The Player Hides His Past

Description

The real world is suddenly ambushed by rifts that threaten to spill out monsters from the VR game “Chronicles of Arcana.” These rifts can only be closed by “players,” people who have awakened as their in-game characters with all the same stats and skills. Unfortunately for protagonist Lee Hoyeol, his awakening is the opposite of cool as his avatar happens to be the one he made during the height of his awkward phase in middle school, giving him all the mannerisms and speech of an absolute cringelord. Just how will he go on to become the hero humanity needs most? (Source : LINE Webtoon)

Original Novel

Original Webtoon :
Naver Webtoon, Naver Series

Official Translations :
English (Tappytoon, LINE Webtoon), S.Chinese, T.Chinese, French, Japanese, Thai, Indonesian

Type

Manhwa

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Associated Names

El jugador oculta su pasado

El pasado oculto del jugador

Le Player cache son passé

Player-ga Gwageoreul Sumgim

The Player Hiding His Past

ตัวตนสุดเบียวของเพลเยอร์ผู้กู้โลก

俺の黒歴史、世界を救う

隐瞒黑历史的玩家

隱藏過去的玩家

플레이어가 과거를 숨김

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c.96 by Asura 5 days ago

c.95 by Asura 2 weeks ago

c.94 by Asura 2 weeks ago

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Status in Country of Origin

97 Chapters (Ongoing)

S1 : 53 Chapters (1~53)
S2 : 44 Chapters (54~?) (Ongoing)

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Average: 7.9 / 10.0 (181 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.67 / 10.0

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Last Updated

November 15th, 2025 5:53pm PST - 2 days ago

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Genre

Action Comedy Fantasy Shounen
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Author(s)

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Gaechaban

Artist(s)

Vinukki [Add]

Year

2023

Original Publisher

CNC Revolution Co., Ltd.

Naver

Serialized In (magazine)

Naver Webtoon (Naver)

Naver Series (Naver)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

LINE Webtoon

Tappytoon

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #449

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Monthly Pos #683

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3 Month Pos #815

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6 Month Pos #787

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Year Pos #555

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just remove the original personality

by solarisx
3 months ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

It's gotten lame and tired for a long time now. I get that it's a character he created in middle school. The stoic edgy character but when is Lee Hoyeol (the original guy) gonna shut up and just trust Grandfell. Also, he's useless. Might as well remove him from the story entirely. He does nothing, he can't affect anything and Grandfell is just gonna do what he wants anyway. He just uses Lee Hoyeols name. It would be great if he actually has a purpose besides comic relief but it's not even funny. The joke got old quick. Who cares what Grandfell names things, the world is clearly eating it up.

It would make more sense for both of them to be present if Grandfell was the personality inside Hoyeol's mind.

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The Player Hides His Past is one of my favourites

by Foxsyd
10 months ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I loved the Player Hides His Past! I’m reading it on the english version of Webtoon, and was so sad when I ran out of chapters to read.

It had a fresh and funny take on the hunterverse subgenre that ended up coming across as charming.

I look forward to its return with season 2!

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A Distinctive World with Hilarious Chapters

by 43
1 year ago

Rating: 8.5 / 10.0

The world feels different (I'm not sure if it's the story, the battles, the translations, or the art giving me that impression). In any case, some chapters really made me laugh.

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Kinda cringe comedy, lacks any romance or plot. (so far)

by SelflessHero
2 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

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Very generic

by Luminous Lotus
2 years ago

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Read up to chapter 32 and it's only got the art and the humor going for it. The humor is based off two things. The dichotomy between his 26 year old self and his chunni roleplaying aristocrat is very funny but also confusing because there's no explanation for why that is. Second, everyone misunderstanding and misinterpreting his actions to be so cool because he has such a dead pan face.

There's zero plot. It's very basic on the background info. Apparently the guy Raymond created the game and he's supposed to be the one posting news about the updates but he's also paying players out of his own pocket when they contribute to successfully closing a rift/rupture. That makes it seems like he's purposely pulling the game into reality but then he's sorry about it at the same time? And he paid the MC 100 billion won which is around 100 million dollars for his contribution in closing just one rift. How much money has this dude paid out so far for the last 6 (i think) years for players to close rifts? Also the last two updates had introduced the highest level monsters: one had a vampire demon at the highest level to date at 430 and the highest level human player at 404, following update jumped to level 650 in the span of one week. So yeah poor plot.

Also very poor logic shown. It starts off by saying ordinary non awaken people can't see or interact with the rifts. Then we get a bunch of youtubers and news channel filming on their phones and their drones - DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. EVEN WORSE, we see a whole bunch of phone communication from inside and outside the rifts both with the streaming and the calls. Uh, that would require cell towers, satellite, or something to get signal. Maybe they pull a wire through the rift? I was able to ignore it for the most part until I got to chapter 32. He's getting one skill point to distribute to his attributes per level from the first couple of times they show you his stats in detail but now he's at level 226 with what should have been 4 basic points and 226 points from leveling and the extra 4 points he gets every time he finishes his repeatable class quest which i've estimated he did 10 rounds of. So he should have around 270 points but the snapshot of his stats gave us a total on 197 points. So is he just sitting on 73 points undistributed even though he's whining about needing more mana? Hell no. The manwha claims he only has 10-20 points more than other players at the same level. How the hell was that calculated?

He's way too OP which is not always a negative but seems like it in this case. The explanation for his op magic is that he understands magic itself - which can work logically. What isn't logical is that he uses way less mana since he manipulates the magic directly without using a skill which is just BS. A skill should be the most efficient way to use magic (at least if you're not a mage) and he's a noob to magic so it's hard to phantom how he could be so efficient with his mana. In chapter 32 now he's decided to test out some knife skills after observing one of the top swordsman and he broke his apartment with his kitchen knife. It's just over the top.

I know I've done a lot of bashing but these are common problems in the genre. There are better ones with less problems though. I might read this for the comedy if it was completed and I don't have something better to read. Will check back later.

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Hilarious

by Etheiria
2 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

Just read chapter 27 and I almost choked out of laughter. Hilarious.

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Too absurd for me

by TribesX
2 years ago

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First chapters explanations are chaotic, and actions even more illogicals.

- Maybe I'm stupid, but I had a hard time understanding if he was in his body or simply trying to pilot an Avatar with his own consciousness.

Did the update with demons was before or after the game became reality?

Same question about the destruction of the demon Hunter base ? Everything is explained at the same time, but there is no "temporal situation".

2nd chapter : "Oh no, I can't work because I'm in this body which I can't control what it says (and even how it moves, but not at all times ?), so I can't get money, and thus can't live, get equipment and whatever"
-> chap. 4 : "here is a great contract with lots of benefits, from best guild".
Response : "TL;DR LOL"

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Good so far

by soah
2 years ago

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imo the comedy and action alike is pretty light right now (Upto chapter 16 so far). I do like how it’s going so far. Would like to see his sisters pop up more later on.

I’m hoping there is no romance component and if so, I’d rather it be anybody but blond haired girl. Mainly cos she’s part of a Guild already and I feel like beef might start up with MC and guild master bc of said girl. So if there is romance maybe with a non-player, tea lover.

Also low key wanted the streamer to become like personal streamer/assistant🤣🤣

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good cringe (comedy), no pointless romance that slogs it down (so far)

by Lokin
2 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

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