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Building Watashi Marketing: Why We Made Our Own Marketing Tool
The origin story of Watashi Marketing — why existing marketing tools were too expensive for indie developers, what we needed, and how we built an AI-powered alternative.
AI Tools for Indie Developers and Creators in 2026
A practical guide to AI tools that actually help indie developers and creators ship better work, market effectively, and save time — without enterprise budgets.
Watashi Colorizer: How AI Manga Colorization Works
A behind-the-scenes look at the technology that powers Watashi Colorizer — from virtual image splitting to intelligent batching to publish-ready output.
Colorizer Guides
Guide to Bulk Colorizing Webtoon Chapters
Why we built a bulk colorization pipeline, the engineering challenges we faced, and what production-scale chapter colorization actually requires.
How to Colorize Manga: A Publisher’s Perspective
How colorization fits into modern publishing workflows, the quality standards that matter, and the pitfalls we learned to avoid.
How AI Manga Colorization Works
Why we chose Google Gemini, how virtual image splitting was born out of necessity, and what separates publisher-grade AI from hobby-grade tools.
Best Manga Colorization Tools in 2026
We evaluated every colorization option as a publisher who colorizes chapters at scale. Here’s what we found and the criteria most reviews miss.
Colorizing Webtoons for Scanlation Teams
How scanlation teams are using AI colorization, the team workflow design decisions we made, and what we learned from the community.
Manga vs Manhwa vs Webtoon: What’s the Difference?
How manga, manhwa, and webtoon formats differ from a production standpoint, and why colorization needs to adapt for each.
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