Translate raw Japanese manga pages to English

Japanese manga usually sets dialogue vertically, right to left, in narrow bubbles. English runs horizontally and is longer, so the translation is re-lettered horizontally inside the same bubble and may use a smaller size than the original.

Furigana, the small reading aids beside kanji, can be tiny on low-resolution scans. Use the clearest source you have; blurry or heavily compressed pages are the most common cause of missed or garbled lines.

Katakana sound effects are often drawn into the artwork at angles, over screentones or across characters. They are harder to detect than bubble text and may be left in Japanese or only partly replaced.

Handwritten asides and stylised narration have the same issue. If an effect matters to the scene, compare it with the original; for publishable scanlation work, plan a manual lettering pass.

Japanese often leaves out who is speaking or acting, and English needs a pronoun. The AI has to guess from the page, so lines spoken off-panel can get the wrong he, she or they. Suffixes such as -san, -kun, -chan and senpai may be kept, translated or dropped.

Each page is translated separately and there is no shared glossary, so a name or special term can be romanised differently across a chapter. Check recurring names before you share the result.

For a quick gist of one screenshot on a phone, Google Lens or a similar camera translator is faster, though it overlays text instead of re-lettering bubbles. If you want to study Japanese line by line, a tool that shows the original text next to the translation will serve you better than a re-lettered image.

This tool does not provide an editable transcript or a text editor after translation, does not import PDF or EPUB directly, and does not run offline. For a whole chapter, use the batch translator (up to 20 images) or the CBZ translator (one CBZ or ZIP up to 50 pages).