Dialogue and reading order
Check the meaning, the speaker and the order of the speech bubbles. Manga reads right to left, and names, honorifics and cultural references usually need an editorial eye.
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Manga translation
See a real chapter translated end to end. Fifteen Japanese pages sit beside the fifteen English pages Bluente produced from them, scrolling together so you can read down the chapter and judge the dialogue, lettering and panel layout for yourself.
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Japanese → English
Scroll down to move through all 15 pages. In side-by-side view the original and the translation stay locked to the same page, so every line you read in English has its source directly beside it. Select any page to open it at full size.
Some Japanese lettering is still visible in the English pages, mostly sound effects and text drawn into the artwork. Compare the columns to see which elements were translated.
『ブラックジャックによろしく』 Give My Regards to Black Jack by 佐藤秀峰 (Shuho Sato). Published under terms that permit translation and republication with credit — see the publisher’s conditions. The English pages were produced with Bluente and are not the publisher’s official English edition.
Look beyond the words
Reading the two columns together is the fastest way to judge a tool. These are the three things worth your attention.
Check the meaning, the speaker and the order of the speech bubbles. Manga reads right to left, and names, honorifics and cultural references usually need an editorial eye.
Look at line breaks, type size and spacing inside each bubble. English and Japanese take up very different amounts of room, so a faithful line can still overflow its bubble.
Check panel borders, captions, sound effects and any text drawn into the illustration. Open a page at full size to inspect the smallest print.
How it works
Use a clear PDF or supported image file that you own or have permission to translate.
Choose the source and target languages, then start the translation.
Download the file and compare dialogue, text fit and artwork against the original, exactly as you did above.
Yes. This page shows all 15 pages of a Japanese chapter beside the English pages Bluente produced from it. The two columns scroll together, so page 1 sits next to page 1 all the way through, and you can open any page at full size. Both PDFs are available to download.
Upload your manga PDF or supported image file to Bluente, select Japanese as the source language and English as the target, then run the translation. Review the dialogue, names, reading order and text fit in the output before you share it.
Bluente covers 120+ languages, so the same workflow handles Korean manhwa and Chinese manhua as well as Japanese manga, and it can translate into languages other than English. The example on this page is Japanese to English because that is the most requested pair. Scripts that are set vertically or right to left are the harder case, so test your own pair on a few pages before committing to a long work.
Manga pages can be uploaded as JPG, JPEG, PNG or TIFF images, or as a PDF, including a scanned PDF with no text layer. The example on this page was supplied as a 15-page PDF. Image quality matters more than format: clean, high-resolution pages give the OCR far more to work with than a soft or heavily compressed scan.
Compare the original and English pages on this page to see how the panel layout, artwork and lettering come through. Results vary with scan quality, text placement and the language pair. This example is one real output, not a guarantee for every manga page.
Panels and speech bubbles stay where the artist drew them, so a right-to-left page stays right to left and the reading order is unchanged. You can see this in the example: the English bubbles sit in the same positions as the Japanese ones. Readers used to left-to-right comics still have to read it as manga, and a page rebuilt into left-to-right order is a different job from translation.
Manga mixes vertical dialogue, angled lettering and sound effects drawn into the artwork, and results vary across those elements. Some Japanese lettering is still visible in the English pages of this example. Check decorative and hand-drawn text separately against the source, as it often needs manual work.
These are the lines worth reading closely. Honorifics such as -san, nicknames and forms of address carry relationships that a literal rendering can flatten, and slang and cultural references often have no direct equivalent. The example keeps honorifics in place, which many manga readers prefer. Expect to make editorial choices here rather than accept the first output, and keep those choices consistent across a series.
Yes. Bluente processes multi-page documents and supports batch work, so a chapter or a volume goes through as a job rather than page by page. The example is a 15-page chapter translated in one pass. For a long series, run a representative chapter first and review it before committing the rest, and talk to us if you are planning a sustained volume of work.
Files are encrypted in transit and at rest with AES-256, and uploaded and generated files are automatically deleted within 24 hours. Your documents are not retained for model training, product improvement or reuse. Bluente holds ISO/IEC 27001 and a SOC 2 Type I report, with GDPR-ready contracting. This matters if you are working on unpublished or licensed pages — see the security page for the full detail.
Bluente gives you the first 5 pages free when you sign up. The 15-page example on this page is a demonstration rather than an unlimited free plan. See the pricing page for pages beyond the free allowance.
Yes. The viewer links a PDF of the 15 Japanese source pages and a PDF of the English pages Bluente produced. Both are compiled from the same page images shown on this page so they stay small enough to download comfortably.
Only use manga you own or have permission to translate and share. This example is Give My Regards to Black Jack by Shuho Sato, published under terms that allow translation and republication with credit. Check the terms that apply to your own source before you publish a translation.
Start with 5 free pages and check the result against your own artwork.