Introducing Sugoi Desktop:

• 3x lighter than Sugoi Toolkit
• Works on Linux, MacOS, Windows
• One simple interface for both reading and translating (novel and manga for now)

Download link: https://www.patreon.com/mingshiba

FAQ:

1. Why?

• Sugoi Toolkit is for power users on Windows, Sugoi Desktop focuses on accessibility (ease of use and cross platform)

2. What will come next?

• Audio and Video translation for sure

3. What's the future?

• Improvement in quality, new updates on Sugoi Toolkit + Sugoi Desktop, and new models!

Available on both Chrome and Firefox:

Sugoi Manga Translator - Chrome Web Store

Translate manga images on any webpage using Sugoi Manga Translator

Chrome Web Store

Sugoi Manga Translator – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Sugoi Manga Translator for Firefox. Translate manga images on any webpage using Sugoi Manga Translator

Sugoi Toolkit

Simply hover on image to translate

Translate as you go, download when you done

Context first AI chat platform

• Access from this link: https://sugoichat.com/
• Easily put context in your chat!

Free for all

• Just bring your own LLM key

Contextual Chat

• Put chat, files (txt, epub, pdf), folders as context

Dedicated file explorer

• Easy management of files
• Put 100 files inside folder as context for writing, translation, etc

Translate and Read light novel on Sugoi Cloud

Full support for txt, epub, pdf formats

Translate 260 pages in under 2 minutes for around $0.3

Translate Japanese, Korean, Chinese light novel

Translate to English and over 15 languages

Big improvement in typesetting quality

2× faster translation speed

12 seconds to around 6 seconds

Multilingual support

12 languages — and growing

Download link: https://www.patreon.com/mingshiba

List of updates:

• Big improvement in manga text detection
• Sugoi Manga Translator is twice as fast
• Sugoi Manga Translator supports webP format
• Access Sugoi Cloud directly on the menu
• New GUI for Sugoi File Translator

Big improvement in manga text detection

Better accuracy for ALL manga programs:
• Real-time translation as you read (Sugoi Manga OCR)
• Full-page translation with saved images (Sugoi Manga Translator)

Sugoi Manga Translator is twice as fast

This image used to take 60 seconds. Now 28 seconds

Sugoi Manga Translator supports webP format

Access Sugoi Cloud directly on the menu

New GUI for Sugoi File Translator

Sugoi Cloud Reader 🐕

Sugoi Cloud Reader - Your friendly manga and comic reader with translation support 🐕

Quality translation with one click

Translate and download as you go

• Copy paste to add new image while reading
• Translate one at a time or all at once
• Download after you're done

Fully Customized Manga Reader

Bring your files. Read offline or online the right way

Convenient Cloud library

Read everywhere, on your phone and tablet

Integrate directly with Patreon

No need to make a new account. Just login

Simple login to other devices

Copy paste your access token to login to your phones and tablets

Don't try to hack me, I already changed my token :)

Translate Thousands of Manga Pages starting at $3

Subscribe to my Patreon Page and start translate!
(Your leftover coins will roll over to next month so no worry)

Download Link for Patreon Subscribers:

https://www.patreon.com/mingshiba/

This update's public link will be released on February 15th, 2026

List of updates: (major ones are explained below)

• Offline Multi-Language Translation — Beyond Japanese
• Sugoi Hook is fully integrated into Sugoi Toolkit
• Brand new user interface for a lots of programs
• Improved textbox detection for Sugoi Manga Translator

Offline Multi-Language Translation — Beyond Japanese

Translate Chinese, Korean, and over 10 languages — fully offline, instantly, and privately.

Scroll to line 159 160 in User Settings to change the input and output language you want

Sugoi Hook is fully integrated into Sugoi Toolkit

Seamlessly connects to Sugoi Translator for real-time VN translation — no setup, no hassle.

More info on Sugoi Hook (in case you didn't follow the news): https://blog.sugoitoolkit.com/sugoi-hook-text-hooking-is-never-this-easy/

Brand new user interface for a lot of programs

Download it here: https://github.com/sugoi-toolkit-official/sugoi-hook/releases

One-Click Game Translation

After the initial setup, simply click Game Profile to launch the game with all previously settings applied automatically.

Fully Customizable Overlay Window

Easy Game Search

Click Browse for EXE to select your game and start.

Download link: https://github.com/sugoi-toolkit-official/sugoi-hook/releases

Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doAoUoIRcq0

Beautiful and intuitive UI/UX

Used text hooks before?
Select the game → choose the hook → enable plugins.
Done.

Translate nearly 300 game engines

180 more than Textractor.
Games that failed before? They work now.

Easy integration with clipboard translators

Want powerful translations?
Open Sugoi Translator after setup — that’s all.

Written in Python

Built in Python for easy customization and plugin development.

Modify the code directly and run it instantly.

Download Link for Patreon Subscribers:

https://www.patreon.com/mingshiba/

This update's public link will be released on November 15th, 2025

List of updates: (major ones are explained below)

• Biggest updates to OCR/text recognition ever
• All Manga programs now fully supports Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English translation
• Better textbox detection for Sugoi Manga Translator
• Better OCR with Google OCR
• Sugoi Translator Cloud and Translation Server Cloud coming soon
• Fixed DeepL bug that auto translates to German

Biggest updates to OCR/text recognition ever

Any programs that require OCR now have multiple options to choose from.

For example, you can choose Visual Novel OCR with Google OCR or pair Sugoi Manga Translator with Sugoi Cloud OCR (coming very soon)

All Manga programs now fully supports Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English translation

Better textbox detection for Sugoi Manga Translator

Sugoi Translator Cloud and Translation Server Cloud coming soon

The code is ready, I just need to adjust a little bit more on the online server side.

This will be great news for users who want to do batch processing.

Better OCR with Google OCR

In the example below, Google OCR captured English text better than the default offline option.

Overall, very high accuracy across supported languages.

Download Link for Patreon Subscribers:

https://www.patreon.com/mingshiba/

This update's public link will be released on October 15th, 2025

List of updates: (major ones are explained below)

• Massive update for local manga translation quality
• Visual Novel OCR is now super easy to use (no more background removal)
• Visual Novel OCR supports Chinese, Korean, and English
• Sugoi Manga OCR English released
• Directly edit user settings on Sugoi Toolkit menu screen
• Improved accuracy for Sugoi Manga OCR Korean
• Sugoi Translator Cloud and Translation Server Cloud coming soon

Since this is a HUGE update, I will bump the version from 12.5 to 14

Massive update for local manga translation quality

Sugoi Manga Translator, as a replacement for Manga Batch Translator in V12, brings a major leap forward in typesetting as you can see in the demo image below.

Visual Novel OCR now supports Chinese, Korean, English

Remember to change the input languages of the translator of your choice in user settings.

Tutorial here: https://blog.sugoitoolkit.com/guide-visual-novel-ocr-for-multiple-languages/

Visual Novel OCR is now super easy to use

No need to do background removal anymore! Just drag the outline window on top of the game's dialogue and translate.

Check out the video below — it shows you everything in just one minute. 🎥✨

In this update, I have also labeled shortcuts for Translate and Crop buttons in case you didn't know.

Sugoi Manga OCR English is released

For users who want to translate manga in English to their local languages.

Remember to change the input languages of the translator of your choice in user settings.

Directly edit user settings on Sugoi Toolkit menu screen

If you had only been using default options, I hope this update will make it easier for you to try editing the user settings. You can get really amazing results with it.

As of Sugoi Toolkit V14, I added three new programs to help you guys translate visual novels in Chinese, Korean, and English.

To use any of these three programs, it will be similar to using Visual Novel OCR. You pick your VN OCR option, then a Sugoi Translator option. But there will be one extra step.

For VN OCR Chinese and Korean, you'll need to change the output language of the translator. For VN OCR English, you'll need to change both input and output language.

Let's say you pick VN OCR Chinese and you want to use Google Translate. You can change the user settings on the menu like this

If you pick VN OCR English and want to use DeepL, you'll need to change the settings to be like this. Change both the input to English and output language to the languages available on DeepL.

The magic of the original FP16 14B model is now fully unleashed in Sugoi 14B Ultra! I have pushed the limits to retain almost every ounce of quality from the source model – and the result? Translation performance that’s ALMOST TWICE as good as the previous quantized Sugoi 14B version! (BLEU score of 21.38 vs 13.67)

But that’s not all – Sugoi 14B Ultra isn’t just accurate, it’s smart. With prompt-following skills rivaling the Qwen 2.5 base model, it’s ready to translate even text with lots of brackets (commonly seen in RPGM games) with unmatched precision.

Ready to experience the magic? Just follow the recommended settings below and watch your translations level up like never before.

Download link:

sugoitoolkit/Sugoi-14B-Ultra-GGUF · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

(I will release this model publicly in one or two weeks)

Notes

1. System Prompt Requirement:
   The model now requires a system prompt to perform translations. You can use your own custom prompt, or use prompt below:
   You are a professional localizer whose primary goal is to translate Japanese to English. You should use colloquial or slang or hentai vocabulary if it makes the translation more accurate. Always respond in English.
2. Context length:
   To improve accuracy try to set context number of lines to 10. You can increase or decrease it but too much context will poison the translation.
3. Interactive Chat:
   You can chat with the model on lm studio chat to ask grammar questions or anything related to the text. It can also translate into other languages by specifying your desired language in the system prompt but the quality will be varies.

Experimental

1. Tool Integration & JSON Output:
   As the model can now follow instruction properly, it possible now to work with external tools and produce structured outputs in JSON format when instructed via the system prompt but still considered experimental. Use system prompt eg, Output in json format {input:, output:}
2. Tag Preservation for RPGM Games:
   The model can attempts to maintain in-game tags for better RPG Maker translations. However, this feature may not work perfectly in all cases and is still considered experimental. Use system prompt eg, When translating RPG Maker text that includes tags (like \C[n], \{, \}, etc.), you need to ensure the tags remain unchanged while only translating the actual text. Preserve all control characters and tags (e.g., \C[n], \V[n], \I[n], \N[n], \{, \}, \\, \., \|, \!, \>, \<, \^).

Recommended Setting

• Low Temperature: 0.1
• Top K: 40
• Top P: 0.95
• Min P: 0.05
• Repeat Penalty: 1.1

1. First, make sure the model is running. For example, run it through LM Studio or any local GGUF loader like Ollama.
2. On LunaTranslator, go to: Translation Settings → Translation Interface → Large Language Model.
3. Edit the General LLM Interface.
4. Add LM Studio server and port (e.g., http://localhost:1234).
5. Click on the refresh symbol and choose the model from the list.

Done,

This method allows you to use the model directly from Luna's UI without needing to write or modify any scripts.

Alternative method through script for power user

Configuration

1. Find setting for custom translation, might be in different place in different version of LunaTranslator. For version 10.5.4 its under Others tab.

1. Enable custom translation and click on edit. Paste the template below and restrart LunaTranslator:

Note: Don't forget to disable other translator.

import requests
import json
import time
from translator.basetranslator import basetrans
from traceback import print_exc

class TS(basetrans):
    def translate(self, query):
        usingstream = True
        url = "http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions"  # or 1234 or 5000
        headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
        data = {
            "model": "sugoi14b",
            "messages": [
                {"role": "system", "content": "You are a translator"},
                {"role": "user", "content": query}
            ],
            "max_tokens": 4096,
            "n": 1,
            "top_p": 0.9,
            "temperature": 0.3,
            "stream": usingstream
        }

        response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data, stream=usingstream)

        if usingstream:
            message = ""
            for chunk in response.iter_lines():
                response_data = chunk.decode("utf-8").strip()
                if not response_data:
                    continue
                try:
                    json_data = json.loads(response_data.lstrip("data: ").strip())
                    if json_data["choices"][0].get("finish_reason") is not None:
                        break
                    msg = json_data["choices"][0]["delta"].get("content", "")
                    for char in msg:
                        yield char
                        time.sleep(0.02)
                    message += msg
                except Exception as e:
                    print_exc()
                    raise Exception(f"Error processing response: {response_data}, Error: {str(e)}")
        else:
            try:
                message = (
                    response.json()["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]
                    .replace("\n\n", "\n")
                    .strip()
                )
                yield message
            except Exception as e:
                raise Exception(f"Error processing response: {response.text}, Error: {str(e)}")

Note: Streaming output works but may feel slow with very long text because of smoothing step for the animation.