Captain Corinth: The Galactic Navy Officer Becomes an Adventurer - Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - Those Who Are Connected to Humanity

[MangaDex]

 

[Wildfire_desu]

The translation isn't of a good quality, but considering it's free, thanks a lot for it! Looking good this far, hopefully you won't drop it

 

[Ainzell]

Poor girl, anyway thank you for translating this
>_<

 

[Elroy79]

How does one go about machine translating manga? I'm curious, I looked it up and there seems to be software to do this.

 

[saphirekosmos]

@Elroy79 Few ways to d it once you have got the raws. Core of it is to OCR to get the japanese text then run that through a translator.

If you upload a document to google docs it can do OCR automatically then you can plug that into Google Translate.
You can also use a browser extension like Copyfish to do on the fly OCR/Translation, though it can be iffy/slow. I have used copyfish to read a few things. It isn't pretty but it is doable.
Once you have that everything else would be like normal.

Biggest issues are that:
1- OCR can be iffy most of the times
2- Translation, especially Japanese to English is more of an art than a science. You could have a sentence that has 2 different meanings depending on the context since the reading of certain words/kanji can change. Machine Translations don't handle these well. The grammer can also be odd at times. A line that should be "Yes, I am fine with that" may come out of Google Translate as "Yes, no issues held by me." (random and likely inaccurate example, but the point stands) This doesn't even touch on idioms/slang/dialects which makes things even trickier.

So Like I said it is doable, and I think if you had a basic knowledge of Japanese grammar/sentence structure/core concepts you could use machine translations to speed up your work, but either way would still need a lot of proof-reading and likely some guess-work/re-wording.

 

[Elroy79]

@saphirekosmos,

Thanks for the info.

 

[mrmm]

it's hamer time

 

[captain_crunch]

Why is mc so surprised all the time? He's a lieutenant, so he's not a brand new officer. Maybe he's a non-combatant since he works with electronics. But things like how the escape pod worked or was outfitted, and then transferring nanobots for first aid, I would have thought that's basic training.

 

[Simpleton]

@captain_crunch

He's full of wonderment? XD

Escape pod is like life raft on a military vessel. You're supposed to be blown up and dead by the time it is ok to use it, so why worry about the details, especially since it has its own computer? (He didn't have any problems launching it, which is about as far as basic training would go, since it's easy and cheap to drill.)

Transferring nanobots for first aid is also probably something new, since everyone has nanobots. Adding pills with spare materials for the nanobots is what a "normal" first aid is about. (And even those are a bit surprising. Probably he has a depot in-body as well, but it's insulated and slower to access so you don't get heavy metal poisoning, so for a quick booster you take the pills.)

I'm more upset that he went across the road when cutting his wrist, we all should know that you follow the line (or stab right through).
Cutting sinews and not reaching the deep blood vessels is just needless damage. (I won't suggest a better place for if you just want to bleed some. Maybe the earlobe, but then he'd probably have to give body command to the nanos again since it's hard to see your own ear.)

 

[Kaarme]

@Simpleton Since cutting a wrist is pretty much always depicted as across in fiction, I guess the author didn't think about it that much. I bet it has also saved a lot of lives over the years due to the inefficiency, so "teaching" the wrong way in fiction to youths might not be a bad idea anyway.

 

[Simpleton]

@Kaarme Hi Snake. XD

Yea, had he been suicidal I'd have minded less I think, just because like you said, it's the usual way to depict that.
But cutting across like that does cut your sinews pretty fast, and then you get Z-mark scars along your underarm when the doctors try to find your sinews so they can stitch them back together again. (Which I feel is just making extra work for the nanos to heal that. And if nanos can apply that kind of quick heal that his arm gets back to functional easily that way, then they could just as well have given him a stigmata and had him spontaneously bleed from the palm of his hand. [Which is also a fiction depiction thing altering how stuff gets acted upon])

But yea, your finishing point is good anyway.

 

[flannan]

@captain_crunch - people fresh out of military academy get "lieutenant" rank. And so do civilians who slept in on military course at the university.
And it seems our MC is one of those.
There are different kinds of leutenants, for example, in ex-USSR, these conditions would get you "younger leutenant" rank.
It seems to correspond to "3rd lieutenant" in American army, and thus "1st lieutenant" would mean our MC has got two promotions.
Looking at Japanese ranks, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranks_of_the_Imperial_Japanese_Army , "first lieutenant" means 1 promotion.

 

[starburst98]

@Simpleton
Could be a built in limitation of the nano system, it cannot directly harm. So even if he orders it to just make him bleed it cannot, only he can make himself bleed.

 

[Simpleton]

@starburst98 Sounds like a possibly sensible hacking countermeasure. And it would solve the question of both "why stab" and "why not take bodily control and slice off a bit of ear or at least make a perfectly precise cut".

So thanks, now I only have to be upset about the actual location and direction of the cut that the nanos suggested XD
(Maybe they too have read too many old mangas. It's no longer a big issue since that bit might be just art direction as suggested by Kaarme)

 

[sylvacoer]

I'm interested in the whole "third party seeding the galaxy with humans" thing - hope that get's explained, and I hope it's more sci-fi than fantasy-based.
Also, the way this is going, it almost sound like the 1LT is not from Holy Terra, but from another "Earth."

 

[bosbarret]

They cut off the manliest moment in this chapter, where mens talk with gaze

 

[valconius]

Why didn't he chop an arm and leg off the girl guard and attach them to the wounded girl?

Also, this rare earth thing irritates me. That's enough rare earth to make a mainframe or a few racks of a supercomputer (c.f. deep well single-transistor single-capacitor memory cells eg IVM's z15's eDRAM, which for example requires a ton of hafnium iirc).

Also, the heroine is called Clearly Starving....

 

[Wilhelm_Stenvall]

That's a waste of resources, to save those "humans". I liked the system they have in Star Trek way better, were a new lifeform, even if they were "human", there would be no interaction with.

 

[VIVIT]

@Wilhelm_Stenvall
I mean, they are at war with genocidal bugs, why let to waste some useful human resources?

 

[Akabane]

A twisted part of me is looking forward to seeing a heroine with a peg leg and a hook.