The Legendary Spearman Returns

Description

Joshua Sanders, the legendary spearman who ended the brutal civil war, shattered the belief that one must wield a sword to be a master knight. He fought in the service of his friend, Emperor Caesar van Briton, but it is all for naught when his fearful comrades try to kill him. He’s on the brink of death when his trusty weapon, Lukia, shines and propels him back to the stables of his childhood. With his mighty spear in hand, Joshua is dead set on revenge in this life!

Original Webtoon:
KakaoPage, Daum

Official Translations:
English, T.Chinese, Japanese, Thai

Type

Manhwa

Associated Names

El retorno del legendario caballero de la lanza

Kembalinya Kesatria Tombak Legendaris

Le retour du lancier légendaire

Retorno do lendário cavaleiro da lança

Return of the Greatest Lancer

Return of the Legendary Spear Knight

Return of the Unrivaled Spear Knight

Sự Trở Lại Của Hiệp Sĩ Giáo

Возвращение величайшего лансера всех времен

Возмездие величайшего копейщика

การกลับมาของอัศวินผู้ใช้หอกแห่งยุค

史诗级枪骑士再临

歴代級槍騎士の回帰

英雄槍騎士的復仇

역대급 창기사의 회귀

Groups Scanlating

N/A

Latest Release(s)

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Status in Country of Origin

181 Chapters (Hiatus since 08/02/2025)

• Main story : 181 Chapters (Complete)

S1 : 99 Chapters (1~99)
S2 : 40 Chapters (100~139)
S3 : 42 Chapters (140~181)
Side Stories: TBA

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 6.7 / 10.0 (229 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.65 / 10.0

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Last Updated

October 6th, 2025 2:45pm PDT - 2 weeks ago

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Genre

Action Adventure Fantasy Harem Shounen
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Daum

Kakao

Rok Media

Serialized In (magazine)

KakaoPage (Kakao)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Tapas

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #573

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Monthly Pos #1099

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3 Month Pos #803

(+48)

6 Month Pos #979

(+173)

Year Pos #684

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List Stats

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On 182 wish lists

On 72 completed lists

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Not the best not the worst

by jnatsumi
1 year ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

Crisp and clean art. Beautifully done.

Predictable storyline and characters.

I do love the whole regression and revenge theme but it’s dragging on a bit. Side characters are not interesting. No romance.

Edited after ch 129 (time skip): Don’t waste your brain cells. Stupid useless MC

... Last updated 1 year ago

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Starts Good But Goes Downhill Fast

by superman89
3 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

I like the start of the manga but as soon as MC goes to school it's goes downhill ASAP. After the timeskip it's even worse.

We get bits and pieces of events and characters with no real explanation. We'll get a chapter with this character and the next chapter another character at another place that leaves you scratching your head.

I hear the novel is better but I shouldn't have to read the novel to understand the manga plot.

With the recent chapters aka the time skip the story went to the garbage heap.

... Last updated 2 years ago

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what superman89 said except...

by trunkallergy
2 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

He didn't specify how boring it is to have half of every chapter either introduce some completely uncontextualized scene that we have no hope of understanding, or have the mc recognize his n-teenth past life friend/enemy. It got to the point where I was just skipping through to scenes that have the mc in them, and I really don't think I was any more lost than anyone else reading this.

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Had potential, but completely wasted it

by hrumvkum
11 months ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

tldr: Do not read this, unless you want to feel huge disappointment.

I don't usually write any reviews or comments, or even rate the titles I read, but this was one of the biggest downfalls I have ever seen. Everything was ok up to chapter ~60-70, not good, not ideal, but ok. Unfortunately, after that things went down very quickly, especially with season 2 start and last chapters of S1. To spend so much time on absurdly useless and uninteresting fights and talks of mob characters and then skip all the best fights? Skip all plot? It also seems like author made MC too powerful and did not really know what to do with him, and because of that everything became just too absurd and non-believable. I think this title had pretty good potential, because the different plot twists are connecting in a quite interesting way and even make sense. But the implementation is just terrible.

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True review

by Fuckyu123
2 years ago

Rating: N/A

First few chapters are good but after like 50 chapters it became worst
RECOMMEND NOT TO READ
as if now

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Terrible lulls

by protoman9012
2 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

The first 50 or so chapters are good enough, but then chapters become increasingly comprised of generals and politicians blabbering around tables with very little action. Perhaps it gets better later, but I can only stand so many chapters of this.

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Good action series. Not so good revenge series.

by 2j25
1 month ago

Rating: N/A

Very enjoyable read, even into the second half. However, the later arcs feel as though the author decided to just forgo fleshing out storylines and no longer cared about certain characters.

By the end, there are so many characters who just completely exited the story without ever getting a proper ending to their relevant plots, which is really a shame since the world building in this series was actually pretty good.

Still a good read, and worth checking out if you're looking for something with a lot of action and hype moments. However, if you're wanting to read a revenge story, I'd say look elsewhere. Most of the revenge targets aren't even named until they actually appear in the story and the author decides to make them one. Felt as though the revenge aspect took a huge backseat after the first 30 chapters or so.

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...just gonna skip over the rape, huh

by TiredandDeadInside
3 years ago

Rating: N/A

Chapter 2, in one of the scanlations, says MC's mother who was a maid (and concubine?) was "forcefully held by Duke Agnus" when MC's background is explained. In those exact, translated words.

This gets downplayed straight into Hell when the MC's father, Duke Rapist, gets more screentime. So, so, so many comments at the scanlator's sites are even praising Duke Rapist for being a badass whenever he shows up. 🤢

Neither is MC even fazed. Has no hard feelings whatsoever when asked by Duke Rapist himself if MC resents him!

Gross.

Dropped.

... Last updated 2 years ago

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