This is the abridged version of our original article in Japanese. Tokyo-based Mantra, the Japanese startup developing machine learning-based translation technology for manga, announced on Tuesday that ...

Orange wants to bring manga to as many readers as possible—but some fans are not happy. A Japanese publishing startup is using Anthropic’s flagship large language model Claude to help translate manga ...

Open a Japanese comic in a bookstore — say, the latest edition of “Dragon Ball Super” — and you’re likely to find a note saying, “Stop! You’re reading the wrong way.” That’s because manga begins where ...