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i cant believe we've reached the point where mangas so popular ppl are shocked that fan translations exist . srsly tho the vast majority of bl manga were fan translated at one point, thats how a lot of things are before they get official english translations, even today.
Yeah literally more than half the works on this site are fan translated
Yeah, that one friend on a Tuesday
Most manga was fan translated back in the day. Anime wasn’t as popular back then
Are you asking cuz you're shocked quality is so good you couldn't tell it was fan translated or are you asking cuz you didn't know fan translations were and still is a thing? It's not just with manga, it's with manhwa and manhua too. They were all fan translated at one point, until officials get released then those get posted instead.
I’m asking because I’m genuinely wondering how do they do it. Like are they guessing based on the panel and vibes of using google translate or sth?
When I see regular (non official) translators I assumed someone spoke the native
Language and translated
Those fan translators usually form scanlation groups. Or sometimes it's just one person but usually they DO know the language. You've ever seen a recruitment ad page in the beginning of the manga/hwa asking for translators? Cleaners etc? Those are scan groups looking for more individuals to volunteer. They work together to make sure the raw material looks good for them to translate.
It's the ones that look unclean and translations dont make sense that are the google translators. Now those don't understand the language and they just churn out bad quality stuff.
Ohhh my bad
The manga I’m reading is apparently fan translated—how do you even manage to do that