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Manga Club

Manga Club

Read and learn Japanese through manga

Manga

Why Manga for Learning Japanese?

Manga combines visual storytelling with Japanese text, providing context clues through illustrations that make vocabulary and grammar more accessible.

Getting a Manga

Check Manga recommendations

Most of the time, to read manga and to use the available resources, you will need to get the pages of the manga you want to read downloaded. You can find manga to download on sites like Nyaa (Torrent) and others. Take a look at our resources page.

Manga Reading Interface

Setup

Choose your preferred tool! Reach out to us in our Discord if you need any help!

Standard Setup

Processing Manga Locally

STEP 1
  • Install Python 3 and check "✅ Add Python to PATH"
  • Open CMD and run:
    pip install mokuro
  • Process manga:
    python -m mokuro --parent_dir F:\Folder\TheMangapython -m mokuro F:\Folder\TheManga\VolumeFolder

Anki

STEP 2

Go to Tools → Add-ons → AnkiConnect → Config, then paste the config below:

{
  "apiKey": null,
  "apiLogPath": null,
  "ignoreOriginList": [],
  "webBindAddress": "127.0.0.1",
  "webBindPort": 8765,
  "webCorsOriginList": [
    "http://localhost",
"https://reader.mokuro.app"
  ]
}
Add a comma at the end of the last line, break a line and add the mokuro address highlighted in yellow

Mokuro

STEP 3

Open Mokuro Reader, click the upload button (top right), then select your processed manga folder:

processed_manga_folder/
original_manga/volume_folder
manga_data.mokuro
manga_reader.html
ocr/

In Settings → Anki Connect, ensure all 4 toggles are turned on

Hover with Yomitan to mine. Double‑click inside text regions to screenshot when needed

Own a RTX GPU?

OPTIONAL
  • A powerful GPU is going to make the processing of the manga much faster
  • Install Miniconda, then run:
    conda create --prefix ./myenv python=3.9 cudatoolkit=11.3
    conda activate "./myenv"
    conda install pytorch==1.12.1 torchvision==0.13.1 torchaudio==0.12.1 cudatoolkit=11.3 -c pytorch
  • To check if you have installed it correctly, run:
    python -c "import torch; print(torch.cuda.is_available())"

Tips

Helpful tips

Tracking & Logging

Keeping track of how long you've read in your reading sessions and the amount of characters read is a nice way to see how much hard work you have put in. Seeing the numbers go up is a good source of motivation. I recommend toggl tracker for tracking time and Misuzu for tracking characters!

How to get good at reading and increase your reading speed

Reading more is the #1 answer for getting good at reading and increasing your reading speed. The more you read, the more you will learn words and get used to it and the faster you will become. On reading speed, by reading consistently you will naturally increase it, do not stress about low reading speeds if you are not reading consistently every day

Setting yourself goals every day and making it a habit

This is very important and will allow you to read more and consistently every day. Setting an amount of hours per day or an amount of characters and setting it as a priority in your day is a very good way of reading consistently and slowly turn reading into a habit. I highly recommend it and you can also use pomodoro timers to help you stay focused. Ex.: (50min of reading and 10min of break)