JapanMedia and entertainment2025 – ongoing

Orange

Claude-based English translation of manga

Orange raised its output from 5 to 50 manga books a month with a Claude translation agent

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Problem

Only about 2% of Japanese manga is officially translated into English. Orange, a manga startup, needed to localize books faster while keeping natural dialogue and each character's voice.

Approach

Orange built a translation agent on Claude that reads page images directly. It uses inpainting to replace text in the artwork and automated quality checks. Its localization team reviews the output.

Results

10xrise in delivery capacity, from 5 to 50 books a monthVendor case study[1]

under 2 hoursgeneration time per manga volume, down from over 10 hoursVendor case study[1]

5 to 7 timesefficiency gain over existing processesVendor case study[1]

Takeaway

Orange said 50 to 75% of Claude-generated translations were adopted. The rest were changed by its staff.

Sources

Orange localizes manga at an unprecedented scale with Claude
Anthropic20 Sep 2025Vendor publication

Source summaries

[1]Anthropic20 Sep 2025

Anthropic's customer story describes how the manga startup Orange uses Claude to translate manga into English. It reports delivery capacity rising from 5 to 50 books a month and generation time falling from over 10 hours to under 2 hours per volume. The page carries no date; the Internet Archive first saved it on September 20, 2025.

Full details are in the original sources.

Added 4 Nov 2026 · Updated 4 Nov 2026