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Notes on translating manga.
How the translator works and how to get a cleaner result.
2026-11-14
Translating Long Webtoon Strips Without Cutting Bubbles in Half
Why AI translators leave webtoon strips half translated, split speech bubbles and leave English behind, and how we rebuilt long-strip translation: overlapping detection pieces, one translation pass and bubble-wide cleaning, with before-and-after examples.
2026-11-13
Manga Typesetting: How We Fit Translated Text Into Speech Bubbles
The rules letterers follow when fitting English into manga speech bubbles, and the six typesetting problems we hit building an AI manga translator, each with the fix and before-and-after examples.
2026-11-12
Manga Honorifics and Translation Styles: -san, -kun, -senpai Compared on a Real Page
What Japanese honorifics like -san, -kun, -chan and -senpai mean, why translators disagree about keeping them, and how the same manga page reads in Standard, Keep honorifics and Faithful styles.
2026-11-12
How to Translate Manga to English: A Step-by-Step Guide with Real Pages
Translate raw Japanese manga pages to English with AI: prepare your scans, upload, pick a translation style, add a glossary for names, and download pages with the English lettered inside the bubbles.
2026-11-12
How to Translate Manhwa and Korean Webtoons with AI
A practical guide to translating Korean manhwa and webtoons: how they differ from manga, how to prepare long vertical strips, which translation style to pick, and how to keep names consistent across chapters.
2026-11-11
How AI manga translation works, step by step
What happens to a manga page between upload and download: text detection, OCR, clean-up, translation and typesetting.