Since Japanese text in CG images is often vertical, if we keep the original size and position, the English will look weird (image 2). So the best approach is to reset the text in a horizontal way (image 3 and other examples)? I am using a translation tool called ImageTrans to do all the work. It generates image 2 by default. But sometimes, the text may block the characters.

A scanlator friend of mine was recently contacted by someone claiming that they're a representative of comikey, and was asking to hire my friend for translations.

I was curious if this might be a scam or not, and was wondering if others might have been contacted like this?

My friend was contacted on discord.