Hello comrades, I'm here with a proposal: let's start a scanlation group to bring leftist manga to a non-Japanese audience.
>Are there any leftist manga???
Yes, for example the masterpiece of Japanese communist literature Kani Kousen (The crab cannery ship) got three manga adaptation. Two of them are available in digital, and I suggest we start from them.
>What do you bring to the table? You're aren't one of those "idea guys", right?
I'm a scanlator: I translate, clean pages and add text. I can do basically anything you need to do to release a manga, except I'm not too good with PS and since I'm not a native speaker I also need someone else to do editing and proofreading.
Oh, I can also provide raws and I have uploading privileges on mangadex.
>How do we organize?
That's something I can't answer. I know that d*scord is a big no-no, but I don't know many alternatives, so I'd like to hear your proposals.
So, what do you think?
>>13210I hope it's not too hard to setup
>>13211if you have the whole thing we might work on it
>>13259Unfortunately I didnt even have a properly running computer. I am literally posting from a 6 year old phone with 1GB RAM right now.
>>13260Yeah I know these sort of things wont replace manual effort but the idea I was throwing out is that taking advantage of various selections of deep learning neural network AI programs available these days it may be possible to get by on a pretty small scanlation team once the limitations are figured out so no time is wasted using it for something that wont work at all.
I'm very interested in this. The thing is that I don't have Photoshop or GIMP nor am I a native English speaker lol.
Also can someone post some resources on how to do a collaborative manga translation project?
>>13208I didn't either until a few months ago. It's not that hard.
>>13253Hello newfag
>>13248>>13211Is Marx Girl just coomer shit or
>>13282The actual newfag is the guy who thinks that leftist manga doesn't exist and that LGBT themes count as "leftist".
On the other hand, I haven't read Marx Girl for obvious reasons (it's only in Japanese), but I have read about it before, when we were still on Bunkerchan. However the only two pics of it that were posted in this thread (the cover and one page with a pantyshot) look like coomer shit.
>>13281>>13285coomer boomer zoomer doomer
Shut the fuck up.
Apparently Marx Girl was at some point licensed in English. From what I've read it doesn't have much to do with marxism, it's more about art. There are a few spicy scenes, but nothing too lewd. The raws of the first volume are available here:
https://simplyhentai.org/g/119313I'll give it another read as soon as I have time, then I'll let you know if it's worth scanlating for us. There's a kindle version available so I already know where to buy the raws.
And stop calling everything that shows a bit of skin "coomer shit": we aren't mormons nor talibans.
Anyway, here's a few pictures of the authors taken from his twitter. The last screenshot says "Shame on you, you fucking right-wingers". At least we can confirm the author is left-wing.
>>13372Good idea, but I'd rather do short stories and one volume manga and only then starting with serializations.
>>13373Can you link them?
Oh, it would be great if we could find at least another JP > EN translator lol
>>13357>The reviews on amazon are good and for what I've read no one complained about a "leftist bias" which is a common complain whenever a manga shows sympathetic communists.To be fair, a lot of leftist artists are good at creating stuff that the average person can enjoy without realizing it was made by a leftist (see:
Disco Elysium, practically everyone loved it and no one knew the creators were actual leftists, despite it being implied in the game itself, until they explicitly thanked Marx and Engels at the Game Awards. Also Miyazaki, I guess.)
>>13372>>13373both sound good, I agree with the second anon
>>13374>it would be great if we could find at least another JP > EN translator lolHow many in this thread know Japanese?
>>13502OP here, we can do even with just me as the translator but of course this means we can only do one release at time.
Anyway, next week I'll probably start working on one of the kani kousen manga as a test to see what we can do together. If someone could link me a retard-proof guide to set up Matrix I'd be grateful.
>>13509Well shit, I can't host my own server lol.
Should I look for a public homeserver?
>>13546I'd grateful if you could find someone willing to work on cleaning and typesetting.
BTW, I'm gonna post stuff on the 2D/Leftist room on leftypol's Matrix.
>>13549Thanks!
>>13550Interesting stuff, there's definitely some value in translating them.
>>13551Yes.
>>13672Because it's a niche manga and I couldn't find any rip. I should have checked bookwalker before trying , but now it's too late and I don't want to buy it again.
If someone knows of a way to how convert a AZW3 file in HQ png, feel free to explain me how I could do it.
In alternative, this manga can be bought on bookwalker here:
https://bookwalker.jp/de861c97f6-51bc-4619-8892-ed424673f732/and ripped using this tool
https://github.com/xuzhengyi1995/Bookwalker_Downloader >>13673> If someone knows of a way to how convert a AZW3 file in HQ png, feel free to explain me how I could do it.If you have the de-drm'ed ebook file you could do the following:
1. Install Calibre ebook program.
https://calibre-ebook.com/download2. Download, install, and configure the Kindle Unpack plugin
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1715293. Restart Calibre
4. Load the azw3 file into Calibre and select it
5. Use the "KindleUnpack" plugin button in the main toolbar (that is the default location, it may be hidden or placed somewhere else). Once done, Calibre should automatically open the default destination folder with everything extracted.
>>13677I didn't know about this plugin, but I tried it and the quality of the pictures is the same.
I experimented a bit, and found out that if you do denoise first and magnify later there are slightly less artifacts. I could try to do this or I could give up on magnifying and simply denoise the pictures in 900x1200. Wish I had the patience to denoise every picture with photoshop, I already did it in the past but 210 pages are a lot for me.
>>13739Oh wow, that sucks.
Also I wish I get a picture as cool as that in my obituary.
>>13972normally it's not that hard to find people willing to do stuff liek this, the problem is that I want to create a group dedicated to leftists manga and that's a bit harder to do.
Anyway, I'm thinking of buying a new digital copy of kani kousen from bookwalker in the hope that the quality will be better than the kindle edition which is a pain to work with.
>>13984>Isn't typesetting just erasing speech bubbles and adding the translated dialogue?No, typesetting is choosing the appropriate fonts, size and adding text.
>Cleaning on the other hand sounds like a pain in the ass.It generally is, but in some manga it's a no-brainer.
>Is it mandatory to use proprietary software like Photoshop too?No, that's just what I use and what I know how to use.
>I have seen some scanlation teams just skip more detailed cleaners all together and just put translation notes on the side for sound effects and what signs and written letters read and focus only on dialogue and monologue being edited.translation notes for SFX is lazy as shit to be honest. I'd rather just add the translation near the original SFX.
>>16230>>16231Scans of Sakura Illustrated were posted here and to archive.org over a year and a half ago. It includes the original English translation of the chapter you mentioned (you can also find it on mangadex iirc)
Here's the thread:
https://leftypol.org/anime/res/5156.html Unique IPs: 41