Thread 280918506

Are there any untranslated/typeset manga that you're currently reading? Whether you speak Japanese or just use MTL.

I haven't read any since I don't know japanese and until recently mtl has been far too shitty, but seeing panelcleaner and chatgpt's translations has me tempted to tackle the 50+ never ever titles on my wishlist

>>280918646
it's not particularly hard, but you'd do yourself a favor by just learning some basic japanese like hiragana, katakana, some kanji, and basic grammer (basically 60 first chapters of tae kim). it'll take you like a couple of days and be insanely helpful
https://djtguide.github.io/
Here's some other resources if you'd rather use genki.
Genki 1
https://files.catbox.moe/sronwq.zip
Genki 2
https://files.catbox.moe/mt4rtu.zip
Genki teacher
https://files.catbox.moe/hrnkdx.zip
Hiragana/Katakana/Kangxi radicals Anki decks and Yotsuba Learning Pack
https://files.catbox.moe/9x3me2.zip
core 2k/6k
https://mega.nz/file/QIQywAAZ#g6wRM6KvDVmLxq7X5xLrvaw7HZGyYULUkT_YDtQdgfU

Sensei, Watashi wo Koroshite. Except I don't really bother with translations, I just like the sexy pics and pretty much understand what's happening by looking at it.

>>280918506 (OP)
I try to keep any eye on ComicWalker for new things that seem fun, but nothing's really stood out to me that hasn't been picked up, but I've got a decent stack of completed but dropped I'd been wanting to ship around to other groups like Oshikake Gyaru Nakamura-san and Documentary of an Ex-Girlfriend Complex because I don't want to solo them.

>>280918646
Hmm, panelcleaner sounds interesting, I'd rather manually do the translation and typeset part but I hate cleaning with a passion.

>>280918506 (OP)
Needs more translations

>>280919096
>Hmm, panelcleaner sounds interesting, I'd rather manually do the translation and typeset part but I hate cleaning with a passion.
almost nobody uses panel cleaner for cleaning anon, they use the ocr to capture the Japanese text for translation
I don't particularly like using it for cleaning myself because I don't think the result is good enough, and cleaning the bubbles takes like ten minutes a chapter top

>I try to keep any eye on ComicWalker for new things that seem fun
Comic Walker only has kadokawa stuff so you're not going to get an awful lot of stuff to pick up there.
It's probably better to check some of the more unknown web readers, most of the big publishers stuff like shueisha and kodansha are already translated, but the smaller ones have more that's not being translated
houbunsha is probably one of the bigger publishers that have nearly none of their series translated, but they're mostly 4komas

There's no scanlation thread up, so this one will have to do. Can anyone tell me why Hakuneko suddenly started arbitrarily rip manga in PNG?

>>280919455
hakuneko rips directly, so my guess would be that the place you're downloading from has pngs

>>280919195
I seem to pick the ones that have a lot of extra text not in bubbles on the screentones and whatnot, any suggestions for that, then?

I guess I should specify that it's not just
Comic Walker that I look for stuff, just the one I visit more often. I'm usually in it for ecchi comedy, but I'll have to dig around Fuz and see if anything stands out.

>>280919455
fuck you and your mother for spamming off-topic gossip threads

>>280919533
There are sites where it has to descramble images and where it can pull original JPG directly. For example, Comic Days and Sunday Webry always resulted in direct JPG rips. But recently it started ripping in PNG from the sites that produced direct rips, meaning it has to descramble images now. I thought something must have changed on the JP side of things, but no, some random series (from the same site) are still ripped in JPG proper. If something has changed in the viewer, then it wouldn't result in such discrepancy. So I'm at loss here.

>>280919602
I started working on Koguchi-sensei here with another anon, but he ditched me.
https://mangadex.org/title/462a3593-d4c6-4801-9bae-f4eb43a14f84/watashi-no-kouguchi-sensei
We did chapter 8 and 9 together, I cleaned and redrawed and he translated and typesetted.
I've cleaned and redrawn chapter 10 and 11, so if you want to pick it up that'd be great. I can continue cleaning and redrawing for future chapters as well.
https://files.catbox.moe/2xup53.zip

>>280919602
>I'm usually in it for ecchi comedy
Have you try checking yanmaga for that?

>>280920220
yanmanga is basically just porn anon

>>280918506 (OP)
I've been slowly going through Red Eyes, which has an abandoned translation that sucks and the mtl I use is actually better, and Sarissa of the Noctilucent Cloud which is purely raw. Later I want to finish Nobunagun since that never got its scanlation finished.

>>280919602
If you want free ai generative fill, IOPaint is an alternative. It sucks on screentones like all AI generative fill, but there content aware fill usually does a decent enough job.

>>280918506 (OP)
Dogo no Blue

>>280920220
Around half my Mangadex follows are from it so yeah, I've looked at it lol, I might have a couple of scripts sitting around from Kimiiro x Liver from before the Mangadex purge, but I think all the other ones I liked are covered.

Someone needs to pick up Katabami to Ougon again man. Somehow both scanlation teams dropped it due to lack of manpower and the manga already ended 2 years ago.

Iopaint, panel cleaner and chatgpt really did a great job, I'm currently working on vietnamese translation of Idolatry.
https://mangadex.org/title/f40a542e-7a3d-49e4-a5f9-8c9bea3a90a6/yonin-no-mama-no-sei-de-ore-no-rabukome-ga-mama-naranai

Yes, but I'm not going to name them.

>>280919455
Maybe the sources youre getting stuff from switched to webp and they decided to convert it to png to preserve quality while switching to a more widely supported format

only partially translated ones where the translator lost interest, usually older manga that never got a full translation
I don't have good enough command of Japanese to find out about interesting manga or know where to look for recs, although I can read them with a dictionary

Stumbled upon this one yesterday. It's called Kokuhou; it's about 1960s yakuza plus traditional Japanese theatre... First chapters are quite promising

>>280924095
>yakuza
>kabuki
>literally the same title
That's the latest box office hit in Japan, Kokuho.

>>280924454
Oh, I see. Seems like both manga and the movie are based on the same novel

>>280923769
someone already suspected that it was because it descrambles images, and then it has to save it as png to not lose quality and get jpg artifacts
I've never experienced the same thing from the places I download though, everything is either direct jpg or webp

>>280922981
This. I like my things safely and quietly before microplebs get in and claim ownership so that when it gets bigger they try to gatekeep the macroplebs as if I wasn't here first.

>>280922981
*Tips fedora*

>>280925346
Some sites encrypt their image, forth those you get the original format. If descrambling is involved you better save in PNG or else

>>280925997
>>280926110
Gatekeeping is one of the biggest signs of being a retard.
And to be honest it's probably garbage anyway. If it was good, people would most likely know about it already.
It's very rarely that something good actually goes untranslated. It's Sturgeon's law. 90 percent of manga is garbage, and about 10 percent of manga get translated. So most likely those 10 percent translated are most likely those in the 10 percent that are not garbage.
Of course there are some hidden gems once in a while, often on some obscure web reader no one knows about, but it's not often. You can be pretty certain that someone works on good stuff from the bigger publishers.

I started reading the Ruri no Houseki manga because the anime sounded cool and I'd prefer to start with the source for most things. I'm also reading GuP Motto Rabu Rabu Sakusen Desu and Kenrantaru Grande Scene monthly. I think the GuP manga did start getting translations again but for a while it wasn't. Also reading Saihate no Solte and the new manga by the Yugami-kun mangaka, Mondai Darake no Mahoustukai.

And Jashin-chan Dropkick and Hell Teacher Nube both have translations but some of it is MTL and I figured it would be better to just read those in Japanese. I have been reading more and more stuff in Japanese since deciding to learn, as it takes the guesswork and issues out that come with the translation scene. But I don't want to pay for everything, and for some manga there really aren't good available, free raws. Those sites that upload to nyaa often put watermarks everywhere and the quality can be not very good too.

I'm also reading the Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan LN since I wanted to know what kinds of things it did outside of what was adapted for the anime.

>>280927216
>So most likely those 10 percent translated are most likely those in the 10 percent that are not garbage.
Now you're just trolling.
Bottom of the barrel trash gets translated because that's what the masses want. The good stuff is too complicated for the "translators" anyway and they never hear of it since they don't read magazines for themselves. Only once something gains attention by an adaption or similar will they suddenly jump on it and rush to release translations.
The only people complaining about gatekeeping are those being kept outside.

>>280927837
you sound like a massive hipster faggot
honestly gatekeep your trash. we don't want it

>>280928054
I don't agree necessarily with that extreme level of gatekeeping that anon is talking about (though I do recognize how the quality of discussion often falls of a cliff once something gets too popular) but I do agree that just because something isn't popular or well known doesn't mean it's bad. I've read plenty of manga that haven't been translated that I've loved. There's more that goes into it than just "not popular enough for translation or an anime = bad". And you can look at the opposite case to see this as well, where absolute garbage gets translations and anime adaptations.

This same kind of thinking is does by the same people who build their entire taste around what curated charts say, and they never actually find their own taste in things.

>>280928211
I'm a scanlator and I work on a lot of stuff I like. I guess not everything is popular that I work with, but at least it's something I enjoy. But I wouldn't work on something that's garbage that I don't enjoy, and there's more than enough of that.
And considering I mostly pick up new stuff, your last argument is pretty much void.

>>280929039
You're one person. And I'm including official translations. You can look at the front page of Mangadex or every time Seven Seas announces new manga they got to see that quality is in no way an indicator of what gets translated. People on here also complain every season about the garbage that gets adapted. Plus, you enjoying something doesn't mean it's good either, and that's in general. And there are plenty of scanlators that translate stuff that people want to read (ie isekai) instead of what they themselves like.

There's also nowhere near enough series that get translated, even by scanlators and official companies combined, to be able to say that everything good gets translated, especially when there is a leaning at times into things that most people would consider bad. It's the same retarded way of thinking as people who say that the arbitrary amount of content that gets adapted from a manga or LN is the only good part of it.

>thousands of manga
>some small percent of it gets translated
>by some amazing coincidence, that just so happens to include every good manga
>an anime adaptation of something that was not translated before comes out and ends up getting super popular with people loving it (take Ruri no Houseki from this season)
>all of a sudden that manga was actually good despite not fitting the criteria for being good before

damn, these are some of the best manga ever made huh
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series?filter=scanlated&category=isekai&type=Manga&perpage=50

I wish someone would pick up giant ojousama since the old translator wimped out when the dex DMCA strikes happened

>>280929039
You made the most elementary retarded attempt at logic in your first post so I'm inclined to assume that your taste is shit and your opinion doesn't matter

>>280929318
Sounds like it's a trash series if it doesn't get translated.

>>280929408
honestly it's pretty trash, I don't really get why it's popular. it's mostly a fetish if I had to guess
didn't it get licensed though? I doubt a lot of groups want to work on something licensed

>>280929298
at least they're better than your favorite mangos

>>280929278
>thousands of manga
There's ten thousand series in active publication and hundreds of thousands finished titles. That's not touching on oneshots and the like.

>>280923769
Again, the issue is not that Hakuneko now downloads only bloated descrambled PNGs for me, although it still is an issue because different (if not all) Japanese web manga platforms I've been ripping raws from changing something at exactly the same time makes me think it's something on my side. It's inconsistency.
https://www.sunday-webry.com/episode/2550912966004122886
https://www.sunday-webry.com/episode/2550912965987047841
Take these two series, for example. The latest chapters came out roughly at the same time, but rips of the first one are descrambled PNGs while the second are the usual JPG.

>>280929039
How do you find series you like to pick them up?
Most fan translations released these days are machine translated by retards that made them for their own consumption.
Kids from South-east Asia are also a big contributor since it can apparently be a relevant source of income for them.

Which storefront has the best digital raws, on average, that can be ripped fairly easily? I’m aware it’s not always consistent

>>280918506 (OP)
yes

>>280929475
>didn't it get licensed though?
no

>>280931306
Kobo is by far the easiest. Quality should be the same as amazon and bookwalker.

>>280931306
Kobo used to be but they added some geoblocking so you may need a VPN or proxy.
DMM has some sweet deals and is still rippable.
Quality is identical for most part.

>>280931243
It’s most latin american and not indonesian groups that make money on scanlation these days. I think all of the new coin based pay walls were latin american.

>>280931561
In addition you have to switch your region in windows to log in, but that’s as easy as just going to setting and locationlanguages and switch there.

>>280925997
There's simply no point in mentioning titles. Either you already follow the magazine and are therefore familiar with them or you don't follow the magazine in which case you're not going to read the series either.
Nobody is going to come here looking for recommendations since we've got more manga than we can possibly read.

>>280931788
You know the OPT threads are basically just recommendation threads, right?

>>280918506 (OP)
the entire Ninja Slayer manga

This feels like something that should've had a TL. Asahi Ojo-sama and Kashima-kun. I was looking through the author's works and found this a while back.

>>280932075
How much there is untranslated and not just posted by EOPs hoping for translations?

>>280918506 (OP)
What's this? Looks comfy.

I read it anyway and now it's my favourite manga of all time.
Letter communication is overrated, feel free to ignore this.

>>280918506 (OP)
The new manga by flpflops

Literally just saw this cross my timeline on Xitter
amzn.asia/d/8CVnBub

>>280934864
https://mangadex.org/title/dad094dc-bd68-455d-b494-91e2dd9003e7/guraundo-anda

It’s in a weird position of being what seems to be a quasi-sequel of the author’s independent work. Which hasn’t been translated, though I believe someone is working on it.

>>280918506 (OP)
>Untranslated Manga

>>280918506 (OP)
>Untranslated Manga
Some day

>>280935682
Is there some process through which manga can become untranslated again?
Tracking down translators and forcing them to take down their bootlegs isn't enough since copies can still exist somewhere.

>>280935741
In some cases the translations aren't available anymore. I don't think that's what that anon is talking about though. For instance with Spriggan, while I think it's fully translated now, at one point the only translations were Viz's (which was incomplete and skipped around a lot of chapters) and a company in Singapore that went out of business at one point and there didn't seem to be any scans of it. So despite being fully translated in English for a while, it wasn't until recently with the new translation that you could read Spriggan in English unless you had bought the volumes in Singapore when they came out.

>>280918960
I'm waiting to see some of the rest of the girls to become relevant.

>>280935177
Oh it's the same author as that one volume witch manga anon was shilling years ago.

>>280936468
I’m guessing you mean Spectral Wizard. They’ve done a pretty good amount of stuff, I like most of it.

>>280918506 (OP)
>Untranslated Manga
I have thousands of manga like that

>>280918506 (OP)
>Untranslated Manga
Old novel adaption, the big bro of dirty pair

>>280918506 (OP)
>>280936673
>I have thousands of manga like that

>>280927216
Gatekeeping is gay and retarded and all, but
>those 10 percent translated are most likely those in the 10 percent that are not garbage
you know damn well this isn't true.

>>280918506 (OP)
Been reading manga in nip for so long I don't even know if something is getting translated unless I see anons posting it. Checked a few for this thread and most have had someone at least attempt to translate them at one point.

>>280918506 (OP)
>Untranslated Manga
Someday we will get the remake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WooejwqqRDM

>>280932155
Fuck I can't believe I haven't read this yet
AᗺBA...

>>280932155
>the entire Ninja Slayer manga
Ninja/Samurai manga need more love

>>280918506 (OP)
>Untranslated Manga
I hope the new anime makes /m/ help on the translations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyyVYTb2kNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Nbdc0igPY

bump

>>280918506 (OP)
>Untranslated Manga
We need more medieval manga

>>280935904
I'd like that as well. I'm curious how well the manga is actually doing. Volumes 1 and 2 were both announced to be released at the same time, as I understand. I'm not sure if that's a Cycomi thing, or a bad sign. It's like like 13000 favorites on the site, I don't know if that's decent for 20 chapters or not.

>>280941315
The latest few chapters almost felt like it was rushing to an early end, but it could have been just for the end of a volume. The first girl might be the obvious one they were looking for, but maybe it's something different and it's actually all of them.