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Either way works, but obviously the better your Japanese, the smoother the process and the higher your accuracy will be. Doing it without any knowledge of the Japanese language will be next to impossible for certain complex sentences. Most likely, you'll have to depend on guessing and end up with several mistranslations per chapter. Sometimes, it may even be to the point that you can barely make any guesses at all, so I highly recommend at least learning about Japanese particles and sentence structures if you want to TL at all.

Also of note are two other factors to consider.

1. The writing style of the author. Some stuff just translates well when injected into a machine translator; while others, not so much.

2. Your own ability to write. You'll want to be somewhat good at writing, or it'll be hard to translate. Even when you know what it means, you may not be able to word it properly.