Have you ever stumbled upon a manga so niche and obscure that it never gets an official English release? That was me—desperately trying to read intimate and underrated series that weren’t even on MangaDex, likely due to copyright issues.
At first, I took the long road: hunting for raw Japanese scans, screenshotting pages, and running them through image translation tools. It worked… barely. The process was painfully slow and completely broke my immersion. Instead of enjoying the story, I spent more time waiting on awkward machine translations. It was, in a word, disruptive.
Then it hit me: I already had Suwayomi, a powerful manga server that supports multiple sources and local file management. Why not build my own translation pipeline?
Credit:
https://github.com/Suwayomi
https://github.com/zyddnys/manga-imag...
Instructions:
https://phuchoang.sbs/posts/self-host...