Aw, no Hunter x Hunter?
Yeah, sorry about that! We’d definitely love to get it on Azuki but the process isn't too straight-forward and can take some time between negotiating with publishers and creators.
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#23A little off-topic, but what is the best way to translate manga into other languages? I have been looking for a tool that makes this easy, but i haven’t found anything yet. I’m talking about making new translations myself, not tools that will scan the page and run it through google translate.
If you already read Japanese and are just looking for a tool to help with the workflow, one tool that’s really promising is Serifu, a translation markup language being developed by translator Paul Starr: https://github.com/papatangosierra/serifu
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#24A little off-topic, but what is the best way to translate manga into other languages? I have been looking for a tool that makes this easy, but i haven’t found anything yet. I’m talking about making new translations myself, not tools that will scan the page and run it through google translate.
Last time I checked (years ago haha), you would use Tesseract OCR and some other translation tool. There are more sophisticated methods now that include AI to include visual context for translation (https://syncedreview.com/2020/12/31/japanese-manga-translati...).
Not sure what’s most popular or open source now
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#25Aw, no Hunter x Hunter?
Yeah, sorry about that! We’d definitely love to get it on Azuki but the process isn't too straight-forward and can take some time between negotiating with publishers and creators.
If you get it, I'd subscribe immediately. I just need to read volumes 33-36 to finish it out, but I don't want to buy them, as that seems kind of a waste... and I don't want to pirate them either.
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#27Finally someone making this obvious product.
When you know, you know ;)
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
We are using native Kotlin/Java for Android and Swift for iOS as we have a dedicated engineer for each platform!
that’s quite impressive, not so many startups can afford to do this
Aw thanks! We believe in building products that will last and be scalable so we wanted to do as much as we can to keep things sustainable. That's why we sought out founders with dedicated Android and iOS experience.
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#29Great idea for a product. Glad this exists! If anything, you guys should be charging more for this service!
Calm down - we're in the middle of a massive upward inflationary spiral across the Western world. I know I'd love to buy this, but I'm already double-guessing myself on whether it's worth $60 a year...
This is off topic but as someone who grew up in a household that made their living selling things in markets, where prices were openly negotiated, I just want to share a thought:
While you're absolutely allowed to express that a product may not be worth a price, it seems tactless to make such a comment on a thread where the founders are announcing their product. I understand you're replying to someone who feels the product could command a higher price, but to say you're double guessing the price just seems like something you should keep to yourself.
I can only imagine the amount of work this team puts into crafting these translations - similar to how family put a lot of work into the goods they sold.
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#30A long time ago, I used to read mangas on Mangarock. It was completely free to and seemed to have most of the mangas. So, what value are u adding here?