A Returner's Magic Should Be Special

Description

From Tapas:
For 10 years, magical prodigy Desir and his party have been battling inside the mysterious Shadow Labyrinth—and against the end of the world. Much of humanity has already perished and just as Desir is about to be killed, he's sent back 13 years into the past. Despite knowing the cursed future that lies ahead, Desir steels his resolve as he sees an opportunity to train his friends and better prepare to face Armageddon together, without losing the ones they love.

Anime

Original Webtoon:
Daum, KakaoPage

Official Translations:

English Tapas, Tappytoon, PocketComics, Manta, Webnovel
French: Tappytoon
German: Altraverse (Print), Tappytoon
Thai: KakaoWebtoon
T.Chinese: KakaoWebtoon
Japanese: Piccoma
Russian: MoyKomiks

Note: Tapas has the Tappytoon translation as they are the ones licensing the series.

Type

Manhwa

Associated Names

Büyücünün Geri Dönüşü

Gwihwanja-ui Mabeop-eun Teukbyeol-haeya Hamnida

Gwihwanjaui Mabeobeun

Gwihwanjaui Mabeobeun Teukbyeolhaeya Hamnida

Kikan-sha no Mahou wa Tokubetsu desu

La magia de un retornado debe ser especial

Magician who Reversing Time

Returner's Special Magic

Магия вернувшегося должна быть особенной

Магія поверненого має бути особливою

พลังขั้นเทพของจอมเวทจุติใหม่

帰還者の魔法は特別です

重生者的魔法一定要特別

귀환자의 마법은 특별해야 합니다

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Latest Release(s)

c.269 by Luminous 9 months ago

c.266-268 by Luminous 10 months ago

c.267 by RoliaScan 10 months ago

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Status in Country of Origin

268 Chapters + 1 Creator's Note (Complete)

S1: 70 Chapters (1~70)
S2: 54 Chapters (71~124)
S3: 50 Chapters (125~174)
S4: 45 Chapters (175~219)
S5: 48 Chapters (220~268)

Physical Book:
6 Volumes (Ongoing)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Chap 1 (S1)

Ends at Chap 47 (S1) - Skip 45

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User Rating

Average: 7.7 / 10.0 (598 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.63 / 10.0

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Last Updated

March 28th, 2025 12:04am PDT - 4 weeks ago

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Genre

Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Harem School Life Shounen
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Recommendations

N/A

Author(s)

Usonan

Artist(s)

Wookjakga

Year

2018

Original Publisher

Daum

DnC Media

Kakao

Serialized In (magazine)

KakaoPage (Kakao)

D&C Webtoon (D&C Media)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Manta

Pocket Comics

Tapas (268 Chapters; Complete)

Tappytoon (268 Chapters; Complete)

Webnovel

Yen Press (4 Volumes - Ongoing)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #338

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Monthly Pos #368

(-11)

3 Month Pos #414

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6 Month Pos #365

(+51)

Year Pos #251

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List Stats

On 3414 reading lists

On 423 wish lists

On 359 completed lists

On 131 unfinished lists

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User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

Ejoyable read, but....

by lilyinthedusk
2 months ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

It started out very promising. It carried out well until the first shadow world (returning to the past) - which imho was very boring. Both arcs with the returning-to-past-shadow-worlds I could barely digest, they bore me to death.

Then the Crow mask battle happened and things were kind of blown out of proportion and it was a game of cat and mouse in terms of power, but the mouse was turning into a cat and so on and on. What I mean here is that all these fights became irrational - one side was much powerful than the other, but all of a sudden the weaker part got stronger in the middle of the fight, then the other side tried to re-overpower them, by becoming even stronger and in the end the weaker part got like a 2nd awakening before the end of the battle and won...

The main characters were very likeable and I enjoyed the tower master interactions as well, but the fights were spanned accross multiple chapters and this dragged the story uselessly.

A solid 7/10 from me. Would have ranked it higher if not the long battles and the "unsatisfying" open ending.

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Good read until the end

by fieldhouse
5 months ago

Rating: 7.5 / 10.0

Writer couldn't conform to the source material and yet still wimped out on a definitive ending.

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Not worth the time invested

by tamwile
8 months ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

Too many incoherences and nonsensical stuff.
Maybe it's due to the translation i found, but still there are many silly things.

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The suffering of the MC,

by 1berk
11 months ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

As you read the story it explains the current and previous timeline story and it builds up on it super good. Desir my GOAT 🙏

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Not worth your time (Shadow World arcs are decent enough)

by MatrixM
1 year ago

Rating: 5.5 / 10.0

Reviewed @ch156-ish
It starts off well enough, with promise
It doesn't live up to it
It fails in the matter of power scaling.
And it's kinda funny how the 'terrorist organisation' is morally in the right but our mc has to go against them anyway in order to further his own (important) goal.
Occasionally they have to delve into what feels like side-quest storylines [Shadow World arc] (it's dressed up as storylines based on past events but they feel so incredibly different in tone and setting and most events that it's clear its based on videogame side-quests and dungeon runs). And those are usually interesting. But it's so completely different to the rest of the series, it's kinda jarring.

Side characters are mostly a disappointment. The woman who I assume is the main romance is interesting, at least. But she's also kept mysterious in that we don't get enough development from her.

Also it's just straight-up silly that there are 100% people who the mc can trust with his Returnee secret but...he just...doesn't. For literally no good reason.

Start would be a 6.5-ish, the side-quests a 7.5, later parts imma say it's a 5. If you want things blown up, you can read this.

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Starts okay, pacing goes out of control

by Y_Sasuke
1 year ago

Rating: N/A

It was never great, but it was enjoyable at first. The pacing of the last two seasons is unreasonable, things don't feel real. Major "advancements" are dealt with so quickly their impact is unclear and they carry no weight.

Example of the pacing issues is (very minor spoiler):

New characters joined the MC's party in roughly season 3, and you follow them for 3 chapters maybe, then forget them for dozens of chapters, then learn they somehow got somewhat strong off screen, forget them again for dozens more chapters, now they appear again but at this point they had so little story time or character development the author starts color coding them so you remember who is who.

The fights, which were never great, get more and more incomprehensible and hence boring. The art isn't good enough to be a draw on its own.

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This is real bad

by miyagi1
2 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

After reading 200 chapters it feels like a complete waste of time. Portals give you crystals because leveling up blah blah blah. This has been done so many times before it's ridiculous. The story is so boring and incoherent I honestly don't think even the author cares what's happening anymore.

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Enjoyable trip

by jyu9
2 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Storytelling, dialogue and action flows naturaly it's pretty enjoyable trip when you read it compare to another isekai manhwa it's easily 9.5/10 althought there's a minor flaws but it still entertaining. I read it on kakao and already spent lots of coins to support the artist

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Extremely cliched and shallow

by potatohunter0
2 years ago

Rating: N/A

Nothing written is particularly unique and you can easily guess whats going to happen next and even what people are going to say most of the time.
Packed full of shallow flat characters devoid of any personality outside of how they feel towards the protag&friends. This was supposed to be about magic but instead its barely just the generic "Grr im a noble, I hate commoners!" drivel.
It's like somebody perfectly gathered ideas that have already been done before except they changed absolutely nothing about it.

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rating change!

by TiredandDeadInside
2 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

EDIT: I don't remember why I re-read this. I'm at ch. 257 now and I'm shocked at the last 100 or so chapters. Things accelerated.

The translation I'm reading is confusing as fuck but at the same time the art style grew on me. To the point where even if the translation is nonsensical I can sort of grasp what's trying to be conveyed through the character's interaction.

Last 50 chapters (until 257, anyway) is crazy. "Epic" is kind of what they're going for. They're very clearly missing the mark but not by much. Surprisingly decent.

Rating I gave WAS "0.5/10 everythingis boring". I can solidly say ch. 180 to 257 bumped it up to a comfortable 5 now.

ORIGINAL REVIEW: every female character seems to have caterpillars for their eyelashes. Unappealing, and even annoying, character designs. Slow, slow, SLOW plot.

Even during the supposedly emotional scenes like where Pram is all grateful for getting his rapier back feels so out of left field. It's so exaggerated...and I usually freaking love over the top anything...but this honestly feels like it was ripped out of the Murim genre. Usually, in hybrid Murim/Chinese Wuxia/Xianxia X Western style fantasy there's something that'll tie them together but here it's just so haphazardly done. Just really unfulfilling. There's zero payoff when the main dude supposedly does something "clever". I left feeling like...wait, that's it? That's ALL?!

I feel like I've been cheated of a good story the longer I read this. Ugh. Dropped at Ch.24.

... Last updated 1 year ago

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