** We have found an adequate number fan translators/typesetters, thank you friends at Reddit!
* ps Thank you very much for your feedback, Reddit community. I would like to make it clear that our project is not machine translation project, it's rather a translation project with the little help of translation software. As many of you pointed out, translation is a complex work and machine translation still has a long way to go, and that is why we need your help.
Hi, I am Marishi of Mantra Inc.
We at Mantra are beginning a new test project with a publisher, Shogakukan, to translate manga officially with the help of fan translators (scanlators) using our translation tool called Mantra Engine (here is an overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3gRg6pOXBw. English subtitles are available, so please use the CC button on YouTube if you'd like to see them).
The reason we created Mantra Engine is that currently, most manga takes too long to be published officially and made available for readers overseas. Because of this, the community has to rely on fan translators (scanlators) that volunteer their free time to translate manga, out of their love for the medium. However, no one gets paid for their hard work in this current system, neither the manga authors nor the fan translators.
With Mantra Engine, we hope to solve both problems. Manga can be made available outside of Japan more quickly, and everyone can be paid for their work β not only the manga authors but also fan translators.
That brings us back to the test: we would like to see if it is possible to publish more manga quickly and officially with the help of fan translators and our translation tool.
As part of this test, we would like to recruit fan translators to begin translating the 2 titles below that are popular in Japan, into English versions (you can read a couple of chapters in the original Japanese at the URLs below).
Once these titles are translated, we will publish them on an official website.
η°ε£ζ¦θ¨γ΄γ§γ«γ³γγ£γͺ(Iken Senki Velundio) https://urasunday.com/title/1349/126872
1000εγγΌγγΌ (1000 yen hero) https://urasunday.com/title/335/33343
Hello! I have been wanting to collect Doraemon manga, and I see that the only English version is a 10 volume set by Shogakukan. Is that the complete series? Or do we have yet to see a complete Doraemon in English?
Shueisha/Shogakukan: Dragon ball Naruto ONE PIECE My hero academia Bleach Jojos bizzare adventure Yugioh Hunter x hunter Assassination classroom Black clover Demon slayer Fist of the North Star One punch man Tokyo ghoul Death note Hetalia Doraemon Kamen rider Inuyasha Ranma Β½
Kodansha: Akira Attack on titan Devilman Astro boy Fairy tail Gundam Sailor moon Pretty cure
Kadokawa: Code geass Cowboy bebop SGT frog Haruhi suzumiya Kill la kill
Square Enix: Black Butler Fullmetal alchemist Soul eater
So I bought Magi Manga for a good price of 2$ each. When i brought it home, showed it to my friends they said it was "fake" because it had a different publisher. They had the same volume but with the logo "SJ" on it while mine doesnt. So I found out it was published by "shogakuka". Now im confused thinking I bought a fake manga. Considering it was only 2$.
