Transcript
Editable OCR text stays separate from the original page.
Private reading, contextual learning
Stay in the story.
Understand the Japanese.
A private place for manga you already own—where every speech bubble can become a small, useful Japanese lesson.
Early access buildCBZ · ZIP · imagesNo public catalog
Original page first
Help only when you ask
Your library stays private
From volume to vocabulary
A reading flow that respects the page.
No side-by-side wall of machine output. The artwork remains the reading surface; language help appears in context.
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Bring your own volume
Upload a CBZ, ZIP image bundle, or individual pages you have the right to use.
- 02
Let the page become legible
The processing pipeline finds Japanese text, keeps its place on the page, and prepares lookup-ready tokens.
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Read, tap, and learn
Stay with the artwork. Open a word only when curiosity strikes, then continue from the same place.
Japanese, without the tab spiral
Look up one thing.
Keep reading.
Dictionary
Readings, parts of speech, and selected senses stay grounded in cited data.
Translation
Literal aid and natural translation are labeled, versioned, and never presented as facts.
Progress
Return to your page and optionally save words you met while reading.
Private-first by architecture
Your manga is reading material, not platform content.
Personal library
Uploads belong to one account and are never turned into a public catalog or social feed.
Minimal exposure
Processing messages carry IDs and private artifact keys—not page images or OCR text.
Visible provenance
Dictionary facts and generated explanations remain distinct, sourced, and correctable.
Start with files you control
Simple formats.
Strict boundaries.
CBZOrdered image archives
ZIPValidated image bundles
JPG · PNG · WebPIndividual page images
Encrypted files, remote URLs, nested archives, and DRM-protected content are not supported.
BUILDING
IN PUBLIC
IN PUBLIC
Current status
The foundation is verified.
The private reader is next.
The local Cloudflare runtime, isolated storage bindings, tests, and delivery harness are running. Product capabilities are shipping in reviewable stages—without a fake demo or borrowed manga.
Questions, answered plainly
Before you upload a page.
Does this include a manga catalog?
No. Manga Translator Reader is for private reading of files you legally obtained. It does not scrape, download, sell, or publicly share manga.
What can I upload?
The first supported formats are CBZ, ZIP bundles of JPEG, PNG, or WebP pages, and individual page images. DRM-protected and remote-source files are not accepted.
Will the Japanese analysis always be correct?
No. OCR, tokenization, sense selection, and translation can be wrong. The interface keeps sources and confidence visible and lets corrections create a new revision.
Is the reader available today?
The public site is live while the private reader is being completed in verified stages. We label shipped and early-access behavior instead of presenting a fake demo.