Fukatsu's The Swordwoman With Curse manga is published using Google Translate
Image via Corona EX Website
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Japanese publisher TO Books launched an English version of manga website Corona EX on Monday as a paid subscription service, including previous translations of its works from multiple publishers. various English versions (such as Seven Seas Entertainment or J-Novel Club), as well as works translated by machine through Google Translate, which the site acknowledges may contain errors. This service has a monthly subscription fee of $4.50.
The site currently features the Ascendance of a Bookworm manga, Sorceous Stabber Orphen: The Youthful Journey manga, The Swordwoman With Curse manga, and The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash. An individual page for each work on the site indicates whether the work contains translations previously published by other companies or whether it contains content translated using Google Translate. Of the four works listed, Fukatsu's The Swordwoman With Curse is listed as using Google Translate, while all three remaining titles use previous translations by J-Novel Club or Seven Seas Entertainment.
The machine-translated The Swordwoman With Curse manga contains entire frames and untranslated (often handwritten) text, along with other errors.
This service will leave supplementary materials, such as short comics, novellas, or afterwords by the author, untranslated.
Bushiroad previously announced in December that they would use Mantra Engine to translate Kore Yamazaki's The Ancient Magus' rolling machine. Manga Bride and Ghost and Witch.
Shueisha's MANGA Plus service began publishing Daisuke Miyata's Rugby Rumble (Saikyō no Uta) manga in English last October, with AI localization company Orange Inc. joining forces. Media Do Co., Ltd. for writing and editing. After backlash on social media over the quality of the lettering, MANGA Plus released a new version within a week, crediting Amaki as letterer and editor along with Orange and Media Do.
Source: Corona EX website via Siliconera
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