Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Evangelion Manga Chapter 84b (English)

So here's the scene: Me and Charioteer, sitting online doing nothing in particular.  When all of the sudden I get this crazy idea "You know Chinese right?" "Yeah, that's actually the only language I've studied in school." "...You wanna translate the latest chapter of Eva? The raws are in Chinese." "*Puts glasses on* Let's do this." YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

IShoutedCleaning: Part 1 of The Editing process

Greetings program! Charioteer's post about his process of translation inspired me to make a post of my own for your amusement. I want to make something clear though, for this first part unlike typesetting I have not actually gotten decent practice with the cleaning process.  I consider myself to be at about below average level, though for cleaning doujins you don't really need to have as high skill level that you might for a popular manga title.  But I do take pride in making sure our releases are of some quality, because at the end of the day anyone can nab some raws, slap some text on with paint, and release it.  We're working with hentai here, no one's going to complain if a font looks off as long as it's readable heheh.  But since I have dabbled in regular manga scanlation, there are a few things that I make sure take place when we release a translation.