The service released a new version of the manga’s first chapter on Saturday
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© Daisuke Miyata,
Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service began publishing Daisuke Miyata’s Rugby Rumble (Saikyō no Uta) manga in English on Thursday, and the manga distribution is credited to the company “Orange Inc.” along with Media Do Co., Ltd. for writing and editing.
The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) website describes Orange Inc. as follows:
Orange has cut the manga localization process and costs by 90% through AI. This system allows for dozens of times more localization than before. We are creating an epochal localization/globalization of Japanese comics.
The company was founded in April 2021 and announced in July that it had raised $1.8 million. The company is also involved in the process Localization on the social networks of the manga Neko Oji: The Guy that got Reincarnated as a Cat.
Mei Amaki (Mugen Creations LLC.) is translating the Rugby Rumble manga.
After the manga launched in English and received backlash on social media over the quality of the lettering, MANGA Plus released a new version of the first chapter on Saturday, with changed typesetting, and Amaki is currently also credited as a letter writer and editor with Orange Inc. and Media Due.
Original version
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© Daisuke Miyata, Shueisha
Updated version
Image via Manga Plus
© Daisuke Miyata, Shueisha
The manga launches on MANGA Plus on September 28, and the second chapter will release on October 5. The manga launches in Japan on Shonen Jump+’s service on September 29.
Regarding the use of AI in art in Japan, TBS News Dig reported in May that about 94% of Japanese creators are “concerned that AI could cause harmful effects such as rights violations,” according to a survey by Arts Workers Japan around the world. 25,000 creators.
Japanese content sites DLsite, Ci-en, pixiv FANBOX and Fantia all banned or restricted AI-generated content on their platforms in May. A new manga series based on the classic Black Jack series by Osamu Tezuka will launch this fall and is co-produced by AI based on ChatGPT-4 chatbot.
In the United States, recent strikes were partly to blame from the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-) labor union. AFTRA) will require safeguards against and limit the use of AI by those industries.
Source: Manga Plus, The Beat
