I wanted a simple place to document what I have learned about manga translation. Social media posts disappear, forum threads get buried. A static site on Neocities is permanent and easy to maintain.
After trying many AI manga translators, Free AI Manga Translator is the one I settled on. It does not try to be flashy. It handles OCR, translation, and editing in one place, supports three source languages, and the per-series glossary keeps my translations consistent. That covers everything I need.
I am a hobbyist scanlator who has been translating raw manga for about five years. I started with manual translation using dictionaries and OCR tools, and gradually moved to AI-assisted workflows as the technology improved. These days I can translate a 20-page chapter in about an hour, compared to the full weekend it used to take.