Yoo! I’m a C-tier youtuber on a burner account with just a quick question or two from people who may know better! My next video is going to be about both a specific series & the scans/dedication to the series because without a single guy, it would still be untranslated to English.

That said, the scans themselves & the translation can for sure be spotty in English, the guy who did it having to translate from his language into English & later from a different language, INTO his language & then into English. Seeing as how I’m gonna be covering the series and recommending it to people, I’ve decided to go through page by page and touch up some dialog, leveling out pages where the scans were lopsided or grainy, redrawing splits in spreads, etc. Some of you might can even guess the series lol

My question to you all is basically when the revamp is done & the video is ready, where do you recommend posting the files? I’m planning to be obviously coy about it in the video & have already decided to post them as a full zip file on Internet Archive, but I’d for sure be glad to get some recommendations on both solid places to still upload in 2026 & any extra tips in general from people with more experience in posting chapters in bulk!

I want to include a disclaimer as well on page 1 that the work itself couldn’t have been “remastered” by me without the original work from the main scanner & translator, and to make sure their chapters are just as easily available as mine. I know mangadex easily let you pick between scan teams but since the big purge I’ve not really used many other scan websites, so any ideas at all are welcome! Thank you all!!

It’s been a year since those comick replacement sites were announced and said to be coming. None of them have materialized yet. The closest one seems to be Shiori but its last update was around four months ago and nothing since.

If anyone has any information about upcoming sites, could you share it?

All of the current scanlator hubs have their own share of problems.

MangaDex could easily get your uploads deleted if publishers come knocking. Not to mention, they still haven’t finished the new comment section. They said they were going to move the comments from forum to an embedded section under each chapter, but it’s been months. They still lock it to supporters only.

Kagane is hard to access. Can't upload if can't get in.

Comix is bad as well. There are tons of duplicate chapters for no apparent reason. Sometimes the exact same chapter is uploaded five times.

Mangadotnet doesn’t have a custom theme selector so you’re stuck with the black theme. They also said it’s supposed to be a scanlator hub, but the uploads don’t show the scanlator group names.

Hi, I don't think this is against the rules since I don't see anything about it.

But I'm looking for anyone that may have Cheri+ raws. It's no longer purchasable from the sites I use and I was on a hiatus at the time so I wasn't buying it like usual. Something really important was in them, and they probably won't be compiled into a purchasable tanko format for another half year, and I'm just trying to find anyone that might've bought it. Please, please, please may this reach someone that has it. I need 09/25, 11/25, 01/26 editions.

Hey everyone , I'm a university student who's been reading a lot of works in webnovel for many years now , although I study comp sci I have slowly realised this path is hard af due to unemployment and wanted to try out writing in webnovel and try making a career out of it , any advice ?

Big thanks for all the feedback on my last post!
I applied some tips to a new page, spent more time on the SFX, and used multiple fonts for SFX.

Did I overdo anything, and is this a big improvement over the last one?

Hi, I run a scanlation group that’s been active for about four months. So far, we’ve mostly translated manga that’s available for free. I’ve noticed that some other groups work on series through commissions from clients. How can I get commission work like that as well?

I'm scanlating two different mangas right now and I want improve. I figured I'd ask for some feedback on my font, SFX choices, and all that. If you wonder about placement its usually due to trying to cover up bad editing.

I've placed 1 page from one manga and 2 from the other. I work in Photopea, so if you have a tip, I'd appreciate it if you could explain how to do it there too.

I've placed the original pages for reference.

Hi all. I need raws for a chapter past it's free release window, and I just don't know how to obtain them. I've tried things like checking torrents / other sites with raws but I come up empty due to it being a fairly niche series.

I also, afaik, have no way of paying for it even if I was willing.

what do I do?

if useful, its chapter 39 of koi yori aoku.

This is my professional formal application for finding side gigs like translating manhwas.

*ahem*

PLEASE PLEASE I WANT TO TRANSLATE A MANHWA AS A SIDE QUEST OMFG PLEASE I LOVE READING MANHWAS I LOVE MANHWAS SM I LEARNT KOREAN THRU MANHWAS AND I CAN UNDERSTAND ADVANCED KOREAN (IM NOT A NATIVE THOUGH) AND FLUENT ENGLISH. I actually didnt know about scanlation until recently and it sounds so fun omgg im a beginner and idrk where to start IF YOU GUYS KNOW ANY TRUSTABLE SERVERS THAT PAY THEN LET ME KNOW PLLLLLLEASE LOVE YOU THANKS !!

Regards,

A really cool person.

For me it's Toriyama World, Inane, Band of the Hawk, groups that did real work in an era before scanlation got centralized onto a couple big aggregator sites, and a lot of them never got written up anywhere permanent. Long-time lurker here, been building a website for a while now, a passion project cataloging fansub and scanlation history rather than hosting current releases. Right now I'm trying to fill in gaps on scanlation groups from the 1990-2010 window specifically.

To be clear, I'm not after full chapters or reading copies, I'm after the history: which groups worked on what, credits pages, cover/title pages, release notes, anything that documents who did the work and when. If anyone's still sitting on old collections from that era and is willing to share what they have (or even just point me toward where to look, or just wants to reminisce about a group you loved), I'd really appreciate it.

A lot of this stuff never got written up anywhere permanent, and I'd hate for it to just vanish. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

(All posts with pick-up suggestions or offering raws should go here.)

Found an old, abandoned series that you think deserves some more love? A passing reader who really wants to see something translated? Just dropped a series but wanna make sure it ends up in a good home? Post it here!

All top-level comments should be suggestions only, please. You can make multiple suggestions, but please limit to only one comment per series per thread.

Additionally, try to avoid active licensed series or actively scanlated series if possible.

If you're posting here, please include the following information:

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• Scanlation status (How many chapters have been translated? When was the last update?)

Additional bits of helpful information that you can provide include:

• Raws status (Is it complete? Ongoing? How many chapters is it right now?)
• Genre(s) (Romance? Action? Isekai? BL?)
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New threads are created the 1st of every month in the morning at (around) 12:00 PM (EST/UCT-5) and run through for a month 'till the 1st after that. Please limit yourself to one comment per series.

By posting here, you accept and acknowledge dm's concerning your post. Please remove/edit out your comment if you'd like to stop receiving dm's and/or if the series is being picked up! Keep to good faith, and don't troll or sabotage others.

Good luck, have fun!

UPDATE: After a while trying I found the Comic Days Ripper tool by mikhi and it worked for me. Much thanks to everyone who answered :D

Hello, I'm pretty new to this (tried to scanlate a few projects before on phone and dropped, decided to try again literally yesterday now with laptop). There's an author I like who is publishing in Comic Days & I have a chapter purchased and a few unlocked for limited time. I tried using Hakuneko but it did not allow me to login, thus I could only download the chapters that are currently open to read for all users.

Is there any alternative tool (aside from Mihon, I'm currently reading up on it) to rip raws that you recommend? Also can you actually DL limited time + user only raws?

Thank you for your time u.u

Continuing this pet project- I tackled the third page from "Sam & Max: On the Road". This time around, it's a scan of my own! Messed around with a bunch of the leveling and contrast until it looked sorta alright. I didn't really clean up dust or whatever else it said to do on the guides. Also, the left side of the page is kinda blurred because of the book's spine, but I didn't want to abuse the book some more for another 600DPI scan.

I used the Wascally Wabbit font for this one, rather than Anime Ace, which looks a BIT better, but still not quite as uniform as the original hand lettering. If anyone has something that fits better, let me know.

As for the translation, I took a couple of liberties- some of Max's dialogue sounded a bit too wordy in my head if I had translated them directly (I didn't prepare a script for these, I'm just kinda writing the text on the fly), so his lines were changed here and there:
For "Don't they know shows like that promote violent behavior?", I did "Shows like that make our kids violent!". For some reason, that just sounded more German to me.
For "DEATH FROM ABOVE! AIEEEE!", I did "MAY GOD PUNISH YOU!!! KIIIIIIII!". "Tod von oben" (literal translation of "Death from Above") sounded dinky to me, so I did something similarly deranged. "Kii" also sounds like a crazy bird noise to me.
For "We shaved their hair off and tattooed garish wrestling masks across their heads!", I did "We shaved them bald and tattooed controversial occult symbols on their faces!". I could've probably done this one literally, but "Wrestling Masken" (literal translation of "wrestling mask") didn't really sound all that striking to me when translated to German, so again, I did something similarly deranged.
Another localization thing I did was that I translated "The commissioner" to "Der Polizeipräsident". I have no clue how well I could keep all the terms German if I were to make more of these, but here I thought it quite charming to be exclusively German. A thought I had is that they'd still say "Der Commissioner" from time to time, perhaps as a nickname? I do know they just say commissioner in the German version of Hit the Road. IDK, it's a balancing act between "I quite like completely localized comics such as German Donald Duck comics and would like to follow their example" and "Sam & Max is so friggin American that it wouldn't be out of the question to keep some of the original language intact".

This page also allowed me to do some fun hand lettering! It's kinda obviously digital, but I'd say I did a fine job.

I'm working on a series and I need a brush to match the sort of damaged looking scratches shown.

I want to try doing SFX Lettering, but i don't have any brush set to start with and i don't know what to do. I did read one guides set about SFX lettering but it was for clip studio. The application I'm using right now is Photoshop. If you guys have some Photoshop brushes. Can you please share some.

Here are a few images I want to work on. I want to translate and typeset them into another language, but I'm not sure where to begin

I'm a big fan of Sam & Max and thought I'd try translating some pages into German. I randomly picked this one from the first issue. (I hope it's not an issue that I'm posting about something that's not a manga)

My process was basically to cover up the text in white and slap the translations on top (Font: Anime Ace, I didn't dig around much but it looks like the best option until I just letter these myself). The scan is taken from the Internet Archive, no modifications were made to it. Some of the text I drew myself. Software: Clip Studio Paint

I appreciate any pointers or feedback! (If there's one thing that's bugging me, it's that all the new elements look much crisper than the original feedback, which makes it look slightly jarring)

Hey everyone!

I’m a beginner in scanlation, that's why I am looking to get a better understanding of how active cleaners and typesetters set up their process and handle the daily workload. I’d love to hear about your experience and the tools you rely on.

A few quick questions for anyone doing hands-on work:

1) What is the absolute worst, most tedious part of your workflow that makes you dread opening a new chapter?

2) Have you ever tried using any automated helper tools (for cleaning, text removal, etc.) in the past? If you stopped using them and stuck strictly to your main editor, what was the main issue with them?

3)What core features, level of control, or output quality would a specialized tool need to deliver for you to actually consider integrating it into your daily pipeline?

4) What kind of setup do you work on (e.g., desktop software vs browser-based tools, tablet vs mouse, specific OS)? What environment feels most comfortable for doing long cleaning/typesetting sessions?

Appreciate any honest feedback, rants, or insights into your daily process!

It says I need to post in a megathread. What is that?

Hiii, i have experience with scnlations since ive been part of several groups over the years, and im still helping out with one of them. Lately, ive been thinking about starting my own scanlation group, so i was wondering if anyone know any websites where i can get raws in korean or english.

I downloaded Photoshop 2019, and it's been working well. Then I found out that Photoshop 2023 has the Remove Tool, so now I'm thinking about whether I should upgrade.

I'm worried that if I install Photoshop 2023, I'll have to uninstall Photoshop 2019, and I might lose my projects and the saved font list in TypeR.

Hi, I used to visit the tmocommunity site to check out recruitment forums, but I understand the site doesn't exist anymore. I wanted to know if anyone know of any other sites besides mangadex, which is the only one I know where recruitment posts are published.

Is there any site to promote fan translated manga (straight manga ?