(I know tapas is not the only one that does this, but from my experience they're the ones that do it most often and I've had these name changes completely pull me off series that I enjoyed reading. Suddenly, I did't know who was who, because the names were different and I'm like "who the fuck is John/James/Michael/Richard/*insert really WASPy sounding name here*??"
I'm just salty, I'm sorry.)
I feel you, the WASPy names give me physical pain, lol especially when the manwha starts with normal names, and then abruptly changes, it's so awkward. I'll go to the next chapter, and I'm immediately like "who tf is R o b e r t"
RIGHT !!! its completely throwing me off that thats his name plus they also change the names of other things and just confuses me in the story, like leo and ricky have me suddenly confused and idk im just going to re-read it and try to make sense of this w their new names
My EXACT reaction, everytime. xD This situation is so funny but frustrating at the same time.
Yes!! And I just don't see the need to do that.
I have to reread it all too, and it once happened to a manwha that had had a fan translation for a while so it already had like 20 chapters or something, and I got so confused with the sudden change that I had to drop it.
Same! Lol. Someone said something about how English-sounding names are easier to remember but it’s ridiculous how even their family names are changed.
I absolutely HATE when webtoons get licensed by tapas, seriously. WHY THE F*CK GIVE THE CHARACTERS ENGLISH NAMES. "Oh hi, i'm John Smith and I live in Seoul", aham, right. Like, international readers are not stupid, we can read korean names, for GOD'S SAKE. AND THAT NEW TITLE SUCKS. (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
(All that being said, I'm very thankful to uploader-san for making this available to us, this is not a dig at you! (づ￣ ³￣)づ)