The Beginning After the End

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From Yen Press:
Deep inside the dungeon, Arthur and his allies come face-to-face with a mana beast of legend, the S-Class Elderwood Guardian! With death imminent and his party members quickly descending into madness, Art knows he’ll have to be the one to guide them to safety. But no sooner does he go to help than Lucas turns against them! Wounded by a so-called ally and being attacked on all fronts, Art makes a choice. It’s time to bring out the next stage of his beast will even if his body can’t handle it.

Original Novel, Special Volume

Original Webcomic:
Digital, Volumes

Official Translations:
Japanese, Spanish, T.Chinese, French
• Korean: Daum, KakaoPage
• Thai:
Kakao Webtoon,
Lezhin
•S.Chinese: KuaiKan, BiliBili

Artist:

Season 1-5: Fuyuki23
Side Story “Jasmine: Wind-Borne”: XUANSHAN and LiLi
Season 6: Eginhardt

Author:

Season 1-6: Story and script TurtleMe
Side Story “Jasmine: Wind-Borne”: Story by TurtleMe and written by Nhi Huynh

Type

OEL

Associated Names

El comienzo después del fin

La Vida después de la Muerte

Sondan Sonraki Başlangıç

tbate

Ánh sáng cuối con đường

آغاز پس از پایان

البداية بعد النهاية

三岁开始做王者

最強の王様、二度目の人生は何をする?

终末起点

끝이 아닌 시작

Groups Scanlating

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Latest Release(s)

N/A

Status in Country of Origin

214 Chapters (Ongoing)
3 Volumes (Ongoing)

S1: 25 Chapters (1~25)
S2: 31 Chapters (26~56)
S3: 29 Chapters (57~85)
S4: 40 Chapters (86~125)
S5: 50 Chapters (126~175) + 3 Bonus Chapters
Side Story: 10 Chapters (Jasmine: Wind-Borne 1~10)
S1-S5 Recap (175.9)
S6: 37+ Chapters (176~)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

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User Reviews

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User Rating

Average: 8.5 / 10.0 (319 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.31 / 10.0

32%

26%

23%

Last Updated

April 23rd, 2025 11:56am PDT - 11 hours ago

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Genre

Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Romance School Life Shounen Supernatural
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

TurtleMe

Artist(s)

Eginhardt [Add]

Fuyuki23

LiLi [Add]

XUANSHAN [Add]

Year

2018

Original Publisher

Kisai Entertainment (S1-5)

Rise Entertainment [Add] (S6)

Tapas (S1-6)

Serialized In (magazine)

Tapas

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Kross Komics (Expired)

Tapas

Yen Press (7 Volumes - Ongoing | Print)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #49

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Monthly Pos #35

(+3)

3 Month Pos #44

(-68)

6 Month Pos #51

(-21)

Year Pos #58

(-118)

List Stats

On 2002 reading lists

On 351 wish lists

On 26 completed lists

On 52 unfinished lists

On 168 custom lists

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User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

It *starts* really good, but does not maintain that initial quality

by q00u
2 weeks ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

I really enjoyed this, initially.

But as others have pointed out, it starts to drag around the academy. I held out hope that it would recover, but instead it becomes rage-bait as the MC is mistreated at the conclusion of that arc.

Then it's training for the MC, which is boring. And then it's many chapters of side-character filler, which is much worse.

When it finally, FINALLY came back, after a looong hiatus, the art was too different, and the writing sucked. To be honest, the writing had sucked for a while, but the new art ruined the last of my interest.

Seriously, just look up spoilers for the novel and ask yourself if that's the kind of story you want to continue reading. Because it's not great.

But the first ~150 chapters are pretty good, if you can handle a story that doesn't have a conclusion.

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One of the best series I've read

by JOYBOY2025
3 months ago

Rating: N/A

Title says it all Recommend it

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Decent Isekai with Good Art

by wansmor
6 months ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

It's a rather interesting story, and at times it tries so hard to explain itself? I don't hate it tbh, most isekai doesn't care about explaining how abilities come to be and all, but this series explain it pretty well.

The problem is, I think as far as it goes, it is not offering much than tropes you usually find in cultivation stories, which is weird to say because it is not, while it kinda is at the very same time (just not with rigorous 'rank' you usually find in such story, but still). Well art is nice, I'd give that, so it's a plus, but a must read, I won't really say so.

Also if I may add, I don't like very much academy or school arc... It feels boring because usually it's MC towering over other his peers and then some bad guys trying to bully him but overestimate their capabilities. It's very cliche and annoying at the same time.

Still, it's one of better isekai out there, it maybe cliche and it's eagerness to explain everything may make it boring at times, but it's decent. Just because it is taking from other ideas doesn't make it bad, in the end it's how they present it that matters, and I'm quite eager to see what happen next.

... Last updated 6 months ago

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Began very well, yet keeps changing directions, drags on, and is consistent

by Dunkjoe
8 months ago

Rating: N/A

[Review is until chapter 155]
This is another one of those isekai series, but difference being the person was established in the old world and bring those experiences over. So initially, it was really good.

However, pretty early on, cracks began to show. Not sure why as a mage, MC suddenly decided not to use magic for 2 years to focus on swordsmanship, only to return to magic soon after. Later on, he was trained as a close combat martial artist. Yeah, not magic, lol. Began as someone extremely talented in magic (4+2), and with beast tamer magic, but keeps focusing on other things, and not sure why he keeps restricting himself out of nowhere, and keeps facing crisis after crisis partly because of that.

MC has a very strong pet, but chooses not to bring it to where he is in dungeons, then every time, he would face some absurdly strong monsters out of nowhere. Then he almost dies, and next time, he does it again.

Initially the series was going the conventional shounen route, but then somewhere along the way decided to go the despairing seinen route, where people began dying, MC trying to aid his close people start backfiring (and almost killed a close person). A few times after MC saved people, he was persecuted for dumb reasons instead of being rewarded.

I think the main issue is plot consistency, or the lack of it. Lots of plotlines were explored then dumped, lots of characters keep having developments that don't make sense, or change personalities for no reason. Lots of new plotlines get thrown in here and there. Imagine plot going at a straight line early on and then started become swirly and so on after that.

Thus, I came to the conclusion that the series probably drew references from other series, since it is so inconsistent and I could clearly find some plotlines very similar to other series. If you like the start, go for the series "A returner's magic should be special" because it is similar but much, much better.

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Pretty good until the academy arc

by moonmystery
2 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

I really enjoyed this series until the academy arc kicked in. It just really slowed down and seemed less exciting whenever MC became a teenager along with elf princess.

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One of the greatest Isekais

by hansmaulwurf
2 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

This is easily a gateway into isekai. The series differs from the usual genre by not getting tied down to a twist/hook but instead letting the full breadth of the adventure happen.

I'm wondering why, after all the years, this series is on MangaUpdates? I searched for it when I started reading and didn't find it.

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It's alright... jk it's bad.

by thehamzatsuit
2 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

The amount of people recommending this to me just doesn't add up with what I'm seeing.

Also doesn't help that Tapas suddenly blocked my country mid-serialization.

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