downloading for some reason

>>287261374
no u

A hypothetical child molester is not a child molester and to most people that's the same thing as a pedophile.

>>287261395
I meant to post
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scanlation/wiki/glossary/
but yeah in general they give some pretty terrible advice
the only good things from the scanlation school are the font pack and the script honestly. and they might help you figure out how to get raws from certain sites. but you're better off figuring out things for yourself honestly

>>287261406
No, I believe that to most people, pedophile is broader than child molester, and they would be quick to call a wannabe child molester a pedophile.

>>287261395
>>287261409
Thanks anon, I remember it had one link from google drive for fonts too, do you have it?

>>287260042
Banana for complex redraws, anon’s script for auto alignment.

>>287260149
If ur account is old enough you never need to use exh anyway

>>287261440
yeah, you can find it under resources on the reddit page, but as I wrote it struggles with downloading so it's easier to just download the catbox file I linked. or you need to download each font individually I think
but it's under the resources masterlist and quicksand translation guide

>>287261390
could've just said it has better conversion tables instead of copy pasting AI results wholesale

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Okay. I give up. I thought I was good at identifying kanji, but I'm clearly still an illiterate retard.

>>287261575
I copy pasted the fucking arch wiki, imbecile

>>287261682
Oh, shit... I finally got it. It was "姿". Sorry, disregard my previous post.

>>287261715
shamefur dispray anon

>>287261747
I will leave this thread and never come back.

>>287261823
you should show honorabre responsibirity for your actions and commit sudoku

Shamfuru sugata

>>287260792
>I must admit that I mostly rip volumes from Kobo or Bookwalker myself
>Also of course places like Comic Walker and other web readers, which I mostly use Hakuneko and the Scanlation School Script to rip from.
Where I can find instructions for ripping raws at HQ?

>>287262139
For Kobo, use Calibre with DeDrm. The desktop app still works for now, but god knows for how long.

https://cdn.kobo.com/downloads/desktop/Rakutenbooks/kobosetup.exe
https://cdn.kobo.com/downloads/desktop/Rakutenbooks/kobosetup.dmg

https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools
https://calibre-ebook.com/

>>287262139
With access to AI agents DRM isn't really what it used to be. I took me only like one evening to get past BookWalker's app. The feel save and haven't really touched what they do in almost a decade.
Which will give you access to proper EPUBs for everything.

If the desktop app no longer works, just a tip for people in these threads, that's due do Windows enforcing FIPS which blocks MD5, you have to edit bookwalker.exe.config and add:

<runtime>
<enforceFIPSPolicy enabled="false"/>
</runtime>

For their subscription stuff though, you still need to use mobile (the crypto stays the same).

>>287262318
I use the scanlation school script, it just werks.
Considering that it's slow it's not great at doing a lot of volumes and magazines, but it works fine for the stuff I need.

>>287262139
step 1: download hakuneko
step 2: set unscramble format to png
done

>>287262652
Hakuneko doesn’t work an awful lot of places anymore.
I mainly use it for comic walker.

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What's the longest you took to finish one project, be it solo or in a group?
And I don't mean ongoing manga you constantly keep up with but finished ones. Like, Me and a guy are on our third year trying to finish a 3 volume series. Which was done at the time of starting.

>>287260037
Something something tribalism something.

>>287261322
I used some other scanlation font pack for my fonts but I'll add this to my fonts

>>287256528
>>287256786
>>287256797
is just a cute romcom, why you so mad? And there never was anything close to NTR

>>287237447
>>287259227
What are you talking about? There are a bunch of extremely good series that never get translations maybe you get 1 volume and them nothing, meanwhile the series gains a bunch of awards in Japan, Italy and France

>>287264102
Sazi-chan took me stupidly long to finish.
Acro Trip is taking me stupidly long to finish as well. I need to pick up things that are more fun and need less typesetting.

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>>287255709
The pre-Reboot series was extremely good, why nobody is picking PEAK Father Daughter and probably new Stepmother series?

>>287267003
is this an Usagi Drop thing?

>>287267388
You people still don't understand why Usagui Drop was bad

>>287243332
>>287248128
Kinda off topic, but does anyone have workbooks for N2 test? I want to take it this July

>>287267524
Because the author aged the daughter up before letting her get fucked and made her NBR?

>>287266955
>more fun and need less typesetting
I hate it when I pick a series that seems easy to do but then the author starts ramping up the text over pictures and stylistic typesetting.
Like I still love it but he just makes it harder with each new release.

>>287266885
He's generally right that only one in ten manga gets translated to English. Even the French ratio isn't that much better.
I don't agree that it's all for quick consumption, there's a lot of variety for manga publications. Oversaturated is a loaded term. There's a huge amount of competition but it also means there's many authors that get a chance and plenty of niche stories get covered.

>>287266885
they get awards not necessarily because people like to read them but because they like the idea of reading them

>>287268109
Anon, you never read it, you weren't here for the discussions. The problem begins with the first time skip after that the written falls from a cliff

>>287269041
And when they get adapted and become popular that's just pure coincidence.

>>287269160
>And when they get adapted and become popular that's just pure coincidence.
if they are seinen they almost never get adapted

>>287269373
>if they are seinen they almost never get adapted
Or Josei

>>287269160
I am arguing the statistical independence of awards to popularity. so yes it's pure coincidence. obviously it'll have to be halfway appealing to be noticed and nominated to begin with. but after that it's a total crapshoot.

>>287269373
Happens often enough.

>>287269373
I really hate these categorizations and feel like they should largely only be used to describe the magazines in which manga are published and not the series themselves. Battle shōnen and shōjo romance are obvious exceptions, as those are genres in and of themselves. But who the fuck watches Sono Bisque Doll or Kaguya-sama and says, "Yup, that's seinen alright. Just like Berserk."

AI can do better, so lower your tone N3-kun.

Any good fonts for moans and sex SFXs?

>>287269481
It's true for josei like >>287269397 said. We had Ikokku Nikki and Tomei Otoko (published under the Action Comics label but got promoted in Jour) last season but overall josei mags favor live action adaptions. Shojo is also kind of rare but that's generally a small field compared to shonen or josei.

I have a bunch of manga issues that aren't scanned and contain an educational spin off manga that has ZERO archival. How do I despine the books so I can scan these?

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>>287269481
>who the fuck watches Sono Bisque Doll or Kaguya-sama and says, "Yup, that's seinen alright. Just like Berserk."
Because all those series appeal to Young men. That is literally the point of Kodomo(kids) , Shounen(young boys), Seinen(young men) , Shoujo(young girls), Josei(young women)

For example what demographic you think Pic related is?

>>287266761
There was like 10 chapters straight of ntr bait then it got resolved by the author completely backtracking and giving everything before the most stupid and contrived excuse
And funnily the manga is just normal slop after the misunderstanding got resolved, probably because if you resort to doing ntr bait to keep a story going then you're not good enough to make a good standard romcom after that

>>287269717
Put them in the toaster.

>>287269717
https://quicksandscans.wordpress.com/resources/
Easiest and safest is probably using a hair dryer.

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>>287269726
>For example what demographic you think Pic related is?
>Morning KCDX
Not much of a challenge. Though Morning's audience isn't that young. Josei itself doesn't imply anything about the age.
Seinen can practically be considered the set of magazines that don't belong to the other demographics. You have the subset of "Young" magazines like Young Gangan and Young Animal (and excluding Feel Young and Young Love Aya) that are aimed at young men.

>>287269726
Looks like peak josei to me

>>287269792
>There was like 10 chapters straight of ntr bait
There was 0 ntr bait in those chapters. I don't think you understand what ntr is

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>>287270116
>Looks like peak josei to me
Pic related is peak Josei. Anime by SCIENCE SARU when!???

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>>287236835
Jumidoro is getting machine translations. LMAO we are getting into the darkest age of Manga

>>287270396
>LMAO we are getting into the darkest age of Manga
honestly you're all making this a lot worse than it actually is
the only one who cares about the translation being perfectly accurate are weeb wankers
for normal people it reads perfectly fine and the insignificant details matter zilch
manga is just quick consumption trash in an oversaturated market anyway, not some kind of high culture
so basically MTL opening for more stuff to be translated isn't the dark ages at all, and you're pants on head retarded for claiming it is

>>287270159
People often confuse BSS with NTR
(I wish there's a BSS tag on panda)

>>287270601
>manga is just quick consumption trash in an oversaturated market anyway, not some kind of high culture
10/10 ragebait, good job anon. I almost felt for it

>>287270762
>implying it's not true
you can claim anything you want, but to claim that manga and anime for that matter is some kind of lasting high class entertainment is beyond retarded. most things are forgotten in just a couple of years because it's just not noteworthy. manga is the mcdonalds of culture

>>287269481
Demographics don't have a uniform taste. There is a lot of variety in the series a particular audience like.

woho, touge oni has great new scanlations
https://mangadex.org/chapter/adc1d69a-23b1-4a61-91c3-9ff17523a8a9

>>287261352
Oh, they added two page spread mode and page offset since I last looked at it. Nice. Shame that it has the problem of displaying a 2 page spread and a single page together fucking up the rest of the pages unless you cycle through the page layouts. Very close to perfection and just needs to work that out. I don't understand how mangadex has been the only site to work out that pages longer than they are taller should be alone while everything else can be paired up in two page spread mode.

>>287271190
it usually takes a while for westerners to figure out that the demographic is just the magazine it's published in
the demographic matters a little because people reading that magazine are more likely to buy a volume of the manga, so if it misses its target audience, the manga can be good and still have awful sales
so actually having the manga in the right magazine matters quite a bit
then again the online readers are gaining on the physical magazines and the demographics are starting to get a bit obsolete there I guess. but japanese are awfully conservative and don't like to change their ways.

>>287271190
Yet for some reason shounen all feels samey

>>287271469
issue with cubari is that it's getting pretty hard to upload to image sharing. imgur deletes almost every upload and imgchest apparently won't allow more than 10 images anymore, though I need to check if it'll allow more if I make an account
kind of a hassle making a catbox gist for everything

>>287269717
Send me to me and I'd scan for you free or buy a Optibook 4800 and start scanning

>>287271544
>Yet for some reason shounen all feels samey
this is mostly for jump where all manga basically follows a formula
even nish's ichi the witch follows the standard formula, and she's an established author
honestly her manga feels more like a jump manga than a nishi manga, and that's a bad thing

>>287271471
Most non-Japanese don't know the basics about manga publishing. Hell, most can't even name a magazine other than Jump.
But you are correct about online publishers having a more varied selection. Given their bigger catalog.
>>287271544
Which shonen mags do you read?

>>287271890
>Which shonen mags do you read?
None because I got tired of them being samey

>>287271173
Even if you believe that why wouldn't that extend to literally every other type of text based creation including "important" stuff

>>287271553
Why not use Catbox albums? Cubari accepts those.
https://catbox.moe/c/hiwe78
https://cubari.moe/read/catbox/hiwe78/1/1/

>>287236835
I have been away for quite a few years and I want to translate+typeset one or two things.
The most annoying part for me was cleaning followed by typesetting (fitting the text in the box), followed by having to manually redraw some cleaned up parts behind the text.

Question is, before 2020 the best way to clean a textbox was some photoshop script. Are there any new tools since then that can simplify these?

>>287271927
So you don't read just complain

The Bugle Call early MTLs weren't bad. People just have to read what the bot shits out and nurture a good context.
I'm not saying everything should be MTLd, it'd probably be unreadable for something like Touge Oni or HnK, but for some randohenti or straight up objective garbage like Parallel Paradise it's enough.

>>287272113
I've read my fair share of shounen in my shounen days.
Though it was before I learned Japanese and about all the different magazines.

>>287272437
>>287271927
Which shonen magazines did you read?

>>287272082
>Why not use Catbox albums? Cubari accepts those.
I'm not able to find any information on how to make them.

>>287272087
>Question is, before 2020 the best way to clean a textbox was some photoshop script. Are there any new tools since then that can simplify these?
Honestly cleaning bubbles is like a ten minute job, so doing it manually is my preferred way of doing it.
But Panel Cleaner works fairly decently. It uses OCR to detect the text and makes a layer on top. For most of manga it cleans fairly decently, but struggles if the text is too near the bubble borders. I don't like using the denoising thing though since it hits some of the art as well.
Otherwise AI generative fill has made redrawing significantly easier, I use IOPaint which works perfectly fine but photoshop generative fill is better. With IOPaint and photoshop content aware fill I can like redraw 99 percent of everything I need, so the stuff needing conventional redrawing is almost zilch.

>>287272653
If you don't have an account you need to use their API and can't edit it after. If you have an account just go to
https://catbox.moe/user/view.php and create one.

>>287272389
>The Bugle Call early MTLs weren't bad. People just have to read what the bot shits out and nurture a good context.
Honestly if the MTL-ers just bother learning hiragana and katakana and some basic Japanese grammar, use the break down function in chatgpt to figure out lines that don't make sense, and bother translating hand written text as well (the google translate drawing tool for kanji works well here), they're almost indistinguishable from conventional translations, and probably better than the translations that we had 15-25 years ago by N4-N5 newbies just learning Japanese.
People tend to forget that manga translators aren't experienced translators, the vast majority are beginners using scanlation to learn Japanese. Always has been.

>>287272792
I didn't even know you could make an account. I'll probably try that out in the future. It'll be a nice alternative when mangadex dies soon.

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>>287271471
>but japanese are awfully conservative and don't like to change their ways.
Foreigners seem to pay far more attention to demographics than the Japanese. If you check the various publishers many of them won't make a distinction between seinen and shonen or shojo and josei magazines. Some will even lump everything together.

>>287272389
>straight up objective garbage like Parallel Paradise it's enough.
Hell no. That is the reason Parallel Paradise has OFFICIAL translations

>>287272389
Does Hokuto no Ken have complicated dialog? Or are you just concerned about the various techniques and schools becoming gibberish?

>>287273314
let me get this straight
you think parallel paradise has official translations because the scanlations are bad
really?
so you think that if the scanlations were good, they wouldn't have licensed it?

>>287273579
It has translations because Okamoto Lynn has an established fanbase.

>>287272389
The trick is:
1. Good typesetting. The right choice of font, size, positioning.
2. Okay redrawing. White rectangles for the hard ones, BIG STROKES + IOPaint/Gemini/Banana/whatever the fuck for the rest.
3. Good grammar and spelling.
4. Recontextualizing whatever the AI spat out to actually fit with whatever's on the page. Using the right genders, making sure one character is addressing the right character, making sure whatever they're talking about makes sense. Literally just reading the full page after you slapped the text on just to make sure it sounds right.

3 and 4 are hard because most MTL is done by third-worlders on their phones (which is weird because LLMs should be spitting out correct grammar and spelling), but this should be easy enough to trick most people into reading MTL garbo. For doujins, you won't be able to trick real autismos like cutegyaru, though.

>>287273739
>4. Recontextualizing whatever the AI spat out to actually fit with whatever's on the page. Using the right genders, making sure one character is addressing the right character, making sure whatever they're talking about makes sense. Literally just reading the full page after you slapped the text on just to make sure it sounds right.
this is probably the one the shitty groups struggle the most with
if they'd just read through the text they'd easily figure out that it doesn't make sense
most of it can easily be figured out by using the break down function of chatgpt, or just using a different chatbox or ichigoreader or something
but they usually just choose to release something that obviously doesn't make any sense
it's annoying honestly, it doesn't require that much effort either. they're basically not doing much more than putting it through ichigoreader and cotrans like that

>>287259634
>There actually is some website that uses the weebdex api or even source code
>suicaodex.com
>it's only in Vietnamese and seems to be vibe coded
welp, at least at some point someone can ape the website format and throw some ads on it.

>>287274406
fuck forgot the github link
https://github.com/TNTKien/better-suicaodex

>>287274406
>>287274426
apparently according to the weebdex sudoku thread the owner didn't want to share the source code
of course it doesn't matter an awful lot here since people are lying as easily as they breathe, but in the case it's true we won't see it most likely

>>287272761
Thanks a lot. That'll help me quite a bit.
At first I'll try to go photoshopless and see what I can do otherwise I'll give up and finally install the thing after a recent format.

>>287272761
That TypeR extension looks insanely useful. I'm going in I guess.

source code for weebdex is available at their site now

>>287277083
>click the button 100 times to get directed to some gachashit
Fuck off and good riddance

>>287277185
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>>287245644
You can't go wrong with Genki. You're correct that they teach you a stiff textbook-like version of Japanese, and sometimes gloss over the deeper details or even intentionally lie to you, but it's still a good place to start. You can always supplement your study with other resources, like a grammar dictionary and jisho.org. Plenty of universities have their own textbooks uploaded as PDFs on the internet as well

Learning Japanese from textbooks is better than those free online resources that get posted all the time on forums (you get what you pay for). Ignore those websites and guides like tae kim. Stick to professionally-written dictionaries and textbooks and do the workbooks like a normal person

>>287277514
What the fuck is actual good learning advice doing in a thread on 4chan formerly 4channel? Have you thought about what would happen if someone actually learned Japanese!? Literally all you need is tae kim and c*redolly and a RTK. Nothing more.

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Welp, that was fast.

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what do you guys think the future will be for scanlation? should everyone setup their own website, reader, and rss feed for their uploads?

anime has nyaa, nekobt (new), and private trackers. and it's easy to make a release on almost all of them. for manga everyone is soon going to be shit out of luck with respect to publishing their releases...

>>287277869
>fucker killed the site sooner than later
>baits the fucking source code over some rick roll
God dammit

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>>287277913
>Find the biggest site aggregators take from
>Upload there
>If it dies wait for the next biggest site aggregators take from
>Continue there
I don't know why people keep on complicating things.

>>287278124
>the biggest site aggregators take from
So, Mangadex?

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>>287277869
You don't adapt, you die. It's that simple.

>>287277913
when I started out mangadex was down, so we upload to imgur (and later on cubari was introduced) and posted to reddit. worked perfectly fine. just upload it to some random aggregator as well and it will find itself to other aggregators after a while as well

>tfw every time someone mentioned Weebdex I just thought that was a nickname of Mangadex
my whole life was a lie.

>>287279593
that's hilarious anon

>>287278379
The community as a whole adapts though.

>>287279593
Same. I only just found out weebdex was a real thing because of >>287277869.

>>287277913
I think eventually there will be a FOSS (or at least freeware) piece of software that will shoddily OCR, translate, and typeset (wildwords ofc) any batch of images you put inside. Yes I know there's stuff like Ichigo Reader and Sugoi Manga or whatever but neither are free or simple enough. As for uploading, I don't think Mangadex will allow uploads from "untrusted" users within the coming years so most niche manga will be thrown on a website like catbox or imgur and be lost in the void when they get removed. At the same time, we'll probably see even more official MTL translations thanks to the aforementioned software, which will then be uploaded to nyaa.

>looking for raws of older manga
>kindle version exists
>only ones uploaded online are rough magazine scans
I wish I wasn't so cheap

>>287236945
Are you retarded?

>>287236835
I've been looking for this thread for nearly a year.
I'd like to learn how to typeset is there a recommended guide?

>>287241150
As a lolicon I personally choose to translate it to pedo because I think it's a lot hotter that way.
Especially when MSGK are involved.