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Readers also like it1. A Returner's Magic Should Be Special
by Usonan, Wookjakga
- Action (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Desir Arman was one of the last six survivors of the Shadow Labyrinth, the disaster that ended humanity. At the moment of defeat he is sent thirteen years back, to the day he enrols at the magic academy. He gathers the friends he lost and trains them for a catastrophe nobody else believes is coming.
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Readers also like it2. The Extra's Academy Survival Guide
by Korita, Green Kyrin
- Drama
- Fantasy (shared)
- Isekai
Ed Rothtaylor is a spoiled noble in a fantasy game, an extra who gets expelled from the magic academy early on and is never seen again. A player wakes up in his body the day it happens. Disowned and living in a tent in the academy forest, he decides the only goal that matters is to quietly survive, and the story keeps getting in his way.
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Readers also like it3. The Lazy Lord Masters the Sword
by Yi Deung Byeol, doip, Dodomoon
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Drama
- Fantasy (shared)
Everyone knows Ian Page as the laziest young lord in the land, until a strange dream shows him a future that ends in disaster. He wakes up and picks up a sword. A story about a slacker discovering he has a gift for hard work, and how far it can take him.
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Readers also like it4. The Legendary Spearman Returns
by Jo Husang (조후상), Joe Teacher (조선생님), Studio Inus (스튜디오 이너스)
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Drama
- Fantasy (shared)
Joshua Sanders proved a spear could make a master knight and ended an empire's civil war with one, only for the comrades he fought for to try to kill him. At death's door his spear Lukia flares and sends him back to the stables of his childhood. This time he knows who to trust, and who to settle with.
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Military · Time Travel5. The Regressed Mercenary Has a Plan
by Gold Line, Park Jin-Seok
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Fantasy (shared)
Ghislain Ferdium threw away his title, became the most feared mercenary of the continent, and died in a war he saw coming too late. He wakes up as his younger self, still heir to a poor northern territory. This time he knows who will betray whom, and he has a plan for every one of them.
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Military · Time Travel6. A Flame Reborn
by Painkiller, Yang Pyung (양평), Saint Nine (성구)
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Drama
- Fantasy (shared)
Logan MacLine, a middle-aged knight of the independence army, dies fighting the empire that executed his brother. He wakes as a young man again, before his family disowned him for his behaviour, and uses everything he knows to build weapons, an army and the money to pay for them.
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Military · School Life7. Teenage Mercenary
by YC, Rakyeon
- Action (shared)
- Drama
Orphaned in a plane crash as a child, Ijin Yu grew up as a mercenary on foreign battlefields. Now he is back in Korea, living with his grandfather — and enrolled in high school. He only wants a normal teenage life, but bullies keep picking the wrong target.
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Time Travel · Fantasy8. The Reborn Young Lord Is an Assassin
by Coffee Lime, Swing Bat, REDICE Studio
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Fantasy (shared)
Ash was the youngest son of a great ducal house and grew up to be the empire's most feared assassin, used and thrown away. He wakes up as a child again, in the house that made him. He keeps his skills hidden and sets out to protect his family this time, from the inside.
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Time Travel · Fantasy9. Doom Breaker
by Blue-Deep
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Fantasy (shared)
Zeke Draker, the strongest of humanity's champions, loses the final battle against the gods. Sent back in time to try again, he has one more chance to save the world. A regression fantasy about doing it right the second time.
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Time Travel · Fantasy10. The Bastard of Swordborne
by Next Level Studio (넥스트레벨스튜디오) , Bread squirrel (빵먹는다람쥐)
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Fantasy (shared)
Theo Ragnar, the thirty-first son of the mighty Grand Duke, was born without the family's Gift, and he and his mother were betrayed and killed for it. He wakes again at seventeen, with the Gift and more besides, and a long list of people to answer to him.
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Military · Time Travel11. All You Need Is Kill
by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ryousuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Obata
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi
A new soldier dies fighting an alien invasion, then wakes up before the same battle. Repeating that day gives Keiji Kiriya a chance to learn, but surviving it means understanding why he is trapped. A compact military science-fiction story adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel.
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Time Travel · Fantasy12. The Return of the 8th Class Mage
by Ryu Song (류송), Tess (테스)
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Fantasy (shared)
Ian Paige, an 8th class mage, killed countless people on the orders of his friend the emperor, who poisoned him all the same. Time magic sends him thirty years back, a boy again. This time he will climb to the top once more, and the emperor will pay.
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