What are you working on?
>>289301308Anyone tried that plugin that makes GIMP look like PS?
Where's a good place to upload that isn't Mangadex?
>>289302887Posting it on /a/ and telling people they are free to post it on MD.Otherwise MD.
>>289302887Right now comix.to, otherwise mangaball, magaball, mangatoro.You can check everythingmoe for places to upload, might be more now. I think you need to ask for upload permissions on comix and can only upload for specific titles
>>289303734Mangadex are wankers, they just banned another popular group this week.
What's the objectively correct way to translate 突っ込み不在?
Nano banana has revolutionized my typesetting but wrangling it is like having a team of kindergartners doing my redrawing. If AI is this bad at following instructions I'm feeling pretty good about the future.
>>289302887I would say mangaharbor.com but it's more of an archive project, it's self-hosted, ad-free and they offer a free cloud to scans who upload there, I would only recommend it as a backup tho
One of my series is 100% on the chopping block.How do I cope?
>>289305641You mean how do you celebrate. Get drunk.
>don't speak English>don't speak Japanese>can't typeset>can't clean>"I should get into translating manga"I don't get what makes people do these things. The line in the sand drawn at "no AI" is the cherry on top.
>>289306606fug, the image
>>289306606Man, latest "one-man group" releases for the series I follow are all HIDEOUSLY cleaned, there's not a single bubble without dots and smears left from the Japanese text. Just how blind do you have to be to consider that passable.
>>289306697Actually, now that I think about it, official Mangaplus releases aren't much better. I constantly have to check if my screen is dirty and it never is.
>>289306625>MTL>but no AIwow, thanks
>>289306625>I also made the cleaning and text myself.Sometimes I feel like you can almost tell what someone's original language actually is from how they try to force English grammar into its mold.
>>289306270Resources for learning Japanese.https://djtguide.github.io/Genki 1https://files.catbox.moe/sronwq.zipGenki 2https://files.catbox.moe/mt4rtu.zipGenki teacherhttps://files.catbox.moe/hrnkdx.zipHiragana/Katakana/Kangxi radicals Anki decks and Yotsuba Learning Packhttps://files.catbox.moe/9x3me2.zipAnki 2k6khttps://mega.nz/folder/iZU2QL5R#2Xcqyk__-Qqa0YAwJh6M7QPublic rawshttps://888dl.ps/https://ww4.manga-zip.app/https://dl-raw.ac/https://ww1.manga-zip.tv/https://dlraw.cc/https://manga-zip.is/post
Scanlation school scripthttps://files.catbox.moe/qp0u73.jsScanlation school fontshttps://files.catbox.moe/pi24nf.zipKobohttps://cdn.kobo.com/downloads/desktop/Rakutenbooks/kobosetup.exehttps://cdn.kobo.com/downloads/desktop/Rakutenbooks/kobosetup.dmgDeDrmhttps://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/tag/v10.0.9https://calibre-ebook.com/Panel Cleaner (Cleaning and OCR)https://github.com/VoxelCubes/PanelCleanerIOPaint (free generative fill, a bit obsolete but works)https://www.iopaint.com/TypeR (Typesetting extension for photoshop)https://typer.hayasaku.fr/And Hakuneko I guess.https://github.com/manga-download/hakunekoAlso Miniconda is pretty neat for those python programs.https://www.anaconda.com/docs/getting-started/miniconda/main
>>289306625>Multiple MTL>No AIAt the very least put a recruitment call.
Entry into Mangadex's Popular New Titles rankings make absolutely no sense. Some random series with well over a thousand fewer follows got in before my series, it too only had one chapter out and similar enough rating for those to not matter. Even right now the list isn't ordered in descending order of the number of follows. I doubt still we have the MD jannies who lurked years ago here but some insight would be nice.
>>289309071go into the mangadex discord support channel and ask them to refresh cache for your seriesit's well known and those who knows about it use it to manipulate their series into the list, and the mods gaslight people who points it out
>>289309300Thanks anon I'll do that next time, it's too late now, my series is a stillborn thanks to them. I saw they even intend to remove auto approvals for new title drafts for group leaders, I'm starting to get real tired of their shit.
>>289309071https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/popular-new-titles-issues.1915296/beware, severe gaslighting from the mangadex mods in this thread
>>289309380>I'm starting to get real tired of their shit.yeah, there's so much crap from them and I've been tired from it for yearsfrom the shitty stuff like this, to trying to be an authority of what should be allowed for scanlations, to controlling the manga subreddit to promote their site and not allow links to other sites, and then most likely selling the site built by the community for some easy moneyit's so sad and shitty that it is this way, and even shittier that people still support this corrupted site
>>289309386>Popular new titles is really simple. For all titles created in the last 30 days (rounded up to the next hour), filter out titles that don't have chapters and don't match users selected content ratings, then return the first 10 titles when sorted by follower count descending. That is all there is to it. >Yep. 10 titles that were created in the last 30 days and have at least one chapter, sorted by followed count (plus taking into account content filter settings). I really wonder where people get these wild headcanons from and then confidently present them as facts, especially in a case like this where checking it is really simpleComments have never made me want to strangle people as much as right now.>>289309541It's a shame sites like Weebdex only really seem to survive when their predecessors are killed off completely.
>>289309654>It's a shame sites like Weebdex only really seem to survive when their predecessors are killed off completely.yeah, weebdex had nearly no traffic, there was no way they were going to survive when nobody used it. it also took several years and mangadex getting nuked for comick to gain popularity, before the mangadex nuke it was barely used
>>289309654>especially in a case like this where checking it is really simpleI especially like the part where they do the really simple check, proves that the mod is completely wrong, and then the mod starts gaslighting. It's like pottery, and a really clear example of how they gaslight and lie about the silliest of things. They are pathological liars.
>>289309774>>289309865The site cannot die soon enough. Anyhow thanks again anons, I really wish we could've had this conversation last thread instead of after getting fucked over with no chance at recovery.
>>289306599But I don't want it to have such a cruel fate!
>>289311010You can check sales on shoseki ranking to make sure if it's getting axed or not.http://shosekiranking.blog.fc2.com/Search the title (in Japanese of course), find the weekly and monthly rankings, and check the sales (at the bottom is sales for rank 50, rank 100, 200 etc, you find out sales by extrapolating from these).Basically if it's a monthly manga if it's below 2000 physical sales (shoseki only has physical sales), it's most likely going to be axed.
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Checking in with anon who took on Kuroake
>>289306606IQ
>>289309774Shouldn't surviving be easier if very few people use it?
>>289305325Damn, I guess no one that knows nip frequents these threads anymore. Even innit gave up it seems.
>>289305074paywall groups should be banned desu
>>289305359What's your workflow like for typesetting with Nano banana?
I love how I report missing volume covers and my report stays on waiting for weeks with the covers eventually being uploaded by someone with perms anyway. It cannot be that hard to filter through cover art reports and complete them
>>289316480>paint over the precise parts you want redrawn in red>crop sections of each page out so it isn't overwhelmed>be sure each section is touching the page border (important for later)>feed it your crops with a descriptive prompt, for example mine: "You may only draw within the red areas. Redraw the areas covered in red, leaving no text in the image. Maintain the art style as faithfully as possible. Do not add needless details—keep it simple. Do not sharpen the image. The final image should be black and white.">when it works, download the full size image>the size will be wrong so overlay it on the crop you made with the red marks>change the redrawn layer to ~30% opacity and resize it until they're lining up perfectly>select the red marks with the magic wand, switch to the redrawn layer, invert selection, then delete that part of the image>you will now have precisely what you needed redrawn and a guide layer>send both to your original page and fit it in place using the guide layer along the page border>delete the guide layerIt will take practice learning the AI's quirks. It wants to redraw the entire image no matter what, so it will often add pointless details. Try not to give it too much empty space. It will also attempt to redraw objects that are cropped, like say a character's face, so in that case try keep the whole head in frame if you can. Sometimes you're just going to have to brute force it a few times before it cooperates. Sometimes Flash is better than Pro because Pro spends more time thinking therefore adding needless bullshit, so try swapping models if it's not working. Sometimes it will subtly adjust the proportions so your layers don't line up, but often the bits you needed redrawn are fine.
>>289316723But that's redrawing not typesetting...
>>289316489One of the main reasons I made a group even though I mostly just work on /a/ stuff these days. It just sucks not being able to do simple stuff like that. I do a release couple of times a year or something.
Any other sites that have public user lists feature like comix collections? https://comix.to/collectionsEvery time I try to find something specific to read by filtering tags and genres on any database site I get a billion false positives since weebs don't know what genres are and tags are spotty at best.
>>289317581Looks like comix is the next alternative to mangadex for uploads.https://comix.to/upload-requestAnyone knows how hard it is to get access? Pros and cons? Is it better than the other aggregators like mangago, mangatoro, mangaball?
>>289317618I know this doesn't answer your question but I sent them an upload request mail two months back and they ghosted me. Pros being it's among the most popular aggregators and they have a good amount of active commenters
>>289317618>send us your info and we might manually give you upload permissions>Looks like comix is the next alternative to mangadex for uploads.LMAO you're blind (dumb).
>>289317688yeah, I should probably throw in a request as well>>289317730are you a mangadex mod or something
>>289316452I don't think mangadex should be an authority on what's allowed or not. That's just plain disgusting.
cubari >>>> all
>>289317862cubari is kind of garbage since it'll be impossible for people to find your stuffit works as a stopgap solution, but nothing more
>>289317874just post the link everywhere, how hard can it be
>>289317888there's not an awful lot of places to postI've seen a couple of groups like keshigomu using cubari in their discord for a while, but it didn't work out particularly well. they ending up uploading to mangadex again after a year break or sothe only place to pretty much post your stuff is the manga subreddit (which is heavily manipulated by bot posting, they'll drown your releases in a severe amount of bot posts), and I doubt anyone bother figuring out how to promote their stuff on tiktok. it's worthless posting stuff on /a/
When MD got nuked we had a thread here with like three different people saying they were working on a replacement site, what ever happened to themIt's not like this shit is complicated, it's just an image host with a database
time to learn tiktok and the art of xitting to post my cubari links
>>289317807You're a retard that can't see the difference between allowing everyone to upload and needing to beg mods to let you upload. Comix is clearly not trying to be a scanlator hub.
How do you upload to dynasty really, do I really have to have a discord account? My upload request never went through
>>289317967several groups are already uploading to comix that were thrown out of mangadexmy goal isn't fucking world peace and socialism and rights for all, it's uploading scanlations you fucking retardget your head out of your ass
>>289301681I've seen doujins with the TL on the far right (very based) and ones with the TL on the far left (cringed so hard I had to go look read the raw instead)
>>289318037I do a mix of decent and good, when I just don't skip sfx of course. By far easiest and least effort to do as well.
>>289305325Depends on context as always, but most likely one of two situations:>"I don't even know what to say to that..." [i.e. a tsukkomi being dumbfounded in response to a particularly stupid line by a boke]Or>"There're only idiots here!" [i.e. no tsukkomi around to put the boke in their place]>>289315817I mean he did get pretty btfo a thread or two ago, his chrysanthemum gate may still be healing.
>>289305325"Absentee straight manning/womanning""Absentee tsukkomu"It's kinda like absentee voting but for doing a 突っ込み momentidk I tried
>>289305325突っ込み不在 (tsukkomi fuzai) literally means "the tsukkomi is absent" or "there's no tsukkomi."Here's the breakdown:突っ込み (つっこみ, tsukkomi) – the "straight man" role in Japanese comedy, especially in 漫才 (manzai). The tsukkomi reacts to the other person's absurd or foolish remarks, pointing out the nonsense, correcting them, or making a witty retort. By extension, it can also mean someone who calls out odd or illogical behavior in everyday conversation.不在 (ふざい, fuzai) – absence; not present.Natural English translationsDepending on context, it could be translated as:"There's no straight man.""Nobody's calling them out.""There's no one to keep things in check.""No one's correcting the nonsense.""Everyone's just going along with it."NuanceJapanese speakers often say 突っ込み不在 when a conversation has become increasingly ridiculous because no one is playing the role of questioning or correcting what's being said. It can be humorous or mildly critical.For example:A: "Let's solve traffic by replacing all cars with giant hamsters."B: "Great idea! We should train them to obey traffic lights."C: "What about hamster parking?"Someone watching might comment:突っ込み不在だな。"There's no straight man here.""Nobody's calling this out.""Everyone's just rolling with the bit."So the phrase isn't just about someone physically missing—it implies the absence of the person who would normally bring the conversation back to reality.
>still manually translating/typesetting when Google TL can take a page and instantly do bothlol, dumbasses
>>289318198Please snipe us and set us free
>>289318001Take the L retard. Comix doesn't look like an alternative to md at all. Most of the shit on comix is from scraper bots and giant paywall groups. It's the next evolution of kissmanga/mangarock/etc.
>>289318198the thing is that it does a terrible job at itto get a decent translation, you need to manually get the translation in order like with panel cleaner or something
>>289318278two shekels have been transferred to your account jew mangadex shill
>>289318278>It's the next evolution of kissmanga/mangarock/etc.Not that anon, but that unironically sounds better than the current absolute state of trannydex.
comix UI is unusable, I only use it to read paywall groups
>>289318278>>289317967You're saying that as if new accounts don't need a manual mod approval for their first chapters as well. Soon you won't even be able to create new title pages right away without approvals unless your role is a contributor or above, group leader role won't cut it. You'll literally have to be a MD janny cum guzzler to create titles going forward. How's that more scanlator friendly than Comix?
>>289318294>Looks like comix is the next alternative to mangadex for uploads.Lies like that are very common for shills. Every accusation really is a confession.
>>289318312most important thing when using comix is removing mahnhwa and manhua, you do this in the settings. it's an absolute must to use the site. as well as adding suggestive works I guess, which is turned off by default
>>289318341it's beyond any understanding why anyone is defending mangadex at this point
>>289318341>upload a set of images; if they're translated chinkoid comics they get publishedThe intent is clear. Uploads are welcome. >send us a resume; if it meets our unspecified criteria your images get publishedThe intent is clear. They don't want plebs. They want big "contributors".
>>289318484probably also kind of similar to comick, they want groups that aren't allowed to upload to mangadex. there's no point uploading to comix if they can just scrape your uploads to mangadex insteadeven though mangadex sucks ass, it's still automatically scraped within seconds by the most relevant aggregators, and the most efficient place to upload until it goes legit in the near future
Do people still manually clean, crop, etc etc pages?Or are there some AI scripts for that now? I am so sick of manually cleaning.
>>289318550I use panel cleaner + gemini, it's still a chore though
>>289318550I only work on digital releases, so need for that.At most AI upscaling.I sometimes use panel cleaner for cleaning, but cleaning is such a fast job I honestly prefer just doing it manually.I still just use content aware fill and iopaint generative fill for redrawing, but it's more than enough for my use, free, and quick.
>>289318550Nobody works with physicals anymore
>>289318583>cleaning is such a fast jobYou clearly not doing a good job then.
>>289318550If your book isn't decomposing wouldn't the same level adjustment work for all pages so it's just a one time manual work for a batch of scans. For cropping I think you can offload it to any modern coding agent and they'd probably crop it right.
>>289318608how hard can it be? select around text and fill. As long as the text is gone, it's good.I didn't like using panel cleaner for cleaning text because it leaves some residues that's not entirely fixed by their artifact removal, and it's honestly not that time saving
>>289318484You're not necessarily wrong with how they added a contributor leaderboard recently, but so long as you get your foot in the door you're free to do whatever, which won't be the case in MD for much longer on top of existing restrictions which don't affect me personally as of right now but I'm one DMCA away from being affected.
>>289318664you can still upload even if your series has been dmca'd though. at least for now
>>289318710Plenty of people are still deterred by it though, like Mato Seihei no Slave which still gets scanlated by an anon from here but never ends up on MD
>>289318101The context is always >(two) idiots having a silly convo>narrator breaking the forth wall with just 突っ込み不在>>289318144Typical sloppa. As soon as you need help with a problem that's even somewhat hard it's useless. Also it made a bunch of shit up.
>>289318758>Typical sloppa. As soon as you need help with a problem that's even somewhat hard it's useless. Also it made a bunch of shit up.You luddites are something else.
>>289318746yeah, I ended up deleting all my releases on mangadex, and made a new user which I solely use with vpn to use and upload to the siteit's a little bit cumbersome, but I don't trust mangadex in any way. they'll throw anyone under the bus for their own benefitof course you can argue that I should've used vpn in the first place I guess
>>289318631Having consistent levels between pages isn't the problem. It's that if you level pages to the point where all blacks are solid black, and all whites are solid white you are removing finer details and screens from the image. And I've never seen any online tools not over crop pages.>>289318644>As long as the text is gone, it's good.So you aren't doing a good job.
>>289318758I think the slur you're looking for is "clanker". Slop is what it produces.
>>289318758>The context is always >>(two) idiots having a silly convo>>narrator breaking the forth wall with just 突っ込み不在read more, seriously.
>>289311115It's not there but I know it's going to from the plot development.I'm just waiting for solace at this point.
>>289318839>So you aren't doing a good job.I think the case here is you being autistic.
>>289318862Nah. It's just called having standards in the quality of your work. Something retards these days don't have.
>>289317941You have better chances for /g/ to actually do something like that. As in never ever.
>>289318831They have you tick that box when uploading chapters alleviating all responsibility from them too now on top of Namicomi legal channels, if that's not enough of a sign I don't know what is
>>289318900>They have you tick that boxJust use the api to upload, you don't need to click the box that way
>>289318914Oh huh good to know
>>289318900yeah, that was the icing on the cake that made me remove my releases and make a new account with vpnI'm probably going to nuke my releases in the future if they do something stupid, but legally it should be really hard for them to get my ass like this
>>289318885so please tell me, what more than removing the text in the white bubbles is necessary for digital releases, and what advantages is it? please enlighten me fampaiyou don't really need to though, I'm just being sarcastic
>>289318839>And I've never seen any online tools not over crop pages.not what I suggested.
>>289318900That shit is completely meaningless, no court of law is going to say "well okay MD is innocent" just because you checked the box
>>289318951Than I have no idea what you mean by "coding agent"? Like any LLM?
>>289318981the dmcas goes to mangadex, and they'll remove the chapters. the uploaders never see them. blaming the uploaders is honestly just retarded in the first place, it's not like we're even able to do anything about it
>>289318831>I ended up deleting all my releases on mangadexSame, as I didn't use a VPN in the past though just have to hope the troons running the site don't log for too long.>>289318914>Just use the api lolI publish like one chapter a month I'm not setting up a fucking api key or whatever when it's obvious they'd just sell me out anyway if a copyright owner ever asks for my details, checkbox or not. I'll just upload literally anywhere else.
>>289318550IOPaint is the most I'm using. Sometimes I think of using Banana but it just doesn't appeal to me, only used it twice.Part of it is force of habit, but also because I'm not technologically savvy enough. I'm already using an older version of PS so most of the new things doesn't mesh with it anyway.
>>289319282the nice thing about iopaint, even though it's a bit obsolete, is that it just werks
I’m now a banana convert, not having to mask the text carefully saves a huge amount of effort.
Thoughts on the new Banana Flash? I've had it output heavily altered images even with strict instructions asking it not to. It has failed in replicating the shades in gradient screen tones too, don't think I've had that with Pro ever.
>>289319353Agree. Just upload the pic, circle the part you want to do, and voila! Hours saved.Only thing I have to remember is to change image mode into RGB first. Grey darkens images for some reason.
>>289319282>>289319353I'd like to see how it fares, mind testing it with pic related?
>>289320447you can test an online version here, albeit it's slowhttps://huggingface.co/spaces/Sanster/iopaint-lama
>>289320447a quick fixif you cover up the worst parts like the ear on the guy with text and big strokes, it's more than good enough for me
>>289320489>>289320553Thanks, seems to be about as good as Photoshop's remove tool. I'll try later on pages with heavy screentones, remove tool fucks up pretty bad there usually.
>>289320636yeah, I'd think photoshop remove tool is better if you have access to it, but iopaint is a decent enough free alternative. it's also a little bit better on screentones, but not perfect like you can see.
banana free account, oneshot. this costed 2% usage for the 5hr window.
>>289320822>>289320959Remove tool isn't all that special, not when running locally anyway. I used a trackpad for this, I could've made better selections otherwise but you get the idea. This was on Photoshop 27.5. They seem really generous even on free accounts, if it scales that'd be plenty for two or three whole chapters assuming I do the bare minimum myself.
https://comic-walker.com/detail/KC_012724_S?episodeType=first
>>289320959>>289321113You can also use qwen-image if you hit the banana limit.
>>289322902Do you use it locally? Or through chat (dot) qwen or via the studio thing on their homepage? I don't have enough VRAM for even the shittier models I think, I have a 4060.
>>289323134You just need 16GB of combined memory.https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/tutorials/qwen-image-2512
>>289323300>combinedHuh... That makes it a lot more accessible, thanks anon I'll give it a try, the web version seemed to be very slow to respond so this works out.
>>289323480Well, there's that catch that if it spills into RAM, the model gets slower. But it will still generate images.
Do you love manga?
>>289320553More so than the results, for me the biggest benefit is the time save. It's bad with gradients but that can be handled easily with PS.
>>289326704yeah same for me, I'm not exactly striving for perfection or to become an expert redrawer, but it's far better than using boxes or stuff like that
am I fucking up by using MS Paint?
>>289317941Because everybody underestimates just how much time, effort, and money it takes to actually run sites like these. Bandwidth, legal issues, bots scraping the shit from your website that you've scraped from MD in a twist of irony, DDOS attacks, server hosting issues like them being little bitches or straight up disappearing or cancelling your contract, etc. There's a reason a ton of these websites come and go, and the ones that stay aren't updated often or missing a ton of stuff, use lower quality images or formats, and are slow or unresponsive. Also, for some reason, the guys who always make these new alternative websites go full retard and host manhwa/manhua, which is a fast track to shutting down.
Would anyone be interested in translating this fluffy one-shot about a 2-person club? https://tonarinoyj.jp/episode/2550912965503979946 I tried picking it up thinking I could use this as practice to polish up my JP skills, but seems like they're still lacking. Making translations sound natural is a skill I sadly do not possess. I have also attached my email, in case the thread dies but someone stumbles upon this post the future.
>>289330907Yes
>>289330907No
She's waiting for you, anon.She wants you to pick up her manga.
>>289305325"Is there no straight man here?"
Am I allowed to request patch up jobs for shitty mtl releases here?
>>289307115Pretty sure it's Scandinavian due to them confusing "history" and "story".
>>289335912Allowed, sure, expect it to go unfulfilled however as most of us already have our own projects keeping us occupied
>>289336131Thanks. I'll make my case and leave it at that then.https://mangadex.org/title/dc935f08-da21-44a6-ba57-ddfade8216d0/kaijuu-jieitai>no official English release>starting with chapter 26 a one man deepl/chatgpt translation guy is the only one who put out releases>obvious grammatical errors
What is your criteria for picking up a new project?Be honest!
>>289331411I unironically think you should give your translation to a LLM of your choice asking it to word it better. You should at least be good enough both in English and Japanese to able to judge the accuracy of its output, it can become a learning experience that way. Plus you can cope by thinking of it as machine PR and not MTL since you're the one actually translating it.
>>289333988why?
>>289337066dolls
>>289337066I like it enough to think about it on a near-daily basis for years. I just get a feeling like it's one I can't ignore.
>>289337066has to have an interesting art style and not be too long/ongoing
>>289337066If the existing translation is notgood and it’s not licensed
I checked panda bounty thing. With such standards no wonder AI-fags rape their eng TL uploads.
why is arrowbutt in japanese arrowhead in english...
>>289337066good art and goonerish
>>289305325>no one around to wrangle the tard(s)Objectively correct. I challenge you to find a flaw.
>>289313745Do they not have ads?
>>289318341>Soon you won't even be able to create new title pages right away without approvals unless your role is a contributor or above, group leader role won't cut it.Makes sense, it's too easy to become a leader of a solo group despite being a retard.>You'll literally have to be a MD janny cum guzzler to create titles going forward.Yeah the shit you have to go through to get contributor status is like a humiliation ritual.Well, except I just kinda got it gifted to me when someone in the discord recognized me as a danbooru janny lmao.
>>289337066Prerequisite: I like the manga enough to be willing to read each chapter multiple times (very few and far between)Condition 1: No one serious is already working on it or is likely to.Condition 2 (new): I have to come across a motivated ts/cleaner that needs translations for a manga that meets the above requirements.The addition of condition 2 basically means that I retired from scanlation. The last release I was involved in was almost 2 years ago at this point.
>>289343953Most likely I'll probably just post it everywhere first and then create the title afterwards.They'll probably be faster at creating it if they see that people are reading it everywhere than at their place.
>>289337066>What is your criteria for picking up a new project?honestly that it'll be somewhat popular and create hypeif it doesn't get any attention and discussion I'm probably not going to bothermore than half the fun is the community and the buzz, it's not fun if people aren't interestedI'm never going to understand hipsters and indie lovers who work on garbage no one is interested in except super niche people
>>289344050>I don't get the fan part of fan translationsStart a paywall group already turdy.
>>289344083retard, my point is that the fun is reading together with other people, it's not fun doing something alonenot everyone is autistic like you
>>289335817this is the kind of manga that is only popular in Japan
i could never get used to gimp,but it was pretty cool to use and photoshop was fucking rape to use in highschool. would rather have my nuts ripped apart before i gotta use that shit again
>>289344316>photoshop was fucking rape to use in highschool. would rather have my nuts ripped apart before i gotta use that shit againwhat? photoshop is pretty intuitive. it's a reason it's had its position for 3 decades without being challenged
>>289344316Then what DO you use?
>>289344225I don't think this style of misery porn is exclusive to Japan but it's definitely not a genre popular in the western manga fandom.
>*WE ARE EXTREMELY LOW ON FINANCES, PLEASE HELP BY DONATING* - scanlation team cried for the past 8 years
How do you translate this
>>289305074Which group?
>>289345094Alone Scans.Don't know the reason though, afaik they didn't have pay walled chapters.
>>289340906
>>289343984Will you work now if you find someone?
>>289344225Disagree. But we should see it this December when the first volume arrive.
>>289345051Their mother is a fighter!
>>289345051it's so dumb, especially when they claim that they need money for raws, which can either get easily at the regular public places, or just buy cheap and rip them yourselveswe need a new stop tazmo campaign
>>289340906looks like ejaculation
My favorite is when groups say donate to us to save the series from the axe
>>289345259Yeah I guess. Though I'm not really looking to get back into it. It's more like I could be persuaded (by a fellow passionate fan) to come out of retirement.
What are the most common Clip Studio Paint brushes that mangaka use, for the sake of seamless redrawing?
>>289346109Pomeranian
>https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1496777Is there anything similar for Photoshop? This seems very handy
>>289345783Which mating dance should I do to get you into it again?
That's my line.
Reject FuriganaEmbrace lookups
>Assuming anyone is gonna translate his workIs this based or cringe?
Based for absolutely BTFO weeblators with that >don't just transliterate sfxand>don't leave the title untranslated
>>289347297> transliterate sfxOnly yenpress does that
>>289347207He said please so cringe
>>289345051
>>289347297>don't just transliterate sfx>ふきだし内I think he just wants these bubbles translated as opposed to left alone like most lazy H-TLs do.
>>289301681dumb retard
>>289301681based scholar
>>289347516I mean, how much would you charge to go to a store every monday midnight, buy and immediately scan like 100 pages of a random mag you don't give a shit about? Seems pretty reasonable.
>>289345084「je t'aime」
>>289347555I transliterate SFX if it's something that's relevant to understand the scene, I don't think a reader needs to be informed if, like, someone's flipping through papers or taking pictures with a camera that they can't piece together what the SFX on the page is alluding to.Also they tend to be hand-drawn and often the choice is either erase something made directly by the mangaka or covering more of the page with potentially non-essential text.
>>289347037but what if you could have both
>>289347516This has got to be a joke.
>>28930130Captain Earth anon, I just sent you an email.
>>289348820I had to use English ruby text to deal with some of these, I despise them
>>289348143Yeah the scanning alone justifies the price. 100 pages is very tedious, even if you aren't editing them beyond it.
>>289348143I wouldn't do that I would just get a digital copy of the magazine.
Someone last thread asked how we feel when a series we've been keeping an eye on for a long time without actually picking it up gets picked up by another group, and I replied that as long as their work is decent I don't mindWell, since then, someone picked up a series I've been keeping an eye on without actually picking it up, and it's so shoddy it's making me madThe world sure loves pulling the irony card on me
>>289350217that's sort of the rule anon, if it seems it'll become even remotely popular, it's picked up by these patreon/coin based paywall mtl groups that couldn't care less about putting out a better productI'm fairly certain everything I've dropped over the years either have been abandoned, or picked up by groups like that. Latest one even got the most basic of basics wrong.
What's some manga that will make me rich for translating it?
>>289350702Shitting dick nipples diaper furry porn
>>289350879that be more funny if it wasn't true
>>289349435But then you can't release your scanlation before the official translation drops.
>>289349344nah, it you're not in it for the hobby then it's better not to bother
>>289350670Thing is, mine wasn't even that popular, it got axed after 3 volumes like 6 years agoI had been putting it off in part because I was sure nobody else even cared about it, so I guess that was kinda my fault
>>289351306why not just fucking do it if you want to.
>>289351035Your goal shouldn't be to be the first, it should be to be the best.
>>289352583>Your goal shouldn't be to be the first, it should be to be the best.that's admirable, but retardedthe first release out is the one that gets scraped by aggregators and everyone is going to read
>>289352925You're the retard. If two groups are releasing a project, anyone worth having as a reader will compare them and wait for the better release. If you're going to release things to pander to speedreading retards who don't care about the material, I hope you're at least not also the type to complain about only having speedreading retards reading your releases.
>>289353040you're cute, but naive
>>289353292I just don't care about a lot of people reading my releases. I also don't work on ongoing series or anything that would have competition, anyway.
>>289350217That's how it is, muchacho. You either take your shot or someone else will.
>>289353818I'm still bummed over that a manga I considered working on but decided not to, even managed to get an anime adaption.How that one I decided not to work on continued and got an adaption, and all the other stuff I worked on got axed early without any interest, is honestly beyond me.
>>289352583These were for-profit groups that were raking in serious cash in donations by scanlating Jumpshit several days before the official translation dropped.
>>289354745I find it hilarious that the people behind Jamini's Box and Black Cat Scanlations got shot down because of that fucking twice.
>>289353874Tell me about it. I have top sellers in my lineup with one of them placing high in the Tsugi Manga awards for two years and yet no anime announcement.GOD, I just want to feel that rush of witnessing an annoucement!
>>289345276>it was picked up for an official translation>volume 1 comes out in Decemberthat's a bold move considering the manga is ending this summer lmao
>>289356898if it's licensed there's really no point working on itnobody will read your scanlations when the official releases are outit's a waste of time honestly
>>289356898Oh, didn't know it's ending.>>289357041It will take years to reach the ending. If they even keep at it.
Which one feels more pain when a manga goes in a bad direction, the paying customer or the scanlator?
>>289361480the scanlator can just drop it though
>>289361480>the paying customer or the scanlator?I'm both
>I ran a simulation in my head>Fufufufu>He confessed to me>I'll protect you with these hands>My heart isn't ready>I'll never forgive him>I erased my presence
>>289337066Whether it's likely to get into the top 10 list. I'll still drop it if it fails to.
>>289361879>>Fufufufunothing wrong with this>>He confessed to menothing wrong with this>>I'll never forgive himoften used incorrectly but a perfectly cromulent translation in certain contexts
>>289361922don't reply to him
>>289361922Anon, have you ever played a visual novel or something and heard how Japanese people actually vocalize what you translate as “fufufu”, same with “kyaaa” honestly?Like, what does it sound like in your head?
>>289361700The paying customer can stop paying as well.It's a choice of what you think is the bigger investment.
>>289362004Have you never watched an anime where the seiyuu will literally and very audibly scream "kyaaa"?
What's a good Chinese OCR if I want to do a series about Jap girl lost in Chink Wonderland?
>>289362914As in what, the characters are Chinese like it's some sort of fujo RoTK?I'd assume there'd still be furigana for important names if it's still a Jap manga
>>289363085There are Chink runes in the environment
>>289363123I guess you could try the handwriting function on Google Translate
>>289363174That's slow and I dread the day a full page of cool Chink shit shows up
>>289363123Gemini flash
>>289362763No, that's kind of the point isn't it?“Fufufu” is just something some Hepburnfag invented who didn't understand what the sound a Japanese person imagines in his head when he reads “ふふふふ” is supposed to sound like and then it ended up living a life of its own including that bullshit claim I see here that male characters don't use it due to a combination of translators only choosing to use it when a female character does it and a healthy dose of permavirginity entertainment wherein every [read: the only] male character is a boring boy scout.By the way, I just image-searched “フフフ 漫画”, this was the third image, second image was also male but this is the final kek for all those faggot permavirgins who say male characters don't use it.
the pokemon games used "fufufu" and I didn't know wtf it meant as a kid
>へへ = Lol>ふふ = Lmao>はは = RoflThe one and only truth.
>>289363327It means pretty much what you imagine in your head when you see “Hehehe” written down. That's what it sounds like.The reason for “fufufu” is because>Hepburn was a mistake and it should've been “huhuhu” to begin with>Japanese treats /u/ as the most neutral vowel of the language so that's the vowel they chose to transcribe what is actually not really a vowel at allThat's it. The scanlation turned Korosensei's iconic laugh into “Nurufufufufu”, the official translation used “Nrehehehe” which is the correct choice when you see what the voice actor and director settled upon in the television series showing what Japanese people imagine in their heads when they see it. “Fufufufu” has always, like every other bit of permavirgin fake Japanese culture, been a lie that never existed.>>289363369Based.
>“Fufufufu” has always been a lie that never existed.Innit doesn't watch anime, huh.
>>289363286>NoThey say that all the time, watch more anime.
>>289363828Doesn't occur in it. In fact, Japanese people are notoriously bad at producing an “f” sound to begin with.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmP75i_X7eoDoes this sound like an “f” to you or more like “nrehehehehehe”?
>>289363920Then why don't you come with an actual example of a laugh where there's an actual f in it?
>>289363921>you can literally hear hurufu at the beginningYep, innit confirmed for being insane trannylator. Not like it wasn't obvious to begin with.
>>289363985Just shows how deaf you are then because it's “ヌルフフフ”, not “フルフフフ”.
>the f sound doesn't exist in japan, it's a myth>so are all wasei containing フォ ファ フェ フィ, because japs are literally too stupid to realize how their own phonemes sound.
>>289363985You're the one trying to have a conversation with a dude in a straitjacket.>>289364086Same with you, shut up about ufufu already, we know.
>>289363938I was talking about kyaa, you retard. Learn to read.
>>289364086They're typically not pronounced with an f anon.You do know the difference between a labiodental fricative and a bilabial fricative don't you?You're not telling me that you never studied the mechanics of Japanese phonology and are just substituting English phones and that you also don't know the difference between the Japanese lamino-alveolar and the English alveolar stops right? You don't actually round your lips when you pronounce the Japanese labial approximation right? Oh please don't tell me you haven't properly mastered the uvular nasal and just use the English dental nasal?Oh no.>>289364133Replies with just a no context “>no” and then complains people aren't “reading”.Who knows, maybe this staggering display of autism is what contributes to your permavirginity, but I'm going to say it's mostly your lack of personal hygiene.And no, it sounds nothing like it.
you forgot to tell the AI to add greater than sings for the greentext
>>289364193You sound upset.
ufufu, gemini made cleaning so easy kyaa~
>>289362175but FOOO is correct!?
how do you differentiate ufufu and kufufu
>>289364854>ufufusexy milf>kufufubratty BITCH
>>289345051Many such cases.
I was on the verge of making a $100+ mistake by ordering the Japanese edition of Veil until I realized all the dialogue is handwritten which I wouldn't even be able to decipher.
>>289364133Then you should stop talking because we're talking about fufufu.
What is this? Anyone?
>>289364854See, kufufu is such a moe trope that you're actually most likely to hear it pronounced as "kufufu".But "ufufu" is more normal, and more likely to be pronounced as something closer to "əhəhə"
嫌だい>>289366717
>>289366797Thank God, Jesus fuck
>>289366797If you can get this one too, I'll pray for you tonight.
>>289367021激戦区
>>289367091Okay, what do you want most currently?
>>289367109Make Semi stocks go green, thanks
>>289362914>>289363123Stop being retarded. If the original audience isn't meant to understand something don't go out of your way to make it understandable with your translations.
>>289367506Japanese can understand they're looking at Chinese and look up anything that might be interesting to them. This audience doesn't have the ability to distinct that. It's just a contingency anyway.
>>289368233Silly rationalization of someone used to deciphering magno instead of just reading it. It falls apart completely if you think about it for more than a second since you can easily level the playing field with a page at the end teaching readers how to OCR and MTL.
>>289368401I was just gonna put a line saying "I can't read Chinese, lol", fag
>>289368427If it's not clear from context just explain that the writing chinese in a tl note. No need to make excuses.
>>289345138They recently started translating a manga about a troon that commits suicide and changes bodies with a girl. Probably one of them complained they where promoting suicide or something.
>>289368401Japanese people can easily read parts of it like 下水道, 搬家 and 空調, and recognize these as phone numbers for household services such as plumbing, installation, repairs, moving, etc.EOPs just see ching chong nip nog
so you should translate it to afrikaans instead
>>289368596Or they go>oh it's chinese I've seen this pattern before it's going to be made understandable soon>they look down the page and there it isYou're doing this because you like deciphering shit, nips are just trying to consume lowbrow entertainment. There's a reason authors always add scenes that spell it out, like in the page you posted.
Onegai, scanlator-sama...
>>289369679
Hyphenation or bad text shape?
>>289370773Protrude outside of the bubble
>>289370773Flip text sideways
>MD updates tab no longer brings up official releasesThat was one of the few good uses of the site!
>>289372623Huh. But I thought they wanted to promote legal alternatives.
suchstr-en-gth...
Repost from the GITS thread, just in case I find someone autistic enough in this one.>Any news about a proper digital release of GITS vol1 manga in English?The only releases that are translated, uncensored and not flipped horizontally are these:https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Shell-Legacy-Manga-Deluxe/dp/B0FCGDT59S (this one should contain the most recent translation)And this https://www.amazon.co.jp/Kodansha-Bilingual-Comics-English-Japanese/dp/4770029195Both are physical only.Someone could use these torrents to make a good digital version, but it will take a lot of time:https://nyaa.si/view/1740477 - official digital release in Japanesehttps://nyaa.si/view/1051084 - official digital release in English, censored, flippedhttps://nyaa.si/view/1126811 - old scans of the first English edition, translated and uncensored, but also flipped
>>289376923>TFW I can visualize the end result just from this.
>>289364193My nigga (you) should honestly spend less time studying Japanese and more time studying English if you want to be a better Japanese -> English translator.Also your obsession with people who only exist inside your head is quite unhealthy. Please get that checked out as soon as possible.
