AI RESEARCH
Manga109-v2026: Revisiting Manga109 Annotations for Modern Manga Understanding
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2605.21182v1 Announce Type: new Manga is a culturally distinctive multimodal medium and one of the most influential forms of Japanese popular culture. As AI systems increasingly target manga understanding, OCR, and translation, Manga109 has become a foundational dataset for manga-related AI research. However, the current Manga109 dataset contains transcription errors and coarse annotations, which do not align well with modern OCR and multimodal manga understanding tasks.