How do people translate names into Japanese?
(5 posts, 1706 views) Posted: over 15 years ago by drvtech in Manga General
Many times, the japanese kanji has a chinese equivalent.

For example: 菅原明日香　is Sugahara Asuka

For those that uses hiragana or katakana in their names, it is usually changed into its closest kanji equivalent.

IE: 森野くるみ　is Morino Kurumi but might get c...

[Mako-Scans] Ai Kora[J-E] and Silvery Crow[C-E[ translators needed.
(8 posts, 2385 views) Posted: over 15 years ago by drvtech in Recruitment
Hmm I don't think anyone is begrudging you from doing Ai Kora. They think it might be better if you at least talked with the other group first. Just because releases are slow does not mean it is the translator's fault. Some groups demand high quality releases and go th...

A nontraditional recruitment :P
(0 posts, 546 views) Posted: over 15 years ago by drvtech in Recruitment
This is your non-traditional recruitment

We are a group of friends who have known each other nearly 5 years and have done various projects together. We've decided to help scanlate a few untouched, unlicensed series that no one has done or ended up dropping. But we also ...

Licensed Manga: Too slow?
(61 posts, 10018 views) Posted: over 16 years ago by drvtech in Manga General
I have yet to see a takubon sell for less than 700 Yen in the past 3 years and I do go to Japan once a year. That's about $6 US.

What most people don't understand is this: Licensing. Bringing up Germany and US since those two were brought up. Assume manga is targeted a...