What are you working on?
>>292018147so glad that these luddites can't ruin manga with unfaithful translations anymore
gonna scan some doujins, no need to thank me
nigga just astra it
>>292018413the strengths of such models are on display right in front of you
>>292018147Nothing.
>>292018147
>>292018147I want to scanlate Blade of the Immortal since the only English language version available has been butchered by Dark Horse but I can't decide if I should buy physical books and then scan them or if I should just buy digital raws. I know the newest physical releases in other countries were printed from updated higher res scans than the og release but I can't tell if the digital version was also updated to those higher res scans.On a separate note if I do buy physical versions I can't decide if it's worth it to send them off to one of those book scanning companies or actually sit there and scan each of the 2000 pages one at a time.Either way I'll be translating from the spanish translation since Japanese is too nuanced and complex for MTL.thanks for reading my blog post
>>292018147is it the same if you feed it raw text?
>>292018147Currently doing the new GitS manga.Even without doing the SFX, typesetting is a tedious process. Also, no comments again *sob*.
>Be me>reading MTL doujinshi>Stroking ; gooning ; fapping as they say>Halfway through the doujin the FMC gets called 'he'>TFW when I become gayI'll NEVER read machine-translated futa doujin again.
>>292021148Even clankers find "her penis" unacceptable.
I'm on the last chapter of my series but I've barely worked on it over the last 5 months. How over is it for me?
>>292021384If I had a nickel for everytime I saw "her penis" written by anons I'd be a rich man.
Where are you anon?Are you alive or dead?
>>292021355I find it kinda hot!>>292018444In 18 months this capability will be in uncensored open weight models
>>292021699i'm alive, just have been busy for a few months and haven't touched any of the series i work on but i haven't forgotten about this
>>292020501apparently ScanSnap Duplex Scanners are good
i forced a team into uploading 35+ chapters they were paywalling and holding hostage by ai scanlating 5 chapters of a series with a little gay note at the end of each chapter telling eveyone about how the manga is on chapter "xx" and how i had 10 more chapters in reserve
>>292021933Based
>>292021588>third worldersColonialism, more accurately.The third world did not exist as a concept when the English-language forcibly expanded its pool of speakers. The number of words per sentence has dropped sharply during that period, and the grammar was aggressively simplified.
What’s the best tool for slopping a speed translation nowadays?
>>292020501>since Japanese is too nuanced and complex for MTL.Not true in the slightest.
>>292020501So you just want to flog the processed salami? Talk about a waste of time.
>>292018147Resources for scanlation and learning Japanese.https://mega.nz/folder/Y7lSjRoS#uCo2HM9aYhjdl9f44YujYA
>>292022089Koharu pretty much, but it requires some setup.
>>292022250I know these tools are designed to automate everything and shit but if all I care about is typesetting speed, is it better than just doing it in PS?The interface is kinda the same desu.
>>292022349Hope you've been using TypeR, it's got a major update recentlyhttps://github.com/ScanR/TypeR
>>292022364That's a no, I guess?>TypeRI was, but haven't opened PS in a while as it's break month for me series. I'll check it out later. Thanks for the heads-up.
>>292022410I'm not the anon you replied to, but I did take a look at Koharu and it's more of a MTLing tool in which you can also edit the text it has placed from what I've seen, not a strict typesetting tool.
>>292022432Thanks anyway. Also new TypeR requiring PS25 for the new stuff is bullshit right?
>>292022480There's a new Photoshop extension environment called UXP which Adobe intends to make the only way to use plugins in a year or two, and Macs already depreciated the old extension environment. But yes it'll still work with your old install, it'll auto select the old CEP files
>>292022506Thanks. I do wanna TS even a second faster if possible but I reallt don't wanna have to find the latest photoshop to do it.
>>292022527If you’re token rich you can let Astra/Argon control your photoshop and ts for you in the background. It takes 6 minutes a page the last time I tried.
>>292022830How much would say a 30 page chapter cost in tokens?
>>292022860I haven't tested a TS only pipeline, I let it redraw and TS in one pass and I did it using subs not api so I can't really answer the exact token cost.But on google's 20 usd/mo plan it's probably 100% of your weekly Argon quota and 3 usd worth of banana api cost(for redraw and heavily stylized SFX), the plan includes 10 usd worth of api credits so the banana part could be free.
>>292023107>$5 to do hours of my work which I can make use of four times a monthIt's already at this point, huh. I did use the free Banana thing to end up with redraws better than I can do, even though the current flash models suck balls compared to 3.1 Pro it's still plenty useful.How does it do SFXs, making use of fonts or does it have Banana generate transparent layers?
>>292023198>How does it do SFXs, making use of fonts or does it have Banana generate transparent layers?By default it uses text layers, with suitable font/color/stroke. If the SFX is complex enough it still does the text layer TS but keeps it hidden as a back up and calls banana then unmask the needed area.
>>292023290I've heard enough, the future is now. Thanks for the info anon.
>>292021862Yay!Are you still doing Sasuga's series? Someone else picked it up.
>>292021933
i just want to thank whoever decide to keep translating the japanese breaking bad. It is a really fun manga.
>>292018147Looks like the typesetter disappeared so it's now 2 chapters behind. I only post on /a/ anyway so sucks to be the rest I guess.
>>292023569>whoever decide to keep translating the japanese breaking bad.There like 7 series like that
Is gimp pronounced jimp or ghimp?
>>292023569I hope he doesn't stop this time.
The r/manga subreddit has new mods. Banzai!
a bit unrelated, but is championcross jpn only now? can't access it from canada
Anyone up to help translate a 140 page oneshot?
>>292026449a lot of stores closed access recentlyyou can use a free vpn like protonvpn to access it, but it's a bit hard to use the random selector to get japan, so maybe another one might be better. but not a lot of the free ones let you select japan, maybe tunnelbear
>>292023610you're doing gods work
>>292024800ghimp
>>292024800You don't pronounce gimp. You don't talk about gimp.
Does anyone have the script to download magazines from Bookwalker by bypassing the paywall? I only know it exists.
>>292024800Jimpu
>>292020028>"good" is the one where you can't tell which "SFX:" refers to which effectno
Interested in stories about feminine boys and the school princes?Trust me, bro. It will be a big hit if you picked it up. 50 comments minimum!
>>292027690you can use the scanlation school script (nutaid) from here, or from this link (not sure if updated)https://files.catbox.moe/qp0u73.js>>292022241use it with firefox and violentmonkey, I think you also need to turn on fix broken images iirc for bookwalkeralso it's a bit slow but it works
>>292020028I don't care about japanese SFX being translated.The way its stylised is often more than enough to understand intent.
>>292030004I skipped translating sfx except the most important ones to understand what was going on for many years and really didn't have any complaints. Considering how much extra work it is doing sfx, especially cleaning and redrawing, it's kinda hard to understand why someone bother putting in the effort honestly. I did full sfx with redrawing for a few chapters and I probably spent twice the amount of time on them because of that.
>Always wondered why people drop a series at the end when it gets axed>Thinking that you might as well finish it since you are at the end>Get my series axed>Lose the motivation to finish the last chapterSo that's why.
>>292030283It's your fault too. If you had done a better job, it wouldn't have gotten axed.
>>292030283>always believed there's no reason to stop when an official translation comes out>happens to a series I've been working on>"Oh, I'm free"
Ok then, how about helping with shorter manga?You get the work amount of a twitter manga but the prestige of an actual title.
>>292030283Often you realize it months before the announcement but readers refuse to accept reality so you're stuck in a whirlpool of the stages of denial and by the time everyone's ready for the funeral you're too burned out to find the motivation.
My opinion on AI jeets
>>292030563why don't you sell people on the thing you want them to work on with more than a title card
>>292024800I just call it by its Japanese name>使えないゴミ
doujin doko?
>>292018147Uhhhhh what's the sauce of this?
>>292031635https://nhentai.net/g/692583/
>>292031914>not actually incestSigh...
>>292031914>page 48LOLWhy do "people" do this? Why do """people""" read this?
What’s the best lower case font
>>292033159For me it's Face Front
>>292033159I really like Comic Neue for dialogue. Augie for out of bubble text.
>>292033159augie
>>292027690I just use Mihon for that now
>>292033159I usually use CC Victory Speech lower case.It might be a bit overused though I guess, probably one of the most used lower case fonts.Still I think it's easy to read and fits nice for dialogue.
>>292033159Cuprum.
>>292022133I've seen too many dogshit translations to believe you. I would trust it to translate spanish to English however. I also trust that the official spanish release (spain) is good. If it wasn't a Spanish (spain) translation I would translate from the official German tl>>292022230what
>manga gets an anime>brazilian leeches want a piece of the action and quickly scan the first few chapters of my manga>they copied my TLhow about a little shoutout por favor
>>292031914peak, no cap ongod ongodlove the comments drawn between condemning AI and soft-approving it for delivering their gooner material
>>292034806>on closer inspection they straight up ripped my pagesno honor!
>>292020028>writing SFX anywhere, ever>good
I flat out do not respect any scanlator who skips SFX. It's part of the job. You didn't finish the job, and you made excuses for how it's ontologically evil because it's too much effort. Well I'm a mega faggot lawful evil scanlator and I redraw all my SFX by hand, and if it means you have to wait an extra day to read you can snipe my ass or deal with it.
>>292034666You've probably looked at porn done by people using who knows what model running on who knows what OCR.Japanese is not more nuanced than English. It just omits items that would otherwise be stated in English. Moden LLMs can navigate those omissions with ease.
>>292035362i did two pornish chapters for a manga and found that a lot of it's pretty simple. if you need chatgpt or grok to do it for you then you need to hit the textbooks or binge some jav i dunnoi had this misconception coming in that people in this hobby were in it for the love of the game but really i found so many lazy and untalented people in it, it kinda makes me sick actually
>>292033159Cantocat!
>>292035448In what world would the dialogue of pornography ever be difficult?
>>292033808Tachiyomi extensions can bypass paywalls?
>>292030373>translating a series>it gets licensed and simulpubbed>continue translating it to the end anyway>Mangadex gets DMCA'd and removes my version, every other site just hosts the official versionI don't regret it but it feels like such a shame for all that work to basically become lost media that no one will ever see, especially when I think it was significantly better than the official versionSimilar stuff has happened to anime I've subbed too
>>292036262the bar is extremely low for hentai and these gooners are still tripping over it. i have 0 faith in modern day scanlators.you can consider learning japanese as a 2nd language to be dead in the fucking water.
>>292036948It was always dead. Let's not kid ourselves, most scanlators have been using Google Translate, DeepL, and any other tool they could get their hands on to translate. The only ones who were semi-competent were those who were raised in a mixed household.
>>292036303No, you have to log in, but it's much more convenient
>>292030300unironically adding links and qr-codes to buy the manga actually help a bit, at least if it’s somewhat niche
>>292036494then again working on licensed manga has always been a waste of time and effort, and probably the real main reason people drop them. nobody is going to care about your work when official translations are out
>>292034806>pirates pirating the piratelike pottery
>>292037124most fansub and manga translators have been beginners out to learn japanese, let’s not pretend that the translations in most of the fan based unofficial works have been great the past 25 yearssomebody being competent and experienced has always been the exception, not the rule
>>292026671Tunnelbear lets you select Japan, it's the one I use for region restricted sites.
>>292037879I mean, I'll give them some credit. Transcribing anime has always been a pain in the ass. Most of those guys were doing the whole thing by ear, so props to them.
>>292037879>>292037951Fansub translators in general have usually been better at Japanese than scanlators because no amount of machine translation can help you if you're unable to make out what's being said.
>>292038109I'm sure some of them employed the power of "making it up"
Fansubbers are generally more competent than scannies, even their discord and recruitment channels are better run
>>292038133Well yeah. If you can't make out a line, your options are "leave it unsubbed" or "guess". Pretty much every group, no matter how good, had to make their fair share of guesses at what word was being said every now and then. With manga you always had the full script available.
What’s a translation test for groups like nowadays
>>292038557The guy who can do it in 10 or less prompts.
>>292038614That’s not as easy as it sounds…
>>292026449Why do nips always hate money?
>>292018147>It's spreadingTopjej, suffer forever EOPs.
>>292038951i'm just baffled that people have no pride in the hobby that they willingly chose to occupy their time with. i see shit like this and i simply don't want to interact with any of these people even though i'm part of the manga/scanlation/language learning community. argh.
>>292038951>left to right NipponeseI almost thought I was a dekinai again for a moment
>>292039190Scanlators have long been third worlders with an economic incentive(yes, the scant few dollars they make is worth it)
>>292039203now that i think about, both groups which yoinked my TL and scanned pages put QR code links to their shitty chapters
>>292039202the hell is that. havin' a fookin' stroke over here.
>>292039190Third worlders don't scanlate as a hobby, they scanlate as their day job because patreonbux from working on popular titles pays considerably better than flipping burgers in their shitholes.
>>292039363explains why they picked my manga up after it got announced for an anime
>>292021148>futafag are be called faggot, as they are, by AI will reading there gay futa doujin.Well, I guess AI isn't that bad
>>292038951Can't those people get an AI to proofread?
>>292039202That's the MTL shitlation engine removing and re-inserting the nip text when it decided not translate it because >heckin' problematic content
>>292039734Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
>>292039661Can’t proofread problematic content xdd
>>292039734>>292039747>>292039820AI prompting is going to be a skill which separates the wheat from the chaff. I can see the inputs going through if they just changed a few words.
>>292030917Well, it's about a girl in the cheering squad who tries her best to cheer with her squad. chapters are shorts and are about the happenings of daily life. There is sweat, there are feet, and genkiness.I also have this. It's about a cow girl sexually molesting a bat boy and their daily lives. There are animal facts in-between and chapters are short as well.
>>292040032>AI prompting is going to be a skill which separates the wheat from the chaffKnowing the fucking language is what will separate the wheat from the chaff.But bottomfeeding AI/MTL shitlators thinking they're any real degree better than other bottomfeeding AI/MTL shitlators because they can shitlate a fraction less shittily is pretty funny.
>>292040177>Knowing the fucking language is what will separate the wheat from the chaff.Yeah, because that allows you to prompt better
>>292030579That's so true.I even stopped checking the newest chapters comments because it was too sad. I can tell from the sales and decrease in promotion from the magazine, but those guys just wanted to believe otherwise.It would be one thing if it were instant but the way it happens slowly is what hurts the most.
>>292040420It also allows you to not need to prompt anything at all except your mind~
>>292034806I have only the English language option on MD so I wouldn't know if someone is copying us or not.At least the one time it happened the guy not only asked first but also gave credit.
>>292040447I've studied way past N1 and have an insane amount of immersion under my belt because I don't have a job. All my translations are written by LLMs and I like it this way :)
>>292040468>I know the language>but I get AI to do my translations>I totally know nipponese thoWhat an odd and illogical lie to make.
>>292040477You're just too low int to get it
>>292040488too low innit maybe.
>>292034806I have never been asked across my plethora of popular series, not once. One of them even copied all my fonts for their version, though I have a feeling it was just slopped together with AI.>>292040468Is that even your own translation at that point? What is your workflow like
>>292040477It's less error-prone and produces a more consistent result. Not to mention the speed at which it can output puts anyone to shame.
>>292040504they left my sound effects as-is in their version because they took my page. like "ta daaa~" doesn't even exist in portuguese. peak laziness, these fucking animals.
>>292036494>>292037816>Drop series because it got simulpubed and you are already swamped with other manga>Some dude who never commented and whom you never saw during the somewhat dead chapter discussions call you a "faggot trannylator" for that
>>292040511Even assuming for some retarded reason someone who speaks moon would use an AI to TL instead of their own brain, you'd still want to check it after line by line anyway against the raw to ensure accuracy, so you're hardly saving any time at all besides the few seconds it takes to think of a TL for each line yourself (which would also have more sovl in the first place if you wrote it yourself).I guess if someone speaks moon but is a filthy fucking ESL it may come in handy as they probably struggle to think of the English equivalent each line. But they would've been MTL'ing all along anyway no doubt, the filth.
>>292040539It's hard to think of an English equivalent even as a native. It's not as simple as "see Japanese, type English." The AI can work infinitely faster and also catch references and puns that a skilled translator might not.
>>292040522Could be worse.
Not gonna like, I've been trying to translate some short stories as opposed to the regular manga and the sheer volume of text is making me consider running it through MTL first. I'd probably end up changing everything anyway, but it's tempting.
>>292040568deserves a solid punch in the throat
>>292040557>hard to think of an English equivalent even as a nativeNah, maybe 10 - 20 seconds per line if you're speeding through it to produce something as rough as what an AI would shit out (bit more when you come across some concept that doesn't quite exist in English/etc which just needs a little thinking or a TN note maybe).I'd say a 45 - 60 seconds when TL'ing line by line manually to get something more polished, that sounds right for the characters/context which you'll have been keeping in your mind the whole time. And you'll still need to do that polishing process if you want to turn whatever your AI shits out into something more decent and consistent with all the chapters to date/etc. (Well, unless of course you just don't give a shit which seems to be most of the scene these days, pretty disgusting).At the end of the day you'll hardly be saving any time at all if you want to make something good, so why even bother, just use your damn 脳。
>>29204059810-20 seconds? In what world? lol In 10-20 seconds, an AI can translate an entire episode of an anime with almost no errors and at pro quality.
>>292040632Dude if you're feeding the screenshot and audio for context at T20 the model won't even have its first token ready.
>>292040650Who said it needed a screenshot and audio?
>>292040632>Oh no I need to maybe spend an hour to write with my brain, or have an AI shit something out that I need to check and polish for 45 minutes anyway if I don't want it to be kuso>Why even bother to think?
>>292040695It takes more time to type up your own translation and proof it than simply checking over the machine's output.
>>292040708nta but why, at all? are you not doing this to learn and refine your japanese instead of trying to shit out a "product" as efficiently as possible?one of the keystones to language fluency is confidence and AI proofreading, or any use of it at all takes it away
>>292040723Translating shouldn't be the place where you refine your Japanese. People depend on you to understand the language at a competent level, not figuring it out as you go.
>>292040708Maybe, said as much also, but hardly enough to justify using the shitty tool in the first place that still won't ever feel quite as good as a human TL's output when they've been doing the whole series to date, keeping the characters quirks and context in their mind.I can write up a script for an average-density shounenshit chapter in 1 - 2 hours generally, hardly a massive sacrifice for a monthly, fortnightly, or even weekly series if it's something you actually like. If I had to check and polish a shitlation engine's output line-by-line, I doubt I'd save more than 30% of the time or so anyway.And if you don't actually like the series anyway/don't care about providing the readers with something polished, why spend ANY time on it in the first place then at all. Do it right if you like it, or just drop it if you don't.
>>292040749I doubt your output is any better than a machine's. TL quality on the latest models is leagues above the average scanlation of yesteryear. Whatever TLC you're claiming to put into your work is probably akin to fanfiction.
Personally I'm very good at spotting errors and minor polish opportunities, but if you ask me to TL it myself I'd be extremely slow and inefficient. It's the primary reason I'm mostly doing only TLC these days. Seems like it'd be a good idea to try having AI write my first drafts if I want to TL again huh.
>>292040730where else would you do it then? don't say language partners irl because you just said you were a jobless NEET
>>292040557I translate your usual everyday conversation as fast as I can type and I did live-TLs on 4 without even writing out a script beforehand, just a once-over of the manga. Each page in <60 seconds. If you can't do that it just means you're not "past N1".There are constructions in Japanese which need to be clobbered with a crowbar to fit into English, which can take time, and when you need to look up some kanji or jukugo to make sure you're not pulling it out of your ass. But you should be able to speedread any dumb manga except for those parts.
Translation is a different skill to comprehensionThe only way to develop your translation skill is to translateThat said you shouldn't be translating at all if your comprehension isn't up to scratch, and that goes double for AI niggers
>>292040781I never said I was a jobless neet.
>>292040797You're still slower than a machine and god help your speed if you encounter an unfamiliar concept or reference.
>>292040813you're talking to a schizo in case you haven't noticed, they think everyone who disagrees is the same person
>>292040831Ah my bad. I forgot those exist outside of generals.
>>292040772>I doubt your output is any better than a machine's.Think whatever you want MTL-kun. I'm happy with the love I put into whatever I do, which I can do as I don't do anything I don't have at least some interest in.>TL quality on the latest models is leagues above the average scanlation Perhaps, I mean the bar of the 'average' scan quality was never that high. And even if it makes less glaring errors these days, you'll still need to check the output as you can't ever truly trust it, and also polish it to make it internally consistent with the rest of the series.
>>292040839The people who put "love" are always the weakest TLs. Wannabe localizers and the bunch.
>>292040808This.AI replaces all the "learner" translators simply by rivaling most real translators.
>>292040864>They don't understand the power of 愛Truly soulless, just like their MTLs.
>>292040864you will never import the jp 'like' into english transliteralshitter
>they don't know industry insiders' opinion on LLM translations
>>292040890Soul was also code for "poor translation."
>>292040891A bizarre statement from an equally bizarre trannylator
>>292040879Never reply to me or my posts again, AI nigger
>>292040928You admitted it yourself, scanlator-kun.
>>292040927He means 好き you bwaka, I am curious at how the current gen of shitlation engines do handle differing contexts for stuff like that though also in an often context-heavy language like moon.Also curious how AI shittery handles pages that need one, two, three, or even four TL notes like pic related. Does it just romanise the shit and call it a day?
>>292040992Actually, I'll just shove it through Jewgle TL and see for myself:>behold, the completely-indistinguishable-from-pro-TLs marvel of modern computing The sad part is I bet there are a bunch of faggots uploading exactly this kind of kuso that AI-MTL shits out to trannydex and the such with zero changes. What a grim future.
>>292040992>kanji is literally something like>an early sex-doll-like thing>j-j-jam it inJesus, these TL notes are bad. No wonder AI's replacing these people. Guy barely understands the material himself kek
>>292041091nice straw man>>292041092there's actually one major kanji error in one of the notes but I doubt he can spot it lol
>>292040992But did they also use konnyaku for these onaholes like Shimoneta taught me?
>>292041092>kanji is literally something likeIf you have a better way to convey the meaning of random Chink/Nip traditional medicine names like 'Choumeigan' than just breaking down the kanji for the readers (when it's not ateji, and is essentially conveying the meaning in Nip also), do tell. Can make up your own ~liberal TL~ BS name for it too I guess like 'Dr. Monroe's Solid Log Tincture' or something but then that's getting into fanfiction.>an early sex-doll-like thingThat's what it was, further description right there for specifics also deal w/ it.>j-j-jam it inSoul.txt>nice straw man>No no no MY specific shitlation engine is good and would totally do a better job there!lmao, sure thing AI tranny.>one major kanji errorSure, whatever your MTL says.
>>292041181>like 'Choumeigan' Bro looked at "long life pill" and interpreted it as "long + life + round/full" lolThis guy is flying by the seat of his pants
>>292018147its crazy how the original scanlation teams just dropped this randomly with no explainations one day, i've been waiting for this to get scanlations for almost like a decade lmao.at this point I might try to do my own machine translation for once since my japanese is shit.
>>292041181I didn't use MTL, but I can try? I think an LLM can find it with just the image and 'find one kanji related error'. I didn't because I'm not so heartless to demote you to beneath what you hate so much.
>>292041197It's the literal meaning of each kanji, again you can liberalise it to something if you want (and yes there are products using the name today also for general health homeopathy traditional medicine bullshit), but the context there is a Meiji sex shop selling something with the name for your chinko. Something your shitlation engine would probably ignore as it fetches whatever English name modern shops slap on it.>>292041238Nah go ahead so I can laugh at whatever bullshit it comes up with.
>>292041283I'd maybe buy that if he just put "round," since 丸 refers to a round object, but the fact that he put "full" as though that meant anything shows me he misunderstood the suffix.
>>292041339Yes, but again, keep in mind the sex shop context. It's a pun bb.
>>292041352The 丸 in 長命丸 isn't a pun lol
Reminder that the AI spammer is once again spamming the board
>>292041411Scannies be seething.
>>292041381In the context of the normal general heath pills I'd agree, (though seems some stores also label modern viagra as it lel).In the context of Meiji dick-hardening pills specifically stated by the character to be dick-hardening pills in the same bubble, it's the most obvious pun to anyone except a soulless machine.This is what a machine will never catch.
>>292041453You talk like an LLM psychosis victim
>>292041418I see that you're here, sir
>>292041484Better than talking, and worse, thinking, like an LLM.
>>292041453And this is why you scanlators are by far the stupidest people in existence. The fact that you're doubling down on something that could take you two seconds to Google is embarrassing. 長命丸 was originally the name for a Muromachi period pill that was used to treat fatigue. The name was later reused in the Edo period for the aphrodisiac because it too "treated fatigue." The suffix is not a pun.
>>292041502Here to laugh, yes.
round and full is only listed under maru in j-j dictionaries btw, not gan. but he's too stupid to get this.
>>292041236Ah yes, Easy Going Scans. I remember they had a problem when they got hacked.Let's see how they're doing>3 years without a new release
>>292041562>>292041605>The suffix is not a pun>Long + Life/Energy/etc + Pill is not a pun when 'pill' can also refer to roundness/fullness/completeness, despite being the most obvious fucking pun ever when used in the context of a dick-hardening pillSure thing, now open wide for my long, lively 丸-ness for an injection of some basic imagination as you clearly lack it. You think they didn't enjoy puns back in the Edo period too?Come on anon, just because your AI fagotron 9001 didn't put two and two together doesn't need to mean you need to ignore the obvious. I know you've probably outsourced all your thinking to the machine for a couple years now, but try to rub those neurons together one last time.
>>292041671Ah yes, the Edo period pun from the Muromachi period.
>>292041671You're injecting an association that's implausible to the natives into the English version. marumarugan is just a template construction for pills, it would never elicit that 'pun' you intended. This is the classic case of under immersed dekinai reading too much into every detail distorting the translation.
>>292041714Nigger you literally said:>Edo period for the aphrodisiacWow it's almost like it was something originally in the Muromachi, then became an obvious pun for a different product in the Edo.
>>292041760Those Muromachi guys sure were considerate to think of a pun 200+ years into the future.
>>292018147>>292018190whose releases are these? dnta-atnd?
>>292041789>>292041756>puns cannot be made up at later dates for new products when they're invented and borrow the earlier nameWow it literally is like talking to an LLM.Also, if you read the TN note or look up the Edo/Meiji-era product, it wasn't even a pill it was supposedly generally an ointment. But sure, no puns here.Hell even an old rakugo about it: https://raku5kobanashi.seesaa.net/article/188046073.html>「あっ、これねぇ、んんっ、これ、の、飲むんじゃないんですよ。」>「あっ、飲むんじゃねぇっけ。どうすっかい？」>「え、ですから、あの、んんっ、あの、ぬ、塗っていただくんで。」>「あぁ、塗るっけ。へぇえ、どこさ、塗っかねぇ。」>「え、でござんすからね、あの、つまり、その、この、つまり、その、んんっ、あぁた様のねぇ、その、んんっ、倅さんの頭に塗っていただくんで。」>「あんだぁ？倅の頭に塗るってぇと、効くってか？ はぁ、不思議な薬があるもんだなぁ。そうけぇ、じゃ、もらいますべぇや。」Try relearning how to think like a human and not a machine. Fuggin' MTL shitlators will be the final death of the scene I swear (yes, it's probably terminal already I know).
>>292041946Wrong. Dictionaries describe the Muromachi version as a 丸薬, while they call the Edo period one a 塗布剤 or more generally a 強精薬.
>>292041946That contradicts my point how? The pun simply isn't there.
>>292042058He's grasping at straws. He has no point other than "I don't know Japanese, but fuck AI"
finally, some good non slop based translation arguingit's like the old days are back again
>>292042111These arguments are bread by retards reading into everything. AI unironically puts these idiots in their place.
>>292042127>breadkek
>>292042127>bread
>>292042193>>292042198Blame swipe text
>>292041990>>292042058>Dictionaries describe the Muromachi version as a 丸薬Yes, and, again, I'd describe the earlier general health pill as a pill sure. That's not the product in question in the TL though.>while they call the Edo period one a 塗布剤Yes, that's literally what I said in that very post. Thank you for agreeing.I hope you see then how 丸 used for a dick-hardening 塗布剤 is an obvious pun then (especially as hell, all three 長命丸 kanji are in that context, doubtlessly why they lifted the name of the earlier medicine for the proto-viagra).
Innit vs Wanschizo, a match made in hell
>>292022241>>292029970Be careful, I got banned by gay mods for posting this exact same comment and link. They said I was shilling or something. Fuck them. They have a hate boner for scanlation threads.
>>292042226No no, you got it right.
>>292042255>That's not the product in question in the TL though.That's literally the product's namesake.
>>292042308Yes, but they aren't talking about the Muromachi product, they're in the Meiji period talking about the newer dick tincture being sold by Yotsumeya (which lifted its name for the obvious punnage). Why are you fixated on the Muromachi product when it was never in argument or discussion here?
>>292042335Because the origin of the name proves that the 丸 is indeed referring to a pill. It is not a pun in and of itself.
@Grok read the thread. is there a pun here?
>>292042382>the origin of the name proves that the 丸 is indeed referring to a pillFor the original product sure, when it was actually a general health pill and not a chinko ointment.>It is not a pun in and of itselfI'm not saying it was a pun in the Muromachi, but when it's then reused as a 'long life'/long-lasting sexo dick ointment that's not even sold as a 丸, in fact being a liquid instead to boot, I'd sure as hell say it then became one.
>>292042421And with you admitting that, you'd sure as hell be wrong. Nice arguing with you, Innit. You tried.
>>292042439>Implying InnitVery rude, very lacking in even basic imagination, good luck with your literal 1:1 dictionary TLs.
>>292042410>@Grok read the thread. is there a pun here?>Maybe!I fucking hate how indecisive the shit always is need a time machine to the edo period I guess
minus the psycophacy buff = your reading is not credible
>>292042631>psycophacyESL-kun has spoken I guess, pack it up people
>>292042575> The connection with ligmaPeak.
>>292042575The pun that didn't exist until some guy on 4chan attempted to defend a misinterpretation of a single kanji
Balls = balls if you think about it
Scanlators are a different breed of bad. Than god for AI
Payment processors can eat dick.
>>292042769>No you don't understand 丸 isn't a pun it's just referring to a pill!>Ok it wasn't a pill at all but an ointment in the context in question as stated on the same page, but it's still not a pun despite the other two kanji also being an obvious dick pun!>Ok even the fucking clankers I've been sucking off the entire thread can put two and two together but no, in this instance they're wrong! (I still love them though)How am I supposed to plant my 草草草草草 here when you just keep digging that hole ever larger. ;_;
>>292042948The argument was over the second you admitted it was a pill. Now you've run out of pictures >>292041181
tfw I'm a Japanese and I see every fossilized XXgan that's not a gan and I immediately think of balls
>>292043032Larpanese
>>292042985I said it was a pill in the Muromachi, that was never something I argued. However it's not a pill in the context in question (the fucking ointment being discussed on the original page).What exactly is so confusing about that? Do you seriously not comprehend how the name of the Edo-period sexo ointment can be a pun while the original, different product that actually was a pill, doesn't have to be?>Now you've run out of picturesRude, I just made that one especially for you as well. No more OC for you.
>>292043109You're defending a misinterpretation in a TL note by claiming it was an Edo-period pun kek
>>292043232>Most obvious pun in the world>Even a clanker can get it>Original raw text is basically 'yo bro come with me to the sexo shop they've got this shit to make your junk hard' it's called a 'long life ball' lmao xd>Oh and there's a rakugo bit >>292041946 specifically showing someone getting confused by the double-meaning of the three kanji>NOPE NO PUNS HEREInnit would be proud of your intentional density. I'm glad someone's finally shown up to claim his throne which appears to have been vacant of late.
>>292043348it just doesn't work that way
>>292043348Oh, now it's a "ball"? Before it was a ROUND/FULL. Rakugo bit doesn't even mention the name lol
Can we stop talking about AI balls
>>292043471>No, you see I'm a fucking GENIUS that knows moon better than a 20th century 真打 rakugo master>THERE ARE NO PUNS TO SEE HERE MOVE ALONG DO NOT READ THE SKIT>>292043500>Oh, now it's a "ball"? Before it was a ROUND/FULL.Wow it's almost like all are terms that can be used in the context of SEXO AND THE MALE GENITALIA. The round/full usage is more appropriate for a TL note conveying the intended meaning for ED treatment though bwaaaka.>Rakugo bit doesn't even mention the name lol>No I didn't click the link and read the full text lol>No I didn't even read the title lolBwaka bwaaaaka~
>>292043620Your own pic proves the confusion comes from what kind of "long life" it provides, not confusion about what form it comes in. Did you even read your own link?
Opus 5.5 said there's no pun.
>>292043771Obviously.
>>292043771opus 5.5 gave me top so how about that
>>292043713>confusion comes from what kind of "long life" it providesCongrats you've figured out the patently obvious pun that the first 2/3 kanji provide. Oh but SURELY the third can't ALSO be a pun right?>Did you even read your own link?Wow, I would seriously need to screenshot the full fucking thing for your lazy link-non-clicking ass before you'd actually read it huh? Despite the fact the relevant text was also in the original fucking post:>「あっ、これねぇ、んんっ、これ、の、飲むんじゃないんですよ。」>「あっ、飲むんじゃねぇっけ。どうすっかい？」Oh my! The customer is confused about how to take it, as surely a 丸 would be taken orally! And yet, this one is not as the 丸 is, in fact, not a 丸 but instead goes on his 'boy'! How hilarious!But in all seriousness, truly today is an amazing day, someone more dense than innit, unable to follow even a single fucking link, unable to read even the very page title, requiring constant re-spoonfeeding of previously provided info, has finally graced the trannylation thread. Celebrate.>>292043771>My clanker knows better than a celebrated rakugo masteran hero kudasai.
>>292043980living proof that psychosis predates LLMs
>>292044184>Shit, no, I don't have any actual points to make after getting btfo by actual nip comediansI'd link a funny ytmnd or something here I guess, if you were able to follow a single damn link that is, but I'll take the concession then thanks.
You’re afraid to make your actual point because it’s a stretch.
>>292042864The AI says there is a pun.Never forget that the AI is trained by trannylations anyway.
>>292036494You can probably dump all those chapters on cat website as a torrent, or upload them on Comix I guess
>>292038951what is the sauce for this anon?
>>292046273You need an account to upload to Nyaa and registrations have been closed for years because the jannies are lazy faggots who don't want to have to moderate anything
>>292046367https://exhentai.org/s/11fc7c812a/4257612-13They reuploaded it with this page """"""""""""""""""""""fixed"""""""""""""""""""""""""It's still shit at a glance with the AI still translating Onee-san to "big sis" instead of its actual use.
Knowing hiragana and katakana should be a requirement for typesetters.
>Watching popular manga get a replacement translator only a few days after the last one stops when I can't get a single one for manga I want to work on despite shilling them for a long time because they are unknown.
>>292029320don't even read nip and can already tell it's a gem
>>292047692If a series needs any shilling at all to get a TL, it just isn't interesting enough to get people working for free.You should consider shekeling up.
>Character speaks in successive text bubbles>The translation in the script is one continuous lineI want to choke every translator who pulls this BS!
>>292048846If you want to read vertical text, learn Japanese.
>>292048846To be fair, it's better left as the typesetter's job to split it however they see fit.I work solo so I have to do a lot of thinking ahead when writing a script, but since I'm also responsible for the typesetting I end up adjusting where bubbles split later when I actually have the clean bubble and can see how the text looks inside it.
>>292048877I did not know I need to learn Japanese to figure out what the ENTER button does!>>292048937I think what I don't like is when the translator flip flops between bundling the whole text into one line and splitting them per bubbles. Like, choose one it's less confusing than the bundle option.
Any scanfags in here who own a RF IT 8.7/2 Scan Target? I tried to contact the fag from http://www.targets.coloraid.de/ but he did not reply.Do I really have to buy from a reputable seller and pay ~$50 for one target?
scanlation in 2026
>>292043980The product is literally in front of him. I don't think he's confused by what form the medicine comes in kek
>>292051634The shop keeper clearly stop the customer from ingesting it. Rapedman is right and you ai jeets are wrong. "Longevity pill" can't be creatively interpreted after learning what the thing actually is while the kanji can. That's all that matters really.
>>292053069Ingesting a liquid, yes. He's not trying to swallow the tonic wondering if it's a pill or not. Is the joke really too hard to follow? It's literally explained in that picture
AI is so bad at humor. if you ask them to explain a japanese joke, it cannot do it.
>first time working with a group>do the QC>TLfag doesn't do his research so I have to translate everything myself to make sure it's correct>cleaner/typesetter might be the dumbest guy I've had to deal with in a while>like genuinely blind or retardedHad to write ~100 lines of fixes in my report for 20 pages of content. I think I'll go back to working solo after this.
>>292053487Scannies are the ones getting BTFO'd over a joke that was explained to them
>>292053512This is why it's easier to AI the whole thing. Humans make more mistakes than a machine.
I had been translating fan arts recently.Though there's only one or two likes, I'm happy.
When looking for a proofreader do you avoid who have read a lot of scanlated manga? I think it poisons their English
>>292053512Why did you join an incompetent team? You should've known what they'd be like if the issues are this glaring
>>292024049bullshit. name 3
>>292056047you never know with these things.>approach a "group leader" to collab for a manga>turns out he can't clean, redraw or translate>worst 2 months of my scanlation life teaching him from the ground up>he learns nothing
