make an translation of let's say naruto few thing's on my mind
i presume naruto manga aka shonen jump come out early in the morning (Wednesday)
now becose the time difference (i live in europe) it takes the translators like 20+ hours to translate it why?
Translating it doesn't take long
but the manga scanlation consists of 3 parts.
The scanner, the translator, the cleaners/scanlators.
Scanning doesn't take long, but the size of the raw scans are huge, they are like 5000x3000... so the file is pretty big, and the scanner isn't only scanning naruto, he scanning almost all the jump mangas. So lets say it takes 1 hour to scan em all, or lets say 30 min, then it takes like 15 min to upload all those mangas, somewhere, they would be around 300 mb, im just assuming. and then the translators and cleaners download the manga, 5-10 min depending on their internet speed.
Translator takes 30 min- 1 hour to fix up a proper translation.
The cleaners take 5-10 min to clean each page, say there are 3-4 cleaners, there are still 17 pages. 17 divided by 4, is almost 4 and half that times like 8 min is 30 min per manga. + typesetting that'll be 1 hour, + redrawing,
its like 1 and half hour - 2 hours per manga, somewhere there + getting the scans, its around 4 hours.
Lets say for example one of the translators are missing, then it takes even longer.
Get it?