We made a chrome extension for learning Japanese with Crunchyroll šŸŸ šŸ’§

I am curious about whatā€™s going on. If you wish to discuss this further you can contact me on manabihime@gmail.com and we can try to get to the bottom of it.

Same for me, setting subtitles to None will still show the last language that was set.

Hey, soon I will upload the version 1.1.10.1 with attempted fix for the missing native subtitles. The issue with switching Crunchyroll subs to None and the them not disappearing is a bug but not a serious one and we will address it some time later. Native subs can be switched off in the settings of our extension by switching them to Hidden.

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Great! Awesome work by the way, the extension is really helpful :smile:

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Thank you, thatā€™s nice to hear! :smiley:

This is really nice! Just wish there was some way to connect to Migaku as well.

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Thanks! Maybe one day :smiley:

Hello, weā€™ve just released a large update (1.1.11).

Changelog:

  • Before this update, users could import their own subtitles, but with very limited functionality. Now you can upload the subtitles to our server for them to be parsed and made available for you and the other users. Subtitles uploaded this way will have full functionality (chunked up into words, notes, popup dictionary, etc.). Please note that our server that does the parsing is limited in how many subtitles it can process at the same time and the processing time may vary (usually 5-10+ mins). You can check the current workload of the server at the bottom-right corner of the custom subtitles modal.
  • Notes are now bound to the selected subtitles. (Notes taken for subtitles A will not be visible when subtitles B are selected).
  • Added a new option in the settings for shrinking subtitles background.
  • Added the ability to play the pronunciation of words (if available).
  • Fixed some bugs.

Disclaimer: Weā€™ve made a ton of changes to our codebase to accomodate this update, so if you come across some bugs feel free to report them to us, either through our discord server or email: manabihime@gmail.com.

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Hi there! Just wanted to make a suggestion :blush: I love ManabiDojo but Iā€™m not very tech adept and much prefer watching the shows that you already have subtitles up for, like Jujutsu Kaisen or Spy Family. Would you be open to putting any official subs for shojo Crunchyroll series like Fruits Basket (since its probably the most popular current shojo)? Thanks!

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Hello, sure Iā€™ll see what I can do! And over time hopefully users themselves will upload enough subtitles so that even not so tech savvy users can use them as well (the CC icon on the top right of our extension will show you all available user-uploaded subtitles).

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HI there this is really cool! Is it still being updated? if so How do I upload my own subtitle for shows you do not have?

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Hi thanks! Yes we still roll out updates. I admit that uploading your own subtitles is not very user-friendly right now so we are working on some GUI hints and a guide that we will release soon with the next update. Though, I compiled some screenshots with instructions and posted it on our discord in the general channel as a reply to another user. If you donā€™t want to use discord then let me know and Iā€™ll put it in an email and send it to you.

I have not installed this yet, but it sounds very exciting. I have read most, but not all comments. I have a suggestion. People are asking for, and you have been delivering the ability to load our own subs. Is there a way we can add to your list as our part in a great tool?

Bookmarking this so I can check this out tonight. I just about gave up on Japanese subtitles both from Crunchyroll and the high seas. I recently discovered anime melon (unify the wordā€¦) but the videos are hosted in their own platform. But Iā€™m open to checking this out too. Question: is it only available for Chrome? :stuck_out_tongue: Is there maybe a roadmap to having this supported in firefox?

Hello, do you mean that you would like to contribute to our list of subtitles? If so, you can still add raw subtitles (without pop up dictionary) to the extension and we also had a feature where you could submit the subtitles and they would be parsed and added as what we call ā€œcustom subtitlesā€. Any other user could also use these custom subtitles. Unfortunately this feature was very expensive to maintain so for now we discontinued it. Weā€™ll reconsider again in the future to put it back but it would have to be monetized. If you want me to add some subtitles you can request so on our discord (or email) and I will gladly add them if itā€™s possible and we can also discuss how you could prep the subtitles and maybe I could parse them on my machine.

anime melon is an OG but their parsing is not very good.
Yes ManabiDojo runs only on chromium based browsers, so probably even Edge if youā€™re into that kind of thing :smiley: I have very little experience with making extensions as this is my first extension and I have no idea how long it would take to port to Firefox but I am assuming it would take a while. For now we just wanna add new features and weā€™ll consider this once weā€™re somewhat ā€œfeature completeā€.

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