Vertical Japanese → English
Japanese narration becomes horizontal English inside the same two text boxes. The drawing stays visible.
トモちゃんは女の子！ · セーラーショック · 柳田史太 · View the chapter on Twi4. Artwork belongs to its respective creators and publishers.
Comic translation guides for manga, webtoons and comic strips
Which site are you reading on? Open its guide for a publisher’s chapter, the reading order to follow, and what happens to the audio when you reach the next drawing.
See the translation on a real comic
These English translations were captured in official chapters using the CastReader desktop extension preview. Each pair shows the same panel. Open either image to inspect it at full size.
Korean speech bubble → English
The Korean lettering is covered and the English translation appears inside the original bubble.
빙의 · #1 귀신에 씌이다 · View the chapter on NAVER WEBTOON. Artwork belongs to its respective creators and publishers.
Manga pages and vertical Japanese dialogue
- How to translate and listen to a MANGA Plus chapterRead dialogue in a MANGA Plus chapter in another language. Follow the page counter in horizontal mode or the highlighted bubble in scrolling mode.
- How to translate vertical Japanese manga on Twi4Follow Japanese columns, furigana and four-panel reading order on Twi4. Try two publisher strips and check which small bubbles OCR can miss.
Scrolling webtoons and comic episodes
- How to translate Korean speech bubbles on NAVER WEBTOONOpen a Korean episode on comic.naver.com, translate the Hangul inside its artwork, and compare the translated bubble with the original.
- How to translate a WEBTOON episode and listen as it scrollsUse an English WEBTOON episode of Bluechair to follow speech bubbles down a long strip and switch between the original and translated narration.
- How to translate a Tapas comic episode panel by panelFind the comic edition on Tapas and follow translated narration between image panels in The Beginning After the End.
- How to translate Korean comics in the Toomics episode viewerStart with an accessible Toomics episode, identify Korean dialogue in the strip and follow the translation into the next loaded image.
Single-strip webcomics
Translate a speech bubble
If you have the CastReader desktop extension preview, open an episode you can access. Right-click the artwork and translate the image. Choose Read translation to listen and follow the highlight. Restore the original image whenever you want to check the lettering. Small type, decorative sound effects and text over drawings can be missed.
For one line, type the dialogue into the text translator