What are you working on?

>>279843440 (OP)
Made 30 dollars last evening translating 10 chapters of Momoiro Meloik.

Thank you coomers

>>279843548
I'm fine with anything but bad, tho mega faggot is def a weirder one

>>279843548
I just don't translate sfxs.
t. MTL chad

>author comes up with the dumbest official romanization known to man, 100 chapters in
why do they do this

>>279843440 (OP)
Stuff, things...

Do vagoos and anuses really creak during sex?

>>279843440 (OP)
You do instantly see what's wrong with this old scan of innit right? You aren't as bad and awful as baby innit right?

>>279844287
70% chance it's just a romanization that makes complete sense to anyone with a good understanding of Japanese phonemics and/or grammar but just doesn't to Hepburnfags who have no idea what Japanese actually sounds like.

>>279845735
Everything is painfully off center.

Reminder not to reply to innit

>>279845852
Thank you for showing that you don't actually instantly spot the obvious mistranslation.

It's so weird that this thread is actually full of people who were worse than I was when I just started and I put up a massive disclaimer at the time that I basically didn't know what I was doing and I didn't and in hindsight I even underestimated how much I didn't know what I was doing and I'm probably still going to look back in the future to my current state of affairs and think I underestimated just how much I was missing because you obviously don't know what nuances you miss, but you people, my god. It feels like you people can't even recognize basic verbal forms at times.

>>279845852
Reminder that I can tell that you are seething foreveralone with bad Japanese whose extremely frustrated being reminded of both all the time.

Bump

Sage

>innit

>>279845735
Worst mistakes are obviously off center text and too little air.

>>279845735
>You do instantly see what's wrong with this old scan of innit right?
Japanese text isn't visible under the English text

>>279845937
'University reject' is a bit of an odd way to TL ronin and 'entry exam' instead of 'entrance exam' also reads a little off, but the translation itself is accurate enough there.

>>279843590
That's cheap. You could underprice everyone on Fiverr.

>>279843440 (OP)
The motivation to upload a new chapter.

>>279846433
>>279846493
>>279846581
Anons please. “<X>て<adverb of duration> <Y>” does not mean
><X>, then I did <Y> for <adverb of duration> time

But:

>It's been <adverb of duration> time since <X>, then I did <Y>.

The adverb of duration is about how long ago it is that <X> happened, also implying the results of <X> are still felt, not for how long <Y> has been going on. A better translation is:

>It's been one year and six months since I came to Tokyo, and I've been living the life of a university reject.

As in, it's entirely possible this person came to Tokyo, then spent three months preparing for the first exam, and has only been living the life of a university reject for one year and three months. Also note the past tense on the verb after it. I feel it would more so imply the exam was taken immediately after coming to Tokyo if “〜ている” instead of “〜ていた” were used but I might be wrong about that.

You do know what things like “付き合って半年の人” or “付き合って半年キスもしていない。” mean right?

it's so obvious that he's the one who makes these threads

>>279846768
I'd chalk that up as much to poor English as I would poor Japanese. Both basically convey the same message, one is just worded better.

>>279846856
>it's so obvious that he's the one who makes these threads
it's a pretty retarded anon at least since he's named it scanalation thread instead of scanlation thread so you won't be able to find it in the archives

>>279846768
If you interpret each bubble as a separate sentence, yes, it's possible he hasn't been a ronin for the entire 1.5 years, but given the mention of failing twice in such a short timeframe, and the past tense in the second bubble, I'd say the first two bubbles are one continuous sentence, as in:
>上京して一年と6ヶ月、僕は浪人ファゴットの生活を送っていた。
Most likely they came to Tokyo planning to immediately pass their exams and commence uni life but failed and have remained there since.

As always ~context~ will probably give the correct interpretation but my natural interpretation would be the above also.

You guys know how to rip from mangalt?

>>279847104
>You guys know how to rip from mangalt?
Have you tried the scanlation school script?
https://files.catbox.moe/s6zmdv.js
You need to use firefox and violentmonkey. When you go to the reader on the web site, you'll get a box at the bottom left in firefox where you can download.

>>279846871
Anon no, especially when you omit the part after “つまり” one leaves open the possibility of only being a university reject for 1 week while having come to Tokyo exactly one year and six months ago, while the other leaves open the possibility of having come to Tokyo six years ago, while requiring that he be a university reject for exactly one year and six months. This isn't that hard; they communicate two different things.

>>279846970
Yes, it's one sentence, and that one sentence in that form means that.

>>上京して一年と6ヶ月、僕は浪人ファゴットの生活を送っていた。

This simply does not imply:
>I came to Tokyo one year and six months ago and have been living as a ronin ever since that time. It only implies that one came to Tokyo one year and six months ago, and that one has been living that life for at least some time.

>Most likely they came to Tokyo planning to immediately pass their exams and commence uni life but failed and have remained there since.
How is that even most likely? Do people generally move and then the first thing they do is take entrance exams? Usually they move months in advance before that.

You say context, but it's really quite likely that what happened was:

>Move to Tokyo
>Spend like three months getting accustomed to Tokyo and whatever
>Take entry exams
>Get notified of failure
>Spend one year and three months as a ronin

In fact, since taking the exams takes some time, and the result is announced like a month later, it is not possible that he was a ronin for one year and six months.

You say context, but the context, as in what's known about how exams operate, the initial translation I made is absolutely wrong. The timeframe is about how long ago he came to Tokyo, and it's not possible that he's been a ronin for the same time since it takes time to take exams and announce results.

>>279847145
Just tried, they're still unscrambled

>>279847281
>Just tried, they're still unscrambled
under settings you can turn on descrambling, check that

>>279845735
>a year and six months
Nobody talks like this. Stopped reading here.

>>279847294
Where are the settings, I only see Show > Problems? Click here! which doesn't have that option

>>279847378
in the box in the lower left where you download you can also click at options or settings or whatever it is and click a button that says descramble or something, don't remember exactly

>>279847337
Anon, you are aware that “一年半” also exists in Japanese right?

Can you confidently state that the difference between “一年半” and “一年と六ヶ月” in Japanese is markedly different from that of “a year and a half” and “one year and six months” in English and that Japanese people are far more likely to say “一年と六ヶ月” than English speakers are to say “a year and six months”?

>>279847456
Odd, don't see anything like that

>>279847510
click the merge split pages (broken). you probably need to refresh the page and go through the chapter again afterwards

>>279847536
Okay, that worked

>>279847595
Yeah, the scanlation school script is really an all rounder. But it's slow and cumbersome compared to most of the other ways to rip. It also has a tendency to goof up the page order so double check that.
Honestly one of the few good things the faggots at scanlation school has done. Broken clock twice a day and all that.

Somebody shoot me

>>279847724
Inside, right?

Kobo desktop has been region restricted, so to get it to work now you have to change the region on your pc and use a vpn. What a bummer. I only have the free proton vpn and have to switch servers until I get one I can use. Afaik that's only Japan and US for proton.

>>279847813
I just ripped a preview earlier, seemed to work normal for me unless previews aren't affected

>>279847870
Yeah, the issue is when you're logging in. I managed to get it to work by doing that, and I don't think I need to do it again until my account gets logged out. It still works on another pc that's already logged in. Basically you're not able to log in without the right region/language and vpn.

Question, when you were learning Japanese did you learn stroke order alongside everything or did you learn it after memorizing everything

>>279847153
>Do people generally move and then the first thing they do is take entrance exams?
Considering he's moved for that purpose, yes, likely only moved days/weeks before the first exam I'd assume.

And the simple act of specifying a timeframe at the start of that sentence is what strongly implies that timeframe is referring also to the following words. Again though, without full context can't say 100% either way.

>>279848043
>Question, when you were learning Japanese did you learn stroke order alongside everything or did you learn it after memorizing everything
Since I'm only learning Japanese to read manga and games I don't really bother with stroke order. There are better things to spend your time on honestly. Kangxi radicals is probably the thing that's helped me out the most.
Might change when I get more experienced, but for now I don't see any use for stroke order.

I can guess why this has a low rating.
https://exhentai.org/g/3399858/f02dea29a6/
Critiques welcome.

>main character named マリー has her official romanization revealed
>it's not what i had been using
i don't want to go back through 800 pages of previous uploads and fix everything

>>279848216
Just write a TL note at the end and that you'll continue using your own romanization because of consistency or something. Problem solved.

>>279848056
>And the simple act of specifying a timeframe at the start of that sentence is what strongly implies that timeframe is referring also to the following words. Again though, without full context can't say 100% either way.
Anon, no, that's just not how this construct works and what it means. Something like:
>付き合って一年間、やっと同棲することになった。

What do you even mean with “the start of the sentence” here. There is no other place to put that adverb of duration to still have that construct. It must always come directly after the “〜て” form. If you put anything in between it it does resolve to the interpretation that it applies to whatever comes after it as in:

>付き合って、やっと一年間同棲することになった。

Means “We've been going out, and now we're finally going to to live together for a year but I feel you'd sooner use “付き合っていて” there.

>>279847913
But you can change the region of your Kobo account with the click of a button and you keep access to books from all regions you previously acquired.

>>279848414
I still think you need to use vpn to log in though. Just vpn wasn't enough though.

>>279848310
In your first case the use of やっと and the simple logic of not 同棲'ing as soon as you 付き合う obviously restricts it to the one obvious interpretation.

In >>279845735 however standard logic is that one 上京's to begin their exams and university life however, which when combined with the fact they've failed twice in that very minimal period of time lends itself to the interpretation that they failed immediately, or very, very shortly after 上京'ing, which is why that TL is acceptable to me. Technically they could've lived there for 6 months before the first exam and have just failed the second, but the wording and limited context available still lean heavily to the interpretation that they've been ronin'ing for 1.5 years roughly.

Gemini 2.5 pro is pretty decent at coming up with localization ideas.

>>279847153
People usually only move somewhere after having *passed* their entrance exam, unless you know it's a 95%+ chance of passing. How retarded do you have to be to move before you know it'll work out?

Also, would the author not have spent time on noting your distinction if it were relevant? He didn't? Good, give it up.

>>279848475
I'd suspect they just have issues with the authentication server. I can't log into the website either.

>>279848988
You could move in anticipation of passing/wanting to continue studying in a juku even if you fail. Have you ever organized a lease before? Can't ask your landlord to make it conditional passing an exam.

>>279849035
it worked when I switched region and used a vpn, and if you go to their web site it says it's not supported any more in my region

>>279848310
>I've been in Tokyo for 18 months
>Living a ronin life
>つまり I failed twice
The つまり here is basically referring BACK to the one and half years, explaining that yep, I've been a ronin for well over a year BECAUSE I failed twice.

>>279848599
>In your first case the use of やっと and the simple logic of not 同棲'ing as soon as you 付き合う obviously restricts it to the one obvious interpretation.
Yes, because the construct itself says nothing about how long the part after it has been happening and that's the fundamental mistake of the translation which explicitly applies the durational adverb to the part after, not before. It simply put says nothing about how long he's been a ronin, could be 1 second in theory.

>In >>279845735 (You) however standard logic is that one 上京's to begin their exams and university life however, which when combined with the fact they've failed twice in that very minimal period of time lends itself to the interpretation that they failed immediately, or very, very shortly after 上京'ing, which is why that TL is acceptable to me. Technically they could've lived there for 6 months before the first exam and have just failed the second, but the wording and limited context available still lean heavily to the interpretation that they've been ronin'ing for 1.5 years roughly.

No, the translation clearly indicates the translator did not understand that construct when translating. And I happen to know because I happen to have that person's memories. It's just so obviously caused by not recognizing “上京して一年と六ヶ月” and what it means.

Yes, with some massive wrangling it's /possible/ that it comes down to the same thing provided exams can be taken and one's results can be obtained within an infinitesimal amount of time, but it's not what the sentence is communicating and it's clear the translator just didn't understand that the temporal adverb pertained to how long it was the speaker first arrived in Tokyo, not how long the speaker has been living as a ronin.

>>279849282
Anon, you can fail twice in the span of 1 year and 3 months as well. The Japanese sentence absolutely does not exclude the taking exams 3 months after arriving interpretation.

It's just so obvious that the translator didn't know what that construct meant at the time and misapplied the temporal adverb to the wrong part of the sentence, and again, I should know because I just happen to have that translator's memories.

>>279849093
You'd think a country with people moving all over to attend university would not be as impractical as you make it sound. Very few people could afford putting all their eggs in a single basket and moving THREE MONTHS before even knowing if they'd made it. Extrapolate that to any foreign student or people applying to jobs overseas.

And btw, don't classes start some months after you get the results?

>>279848988
It isn't a relevant distinction, and yes, it's stupid.
But that doesn't mean the translator clearly didn't understand what the sentence meant. Mistakes translatos made are often revealed in irrelevant pieces of informations. In fact, that's where they are revealed the most because then they can't use context any more to decide which it is. If it be relevant, the rest of the chapter or a later chapter that isn't translated yet often comments on it in a way that steers the translator to the correct interpretation.

The translation simply quite clearly shows the translator doesn't understand how “〜て<durational adverb>” works, that's all.

>>279848172
I don't expect a full write-up or anything but a quick "this is shit" or "this is ok i guess" would help future efforts.
I assume people rate galleries based on quality on sadpanda.

>>279847724
Why are you complaining when you bring this upon yourself? Good work though....

>>279849977
Maybe try linking a site that doesn't require accounts.

Sc/a/nlation threads in a nutshell
>autistic arguments about Japanese (everyone is right and wrong simultaneously)
>people who actually work on scans (mostly hentai anons)
>beggars
>bums

>>279850031
Everyone here has a sadpanda account. If you don't you're the minority.

>>279850042
What's the difference between a beggar and bum?

>>279850049
I don't think that's true and you should still on principle never link to anything that requires signup if a place exist that doesn't.

I don't understand why people feel some kind of elitism from exhentai because it puts lolis behind a signup wall. There are so many porn sites that don't do that and they should always be given preference for that reason alone.

>>279850058
beggars work on nothing and ask people to help them work on stuff, bums work on stuff but never get anything done.

>>279850049
Why should I have one? I have Fanza and DLsite accounts because I buy content there.

>>279850049
>Everyone here has a sadpanda account. If you don't you're the minority.
I have a 13 year old sadpanda account. I uploaded my first galleries a couple of days ago. Never figured I'd ever upload something there but here we are.

>>279850068
I only linked it because of the convenience of having both the translation and raw in close proximity of one another.
Guess you're right though. It's not too hard to upload the stuff on catbox.
Raw:
https://litter.catbox.moe/vwobma75k33kv93q.zip
Translated:
https://litter.catbox.moe/j0c5r25vhayb7ffy.zip

Translated is an old version that's already been changed.

it's discouraging when nobody reads or comments on the chapters you upload

>>279850068
I only linked it because of the convenience of having both the translation and raw in close proximity of one another.
Guess you're right though. It's not too hard to upload the stuff on catbox.
Raw:
https://litter.catbox.moe/vwobma75k33kv93q.zip
Translated:
https://litter.catbox.moe/j0c5r25vhayb7ffy.zip

The one uploaded to sadpanda has the last textbox on page 27 changed.

>>279850122
>it's discouraging when nobody reads or comments on the chapters you upload
I think the most discouraging is when you post a chapter, and you lose followers. That's always a bit sad.

>Shutting down unlicensed software
Welp, time to reinstall

>>279850031
>>279850068
>Fucking 令和７
>not having a sadpanda account
>not simply editing the URL to e-h if you're too lazy to login
No, he's right, only absolute newfaggots don't have an account, sorry anon.

>>279843440 (OP)
For the love of god spell scanlation correctly. Filters don't pick it up if you don't and using this dump for anything else is retarded.

>>279850290
You still haven't provided a reason why I should have one.
I was here when the whole split happened and never felt like I missed out on anything.

>>279850290
Are you going to tell people that don't have a comick account the same thing?

>>279850358
>why I should have one
Because it used to be a complete, perfect archive (and still is pretty decent).
>"But it's all DMCA'd to shit now!"
>Not having an account since BEFORE the 2014 Jewcob drama when it was still a perfect archive and single source of truth
And as I said, only absolute newfaggots.

>>279850420
Of course not. I always tell those stupid EOP faggots looking for their next aggregator to learn moon instead.

>>279844287
>why do they do this
For fun.
Just ignore it, or localize it, don't be fooled by the Latin script, it's only meant for Japanese eyes anyway.

Share your proudest character name localizations

>>279850135
One of my favorite manga I worked on I'd love a chapter and then comments would say it went to shit and doesn't make sense anymore. I started to feel like it would be better to drop it and read on my own.

>>279850429
>a complete, perfect archive
Never needed that. I used to download scans from Mikocon and these days buy everything on DMM, Kobo and DLsite.

>>279847813
>I only have the free proton vpn and have to switch servers until I get one I can use.
https://www.umavpn.top/
Just check the "DMM" option

>>279849282
No, Innit is right.
It's more like
>yep, I'm still a ronin after well over a year BECAUSE I failed twice.

>>279850031
It's not a loli doujin so it doesn't require an account YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING RETARD

>>279850637
OBJECTION
I get the white screen until I change it to e-hentai because I haven't logged in for a year.

>>279850290
>It is required to have an account that tells a website one's email on a website that's pretty much a piracy website.
>There is something wrong with people who would rather not do that
>I say this on an anonymous image board that doesn't require sign up by the way.

Sacrebleu.

>>279850613
I feel “一年と六ヶ月も” with the “〜も” would sooner be used for that though.

Also, no “つまり” does not mean “because”, it very much means “that is to say” or “in other words”. It does not give a reason but rephrases what came before it.

>>279850870
Would you prefer the old tradition of always linking to e-hentai and getting 404d on loli doujins if you don't manually change it to ex?

>>279850933
Go make your own piracy website and have it present child porn on the front page to every unregistered guest user, see how it works out for you.

>>279850637
You make yourself sound like a retard if you use doujin that way.

Which is the best way to typeset ellipsis if you're working with a narrow text bubble? I try to go for the first option most of the time if i can and just reduce the font size, but sometimes the bubble is too narrow and it looks bad

>>279851609
The rightmost but with vertical punctuation.

>>279851383
That's exactly what nhentai and mangadex do.
No need for an account for that kind of stuff there.

It's also how e-hentai does it that's just infuriating, that you just get a white page and nothing more if you're not logged in.

Checking if anon's still alive

>>279849093
I have in fact have had the displeasure of having to find places to rent in Japan. If you don't care so much about money xor comfort it's entirely possible to get it done in a month. Entrance exams are at the end of January, with results in early February and the semester "officially" starting in April, but classes usually start later, so very doable. It is retarded that their exams and semester start are so close together, where I come from there's a 4-5 month difference between knowing the results and when the semester starts.

>>279849836
It's even more retarded when you factor in the fixed "moving in" costs such as key money, realtor fees and whatever other bullshit fees they can add in, like cleaning and disinfection which, should it be necessary. should be paid by the guy who had the place *before* you. But then nips have retarded notions about cleanliness too, like not even providing soap in their toilets but thinking something that got returned is "dirty".

>>279851609
2nd from the left
>>279851635 is shitposting

>>279850488
>Work on a highly complex alternate reality French revolution political drama starring a Byronic version of Louis XVI
>Every chapter has such amazing developments; every character feels like the protagonist of his own story; so much depth and stuff.
>Half of the comments each time are just people who are clearly self-inserting into some other character, think that character is the main character instead because to terminally online virgins the main character of any story always has their own sex and their only interest in the story is self-inserting and seeing themselves with this gorgeous version of Louis XVI.
>They get super mad when that ship moves further and further away when the entire point is that he's a Byronic hero who can't find love or happiness and that the story is to watch him suffer beautifully and be moved as he sacrifices everything he has for France.

Foreveralone losers, not even once.

>>279851814
Sounds pretty faggy not going to uso, kazoku

>>279852066
For statistical purposes, I'm obligated to inquire about your past sexual history, or rather the existence or nonexistence thereof itself.

>>279850122
Yeah.
It's like your hard work never mattered.

>>279852139
Yeah I bet that'd get you off, fagnon

>>279851760
Having vertical text and then a horizontal ...?! looks like shit.
⋮
?
!
Is far better.

>>279851609
>Huh!?
Is objectively correct. Your mistake is treating ellipsis like honorifics when you should be treating them dialects, role languages, and sfx; ignoring them completely. English, being an inferior languages, lacks the concept of 間 so all the ellipsis spam mangakas do means nothing to your EOP readers and only serves to make your life as a typesetter more difficult.

Damn… ma… so… …deep……….

>>279852235
vertical text and vertical punctuations looks bad too

>>279852706
Not in manga.

>>279852422
>and only serves to make your life as a typesetter more difficult.
But
>Huh!?
is wider than
>Huh
>...!?
In fact sometimes I add the latter when it's only the former to fit the bubble.

>>279849035
Yeah, I had trouble logging on some time ago too, but it went away pretty quickly.

Any ai dependent esl scannie here

>>279848172
>I can guess why this has a low rating.
Unless you know about the rating bots plaguing the panda you probably can't. Almost all galleries currently get a low rating at first. Popular series recover quickly. Niche stuff recovers with time, as long as it's porn. But most non-h never really recovers and your book borders does not have a porn focus.

>>279849977
Well done. I did a check with the raws side by side and couldn't find any major flaws. I even noticed your little enhancements and they are perfectly fine. And the typesetting is pretty good as well.
Good job!
>I assume people rate galleries based on quality on sadpanda.
No. For most people it's nothing more than a like feature. Just look at any guru gallery. Not that I like guru, but I know that all guru gets low ratings.

Errors I've found:
Page 19: Please don't kill me off now, father! -> Please don't kill him off now, father! // I think she says the line, since the guy is fucking dead.
Page 24: The iron curtain must ascend from Berlin -> An iron curtain does not suit / is not appropriate for Berlin. // You missed the negative of 相応.

>>279851425
What word do you want me to use? Eromanga? Manga? Gallery? Comic? Work? Piece?
It's a doujin in every sense of the word anyway.

>>279853449
>Any ai dependent esl scannie here
Heya! AI dependent ESL scannie here! Currently working on my next chapter!

>>279853991
>Unless you know about the rating bots plaguing the panda you probably can't. Almost all galleries currently get a low rating at first. Popular series recover quickly. Niche stuff recovers with time, as long as it's porn. But most non-h never really recovers and your book borders does not have a porn focus.
I posted my first stuff on panda a week ago. The first stuff I posted were downvoted to hell and back, but has managed to get up to about 4.5 now a week later. I also posted some non-h gallery and it got high ratings from the start and is now in the high 4s, so for some reason it didn't get the same treatment as the other galleries.

>>279851709
Yeah I am, I got this first one done but then kinda forgot and lost the thread with TL. Think you could post the raws again and the TL if you have it. Dunno how long it'll take me cause I've got other projects right now but I could work on it in between those.

>>279853994
Fanzine

I changed over to photoshop 2025 because my buddy kept telling me about the remove tool but now I lost all my settings I used to use and it keeps turning settings back on after I turn them off. The remove tool is really nice thoughever...

>>279853449
>Any ai dependent esl scannie here
Yeah innit is here somewhere I think.

>>279854050
>I posted my first stuff on panda a week ago.
Congrats!
>also posted some non-h gallery and it got high ratings from the start
I seriously have no idea how the bots decide what to spam with low ratings and what not. I only know that they exist.
Just remember that we're not in it for the ratings anyway. We're trying to have some fun translating stuff.

>>279854626
I don't even understand what significance the ratings have. They don't get hidden or anything. Honestly it seems like they're fairly useless overall.
I was surprised over how much GP I got. Less than a week later and I've got over 100k. Probably never need anymore for the rest of the time I'm using sadpanda.

>>279854909
>Probably never need anymore for the rest of the time I'm using sadpanda.
You can use more than 100k on a single large gallery if it's a few GB.

>>279853449
Do you live in a slum?

>>279854188
All good then. Here you go >>278911178
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/278911178/#q278911178
https://litter.catbox.moe/aru57wnulz2xouud.rar

i'm drawing a blank on what this is supposed to say and trying to look up the characters by radicals isn't helping. for context it's talking about 妲己 which would explain the だっき furigana, but the characters to the left of it don't match

>>279855351
Dakki is a historical figure of the Yin/In/殷 dynasty, ergo 殷の妲妃, I mean fug me the furigana is right there, think Chinkshitlator-san think.

>>279855605
fuck me i kept thinking it was え and not いん close together. thanks

>>279855660
As for the swapped out first character of the name, no idea probably some Chinkshit.

Did your series make it?

>>279843548
>effort bad

>>279856338
Of course not

>>279856338
My series got axed. I still have to upload the last chapter but I'm not feeling motivated because it kinda sucked

When it comes to wordplay and hidden readings of names and words in Japanese, how often are "punchlines" found in the phonetic readings?
Like Ayanami Rei. "Rei" is spelled with kana, but "rei" can be read as zero.
Or, Ikari Gendo. Even though his last name is spelled with the kanji for anchor, "ikari" can also mean anger.

Would a Japanese reader notice this as well? As both alternative phonetic readings may suggest things about their personalities, etc.
Just wondering how far do authors go with this stuff. Maybe they focus on the kanji and never exploit homophones?

>>279853991
Thank you! Nice to know it passes the discerning eye of Anonymous. I really appreciate you looking through it.
>rating bots plaguing the panda
What the fuck? I had no idea about that. This was the first gallery I ever uploaded so I assumed people just smacked it with 1 star within milliseconds of front page presence without even reading it.
Ok maybe bots make sense.
>little enhancements
This was ultimately done just for fun. I was initially thinking that was the kind of stuff that pissed people off.
>since the guy is fucking dead.
He speaks in the coming panels and I've seen that stupid Japanese joke way way too many times before. It's always the person who doesn't want to be killed off speaking in their own defense.
>You missed the negative of 相応.
I was autistic with that line. I hated how it sounded so I went with ascended from.

>>279854909
Sometimes it's nice being into obscure stuff no one cares about.
All the galleries I've ever cared to download were like 5k hentai points.

>>279856942
You're welcome!
>This was ultimately done just for fun.
Having fun translating stuff is the most important part. Make sure you enjoy what you're doing, so it keeps you motivated.
>I was initially thinking that was the kind of stuff that pissed people off.
I enjoyed it!
>He speaks in the ...
He does, but he's a manly man kind of guy and wouldn't use 下さい. It's most likely the girl, unless the fire turned him into a fag.
>I was autistic with that line.
Protip: Don't overthink when translating stuff. If you think too much about it, even basic words will lose all meaning and you'll need a long break to see with fresh eyes again. This apparently is called "Gestaltzerfall".

>>279858192
>unless the fire turned him into a fag.
Kek.
That kudasai must not have registered in my mind after reading it. I think you're totally right because she was surprised and happy after she learned the guy could talk.
Now I have to go back and change more. Even when you're done you're not done.
>Gestaltzerfall
ゲシュタルト崩壊...
Overthinking, underthinking, translation is hard. Good thing it's fun in small doses.

Also I'm going to FUCK that smug Flan.

>>279858621
Oh, and one last thing regarding updates on galleries: Fixing errors after your upload is fine, but you don't need to work on the same translation forever until it's perfect. It's important to make a cut at some point, so you can slam and carry on to your next work.
>Also I'm going to FUCK that smug Flan.
SAME

>>279856338
>Did your series make it?
Yup, and I unashamedly voted on it.

>>279859271
We have a bunch of pre-serialization stuff for Itoko no Ko that haven't been translated. Is anyone up for translating them?
>>279858909
I'm posting a bunch of them there if anyone has got the time.

>>279858813
Is there any limit to how often you can update your gallery? When I made the itoko no ko galleries I updated them at least daily for a while with new content, but I don’t know if that’s appreciated.

>>279860166
There is no limit. The only thing to consider is that after a year of no updates you can't update your gallery anymore (says the wiki).
And there is no problem with updating galleries. Storagewise, new galleries reuse the old images unless there was a change in hash.
Only torrentfags need to take care not to download the old gallery version, but old torrents get pruned when they have no seeds left anyway.
>but I don’t know if that’s appreciated
Don't worry; I appreciate it and the mods don't care. Check this shit out:
https://exhentai.org/g/1647076/0e96081e94/ (updated by a mod)

>>279860772
Well that's a relief.
>>279860772
>The only thing to consider is that after a year of no updates you can't update your gallery anymore (says the wiki).
Hopefully that won't be an issue since the artist still publishes stuff on their twitter.

>>279856384
>effort bad
If you're in a group of three or more, then I think it's totally fine to do full redraws.
I suspect that most in this thread are probably solo scanlators or two man teams.
I mostly work as a solo translator, and I don't even bother translating most of the sfxs because it's such a chore, only those that matters.
Then again you have to prioritize your time and effort a lot when you're a solo scanlator so you don't burn out.

Anyone looking for a summer TS project?
Otosama's tang hill burial is fully translated on danbooru.
https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/9976
https://mangadex.org/title/afab9260-24b4-4a57-b780-1d59b2d317b9/tang-shanzang

It's a pretty fun interpretation of journey to the west

OK so I've had a panda account for a month, how do I access ex? I still can't figure it out.

>>279863757
you have to log into e hentai forum before you log into exhentai. if you log into exhentai before you log into e hentai forum, you'll get cookie blocked and need to clear your internet history
so basically delete your internet history (or just use firefox and "forget this site" in history), log into e hentai forum, and go to exhentai
it's a bit cumbersome but i's been like that for nearly 20 years now.

So what's the best way to remove watermarks? The tool in Scanlation School still leaves artifacts

>>279864695
Not using sources that have them to begin with.

>>279860772
>There are 386 more comments below the viewing threshold
Good fucking lord what the hell?
Now I want to know which gallery has the most amount of ratings.

>>279854909
>I don't even understand what significance the ratings have. They don't get hidden or anything. Honestly it seems like they're fairly useless overall.
You can hide them.
I always enable the "4 stars or higher" filter so I have less shit to wade through.

>>279856825
It's usually either very obvious, like in Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu, or just coincidences.

>>279860772
>https://exhentai.org/g/1647076/0e96081e94/
Hilarious how people who have the Western category in their searches complain when they see westshit.

>>279863757
>>279863890
>so basically delete your internet history
please don't be this retarded