What have you been working on?
>>289677344gimp is garbage. like the term "scanlate"
>>289677344>What have you been working on?I downloaded a pirated version of the newest version of photoshop in hope of that it was possible to use the remove tool or local generative AI tool, but no it didn't work. Kind of dissappointed about that.
>>289677344I translated one twitter manga, first time I’ve done anything this year
>>289677344>What have you been working on?waiting for the translator of this>>289662719I have a gnawing suspiscion he's on vacation
>>289677344Doujinshi
>>289677344
>>289677344Public raws are slow to update this month and I don't want to shell out money for magazines
>>289677938That looks really good. And horrifying.
https://x.com/amantofu/status/2081354040936747161?s=20wait screen-tones are actually 貼る'd?
>>289680604did you not know this already?
>>289680609I’m not very bright
>>289677938Effective
Is lide300 still the recommended entry level scanner
>>289631124Send them a message and see how they will react. Communication saves a lot of time.
>>289680604Maybe 15+ years ago, it's all just digishit now for the most part.
>>289682163had mine for three years and it’s pretty good for the price. the scan quality is good, it’s just slow at color+600dpi.
>>289680164Which magazine are you looking for?
Apparently the newest windows store kindle drm is cracked, is there a tutorial?
Who cares amazon shit is capped at x1920.
>>289677684scanlate deez nutz
I am once again checking on Kuroake's status
bkub continues to innovate in the field of absolutely untranslatable bullshit
>>289683819What’s her name?
I've reached the point in my series' typesetting I've been dreading, where a recurring "concept" referenced regularly through one of the main plotlines is based off of a pun that's basically untranslatable.>character is in a big fight with a friend, breaks off contact saying, "もういい">gets visually represented as a semi-serious gag where the character is imagined a rock monster named モウイーワ>this rock monster comes in variants which all maintain the punSince it's "technically" a proper noun and the visual metaphor of rock is important I think the only option is "just romanize the monster name as Mouiiwa and give it a TL note" but I'm still second guessing. In part because it gets referenced a lot within the narrative going forward.
>>289682755電撃だいおうじ
>>289683882just call it the enuff or whatever you translated もういい as
>>289677875>remove tool You'll need 8 GB VRAM>local generative AI tool14 GB for Nvidia cardshelpx.adobe.com/en/photoshop/desktop/repair-retouch/remove-objects-fill-space/remove-tool-minimum-and-recommended-hardware-requirements.html
>>289684249Huh my autoDL script from a mega drive never stopped working, it updated this month too
There's an untapped market for scanlators who only work on extras.
>>289683856Can't you read? She's a shinogawanotsuchinojuuroshitonnokedairokunoichi
>>289684387>>289683819God damn would a nip reader actually be able to inuit that joke right away?
>>289684769Likely not, I think only someone who’s cn-jp bilingual and is VERY proficient in cangjie input method for Chinese can do it in their head.
>>289684962But why write a joke no readers will understand then? ;_;
>>289684291>Mega driveMind elaborating? I was in ripper anon's telegram but I've been clueless ever since it died, I can share my mail if you'd rather not make it public. I'd be plenty grateful if you just share this month's issue too.
>>289685466I can’t get to my pc rn but I got the mega link from /u/‘s raw thread
>>289685492Found it thanks anon, you're a lifesaver
>>289677875It's possible to pirate still? Thought they went the "you will own nothing" route with some active subscription bullshit. I hear CS6 is the final offline version but the links in /g/'s Windows thread are dead. Incidentally, I have 12GB of VRAM so if this new Photoshop is piratable, spoonfeed please. I doubt it's as straightforward as anime torrents.>>289677684It and Paint.NET have been my only alternatives because of what I stated above.
>>289685626I just downloaded the newest version on 1337 trrents. 1337x.to from crackslash or something. seems to work fine for now.
>>289685307it's avant-garde kusomanga
>>289685724The "for now" part worries me. Main reason why I haven't looked for CS6 is fear of keyloggers, RATs, and so on. Also curious as to how it's working at all. Does Photoshop not phone home nowadays? Figured it was impossible to crack now because of that. Mainly want to try out that remove tool and its other AI toys. See how it compares to NovelAI's inpainting.
>>289687168>Main reason why I haven't looked for CS6 is fear of keyloggers, RATs, and so on.The old-ass CS6? I pirated that quite a few years back and I have used it for a while. Install got fucked up one time, somehow, but I could plain uninstal it and then instal the same crack (following the same steps), and it's worked fine ever since.
>>289687168>Mainly want to try out that remove tool and its other AI toys.I get a message that it needs to connect to the internet, and when I enable the network, I get an error message that it doesn't work. Nothing about that I need more vram or anything. My guess is that the other anon is wrong and remove tool doesn't work on pirated photoshop.
>>289682163>lide300On what fucking planet? The one you'd usually get recommended is the newest budget Epson Perfection. V39 II should be the most recent one. It beats the lide in color scans by a little. For black and white it wouldn't matter as much.
I got frustrated with centaurs life not getting any official volume releases since 2022 so I decided to check out mtl tools to read it.I ended up using koharu app that automatically handless stuff like text detection, cleaning the image etc. and some llm called Sugoi-14B-Ultra via lm studioIt worked out good enoughDo people rec some better llm tool over sugoi these days?
PLEASE DO THAT ONE PLEASEI AM SO TIRED OF WAITING
>>289688038I still haven't really found anything better than the combination of panel cleaner and chat gpt.https://github.com/VoxelCubes/PanelCleanerMain issue with most other translation tools is that they goof up the text order, which quickly makes a lot of text illegible.Manga OCR used in panel cleaner still struggle a bit with handwritten text, so usually I use google lens to help out when I struggle with that. But the easiest work around there is just not working on manga with a lot of hand written text honestly.
>>289685626I use a pirated PS2024 completely offline and all the tools work offline. Barely 2GB of VRAM.
>>289688172beggars can't be choosers
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/Resources 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/postPanel 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
There's something beautiful about a difficultly redrawn page thoroughly cleaned of text, like the view from a mountaintop. Art completely laid bare of the language barrier. The privilege of seeing it might be my favorite thing about scanlation. I pity all non-megafaggot scanlators.
>>289688274Heres koharu workflowThe sugoi llm tl can have errors so its not ideal.
>>289688977can it export as photoshop psd files?wouldn't surprise me if it's this all of the coin based pay wall groups use
>>289685307
>>289689093https://koharu.rs/how-to/export-and-manage-projects/#export-layered-psd-files
>>289689251that makes it pretty helpful, and I'm even more certain now that it's this tool the pay wall groups use
>>289688038That hyphe-nation is giv-ing me ul-cers
>>289685466That's how the Sega Genesis was called in Japan.
>>289690097glad I'm not the only one who thought he was talking about the sega mega drive for a second
>having to bump at 60 postsScanlation is deader than 2pac
>>289691666there was a thread shorter than a week ago and that one was pretty much dead on arrival as wellpeople probably have other things to think about during vacation
>Open scanlation folder>Gaze upon all of the series and chapters I've done>Realize all that time and effort could have been channeled into more productive avenues>Only thing I've gotten over the years is a pittance of gratitude>Despite that, still feel a morsel of happiness when I look at it
>>289692311I feel like scanlations helped me when I was in a dark place and just had to feel like I was doing something. And I guess the time wasn't wasted, I've learned a lot about different things along the way.Can't exactly say I ever worked on anything groundbreaking, and nothing has been adapted to an anime so far, but still it was somewhat enjoyable.It's pretty much over now with a full time job, but I still horse around here and on some of the /a/ projects.
>>289692592>I feel like scanlations helped me when I was in a dark place and just had to feel like I was doing somethingThat's not unusual, having something constructive or/and creative to reorient and focus yourself towards can be quite helpful after life hits a big snag. Doing something that's good, something that's enjoyable, something that's useful. Maybe even all three at once.It can be a very healthy and productive way to cope, in many cases.
>>289692807>It can be a very healthy and productive way to cope, in many cases.it was far better than the other thing I did, which was practically just nothing. pretty much just doomscrolling and sleeping
bump
How do groups do 10 projects for freeI already feel like doing 2 is charity even if it takes some hours
How often do you feel this?
>>289694324it's a hobbyalso you make so little money on it, it'd feel like an insultyou'd be better off just getting a job than making money on scanlation. making money on scanlation is pretty much a meme
>>289694324In how many of them are they caught up with the Japanese version?
>>289692592That's genuinely a touching sentiment.I too think that it helped me learn some things. Mostly Photoshop, I don't think I would have learned it to the extent I did if it weren't through practice.>>289694324I got into the hobby because I wanted to read series that were dropped. So I pretty much have a personal interest in it.But I think what truly kept me motivated is that I had the luck of getting a unicorn group leader. The kind of guy who does his share and more, and in turn motivates others.
>>289694583>I got into the hobby because I wanted to read series that were dropped. Why didn't you learn Japanese?
>>289694761At the time? Laziness and procrastination with useless things. Getting through the editor route was easier as well but I can't deny that those were the primary reasons.
>>289695213I started learning Japanese, but quit halfway through because it was just easier using mtl, and I can just proofread and fix stuff with the japanese I know.Then again I wasn't learning Japanese for anything else than working on scanlations. I guess I might pick up japanese later down the road if I feel like it again. But right now with the tools available it doesn't really seem worth it any more.
how do you deal with typos?
>>289695323Pretend they're not there unless it feels like they're on purpose. I regularly compare the magazine chapters to the tank chapters for my series and those are just one of the handful of small changes that always get fixed. Others are seemingly innocuous like changing a hiragana character in a word with kanji, changing fonts or styles, moving text over by 2 pixels or adding furigana.
>>289695430I remember one time I used the magazine script for the volume raws, and the dialogue didn't fit. Several bubbles had been changed. Didn't know they even made changes like that.
>>289695473Actually changing the text content is pretty rare for me. The biggest difference I've seen so far is that a page in the volume got a whole new bubble with new text that wasn't in the magazine.
>>289695278Hey, that's one way of going about it.If things got better for me I'm planning on learning it first thing. Not just for manga but for communication and knowledge in general. Having an extra language always opens so many doors.
>>289695874you have the resources here>>289688703biggest decision is probably picking either tae kim or genki, but I think genki is better for reading and learning. tae kim is more for reference, but not ideal for learning
What are the sites that actually lets you upload shit yourself now that bato's down? Usually I just upload to Mangadex and let the aggregators scrape from it. But It's fucking annoying when I update any old chapters with edited/fixed art from volume releases and the aggregators don't reflect the change. Most people out there don't even read from MD these days so they're reading the old releases. There has to be at least a few new big sites that actually let scanlators upload their own releases.
>>289696267that's on the aggregators and not mangadex, anon
>>289695989I see. I will keep that in mind. Thanks.
>>289696424Obviously. But bato was an aggregator that actually let scanlators make accounts and upload too. I'm looking for similar sites where they actually let scanlators upload so as many sites as possible can have edited releases.
>>289696267>Most people out there don't even read from MD these days so they're reading the old releasesThis is like working as a chef at a restaurant that magically gives out free food and still worrying about what the guys eating out of the dumpster are tasting.
Hey anon, are you still working on this little scammer's manga?
>>289689251This seems very convenient even if you aren’t a mtl shitter
>>289695989>either orI don't know a single actual Japanese learner who hasn't used every option available
>>289698200currently trying to learn Shuwa right now
Will there ever be a mangadex successor?
Any tips on recalling Kanji's meaning accurately? In my case I can guess what a kanji meaning based on its strokes similarity with other kanjis that I already knew, I wonder if there's another way to learn kanji more effectively? Maybe by writing them down?
best ai tool currently for redrawing?
>>289700096By learning it in different vocabs. Or if you’re autistic you can learn the semantic meaning of the components.
>>289700124Nano banana. It saved me so much time and is half of the time better than me.
>>289700079/g/ will do it one day.
>>289700079idea: mangadex but it only hosts cubari links
>>289700181where to get the pro version?
>>289700096Kangxi Radicals is probably your best best. Almost 300 units that build the kanji. Makes it far easier to remember them. You can download it here.>>289688703>Hiragana/Katakana/Kangxi radicals Anki decks and Yotsuba Learning Pack>https://files.catbox.moe/9x3me2.zip
>>289700390It's paid only, unfortunately. you can get the free 300 usd Google cloud credit trial for api/AIstudio use.Or get a subscription. iirc the full price is 20usd/mo. you can share 1 sub between 6 peoples. regional pricing+sharing: as low as 1$/mo
>>289700124I use IOPaint because it's free.Good enough for me and does the job.
>>289677684Name one thing Photoshop can do that PhotoGimp can't
>>289679642Yellow is best you faggot. No one wants to read editor notes, it ruins immersion to take eyes away from the sound effects to look between panels.
>>289701598Yellow is just a lazier version of red, for the type of scanlator who only uses a single font, uncentered and undersized, for every dialogue bubble.
>>289701639>who only uses a single fontIf the author uses a single font, I use a single font.
>>289701715it’s the editor that puts in the text, not the artist
>>289701784so the author always uses a single font...
>>289700096Seconding >>289700142 more words with the kanji will form a vague association in your mind about what the kanji represents, if not a direct meaning>>289700390>>289701176You get access to the Pro version as a free user too, just with far lower usage limits I believe>>289701465Use decades of scripting, actions and tools like TypeR
What do you do as a scanlator if someone sends a threatening mail to your irl address?
>>289702224move
>>289702224>yuri mangaRun.
>>289702224>not even a licensor, just some literally who doing it for freeit's probably fake as shit anyways
I tried iopaint and it’s kinda bad
>>289702224Kinda deserved for scanning a simulpub desu
>>289677684What are you supposed to use instead of Gimp then?
>>289704461How is fan translating a simulpubbed manga a greater moral offense than any other licensed work? The vast majority of readers would read official, so the biggest issue would simply be the waste of time.
How do people deal in the generation of speed ai scanlation
>>289704536deal what
>>289704536Most anons here work on obscure series that script kiddies don't know exist
>>289704536Good mtl is still impossible without human supervision.
>>289688274How does ChatGPT factor into it?
>>289704535You assumption is wrong.
>>289688703What is the school script?
>>289689251Can you easily edit the text instead of leaving it all to MTL? Would be useful for any scanlator then. The days of wasting time on typesetting are over.
>>289696267Mangakatana.com doesn't let you upload your own shit, but you they upload lightning fast if you tell them to upload for you.
>>289696549kagane.to is one, but practically nobody uses it, so anything you upload will only get like 500 views. I wish there still was one with a good comment section and a large userbase...
>>289696267I got Comix upload perms after talking about it last to last thread but I have no use for it at the moment I still upload to MD. But the thing is you won't be given edit permissions for chapters you yourself haven't uploaded, even if they make you a member of your group on their website. You'd have to ask them to take down the current chapters then reupload yourself. Even then it's still among the top few sizeable websites with user uploads.
What’s the pros of working with a group, why do people do it? Like you have to talk to people, that sounds impossible…
>>289704737yeah you open the specific text block and type in the TL result and it'll refresh the rendered page automatically theres some options to change how the text output looks
>>289706447Can you manually add text blocks? And can it call banana and letter stylized SFX?
>>289706673You can add blocksidk what a banana isthe text editing options are shown on the pic
>>289704628it’s an all around ripping script
>>289706077it’s an awful lot of work doing everything yourself and it burns you out. especially the typesetting
>>289702224no surprise it’s yuri, they have all the mentally ill fans
>>289704535it still competes with the official translation. I don’t think it matters that much for volume releases because, because then people are just going to read and pirate the official release and the scanlation is largely forgotten and not really competing with everything. but for simulpubs it might ruin views and even sales
>>289704235it’s about the same as the photoshop remove tool. it’s what you get with a local data base
>>289702224>page 3>I'm under your bed
>>289702224>A Concerned CitizenKekNice joke.
>>289704235It's more of a time-saver than a results achiever. Touch up the obvious imperfections and hide the rest with text and strokes.
>>289707824it's pretty much the same as content aware fill, just better in some cases
>>289706722Probably Gemini banana
>>289685626got to reddit /r/piracy and look at the megathread, they're kinda autistic about finding compromised links so it's trustworthy as far as can when concerning piracy
>>289704486photopea :)
>>289707824>>289707908imho banana is just way faster and easier. iopaint and remove tool’s result is kinda dependent on how carefully you mask only the text, you don’t have to do that with banana and the result is also straight up better
>>289704536Are you talking about being sniped?Who cares, just work on what you want.
>>289706077Pros:>Less workload>Chances that others are more specialized in a specific role>Let you work on more seriesCons:>Dealing with people
>>289708522it pretty much no purpose releasing after the first one out because it's only the first one that is grabbed by the aggregators and that people will readyou're basically putting in a lot of time and effort for nothinghow you can't see that being demotivational must mean you're on the spectrum or something
>>289708585There's also a lot, and I mean a lot of grifters out there just trying to hamper your work.Last person I tried to work as a typesetter even claimed that his pc died and he had to borrow his sister's pc, I shit you not. After a couple of weeks with his bullshit I just booted him.
>>289707809The two cents are the cherry on the cake
How do I get the stroke to have this kind of dissolving effect the further it goes?Got the pattern and opacity right but I don't know how to achieve the last part.
>>289709202Can’t you use the pattern with outer glow instead of stroke?
>>289708790then again it's pretty retarded to work on stuff that's simulpublished, I have no idea why people even bother spending that much time, effort, and energy on something that's more or less worthless. they would be better off spending that time elsewhereI even struggle working on licensed series that are released in volumes because I know nobody will care about my scanlations when the official releases are out
Small tsu plus blushing moji
>>289708504There is no option. I'm using PS2015.The best I could get is choosing overlay and getting the correct gradient but the pattern is of course missing.
>>289709822I assume you're replying to>>289709279 do you have to use PS2015?
>>289710243Oh right, didn't see I replied to the wrong post.Yeah. That's my main work software. Does the versions after it include the choice to do it?
>>289710301Oh I was dumb, it’s not in 2026 either. Best I can do is to convert the outer glow part to a mask and use it on the textured stroke layer.
>>289677344>What have you been working on?Your mom.
>>289709349Usually it's EOP editors and typesetters being convinced the misinterpreted MTLations the "translator" throws them is more accurate than the official translation.
>>289710800Thank you for your hard work, she's been very sick these past few decades.
>>289709387owo
>>289710973this always baffles me, the complaints about the official translations are pretty much always borderline retarded. the complainers don't even know what good translations are. posers the lot of them
>Character goes berserk and now I have to find another font to use for their attacks
>>289698422yes, i've been extremely busy IRL over the past few months and didn't even get around to reading the latest to chapters of J<->M until 2 days ago, and i haven't touched any series i work on in several months. the 3 J<->M chapters will probably be split over 2 dumps unless i get a lot of free time, and i will hopefully dump the last chapter of volume 2 in one of those
>>289710973>>289712509Kek, you remind me of the Eden daily. Where someone kept insisting that the official translation was wrong only to get disproven by posting the raws, twice.But yeah, most people who insist on fan scans can't read moonrunes. They probably saw legitimate fumbles by official TLs and then assume it's the norm. People don't even post raws for actural readers anymore. They just make the claim and move on.
>>289708628I too had someone apply, only to proceed to not reply. So this is a commonplace thing now?
>>289713404I think a lot of grifters are either other groups that want to snipe or delay your releases for some reason, or it's people from the industry grifting. I sort of doubt the industry would use grifters though, they're severely shilling but grifting like that seems rather pointless. So most likely another group that wants to snipe your project.
>>289708601Some aggregator do care about quality, to an extant, so actually making a good scan can be spread.Besides, if you really like something then it makes sense to at least want to see it in a decent form. Wasted effort or not.
>>289710603I just gave up and used an outer glow. Having no pattern isn't a major lose.Thanks anyway.
>>289713487We really needed this additional layer of mental warfare on top of slackers and unmotivated people.
>>289710603>>289713777You could use a pattern on stroke then an outer glow on top of that while fucking around with opacity
>>289708628Some people are just deeply confused. I've gotten several offers asking to join my group if I pick up a manga and they'll help but not with typesetting or translation. They just want to read the thing but act like they're doing me a favor by getting to read it early I guess?
>>289713900the trick is trying to only work with people you know I guess with experienceand to recruit from the correct channels and not like in the scanlation school discord or from mangadex recruitment, or a recruting credits pageI still think the main purpose of the scanlation school is grifting, they give so terrible advice and have so many bad opinions. pretty much the only good thing about the scanlation school is the scanlation school script (which is maintaned by a user there and not part of scanlation school per se) and the scanlation school font pack (which apparently isn't possible to download anymore, but there's a catbox with it posted earlier).
>>289712880Ganbare, anon. I'm rooting for ya.
>>289714018there are several that also want to work as proofreaders, either to grift or just to read it earlywhich is why groups in general only recruit experienced and well known proofreaders. random proofreaders are usually complete garbage
>>289679642>putting extra effort in your scanlation makes you a mega faggot somehowthis has to be bait at this point
>>289714196what did you expect, the community glorify bad translations and hates localization
>>289714018The weirdest DM I've ever gotten was someone asking me to draw their character. He thought I was the artist for the manga. I googled his name since it sounded unique and it lead me to a youtube channel. The videos were all of female fictional characters 3D giantess fetish, with emphasis on stomping and feet.I genuinely wonder how people like this operate day-to-day.
>>289714335I remember back in the early days of digital fansubbing, groups subbing the kind of shonenshit appealing to dumbass kids would constantly get emails from retards that thought they were the creators of the anime they subbed.Haven't heard of that happening for a while.
>>289715214
Does anyone here have any suggestions for manga that are good for studying Japanese? I'm not an absolute beginner, but a lot of the stuff I liked to read in English skews older or has really literary Japanese, so I don't run into a lot of what I actually study. I just don't want to have to force myself to read romcom slop.Length isn't an issue as long as it's something interesting, and I don't mind looking up vocab, I just need stuff where the grammar is more true to life and every other bubble doesn't have shit like にあらずor possessive がs.I like martial arts stuff mainly, but anything that isn't just romcom/ecchi slop would be fine.
>>289713375>They probably saw legitimate fumbles by official TLs and then assume it's the normWhile never coming across MTL ESLations and groups being outed as dekinal guesslators with a native speaker proofreader? Anon, pls.
>>289713740What aggregators are there and how do you get noticed by them?
>>289715578Doraemon.
>>289714196The argument that's always made is "if you do a bad job, redrawing SFX looks like shit." AKA skill issue. That chart doesn't even show maximum effort; there should be 2 more tiers with stylized SFX, similar to what you see with font choices in "bad" but with some text warping to blend into the art, and lastly fully handdrawn SFX. Not that I think there's anything wrong with taking the easy route since we're all doing it for free.
I've come to terms with the fact that nothing else I will do in my life life will impact anywhere near as many people as the scans I've worked on. Even if most people only spend a couple minutes or hours trying out series. And considering they don't die with me, I kinda think of the 200~ volumes I've done as my legacy. Can't think of any other productive avenues I would have stuck with as long as this.
>>289715578Delinquent manga. It's mostly normal ass conversations without any supernatural or highly unique bullshit (you don't need to know 'kage bunshin no jutsu' when you're in Japan), so you can use it in real life. Which comes with an added benefit; Japanese (men) will generally be highly entertained when baka gaijin talk to them sounding like an 80s yankii. It catches them off guard. It also fits perfectly with your martial arts preference. Akita Shoten as a publisher is probably your best bet, they still publish a ton of delinquent manga.
>>289717801Any in particular you'd recommend? Would probably help me get used to all the slurring and contractions too I guess.
>>289717818Most Crows/Worst related series are easy enough to get into (not Guriko, that's set in Kyushu which is a miserable dialect to learn Japanese with). Stay away from Mizuta Makoto series, he gets way up his own ass. Rookies, Rokudenashi Blues and Great Teacher Onizuka would probably be fine too. Start with something from a shounen magazine, so you have furigana to hold on to. Nothing will put you off learning Japanese faster than having to look up every almost single kanji that comes your way. A-Bout, Drop, Gang King, even the atrocious Tokyo Revengers all qualify (even with the time travel shenanigans in the last one)
>>289715786That's the thing. They don't know yet they speak like they do. You can bring evidence yet people will dismiss it because of the romanticised view of "corporate vs fanmade". Label will win over the end result for those who lack the knowledge, it's not even a scanlation problem it's an Internet phenomenon. It doesn't help that actual official mistranslations get a lot more coverage. So the idea stuck.Me and you know there is more to it. But good luck trying to convince people who can't differentiate between a scanlation and an official release.
>>289718250>Nothing will put you off learning Japanese faster than having to look up every almost single kanji that comes your way.I'm not quite that bad off. I'm about N2-level right now but with a bunch of weird vocab I got trying to muscle my way through really old shit. I'm at least to the point where kanji is more of a comfort than a hindrance. Thanks though, I'll check those out. I've heard Blue Spring's good too.
>>289716475The main ones I know are Comix and Mangafire. Mainly because they scrape everything yet they note what the source is. If someone is reading or collecting the best scans they can see which source is better to rip. There is also Weebcentral. It, normally, takes the offical or best-looking scans. But it's issue is that it resize images.You really don't get noticed by them. They are aggregator so by default they rip from MD or officiall rips when they get uploaded.
>>289709349People just want to work on something big because they assume there's some kind of clout or e-celebrity to be had in fan translating, when in reality nobody reads credits pages and I imagine very few people who regularly read manga could name any of the people responsible for releasing it, outside of maybe group names.
>>289709349Who said anything about simulpublishing? Most of the licensed series they're working on haven't even published volume 1 yet.
>>289714196>dude just draw all over the original illustrations brokill yourself
>>289720246Explain how it's any different from writing translations over the original text without resorting to the weeabooism that Japanese is simply more aesthetic and looks like part of the art unlike western pigugly SFX.
>>289720246Anon, that's really fucking retarded.
>>289720281He isn't pretending he can read the stuff in bubbles which makes translating that stuff is ok.
>>289720281well, SFX are drawn by the author and text is usually added by the editor
>>289720474Handwritten dialogue is very common and is just as much """"drawn"""" by the author as most SFX.
>>289714196You're just sniffing your own farts.The effort pleases no one but yourself.
Do I need to do anything special if I want to scan color pages / dust covers? And how do I avoid any tracking possibly built into the scanner?
>>289721071>he doesn't please himselfBitch.
Any tips on manual decensoring/redrawing? Especially for mosaic censorship
Is father-in-law a mistranslation?
>>289679642>>289720246>graffitiing the margins with randomly placed text, destroying the whitespace flow of panelingkys "decent" > "mega faggot" >>> "good""bad" is a strawman btw
>>289723598Impossible to say without context. 義父 could be father-in-law or stepfather. Very different things in English (husband's father vs mother's husband).
>>289723742The context is it's her first time meeting her coworker's father who she not so subtly likes.
>>289723803... anon, she's calling his dad that because he wants to marry his sonit's not exactly an uncommon joke, especially in manga and anime
>>289723598Seems like something people wouldnt typically say in casual conversation in english as they'd prioritize other terms like first name or mr. so and so>hes my father in lawworth it to explain it to someone else>hello father in lawtoo many syllables
>>289723671Decent is better than good honestly, and the way I prefer when I bother translating sfx in the first place. When they're in the margins, you have to switch your eyes over there. It's disruptive really.I don't think I've ever seen bad I must admit, so I can agree with it being a strawman.
>>289723838The response quoting just "father" roused suspicions, plus the responses from the two treated it like nothing happened.>>289723867 So the usage of father in law itself isn't incorrect then?
>>289723915it might be more natural to say "hello kazukis Dad", -> "weird emphasis on dad" You meeting your son and his friend calling you father in law after its made clear they're not a couple would be rather insane.
>>289723598>>289723915It's a text-only joke. お義父さん is said like おとうさんSo she was actually saying お義父さん but he thought she was saying お父さん which is why he thought it felt weird
>>289724054Yeah, that'd have made a lot more sense and the implications still carry over.
>>289724078So it's just poorly conveyed in the translation then, thanks anons.
>>289724078>>289724130Regardless of whatever kanji it is written in, it's strange to call someone who is not your father, step father, or father-in-law おとうさん. She should have called him おじさん instead or just his family name + さん。Except she obvious craving his son's dick and wish she they were married.
>>289724130I think that she'd call him his name normally with -san, calling him otou-san kind of carries a familiarity that she shouldn't have meeting him for the first time.
>>289724078holy fuck, someone that actually knows japanese in the scanlation thread. it's a damn miracle.
>>289677344I haven't had much motivation to translate anything because no one is willing to typeset anything I've translated and I'm garbage at typesetting it myself. What do?>>289677684Maybe before Gimp 3.0. 3.0 is a lot better than before.
>>289724217Strange men the same as your father are usually called おじさん if you don't know their name. Never おとうさん unless there's a familial connection.
>>289724292>What do?Attempt shilling it here, or God forbid make a credits page with a recruitment message
>>289724292Use this shit. >>289688977
>>289724292Well, what do you have?
>>289702224>>289709349https://x.com/PumpkinNMayo/status/2078487410472607864It’s stranger when your translation isn’t remotely better.
>>289724578most scanlation translators are novices learning japanese, that they even think that they're competing and better than experienced professional translators in the first place is ludicrous
>>289724578Am I retarded or is the scanlation not the wrong one here? Is ね supposed to imply a negative in gyaruspeak?
>>289724721They disabled reply for a reason
>>289677344Finished translating Sakura no Furu Machi (one of KyoAni's novels): https://anonfilesnew.com/s/ybkjw2ah3j7
Does anyone have a script to rip of Kimicomi?School Script don't work. I also asked an AI to create a script but don't work, only download sample imageshttps://kimicomi.com/episodes/470026a27b5fa
>>289725128did you try turning on the fix broken images option on scanlation school script?there's a option called Problems?, and then you can click descramble images or fix images or something like thatotherwise have you tried hakuneko?
>>289709349It makes perfect sense if you accept that the scanlator and the letter writer are both deranged individuals with an overinflated sense of importance.
>>289725128>aiWorked for me, I got an auto scraper for comici that automatically uses tickets out of it. I’ll see if I can share it, need to sanitize piis in the comments first. If you want to diy just give your coding agent access to the mihon extension and haruneko connectors repo and ask it to do end to end testing. It will bang its head against the wall until it works.
>>289725227 binbMerging is on true but does not detect any imageHakuneko don't have that web
>>289709349It's just a deluded sense of ownership. They are the ones who exposed the manga. They are the reason it was licensed. Why should they give up their baby to someone else when what the existing fans fell in love with was their translation of the manga? I don't agree with doxxing but the Concerned Citizen's letter was otherwise on-point.
>>289725503>noooo stop spending your own time on what makes you happy, it's uh, it's arrogant! it's unethical! unlike other scanlations!If they want to do an obsolete translation it's hardly any different from re-translating some decades old manga that's long been localized into every language under the sun, but you'd call that based and passionpilled unlike this despicable cloutchasing for some manga barely anyone's heard of.
>>289725774I still have the old school point of view that you should drop a manga when it's licensed. I also think that something being licensed is a good thing, so I kind of face palm at the readers who are angry when something gets licensed.The scene is so weird compared to how it was only like ten years ago.
>>289724721Is there a universe were 盛り上がる is written like 盛る？
>>289724721The one she picked up is way bigger than both of them.
>>289725614Hakuneko might not, but haruneko does
>>289724721>>289726198that was my first thought.>『盛る』とは、普段よりも可愛らしく見せることを表す若者言葉。>2009年頃からギャルが使い始めた表現だが、当初は髪にボリュームを出す（髪を盛る）という意味で使われていた。そこから言葉が普及するとともに、「メイクで盛る」「プリクラやアプリなどの画像加工で盛る」のように、何か手を加えて普段より可愛く見せることを「盛る」と表現するようになった。・2009年ギャル流行語大賞5位「盛り」・2009年女子中高生ケータイ流行語大賞 年間大賞「盛る・盛れる」・2010年ギャル流行語大賞10位「盛る」
>>289724721>>289727845To add on I don't think the "ね" is the sole indicator of it being 'negative' I think her tone can be interpreted from her facial expression and context.
>>289727913The negative doesn’t even come from neIt’s just standard modulation
>>289727913It isn't negative. See >>289727845.She's saying she's exaggerating with a normal ね.
>>289728100those are both me kek>>289728085>>289728100I agree, I worded the first part incorrectly, I put 'negative' in quotes because that was what I was replying to, but I didn't mean that I thought the same. I saw her as unenthusiastic at the suggestion.
>>289726994>>289727845>>289727913>>289728172I guess I see the official version's vision>huge, ain't it innit>it's too big>our tits aren't that bigWhereas stacked is a different way to localize the original's meaning 1:1. I'm not sure if it's a mistranslation, more like a different interpretation, unless you factor in the exclusion of "ain't it"
>>289728334The scanlator just misunderstood it and assumed the moru was about her boobs, the officials understood that it was her saying "You're exaggerating" i.e. "They aren't that big."You could argue the official kind of scrubbed the ね, but at least they understood it.
>>289728623You're right, I had an ESL moment there.
Why is scamlation school so against AI?
>>289728783they give terrible griefing advice in general. they’re most likely acting in bad faith to dissuade scanlationtheir guide recommended that a group should have at least 6 people. and they’re even againdt ai generative fill, even though it has pretty much the exact same function as cpntent aware filltake anything they say with a table spoon of salt. the only good thing they have is the script and the font pack
Is anybody here familiar with fujospeak? There's a manga I've been looking to work on that has a significant amount of it but I don't know a lick of it personally.
>>289729221Fujospeak japanese, specifically.
Do you prefer to translate 押忍! as "Yessir!" or just keep it as "Osu!"...? Usage context, it's in the title of a story about tomboy student council president who loves to dress like a boy.
>>289714052What’s the correct channel
>>289724721>>289727845google 胸を盛る and tell me what you find
>>289730289It's just more moon runes.
>>289730305then don't participate in arguments about translations
>>289730318You can't stop me.
>>289724721>official trannylator, fan trannylator, sc/a/n (autistic dutchie included) don't know how to say stuff one's bra in nip despite consuming uncountable amounts of romcom ecchi slopYup it's just another tuesday.
>>289730433You’re the one ego can’t read…
>>289730433Well what's the correct translation then
Can I translate ダウナー系 as Debbie downer?
>>289730825there's no one correct translation, but the official one isn't wrong
>>289730864No
>>289731644Downie?
>>289731692No.
>>289730101Even normalfag shit like officially translated Pokemon is keeping "osu" in Japanese now despite giving the characters that say it more Englishy names to avoid being "too Japanese".
>>289730101I’d avoid using japanese words that aren’t well known among non-weebs, osu doesn’t mean a thing for most of people.
