If you liked The Hero Returns
12 manhwa like The Hero Returns
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with The Hero Returns (fantasy, adventure, action), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manhwa like The Hero Returns
Time Travel · Monsters1. The Legendary Spearman Returns
by Jo Husang (조후상), Joe Teacher (조선생님), Studio Inus (스튜디오 이너스)
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it2. The World After the Fall
by sing N song (싱숑), S-Cynan, Undead Gamja (언데드감자)
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Towers rose all over the world, and monsters poured out of them. The Walkers who climbed them were offered a way out at the brink of death: a stone that sends them back in time, into a new timeline, leaving the old world to fall. Jae-Hwan refuses it. He keeps climbing for the world everyone else gave up on, and the higher he goes, the stranger the truth about the Towers becomes.
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Readers also like it3. Doom Breaker
by Blue-Deep
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it4. The Player Who Can't Level Up
by GaVinGe, Parrot Kim, Tae_A
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Kim Gigyu became a player like everyone else, then stayed at level one for five years while the rest left him behind. A rare reward finally lets him see why: he was never meant to level up the normal way. What he can do instead could make him the strongest player there is.
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Readers also like it5. The Tutorial Is Too Tough!
by gandara, Imae Daiki (이마에 다이키)
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- Isekai
Former pro gamer Lee Ho-Jae is invited into a Tutorial World and, sure of himself, picks Hell difficulty. Then he finds out he cannot leave. The survival rate is 0.01 percent, and every floor makes him wonder why he, of all people, was invited.
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Readers also like it6. I'm the Max-Level Newbie
by Maslow, WAN.Z, Swing Bat
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Jinhyuk was the only player who ever cleared Tower of Trials, a game so hard everyone else quit. The day the game shuts down, the tower appears in the real world, and he is the one person who knows every floor. He starts again as a newbie among the world's new heroes, with a decade of secrets in his head.
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Readers also like it7. Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint
by sing N song, Sleepy-C
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
For ten years, office worker Kim Dokja was the only reader of a web novel about the end of the world. The day it finishes, the world starts ending exactly as written. He is the one person who knows what comes next — and he means to change the ending.
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Time Travel · Monsters8. Tomb Raider King
by SAN.G (산지직송), Yuns (윤쓰), REDICE Studio (레드아이스 스튜디오)
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Comedy
- Fantasy (shared)
Tombs appeared all over the world, each holding a relic of supernatural power. Joo-Heon Suh raided them for a living until his employer betrayed him. About to die, he wakes fifteen years in the past, before the first tomb opened, knowing where every relic will be.
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Time Travel · Monsters9. The S-Classes That I Raised
by Geunseo (근서), Seri (세리), Biwan (비완)
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
Yu-Jin is an F-rank hunter who only ever got in the way of his S-rank little brother, until a dungeon raid gone wrong costs his brother his life. He spends the wish for clearing it on going back in time. The second time round he means to keep his head down, but he finds he can raise other hunters into S-ranks, and a quiet life gets harder by the day.
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Also by Ant Studio (앤트스튜디오)10. I Shall Master This Family
by Ant Studio (앤트스튜디오), Kim Roah (김로아), Gammon (몬)
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- Isekai
- Romance
After its patriarch died, the great Lombardi family was ruined by his useless, cruel grandchildren, and Firentia, the half-peasant granddaughter, was ruined with it. She wakes up as her seven-year-old self and sets out to win her grandfather's favour, save her father, and become head of the family herself.
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Time Travel · Monsters11. SSS-Class Revival Hunter
by Shin Noah, Neida, Bill K
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
In a world where people awaken as hunters, Kim Gong-ja awakens with a skill nobody envies: when he dies, he goes back in time, and he copies the power of whoever killed him. To climb the tower he has to choose his deaths with care, and the strongest hunter of all may be the one whose skill he needs most.
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Time Travel · Magic12. The Return of the 8th Class Mage
by Ryu Song (류송), Tess (테스)
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- 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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