Publish your manga in 10 languages — in minutes, not months
Mangalocale turns Japanese manga pages into professionally typeset editions in English and 9 more languages — shouts, whispers and narration typeset, sound effects read and translated, not just speech bubbles. Built for indie publishers and creators who hold the rights to their catalog.
No credit card required.
まだ立ってるのか。遅かったな。見逃すわけないだろ。なら、瞬きするな。——決めてやる!一撃で——Still on your feet.You're late.Wouldn't miss this.Then don't blink.—is all I need!One shot—How it works
1. Upload
Drop in pages, a .zip, or a whole .cbz. Numbered pages are ordered automatically; you confirm before anything runs.
2. AI pipeline
Each page flows through detection, OCR, translation, and typesetting — with your series glossary applied at every step.
3. Review & export
Watch every page move through the pipeline live, read the result side by side with the original, edit any bubble without re-running the page, and export a finished .cbz.
What the AI reads on every page
Emotion-aware lettering
A shout is set in a display face at 1.25×, a whisper drops to 0.8×, and thoughts and narration each get their own face. Five deliveries, with a matched font set in every one of the 10 output languages.
It reads the page, not just the text
The model sees the artwork alongside the dialogue, so it knows who is speaking — and it carries the previous pages' lines forward, so pronouns and honorifics stay right across a chapter.
Sound effects translated, artwork intact
Onomatopoeia is detected, read and translated — and never painted over. Tools that inpaint sound effects leave smeared panels; your linework comes back exactly as you drew it.
Borderless text isn't skipped
Narration and monologue set outside a bubble is the text most tools drop. We recover it — around 48% of the on-artwork text on a real chapter — and re-typeset it properly.
Your dialogue, not a sanitised version of it
The translation model is self-hosted, not a third-party API. Nothing is sent to a vendor who can refuse your material — and nothing quietly softens a line into something safer than what your artist wrote.
Glossary-enforced terminology
Character names, honorifics, and series terms stay consistent across every chapter — you define them once.
Every kind of text on the page — not just the bubbles
……効くな。まだ足りない!立てよ。夜明けまで、あと一撃。全部、ここに置いていく。…That stung.Not enough!Get up.One blow before dawn.I leave all of it here.Artwork generated by AI for demonstration. Dialogue is overlaid the same way the product typesets a real page.
Speech bubble
Source
……効くな。
Translation
…That stung.
- Delivery
- whisper
- Lettering
- Comic Neue Light · 0.8×
Detected, read, translated and re-typeset inside the balloon, sized to fit.
Pricing
Every account starts with 10 free pages.
$19/month
For creators publishing a series or two.
- 200 translated pages every month
- Glossary-enforced terminology
- Side-by-side review reader
- CBZ import and export
$49/month
For publishers with a full catalog to move.
- 800 translated pages every month
- Priority processing queue
- Everything in Starter
Custom
For studios and agencies with large catalogs.
- Custom page volume
- Onboarding for your team
- Everything in Pro
Frequently asked questions
Your first 10 pages are on us
Upload a chapter, see the translated edition, and judge the quality yourself.
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