What are you working on?
Scanlating is giving me so much neck pain and head aches I don't really think I can do it anymore.
work faster you fucking faggots
When you translate English to Japanese, you do use faithful translations to keep the actual meaning of true English culture right, like:>私はお風呂を持っている>私は自分の二個の手で貴方に払わせる。>彼が私に彼の愛を声明した>私は血まみれによく彼に払わせる。>私は心理的に準備されていないYou are being faithful right? You're not producing a filthy localization right?
>>287246385How's it going, champ? Still working on it or should I look for someone else?
>>287535798Give me raws first!
Reminder not to reply to innitschizo
but that’s jsl slop
>>287535978Hey anon, I know we can both agree that you're a colossal permaivring, but can we also agree you never had a Japanese conversation in your life with anyone and are talking high about Japanese while you can't even express basic needs in the language?That wouldn't be true right, that you never actually had a Japanese conversation?Oh, that would be so embarassing if true.
Why is every thread like this now? What is wrong with you 2 faggots?
>>287536048Maybe they can work together and the AI spammer produce videos based on innit's posts.
>>2875357303, yes nigga, 3 loli porn doujinshi. I might finish next week.
>>287537075based, we need more loli to scare off the tourists
>>287535730
>"hmmm, this series was nuked off MD. I should post it on other sites">Try alternatives>The popular ones don't have an option to upload directly, the rest are either too small or too scammy>"Well, MD it is"I don't even know why I thought of changing.
>>287538589There's a reason why even when the site completely died for a year, even when they purged thousands of titles, even when it's clearly circling the drain it's still the central hub for scanlations. It has the least amount of hassle for both scanlators and readers. All competitors have either spammed ads and compressed images, thrown up too many secret club hurdles for uploaders, or died to server costs + DMCAs. It won't last forever but at this rate I think we're more likely to regress to individual scanlator sites again than the current generation get their shit together and make a better hub.
>>287538589as long as it's possible to upload to mangadex, that's just the easiest. the aggregators scrape it so it's available everywhere else seconds afterwardssince you can still upload chapters of nuked series, it's probably safe as long as you use a vpn. mangadex added some new rules to throw you under the bus if they get sued, so don't leave any traces
>>287538730>the current generation get their shit together and make a better hub.considering how both comick and weebdex failed miserably, I don't really think there's going to be another scanlation hub after mangadex dies
>>287538753Funny thing is I realized it wasn't nuked. It didn't have the "show unavailable chapters" button that the nuked series have, so it was probably removed by the guy that did them. So really I was hesitant for nothing.
SIMULPUB MY SERIES ALREADY AND FREE ME!!!
>>287538753What even happens if you upload a chapter of a nuked series?
>>287540979
What do you recommend for buying digital raws?
>>287542575I've yet to complete a full scanlation project so take this from the perspective of a newcomer.You need to fiddle around with a few installs to get Calibre but from what I've seen, Rakuten Kobo is the best option. It's still on the cheap side and easy to de-DRM with Calibre.If you just care about reading then Honto seems to be dirt cheap but the only de-DRM tool that I found that's easily accessible for its infrastructure limits you to only rip 3 books before it paywalls you.
>>287540979nothing, they'll have to send a dmca of those chapters>>287542575kobo is the easiest, but they might shut down their desktop app any time
>>287543110Yeah, but do they get deleted automatically or quickly by some faggot mod? Does Mangadex ban you if you upload lots of chapters for such series?
I wish I had a drawfag drawing all of my series together.It will make for a neat credits page like that one group.
>>287535730there is nothing more reddit than saying scanlating when you mean translating
Translating gag manga is a path to ruin. Especially 4komas. Especially pun-heavy or reference-heavy 4komas.
>>287545323Speaking of, not sure about what exactly is the preferred method of doing TL notes, particularly for more in-depth cultural references.I've always tended to prefer just a page at the back that lists out all the TL notes since a lot of the interesting cultural/linguistic notes can't easily fit into margins and going into details on some linguistic nuance that you may have already translated around could interrupt the flow. Or there could be chapters that are just super heavy on culturally related things.
>>287546332If there's so many things you need to add notes on you're better off not translating it in the first place.
>>287546379Not speaking about things like required notes, I mean things like if they have a throwaway detail of a reference to a real life Japanese store chain or you're choosing a Romanization for an organization title or in-universe TV show and explaining why you went with the one you did, or if there's just the occasional joke that relies on knowledge of Japanese culture."Page at the back" is my preferred method since it lets you just make a normal translation but include the notes for the people who like to see part of the creative process, or if they see something like characters talking about some shared cultural knowledge so instead of either rewriting the dialogue or assuming that the reader knows, you put a note for people who might be curious.
>>287540979nothing, some scanlator even re-uploaded their nuked chapters and nothing happened. I assume they'd only get removed if mangadex receive a takedown for the reuploaded chap
>>287540173No.Now license 7 more BLs and 3 isekais.
>>287546726>>287546332I don't include TL notes for references unless it's something that a non-Japanese reader would never know, or something that's vital to understanding what's being said.If it's general pop culture, you either get it or you don't.
For preservation purposes, would you rather archive raws or translated manga?
>>287537699How can you scare off the tourists if you never post them in this thread?
>>287548508Both of course, surely you already stocked up enough drives before the AI scammer bought up all the chips anon?
>>287535730I tried translating this LN but I'm too disgusted by translated versions at this point to even continue.
>>287548508Both.The real question for the translation is whether you keep all versions or one version.
>>287535730I want to revive the translation for Minna! Esper Dayo! but I can't find the HQ raws...
>He translates, redraw and typeset the next volume preview
Total death to trannylator who made up shit out of character.
>>287542575This is new but apparently Renta has some desirable qualities if you only care about image quality and not the epub file, it won’t ever recompress image unlike kindle(always) or Rakuten(some). Search up Renta_downloader on github.
>>287550992Oh well, never mind... the series jumped the shark in volume 3. I thought this was gonna be comedy like Ike! Inachuu Takkyuubu.
>>287552070Totally out of character. Madoka would never ego-surf, unlike that bitch Fuyuko. The artist is a secondary who made up shit.
>>287545323>reading gag manga>see a pun so ridiculous that there's absolutely no way to translate it and retain the humor>give up on any notion of picking it up
When translating shiritori, do you guys just made up bullshit word chains, or do you keep the original Japanese words and add the translation notes?For example:りんご -> ゴリラ Do you translate it asRingo (Apple) -> Gorilla or Apple -> Ebony
>>287553806First one. Anyone reading manga understands what shiritori is. This isn't 4Kids.
>>287553806Original in case it gets called back on or matters later somehow. Just saves on the notes and confusion
>>287553806only came up once but i just made something up
>That praise when you pick up a dropped projectYes, feed my ego!
>>287552951Does that mean the trannylator is a tertiary scum for making Tooru talk like that?
>Series' volumes is starting to debut lower on ShosekiI know that I have nothing to do with it. But I can't help develop attachment after working on it for a long time.
>>287556615As a translator you are responsible for getting readers to buy it.
>>287556650But I'm not a translator. I'm a redrawer/typesetter!
>>287552593Last time I checked renta was horrible...
>>287535764Take a breather. It sometimes work.
Is it hard to find a typesetter that also edits the script(or what scannies call proofreading)?
>>287557581Having been on both sides of the situation, typesetters don't want to overstep their boundaries. Translators are deified in scanlation communities and offending one is basically the end of any given project. Just make it clear the typesetter is allowed to make any edits they think make it flow better. So long as they're a native speaker they can do the job.
>>287556650>As a translator you are responsible for getting readers to buy it.I've added links to buy the volumes to my credits for five years, but I can't say it's done much.I'm a little dissappointed that the enthusiasts side side of the community has more or less dissappeared completely. Now people just want to read for free, refuse to buy and support, and just say that they wouldn't read it in the first place if they had to pay for it.Honestly with that low interest they should just find something else to do.
>>287558475Love Bullet managed to get saved by translation readers but that was one and a half years ago and it didn't manage to change the general attitudes.
>>287557581Unless you agreed with them to do it beforehand they will probably do their job and that's it, either from laziness or to avoid over-stepping their boundaries.
>>287558475I don't know about that. I'd call myself an entusiast, I buy manga I really like, both in physical and digital, I buy merch from time to time, but there are still series I follow on mangadex just because they're there. Someone's translating them and putting them in a place where they're convenient to read, so I'll read them, but paying for them or even having to go to some DRM-ridden website to read them for free would be too much. I probably inadvertently dropped some series when Mangadex got thep urge and I haven't really felt like checking. If I liked it enough, I remembered it.
>>287558475I do the same. I can't buy them so I just hope that readers will. I don't think I'm making a noticable change though, but that's all I can do really. You can count the times a scanlation's contribution actually helped the survival of a series on one hand.I think part of it is ignorance. People don't know how to support so they end up not doing it. But reluctance, either by choice or not, is the biggest reason.
>>287543110>>287542754There no option to download in Kobo, am I missing something or have I fucked something up by setting Japan as country?
>>287559310>I can't buy themHow poor are you?
>>287560030You need to use the reader software or hardware.https://cdn.kobo.com/downloads/desktop/Rakutenbooks/kobosetup.exehttps://cdn.kobo.com/downloads/desktop/Rakutenbooks/kobosetup.dmg
>>287560265I did try the soft but download is unavailable.
>>287560170Still live with parents.Though it's an issue of access more than just money.
>>287560398Are you certain it's not your browser cucking you? I've tried various third world VPN and it still let me download the exe.
>>287560679You can't even go to a store and buy a Kobo or Google giftcard?
I'm a proud localizer. Fuck Japanese and the cultural lack of clarity. it's like they're scared of directly talking about shit. "Etooooo... that thing is... is like that... you know." Yeah, I do know, I can get it contextually. It's just so annoyingly unnecessary.
Why haven't you moved into the professional world yet?
>>287561279I meant I have soft installed, but no book download option.
>>287563053Have you logged in and synchronized? When you see your library it should include an icon to show that it's not downloaded. Double click it to start the download or select multiple books to get the option to download all of them.
I won't forgive you.
>>287563310Even if you say that...!
>>287563178Yup. No option to download single book, when selecting multiple "Download" is greyed out. Guess I'll fiddle around with accounts and see if something works.
>>287563408What exactly happens when you open the book? Is there something in your AppData/Local/Kobo/KoboDektopEdition/kepub folder?
>>287553716I was reading the new bkub series and one of the punchlines was アナル感動 (like ザナルカンド) and I wanted to die
>>287563625I guess they download automatically when syncing, since they are in appdata and Obok detects them with no issue.
>>287562598I'm not transsexual and I don't have a discord.Both are hard requirements.
>>287535887this only works if you can read japanese
>innit replying to himself because nobody bitLMOA
>>287542575Anyone tried Google Play Books? I set my google account to Japan and GLP does show me ebooks sold in Japan, but lately they are stricter about geolocation and only allows you to change country with a valid payment method (preferably a cc).I do have the idea to toy with this, as dedrm tools for GLP is available and worked every single time I tested them.
>>287557581Well you seperate the role. Typeset only responsible for type layout, sfx and such. They should consult that decision if they think it didn't fit the buble or produces terrible type.Checking your script (and your produced manga so it can be error free as possible) should be given to a PR. Well, having a PR that understands Japanese is a bonus as they tend to check not just English grammar, but its coherency with source text. Basically you'll let your main translator fight with your proofreader if you don't have a lick of Japanese knowlegde.
Been a while since I've been here but I got a new PC and have been getting back into TLing stuff here and there. Thing is I've been getting hit with the non-licensed product warning on Photoshop on several cracks and it just kills itself.Are cracks getting shittier or is Adobe just better at cracking down on pirated software nowadays? I haven't had this issue before but I did pirate the newer PS versions (2023/26) on this new PC.Do you guys just stick with the old PS versions for this reason or is there a better crack I should be looking for? I think the fills are much better on the newer versions (though it might just be placebo) so it'd be a shame to lose that.
>>287565723You have to block photoshop.exe from your firewall.I've been using 2023 for years and it works fine but I do remember having trouble with the cracks back when I tried to install 2024.
>>287561435No. Not because of the price but because we don't have them.I live in a shithole, that's all I'll say.>>287565723Did you follow the guides strapped with the cracked version? It sounds like an issue of not blocking Internet access>Do you guys just stick with the old PS versions for this reason or is there a better crack I should be looking for?I use 2015 because it has all the features I need and is the lightest to use. I don't think the versions after it have anything else that's necessary.
>>287565922>>287566006One of the cracks indeed mentioned to do that in the readme that's my bad...The other one didn't though, and I never had to make an exclusion in the previous ones I used years ago so this is new to me but it makes perfect sense. Thanks a lot fellas.
one of my most hated manga-englishisms is "worldview" when people actually mean "premise", "lore", or "setting"MTL dead giveaway
>>287566831Worldbuilding is the correct translation for 世界観.
>>287566926yes, not "worldview"
>>287566831>>287566926What if it's a credit?I remember some manga that had something like:[タイトル]>作画: [Artist Name]>世界観: [Some other name]Also the sekaikan person was a professional background artist.
>>287567049World building.
>>287535966ok fine, I have bar flowers vols 3 and 4chaps 27-39 need doingcan upload to mega or similar after dinner if anyone is interested
>>287567332You need to sell them to people. They might appeal to someone if you made them sound good enough.
>some manga authors block people who say their shit hasn't been buyable in decades>others silently ignore that up to 100% of their readers from many countries are pirateslel
>>287568997Harem manga about girls who work at a hostess bar falling in love with the male manager I can't lie it's pretty average but I'm invested in it enough I guess
If I want to make a tool that streamlines the scanlation processes in a way that people can easily work out of order or check if the same term was used 40 chapters ago (for example: option to establish a source text/transcription, translating with a TM/glossary and typesetting before proper cleaning and redrawing, higher quality raws/background layers can be easily pasted in when obtained later), how much can I hope to leave out of Adobe's grasp? I'm trying to avoid doing it all in a UXP Photoshop plugin
>>287569949There is no need to reinvent the wheel with plugins.My process is something like:I write the translation with just an image viewer and a basic text editor.(irfanview + npp in windows and gedit + qimgv in troonix)All cleaning and redrawing (very little redrawing though) is done in photoshop with no plugins at all.And for the typesetting stage I use Typesetbuddy, it lets you keep notes or a glossary/index of styles/names after the END# tag, which is super useful if your text editor has autocomplete.The underscores at the beginning of styles are just a personal choice to make the autocomplete function work better for me, you can name your styles whatever you want.All three tasks can be done in any order, but I usually leave typesetting for last because I hate it even when 90% of the work is automated thanks to the plugin.
>>287567049That sounds more like "Original Idea" or something similar to that
Just remembered all those volume extras and side materials that will never be translated.
>>287571566But Mira got all of them translated?
>>287571630But think of all of those that don't.
>>287535907>No response
not related to working, but fuck those paid scanlation chapter like art lapsa
>>287567049That's also setting
>>287573842That is an answer in itself
https://rentry.co/lazybananaAscanGemini's AI no longer works for redrawing.It seems they patched it.Lama cleaner doesn't work either. How do you redraw now?
Any guide to decensoring doujin? I'm bad at redrawing >>287575410Fuck...
>>287575410"No longer works" as in how? Does it give you a "I can't do that, it breaks copyright laws" message or something?Because if it's just that the results are kinda iffy, you can just try again, maybe crop just the problematic part and make it work on only that
>>287535907Hello, I'm the one who said I would do Kuroake, I don't know who you were replying to. I'm doing it as a side thing so it will take a while.
>>287576117You said this right?>I can try my hand at cleaning this if you don't mind that I'm a complete beginnerNo problem, I just want to know it's worked on and not given up on
>>287576139Yea that was me.
>>287576139Oh, I didn't realize you were linking to my old post. Retard moment, woops.
>>287575410>>287575681There was a bug where the img you upload is invisible to the model. I think it’s fixed?
>>287577006I would think there would be a whole lot more serious problems for all sorts of users if turning all images invisible was supposed to be an intended "patch"
>>287567049Yeah it's not exactly world building. World building in practice means how many details about how things in the setting work the author went into. While I've seen characters go "omg the seikaikan" when looking at illustrations (concept art) of fantasy/scifi setting.
>>287575410>How do you redraw now?I send the finished pages to the redrawer in my group...alternatively I just do it myself. Are you guys seriously incapable of redrawing?
>>287556324If they are tertiary for translating it, what does that make you for just bitching about it and not doing anything? Quaternary?
>>287579209I’m way faster than you(if banana thinks the characters are adult)
>>287575410Pcleaner is able to give you somewhat clean result, when the text detection work. It often struggle with non-standard font like handwritings, and to that, SFXs. The you just need to autofill with PS.
>>287543851No.In fact they'll be grateful if you do because it means people will still visit the site to read the manga even though they were forced to delete some chapters once by DMCA.
>>287544373They want to pretend they're still cool like the scanners of olde even though they're just script kiddies at best and pirates at worst.
>>287552070>>287552951What kind of retard doesn't know what the サ in エゴサ actuall-> エゴサーチという言葉がある。グーグルやツイッターの検索窓に自分の名前を入力し、その評判を調べてまわる行為のことで、英語ではエゴサーフィン（Egosurfing）と呼ばれるのが一般的らしい。what the FUCK
>>287558632Love Bullet was saved by women and trannies. Those are the people who for better or for worse put their money where their mouth is.For an average seinen manga, your translation readers won't do shit.
>This is a solo operation; I do not know Japanese, nor do I have any skill with Photoshop. I am publishing these scuffed translations with a "something is still better than nothing" mentality. If you can do better, please do!Someone please save the sweaty ping pong girls
>>287579789>Tsushiyaaa!!Oh my fucking god
>>287579789Shit being better than nothing is a choice. Things don't have to be this way but manga readers are shit eaters that willingly choose to eat shit. It makes me happy whenever I see them get sloplations they deserve.
Why is TLC so rare compared to the fansubbing scene?
>>287580032There's several orders of magnitude more manga than anime, several orders of magnitude more scanlation groups than fansub groups, and literal dozens of orders of magnitude more untranslated manga than unsubbed anime.If you can TLC, you can also TL if you try, so it's better to just start working on a new manga than to send an application to join some group that may or may not be missing a TLC.
How often do you make up SFX?
>>287575410As long as IOPaint stands, I'm safe. Gemini is convenient but it has too many drawbacks to use consistently.
I just hope in two years there’ll be an uncensored open weight editing model that’s as good as banana2, I’ll finally be able to scan some degen stuff then
>>287580391Nowadays I consult the evil Google AI if I'm unsure
>>287579873What else could っしゃあああ possible mean?
>>287580542Tsushi, yaaaaaa! because they're going out for customary victory sushi.
>>287580542The most unsportsmanlike yell known in competitive sport history
>>287580391>make up>idk what sfx means/what sound it is I'll just make something up teehee~Never.>change how s o y species of human thinks shit sounds to how things actually soundAll the time.
Just uploaded a chapter.
