ChapterLingo examples
Twelve pages, and what each one was chosen to break
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Left is the page as it arrived, right is what came back — artwork untouched in both, only the lettering inside the balloons changed. Three source languages, and one page per problem.
Drag any handle to compare. Every right-hand page is our own output. · Pepper&Carrot by David Revoy — CC BY 4.0
The same page, translated four times by the artist himself
David Revoy publishes Pepper&Carrot in twenty-eight languages, so the page above exists as a human translation too.
These four are his work, not ours — read our English against his, then see which names he kept in Korean and Chinese and which he changed.
The author's own English release of the same page
David Revoy's official English version of Pepper&Carrot episode 21 page 4 — the same artwork with the balloons and the hand-drawn applause relettered in English by the author. Published by the author, not produced by ChapterLingo.
The author's own Korean release of the same page
David Revoy's official Korean version of Pepper&Carrot episode 21 page 4 — the same artwork relettered in Korean by the author, sound effects included. Published by the author, not produced by ChapterLingo.
The same page in the language it was written in
Pepper&Carrot episode 21 page 4 in French — the language David Revoy writes and letters the series in. Every other version of this page, including the Japanese one beside it, is a translation of this.
The author's own Chinese release of the same page
David Revoy's official Chinese version of Pepper&Carrot episode 21 page 4 — the same artwork relettered in Chinese by the author, where the three witches' names become 香菜叶, 洋甘菊 and 螺旋藻. Published by the author, not produced by ChapterLingo.
The inputs, whole
Text painted into the artwork on potion labels
A page from Pepper&Carrot episode 2: two shelves of potion bottles whose labels are painted onto the artwork at an angle and in perspective, plus a small hand-drawn sound effect.
A sound effect drawn the full width of the page
A page from Pepper&Carrot episode 6 in Japanese: a single hand-drawn cry stretched across the top panel in letters as tall as the characters, a second effect struck across the middle panel, and ordinary balloons underneath. The large effects are artwork, not type.
A caption box, a crowd, and signage in the background
A page from Pepper&Carrot episode 3 in Japanese: a place-and-time caption pinned to the top corner over a wide market panel, then three panels of dialogue underneath.
A printed poster held up inside the artwork
A page from Pepper&Carrot episode 3: a contest poster held in a character's hands, its heading set in Latin script and its terms in Japanese, curling with the paper — text that belongs to the drawing and not to any balloon.
Laughter repeated across a page, then a shout
A page from Pepper&Carrot episode 18 in Japanese: the same laugh lettered six times across the top row at different sizes, a shouted refusal over a full-width fire panel, and two more effects in the panel below.
Three posters and a cheque, all lettered into the artwork
A page from Pepper&Carrot episode 23: a Japanese caption box at the top, then three in-world posters whose headings and captions are set in English display type on the paper itself, one of them holding a cheque reading 50 000 Ko. A hand-drawn effect falls down the right of the last row.
A hanging shop sign and an animal cry
A page from Pepper&Carrot episode 14 in Japanese: a cockerel's cry lettered across the sky, a caption tab in the panel corner, a shop sign hanging in the artwork, and a final panel whose only text is two exclamation marks.
Four impact effects and a shout on one page
A page from Pepper&Carrot episode 29 in Japanese: four separate hand-drawn impacts across three panels, each drawn to a different scale, with one shouted line set large and unboxed over the artwork.
A spell, a blast, then two near-silent panels
A page from Pepper&Carrot episode 31 in Japanese: a spell name in katakana and a large hand-drawn blast in the top half, then two wide panels where a single small line of speech floats far from any speaker.
The Chinese release: an arena page
David Revoy's official Chinese version of Pepper&Carrot episode 21 page 3 — a wide arena panel over four panels of dialogue, relettered in Chinese by the author. Published by the author, not produced by ChapterLingo.
The Chinese release: a repeated effect on a diagonal
David Revoy's official Chinese version of Pepper&Carrot episode 21 page 6 — the same underwater page as the Korean one, with the repeated diagonal effect relettered in Chinese by the author. Published by the author, not produced by ChapterLingo.
About these examples
Yes. Every "Translated" page was produced by the same endpoint and the same canvas code a visitor uses — not a mock-up and not a hand-edited image.
Pepper&Carrot is published by David Revoy under CC BY 4.0, so it can be shown here with attribution. It also ships in Japanese, Korean, Chinese and English, which means the same artwork can be compared across languages.
They are drawn into the artwork rather than set in a balloon. Replacing one means repainting whatever it was drawn over, which does more damage than leaving it legible where the artist put it.
Pages with clear balloons will. A page whose words are painted into the illustration returns less, and a soft or skewed scan returns less again — the file sets the ceiling.
The same episode is published in both, and the pipeline reads them the same way — Korean switches the layout to vertical scroll, Chinese keeps the page format. The examples here are Japanese because it is the source language most people arrive with.
Seconds for a single page. A whole chapter runs page by page, so a twenty-page chapter takes about twenty times one page rather than one long job you cannot watch.
Try it on your own page
The pages above were picked because they are hard. Yours will be hard in some other way, and that is the only test that settles it. Full resolution, no account, nothing to install.