Scanlation thread

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I just started scanlating last month, and I picked something mostly just to start somewhere, and because it had nice raws available.
I think the series is maybe a 6/10, and no one really reads it.
I still like releasing it, and I don't care about e-peen, but I've been wondering if I should switch to something that's more popular, something more people would enjoy.
At the same time, there are a few people reading the current series, and I'd feel a bit bad if I dropped it.

Do you think the needs of the many should outweigh the needs of the few? Would it be shitty of me to drop the series in favor of something more popular? Or do you think it shouldn't even matter how many people read what I scanlate?
Sorry if this comes off as blogposting.

>>148204278
>the needs of many

What the fuck do you mean needs? Scanlate what you enjoy and thats it. Just don't turn into a faggot that thinks they're a hero because they have 1000> people following a series.

>>148204459
Simmer down mate, I was just having a lark with the Kerry picture.
Like I said, I'm not looking for more people to praise me or anything, but a popular series means more people are getting enjoyment out of the same amount of work on my part.

>>148204566

Who gives a shit about how popular a series is, especially since you're new.

If you're competent, start with short series or even do a bunch of oneshots.

>>148204902
I had briefly looked around for some oneshot tanks when I started, but had trouble really finding any that both interested me and had raws available. I'll try digging a little deeper next time though.
Thank you for the response.

>>148205157
Oneshot volumes don't usually get scanned unless the author is pretty popular. Depending on what you're interested in, there could be ebooks you can buy and rip for cheap though.

>>148205157

Check deadscanlations, there are dozens of oneshots that he scanned on there. Most award winning.

>>148205157
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/0xim56f17ggys/!Oneshots

>>148205362
Right, unfortunately I didn't think of that until after I had already started my current project.

>>148205559
>>148205710
Oh shit thanks, I'll take a look at these after work.

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Last thread I was asking for help with the translation of pic related here ia the finished work: http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fbato.to%2Freader%231d807fc387d51a69&t=MjRjOWMwOTM4ZGNlNGYzNzJiYzM3ZDhkZjE5YTExNDRlNzc1M2I0NCxaTFBWMG9Qdw%3D%3D&b=t%3Ah5ubdZI8GqKCz3UgFiXYRg&m=1

>>148205950
>tumblr
But honestly, that's really cool, anon.

>>148205950
Cool stuff.

>>148206146
>>148206368
Thanks

>>148203194
Anyone know how to rip from mobile sites?

>>148207698
Take screenshots.

>>148207698
Just curious, why would you want to do this?

I was wondering this for a while, but what happened to Boon? He was one of the more chill translators around but I haven't seen him post in ages.

>>148208256
Strange, he's still been consistently putting out chapters.

>>148207698
Depends on the fucking website.

>>148207817
>>148208865
Need to rip stuff off of Magazine pocket

>>148211323
First you need to route the traffic through Fiddler proxy, see if the app uses SSL, if the images are encrypted or scrambled, etc.

>>148211899
How do you get traffic from an emulator to fiddler?

>>148212063
The same way you'd do it for a browser? It's not like an emulator magically hides it's web traffic, fiddler should pick it up fine.

>>148203194
Fakku uses InDesign

>>148204566
I've been fansubbing anime for almost 10 years and I can tell you this: most people are ungrateful piece of shits. You'll be considered a hero during the process of scanlation, but after that they won't give two shits about you and will forget about you. It's YOUR time, scanlate what YOU enjoy mostly.

>>148212240
source

>>148213297
It's one of their job requirements
>https://www.fakku.net/jobs

>>148213463
I can see how it would help with a lot of the fancy typesetting they do. Still overkill for scanlation though, with the amount of work it would take to make it worth using you'd really need to be paid.

>>148214795
I can see your point but also the volume of content they go through I would image it would be useful for organization at least.

>>148215115
I'm sure it would make things go faster and that'd be a huge help with their volume, but how exactly does it help with organization specifically?

>>148215115

ID is used because they're actually going to print.

>>148215624
My assumption is the page style organization/linking they could utilize which is better than Illustrator/PS has to offer. Which is what >>148215890 pointed out.

I'm slightly curious and just guessing but they probably export to PDF as one file and use a script to publish on their site. But I could be totally wrong.

>>148215890
ID is used for subscription content (which is digital only) all the same. Pretty much everyone likes doing typesetting in it once they learn the ropes (which should come as no surprise since that's a big part of what InDesign is intended to be used for), but Photoshop is still used for things like redraws.

For scanlations I'd recommend sticking to just Photoshop though because it's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot when it comes to doing digital exports from InDesign and end up with crappy quality as a result, and you need further processing with the good options. With Photoshop you can just use Save for Web and get good results right away.

Ok which one of you said his name three times in the mirror.

>>148216710
Maybe if we ignore him he'll go away.

>>148216710
He probably has a filter set up so "Fakku" is auto-pinned on the catalog.

Okay faggots please help me out.
I recently found out that japs have services that scan whole books for like 100-200 yen or so. I wanted to use s-s-sendai.info, it looks pretty straightforward and the first try is for free. But I'm not sure if they deal with porn; at least their FAQ doesn't mention anything about it.
Anybody used any of these before?

>>148212527
>most people are ungrateful piece of shits
Agreed. They only want more and care nothing for the people who go through all the effort to bring them it.

>>148217343
I'm going to hang myself if you can really get scans of anything you want for 200 yen. Don't you have to pay for the book as well?

>>148218803
Of course you have to pay for it, shipping too. But it's still miles better than shipping it all the way over here and scanning it myself.
A lot of shit I want to get goes for 1-100 yen used too, so I'd end up paying like 5 bucks for the whole thing.
I'll post results here if I don't fuck up and it works out.

>>148219027
If you can order books yourself and ship to their address it would be perfect. Good luck, keep us updated.

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>tfw you really like and respect old manga but you're afraid you wouldn't do them justice

>>148220410

work with people that you know can help you do them justice then.

>>148212527
I made fantranslations for videogames in spanish and I can corroborate this anon

What's your excuse for slacking off in this thread right now?

>>148221065
I have a fulltime job and I scanlate for 30 hours a week.
I'll fucking slack off in whatever thread I want.

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Anybody know how I can rip the full quality pages out of this web magazine? Even though I can't translate it I'd at least like to collect these comics by a particular artist that's really talented and maybe hopefully one day someone might get interested in translating them.

https://issuu.com/magazinequang/docs/v36/1

>>148221286
You could try Fiddler to intercept the images as the player loads them.

>>148204459
1000>
That says "less than 1,000 people"
1000>x
x is less than 1,000.

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WANTED:

REDRAWER WITH DEEP MASOCHISM STREAK, FOR BAKI SERIES

We need a redrawer who can manage some pretty unfair redraws, and we would like them immediately. If you're looking for a great challenge to put on your scanlation resume, this would be it.

Sample of what you could be up against: there's often more than one of these per chapter.

Help us. Help me. Please, God, help me.

>>148222670
Good luck, soldier.

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>>148222670
Those aren't really that hard, just tedious. The top-right one took like 5-10 minutes of not really paying attention to it, you could make everything go faster by typesetting it first and covering as much of the Japanese text as possible and then making sure it covers the bad parts of the redraw once it's done.

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>>148223185
>you could make everything go faster by ...
We know that, but it doesn't help that much; I just threw out a relatively random page. How about this? This hard enough for you?

>>148223876

not much point in redrawing this when the raws are digital hot trash

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>>148224041
yes, let me go buy the tanks and an expensive scanner that I may rescan something I already have; and regardless of which, only a few thousand people will ever see
is this your logic

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>>148223876
That's actually even easier, especially since you're using digital raws. Just get good with the pen tool and mark all the curves, then paint or clone the gray underneath.
I got bored halfway through, but you get the idea.

>>148224041
Digital raws are objectively better than the shit cleans most groups put out with scans.

>>148224280
a runny shit being better than a watery shit doesn't make it not shit.

>>148224180
if you don't want to put anymore effort into it because only a few thousand people will see it, why redraw it at all (or scanlate it for that matter.)

>>148224418
How is it even shit? All the details are there, and the gray colors are actually the way the author intended them. If the little dots in the screentones are that important to you, you might want to rethink your priorities.

>>148224418
Also, aren't a runny shit and a watery shit the same thing?

Translator newfag here, any decent way to buy digital comics and then rip them to bypass the scanning? I don't know shit about Kindle DRM, but it would save a lot of time on my end and motivate me to start if I could amazon/toranoana the raws.

Steam but for weebshit when?

>>148224808
Kindle is easy, you can just use Calibre addons to rip it. They'll block your IP if you buy too many things from the Kindle store outside Japan though.

>>148224808
There's a honto ripper, but I don't know if it still works.
Last time I heard there was some sort of manual ebook japan ripper too.

>>148224808

What book do you want?

>>148224808
This >>148224971
Use Rakuten right from the start if you're going to rip that format, Amazon a racist shit.

>>148224971
>>148225687
Would these stuff also work for this >>148221286 ?

>>148225926
No, these are rippers for ebooks you download. Yours is a Flash viewer.

>>148225977
I see, thanks. Hopefully someone can testify for what this anon suggested >>148222320

>>148224971
I think you can use a VPN with no problems.

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>>148203194
Working on the same thing I work on everyday while actively putting other projects on the side

>>148217343

They probably use those really shitty Fujisnap scanners, but it might be better than nothing. I'd just find someone with a good scanner and ask, a lot of people do it for free.

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>>148226143

The images are stored within swf files, just use Fiddler + something like JPEXS and save as .bmp.

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Looking for a translator for Sunoharasou no Kanrinin-san. I've done a (poor quality) translation of the first two chapters already. I'll do the typesetting for it.

I'll continue doing this series regardless of whether someone responds, but as it is my progress is unbearably slow.

This seems like a good thread to ask what are your thoughts on ideal leveling. So people like to get their whites and blacks a pure as they can. While other say if you do it that way you will get rid of some of the finer shading on a page.

Me I just like my blank white spaces to look white I don't like it when my pages have a gray tint to them

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>>148231072
Here is what I am talking about. Here is the raw scan cropped down and resized

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>>148231552
This is the leveling that a few sources said was the best way to preserve all shading.

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>>148231598

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>>148231615
And this is the type of leveling I normal like to do

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>>148231638
Like I said I like to level so that my pages don't look gray.

>>148231659

it's fine? why would you leave the areas that aren't supposed to have printed matter as grey? if you're worried about the relative balance of the greys you can always use a curve instead of linear leveling

>>148231734
I am mostly self taught when it comes to this stuff. I check out guides but it seems each one tells you how to do stuff with a different editor. Right now I have Gimp and Manga Studios ex.

If it isn't too much trouble could you tell me how curve is different from linear leveling?

>>148229344
raws?

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>>148231842

when you're leveling, you're bringing up the roof and floor of the blacks and white. if you're leveling it linearly, it just means that the you're drawing a simple line between the two new values. Just imagine a line going from the bottom of the graph at your black value (92) all the way to the top of the graph at the white value (231.) Everything in between those values (the grays) will now be adjusted to a new value relative to that line. If you're using a curve, it just means that you can modify the... well, curve that these new values are going to fall on. You can get something closer to the original grey balance may have been. In other words, it gives you more control over the change that will occur of dark greys going to black or light greys going to white, instead of making it a consistent slope.

>>148232273

sorry. a sentence got deleted in the middle there. and i meant ceiling, not roof. but you should get the point if you think about what leveling is doing.

>>148232273
I can see a bit what you are talking about I will have to find a video showing it in action, I learn better if I see it done a few times. Thanks for the new tech, while I feel I came a long way from when I first started scanning, it always seems I have more to learn.

>>148232559

If you're just responsible for the scans, it's really not necessary to fiddle around with the levels. You can just let the cleaner take care of it.

>>148204278
What series are you working on?

>>148225154
Where does one find the honto ripper?

>>148232590
I am just scanning raws in my spare time. I haven't linked up with anyone for any real projects. However from what I hear it is normal for one person to do more than one job. Since I would be the one scanning the pages it makes sense for me to clean them as well. Seeing how I would have the most control over the pages I would be cleaning.

>>148232719
Want to know this too.

Looking for a translator for Seto no Hanayome.
10th anniversary of the anime is coming up in 2017.
As far as I know these are the chapters that are missing.
Vol 8: Chapter 35-37
Vol 15: Chapter 71
Vol 16: Chapter 72-76 (END)

>>148232719
>>148233056
Used to be on jcafe but link is kill. Now it looks like there's another one that got uploaded last month but I've never used that. Try that one out and if it doesn't work I'll look for the old one.

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New Cambrian chapter is coming

>>148224280
>Just get good with the pen tool and mark all the curves
Why not use magic wand to mark all black letters then expand to 3-4 pixels? I'm sure it should be faster.
>Digital raws are objectively better than the shit cleans most groups put out with scans.
Only when it's a good digital raws, which isn't the case. And even then, many group can't work with them and being utterly retarded about it.

>>148224418
>a runny shit being better than a watery shit doesn't make it not shit.
No, good digital scans are more preferable for scanlation than scanning tank.

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>>148231072
>>148231552
>>148231598
>>148231615
>>148231638
>>148231659
>cleaning with levels only
>.jpg
Really now.

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If anybody is interested I'm really looking for a translator to take over Gendai Majo no Shuushoku Jijou (cute girl slice of life yuri witch thing) as I'm working on other stuff, already uploaded first chapter to dynasty/batoto. I'll still do everything else for it.

Other news, started translating http://big-3.jp/bigsuperior/rapid/ on a whim, half way through just now, pretty good read.

If I ever had the spare time and cash, I would try to setup a project for the five volume Shadowrun manga

>>148235815
chitoge

>>148236573
Flying Chitoge's delivery service

>>148226214
Why are you so dedicated to that manga? It's crazy. You'll be done in years. Do people even read and like it? What drives you?

>>148236912
not that guy but it's a pretty good manga and I enjoy it

>>148235202
>Why not use magic wand to mark all black letters then expand to 3-4 pixels? I'm sure it should be faster.
It is, but it doesn't work with some fonts.

>>148203194
>What do you want scanlated?
I wish someone would do Beet the vandel buster missing chapters

>>148237158
If it doesn't work for some reason only then you use something else, like lasso and whatnot.

>>148237286
There's only been two new chapters since the last ones were translated, right?

>>148237532
I believe so, but I'm talking about the missing chapters which are 42 to 47

>>148238143
It's been years, at this point anyone who wants to read it has probably bought the English volumes already.

>>148227263
Cool thanks.

>>148217343
Just be careful and don't order a monochrome scan because some services offer it, they make the whole thing look like total garbage with literally two colors. I think ScanSnap software is fucking retarded and by default it makes some pages monochrome when it thinks they don't contain any greys. Avoid services that use it in general.

http://www.scan-pdf.com/

This one looks tolerable judging by their 600dpi samples.

>>148235374
Well I said that I am doing this on my own. If you just want to show that you are better than me good on you, you did it. I am always looking for ways to improve, my day job is the upkeep of the missile defense system for naval ships, so I don't know much about cleaning scans. If you a willing I am all ears on how to improve

>>148225154
>>148232719
Honto books come in many formats, the old one only supports epub, the most popular one. I think the format is written on the book page.

>>148236912
I just really enjoy it is all. I've read up to volume 29 and it probably is the best manga I've read.

>>148239816
That was just cleaned with action.
First of all, never use jpg unless you saving already cleaned/scanlated color scans to upload for the public consumption. And don't store/save b/w scans in RGB.
Usually you scan those at 300-600 dpi and then clean at that resolution, so you won't loose too much details. And obviously you doing it with action and batch process, then clean what left (usually stuff at borders, as you can see here >>148235374 ) by hand or by downscaling and cleaning with action again or record whole action from start to finish at intended resolution. You probably still will need to clean manually here and there though.
As for cleaning itself, I say it's better to use scanner software to begin with to scan everything with the same parameters, but hardly anyone listening. So you level a little, to make it close to b/w but not quite - mostly you leave black slider before peak starting, white slider a little closer to peak, and middle slider more or less half of what black numbers (i.e. if you have 50 in black, then you have ~1,25 in the middle). Then you use select > color range for, say, black, reducing selection a little (1 pixel usually enough) and level it until it's black. Same with white. Repeat if needed. Probably use Topaz before all that to smooth paper texture a little.
I.e. if you scanning and cleaning by yourself to upload raws somewhere, it's better to automatize everything that possible, even if you loose some details like here >>148235374

>>148240026
>30 volume manga
What is the point? If the author can't end something without dragging it on for that long, then it must have a lot of padding. How long does the entire thing take place over?

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Would anyone redraw this panel, not the sound effect, but just the text besides the bubble?

>>148240897
It's 38 volumes actually. The point of what? Why I'm scanlating it or the point of the story? I wouldn't say it drags as each "arc" has a lot of development on the MC and the surrounding characters to the point where characters come back 10 volumes later relatively different. There's also a lot of mystery behind it all. The story spans like 3-4 years or so.

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>>148241400

>>148242005
どうもありがとうございます!

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How would you translate a situation like this where a girl changes her personal pronoun to ウチ to show how slutty she's become?

Seems literally impossible to put into English since there's no sort of equivalent of slutty airhead pronouns.

>>148242390
And how you translated whole line for now?

>>148242698

I haven't yet, no point translating a line when you don't know how to word half of it.

>>148242390
The same way you do with all other forms of "me": you don't/can't.

I'd try to look into an more informal, fitting expression for イケ that shows the difference.
I can't help much with that since english isn't my native lang. and I have no idea what would be good for it.

"Am I sexy yet?"
"I'm too hot for my pants"
"Am I the shit now?"

Or other idiotic sentence like that...

On a curious note, in my native language they translated the difference between the 拙者 and 俺 from Rurouni Kenshin as "this servant" and "I" and that was simply ridiculous bad.

>>148240026
Hold up, burning Bakuon Rettou like that c'mon.

>>148242812
There is. Just don't think about watashi / uchi difference for a start and make it "I".

>>148243569

But then you're losing meaning.

>>148243676
>for a start

>>148243676
Should just have her switch to more carnal words...

make love to me -> have sex with me -> fuck me

>>148243384
BR is still being worked on. Just slowly...

>>148243676
You mean you lose some meaning in translations?!
Who would've thought...

Hey, anon who asked about getting permissions to reuse translations a few threads ago. I asked one of the two release groups needed, and got a yes. Assuming the other one says yes, I can start.

However, there's some bits on the translation from both i'm skeptical on if they were translated correctly throughout the whole series. What's the best place I can go to to get people "proofread" those particular parts to see if they were translated right, or which of the two translations is more accurate?

Again, I don't need somebody to translate the whole thing for me, just look at pieces of the existing translation, and go either "yeah this is right" or "This could be better". I can ask here, of course, but I plan on doing 1 chapter or more per day, and this thread isn't up every day.

>>148247195
Go to /djt/ and post it saying that it's your first time translating. There'll be at least 1 autist who combs through the entire work for errors so he can call you out.

>>148242390
put some slutty bimboish english spin on it like the overuse of the word 'like'

>>148247195
Do this >>148247289 then release few chapters with "help wanted" and maybe you find somebody for permanent job.

>>148247334
I think part of the challenge in that line specifically is that she starts 私 and corrects herself, so it's not just about translating the ウチ but also the pronoun switch

>>148247520
Change the whole bubble then

"This? I went to the tanning salon with Takiya. How is it? Does it... I mean... Doncha think this is, like, totally awesome?"

>>148247431
>>148247289
Alright, on a related note, I found out the series also has 2 guidebooks and an artbook nobody has scanned yet.

What's the cheapest option for commissioning somebody to scan and translate those without it being a shit job?

I already bought copies of the guidebook since they were super cheap, so the actual cost of the physical copies being purchases is covered and i'd just need to ship it to the person scanning and pay however much they want to scan it/then find and pay somebody to translate the whole thing

>>148248092
Depends, if it's a really big artbook then you might need someone with a larger than normal scanner. Also, I can't really speak for other people, but when I scan things I know I prefer to just get money through paypal or something and buy the books myself so I'm not giving random anons my address.
Out of curiosity, what series?

>>148248092
Wouldn't it be easier to unbind and scan them by yourself in some printing shop or whatever?

Anyone want to pick up Devilman G?

>>148248173
>Out of curiosity, what series?
Gash bell

>>148248382
I suppose, but I've never done it before and i'd rather trust somebody else who has experience.

What do you guys think about working with those "I want to edit/translate/etc" people but give like zero fucks about quality?

>>148248926
>giving a fuck about quality
lmao as long as the translations is understandable and you can roughly see on the scans what's going on, that's enough

>>148248926
They're probably incompetent fucks who would put out the same quality (read: garbage) if they tried anyway.

>>148248926
They're better than working with "I want to edit/translate/etc" people who unironically think they're hot stuff at it when they're not.

>>148248698
>Gash bell
I'm honestly not sure it'd be worth it. The artbook maybe, but you'd have to either find someone incredibly dedicated to the series or pay them a ton to translate guidebooks for an old series. Guidebooks have more than ten times as much text than manga too, so it'd take a while in addition to that.

>>148248926
I would try not to work with them. Though I only need translator, and can get away with mediocre one.

>>148249115
God damn this is awful. A translator I have translates into awkward English for no reason, and a typesetter uses a bunch of huge fonts for something extremely simple so it looks awful. It's not like they're bragging, but they could make it look so much nicer.
Another time a cleaner I had would make the raws look like they had been scanned in monochrome. I don't fucking understand.

>>148249449
>can get away with a mediocre translator when translation is the most important
I hate this meme.

>>148249527
When you either have this translation or don't have any, almost anybody would choose this translation, since hooking another autist might be unlikely. Just hope this will trigger someone to volunteer for translation while spaming wanted/help pages.

>>148249500
Why not call them out on it?

>>148249766
I guess it can be awkward, especially if you was looking for people under "just to get things done duuude" and without "we will help you to learn/improve".

>>148249766
They seem so confident in their skills, telling them to change practically everything isn't very nice when they're just helping out. It's not like it's that bad, but it could definitely be better.
If it's too awful I'll tell them. I also work with some chinks who can't speak english for shit and have tons of mistranslations, and I just end up rewriting the whole thing. Fuck them.

>>148250168
They will never know they aren't as good as they think if no one tells them though.

>>148249115
I disagree, these type might be the people I'd never hang out drinking with, but if they think they're hot shit they should at least have some skills to back it up.
The other type, however, simply doesn't care.

This is speaking strictly about providing decent work.

>>148249191
I mean considering if I don't pay somebody to translate, it know it'd never get translated, I don't mind paying a lot of money, it's just a matter of time till I can save up enough to be able to spend that much money on it.

I just need suggestions of who to ask

>>148250478
Can't be helped m8. They're just helping on the side, if their main group is okay with what they do then it's better if I leave it like that.
But you think those chinks care that their script is awful and full of errors? All their others projects are the same and nobody in the group gives a fuck.

>>148250572
Well if money really isn't an issue, your best bet would probably be to look for groups/translators you're confident would do a good job and have done similar series in the past so they'd be likely to be interested.

Even if they don't work on that kind of series, you can probably make up for that if you pay enough, although then you might want to get someone very familiar with the series to look it over (or you could do that yourself).

I'd even consider it myself but I'm already trying to clear out a huge backlog of shit to translate.

>>148250572

Find someone who actually translates for a living and ask for a commission, rather than N4 teenagers. There' that one TL who translates game interviews as a hobby (site is Zelda something), email and ask.

>>148250895
So should I just ask the two groups who translated Gash Bell to begin with? The same ones I got/am getting permission from to reuse their translations?

>>148251038
Would somebody like that be willing to do it though? Obviously none of us give a shit about copyright infringement but somebody like him might.

>>148251133

TLs dont give a shit dude, they have a hard time getting work as it is and they're paid per word anyway. Just say you want the script for personal use.

>>148251133
If they're still actively translating stuff, sure, might be worth a try.

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>Translator can hardly grasp basic grammar and completely ignores punctuation

Why do people do this? Isn't it common sense that you should master the languages you're translating from and to?

>>148253253
Some people use it as a way to learn the language.
Some people just want popularity, which is more closely linked to output/speed than quality.

>>148250168
>>148249500
As someone who has horribly fucked up editing, and still continues to do so from time to time, I can say that I would have loved it if people had pointed out everything I had been doing wrong.

I hate the idea that people think I'm doing a terrible job but don't tell me that. If I'm doing something wrong, stop me from making that mistake again.

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/r/ Burapa translation. It's only 2 volumes with eccentric Haruhi-like girl.
http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/burapa-the-black-parade-r12172

>>148253253
I started translating when I had like 1 month of experience with moon, and I used it to improve and read more stuff.

Not sure if it was a good thing, I might've learned more if I just read, but now that I'm much more comfortable and confident in my moonskills, I went back to check my older translations and they're surprisingly correct.

Moon is easier than most people think, and I'm by no means have mastered it yet, nor english, but I feel I do a decent job but definitely not perfect.

If I were to wait for me to "master" (subjective) it, I'd need like 10 years of studying to translate some ero-crap.

>>148255811
>>148253590

Alright, I understand not being a moon master while translating manga for free, but I've run into way too many translators who can't write a coherent English sentence either.

I feel they should at least have a solid grasp on one of the two languages they're using.

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Bunny's Scans is looking for translators

They work on gay shit with decent art.
OPERA and OnBLUE published work for example.

I don't work for them just spreading the word .

I've got the email if interested, you can also find it on their site/livejournal.

>>148256067
They're one of those shitty groups picking up way too many projects at once without even having people.
Makes me mad.

>>148255811
>that comma abuse
>I'm by no means have mastered it yet, nor english
No kidding.

>>148256495
That's a typo or whatever you'd call it. I was writing "I'm no master" but changed it midway.

Not that it matters, just so you get in peace with your autistic egofaggotry.

>>148256067
Why do people always expect translators and others to fall at their feet when they ask for help? Most likely everyone is always stacked with things already and backlogs to clear.

>>148257161
I don't get any kind of entitled vibe from that post at all.
It seems like a very innocent "hey if you're interested in this kind of content, this group would like your help."
If there were a place to ask on /a/, this would be the place.

>>148203194
If 4chan dies, where will you go?

>>148257879
Outside.

>>148257879
Home.
ie, death

>>148231915
It's on jcafe.
Not sure if I should be linking this or not, so I'll just err on the side of caution
http://www.jcafe24.net/index.php?topic=50504.0

>>148257879
Elsewhere. It's not like 4chan essential for scanlating. If anything, with 4chan gone I can stop wasting my time here and do so much more.

>>148257879
Probably 8ch to be honest

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May as well bump the thread asking if anyone's interested in something as text-heavy as this series.

>>148205559
Whoa, thanks for this

>>148220410
>wouldn't do them justice
You can't. The very act of scanlation is an insult to the series and a slap in the fact to the mangaka. Anyone who had the slightest bit of respect for the work would tell others to learn the fucking language before ever going as far as butchering the authorship just to insert their ego into it.

Scanlators are fucking scum, just like the scum who read scanlations. One wants to feed their ego and the other wants to feed their desire for consumption.

>>148267345
>and the other wants to feed their desire for consumption
This applies to the people who read it in Japanese too, as well as literally every other person on the planet.

>>148203194
Whats the best method for practicing redrawing?

>>148269606
I would imagine drawing with a pen in photoshop would do you good

FORTHELOVEOFJESUSFUCKINGCHRISTMEANDTHEDEVILBLUESWHENISWEARONMEMUMIMGOINGTOKILLMYSELF

>>148205950
You're going to want to edit that again. Lot of busted-up English for such a short work (and with so many people working on it...).