I guess because hindu and Buddhist concepts are not as widespread across the world.
You are right. Hinduism is mostly practiced in only India and Buddhism is practiced in the east Asia I think? But conversion to Chirstianity is speading everywhere (I think I heard it has high success in South korea).
But it would be nice to learn about Korea and it's culture in Korean comics not everything should be about the US:(
It's capitalism. If you wanna sell, you'll have to give em known concepts. It's rare for a whole community to cultivate a sudden interest in learning about other cultures and people tend to accept what they already know more.
Uhhh....Lord Mahavir is related to Jainism not Buddhism. So I think Mongmong is a Jain not a Buddhist.
I know lord mahavir is a jain God. But south Korea doesn't really have jain monks. Most of them are either Buddhists, Christians or atheists. And it's not like Buddhists can't worship Mahavir. I'm not Buddhist but I worship
That's true. But most jains i met, practice and adhere to their principles like vegetarianism and ahimsa throughout. But i may be wrong in my view also. I don't know what part of Jainism and Buddhism the east asians chose to adopt. I am not either of em so I'm not sure. But i don't think Mongmong is a Jain.
But yeah the doctrines of religions is not restricted to just one form.
Unrelated but I really feel like they deviate small translations just to fit an US audience. I was reading another webtoon and the girl said she was a "samaritan" I hadn't ever heard of the word so I looked it up. I got curious if it was in the raws, and in so in the Korean version, she never said anything like that(google translate, and i can read Korean though I can't understand it). That reminded me of ch 43 from this comic, idk why but for some reason the "auumm" stuck with me. And so I checked in the raws and there was something completely different! There was some Buddhists god song (idk some of the translations didn't make sense but I could recognize "lord Mahavir"). Why couldn't they have just left that in??
So like they change a lot of things just to relate to Christian/US things lol. I guess people can recognize "auumm" (ffs it is "om" why did they write it like that) better than Mahavir.
I'm not Christian nor am I from the US, but I guess since most audience is probably from US, I can't complain (≧∀≦)