The Return of the Disaster-Class Hero

Description

Humans call them “Calamities”—the unknown, destructive creatures that suddenly appeared on earth.

To challenge these calamities, the Zodiac Gods awakened 12 Humans known as SAINTS.

But there was one more that awoke—Unchosen but the greatest hero of all : Geon Lee.

His allies betrayed him and left him for dead, but now, 20 years later, he’s more powerful than ever and ready to teach his fellow “Saints” a lesson they’ll never forget. (Source : Tapas)

Original Webtoon:
Daum, KakaoPage

Official Translations:
English: Tappytoon, Tapas, LINE Webtoon
Others: Russian, S.Chinese, Thai, Japanese, T.Chinese

Type

Manhwa

The Return of the Disaster-Class Hero (Novel) (Adapted From)

Tomb Raider King (Sequel)

Associated Names

A Disaster Class Hero Has Returned

Felaket Kahramanın Dirilişi

Jaeang-geup Yeongung-nim-i Gwihwan Hasyeotda

Resurrection of the Catastrophic Hero

Return of the Disaster-Class Hero

Return of the Disaster-Level Hero

The Return of the Disaster-Class Hero Chapter

Возвращение героя уровня катастрофы

بازگشت قهرمان سطح فاجعه

การกลับมาของฮีโร่ระดับหายนะ

災いクラスの俺様英雄の帰還

災難級英雄歸來

灾难级英雄归来

재앙급 영웅님이 귀환하셨다

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Latest Release(s)

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Status in Country of Origin

152 Chapters + Prologue (Ongoing)

S1 : 48 Chapters (01~48)
S2 : 104 Chapters (49~?)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

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User Rating

Average: 7.5 / 10.0 (309 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.39 / 10.0

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Last Updated

November 22nd, 2025 2:33am PST - 2 weeks ago

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Genre

Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Shounen Supernatural
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Author(s)

HEATS(REDICE STUDIO) [Add]

Redice

SAN.G

Artist(s)

BGman [Add]

Year

2021

Original Publisher

Daum

Kakao

Redice Studio

Serialized In (magazine)

Kakaopage (Kakao)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Line Webtoon

Tapas

Tappytoon

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #351

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Monthly Pos #544

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3 Month Pos #607

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6 Month Pos #654

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Year Pos #514

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List Stats

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On 277 wish lists

On 16 completed lists

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Great fun.

by Seraphim69
1 year ago

Rating: N/A

This MC pretty much becomes a God. He is him and is always fun to watch.

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Hmm

by Xadro
2 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

Season 1 was great, MC was roflstomping everyone who was in his way but when season 2 start he got a huge nerf and we got some overly dramatic backstory of the MC's BFF that was terribly cringe.

We also get to see villains who would sacrifice towns to monsters and even wanting to blow up hospitals but it all gets treated far to lightheartedly with the same 'comedy' as season 1. It's as if everyone on the writing staff got replaced except for the comedy guy.

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Not bad

by Zhangorphne
2 years ago

Rating: N/A

I really liked how it started out and I did like the first season but I will agree with someone else on here that the second season is kind of blah. Not unbearable but it's getting a bit convoluted

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I like it, great humor

by Ah_Cat
2 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

To be honest, I'm surprised that the comments below are so negative.
This series does have a lot of fighting and puts in a lot of humor, but from my perspective, it's nicely jumping between seriousness and comedy. I don't pay much attention to the 'plot holes' people described (that he is supposed to be so strong but is losing). For me, the 'losing' is just for comedy, he plays around with his enemies and just isn't really serious overall as a character but then wins easily at the end. I'm honestly wondering if we're reading the same thing, since other people seem not to catch that.
The humor is actually the best part of the manhwa and I like it a lot. MC just isn't the smartest one in the poodle and moves on instincts, so it may give the idea that he is 'going nowhere' and 'has no conviction' but the story is far from over and it's actually moving pretty fast between the zodiacs. The premise is also really clear - he's a good guy with a lot of strength and a jokester, who is looking for the person who betrayed him. MC's chaotic character is what makes the manhwa jump from one place to another, and I like it a lot. In my opinion, the author really works well with the goofiness of the MC and is doing a good job balancing the story.

If you're not expecting a perfect tactician, malicious revenge plot and serious battles, I think it's worth giving it a try.

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Meh

by aeovyn
2 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

I usually like OP mc's etc for a change after being used to so many shounen's where the mc grows with time.
But in this story the author just screws up the writing with the power system and makes mc too OP from the get-go. Sure, still decent, but it after a decent amount of chapters and fights, the fights just get annoying to read through especially since some images/scenes are just elongated like walls being overly long, gaps inbetween images elongated with speech bubble cry "aaaaaaaaaaah", making it slower and annoying to read, additionally I feel like each fight has a few more flavour fight scene images like jabs, etc. whichh is kinda nice making the fight more imaginative, but the problem is doesn't add anything of substance, it just drags the fight out longer and makes reading it more annoying, because as the reader one knows the mc's power level, the opponents power level and has been reading/seeing these fights with the same crushing power differential (mc keeps getting/recovers new abilities and items thus the differntial to opponents stays the same) over and over for dozens of chapters.

So to me it was merely decent, but I can recommend giving this story a try to those who really like mega-crushing OP mc's from the get-go and if you don't get annoyed by the way the fights are written/shown you'll probably be able to overlook a certain asspull-cheat-nonsense skill/attack in c57 which wasn't even a major event, but just messed with the "common sense" of the story by disregarding power levels and what ability is able to affect someone else.

So overall read until chapter 57, had this rated as decent/average 5/10 prior to this chapter, now it's 3/10 and dropped. The art is good btw.

... Last updated 2 years ago

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Average as all heck

by The Last Melody
3 years ago

Rating: 4.5 / 10.0

But it has its own identity at least

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Writing quality jumped off a cliff after season 2

by potatohunter0
3 years ago

Rating: N/A

It was good until it became just a collection of shallow cliches after season 2. Boring antagonists with only the most flat motivations. Plot holes so frequent you could tell an incompetent worthless author took over what was previously a decent story with powers going completely forgotton from season 1.

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Great Art, Terrible Story

by kausarme
4 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

Story wise, this manhwa has so many plotholes and illogical stuff that i doubt anyone would read it if not for the art.

Good thing about this manhwa:

A lot of fighting
Obviously this manhwa like whowing you fights where the mc use some flashy overpowered abilities and beat all the godly beings without breaking a sweat.
Great Art
Nothing to debate here, The art is Amazing.

Bad thing about this manhwa:

Mc has No Clear Motivation
He Swore
Very bad power system
In 1 Part, MC is said to overpower all 12 saints. and then he struggled to save people from meteor.
In 1 part the saint is the original 12 strongest human, and then somehow get outclass by a disciple.
etc.
Lot of obvious inconsistency
Ex: In 1 part, Mc said that he has no experience with this class system and all, and then in another he is using it like a pro.
All the characters is very dumb
Imagine a guy who was strong enough to overpower the world alone come back from the dead and swore to kill you. What would you do?
a. Band together
b. Try to bribe him
c. Run Away

well the characters did none of that and instead infuriate mc and put themselves in line for a beating.

Same for the reporters etc. A Guy just showed up claiming he is the strongest being and he came back from the dead. Nothing much right? and then he beats up and threaten A saint ( Just to emphasize Saints is the strongest human except for the mc). Would you laugh? Well the reporters did, they either have complete lack of logic or experience to tell that something is clearly not right. And these guys are suppose to be a reporter (somebdy who's job is to report and write about a lot of stuff)

... Last updated 4 years ago

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Bad and Lame Writing. Good Art.

by logan3
4 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

The MC talks big but ultimately never satisfyingly resolves anything. Instead, the authors either

(1) get random and nonsensical things to conveniently eliminate bad guys instead of the MC taking action directly himself,
(2) give little or no punishment to the atrocious villains (yes, it's another one of those), or
(3) have the bad guys randomly and suddenly disappear from the story without explanation(!?).

It's boring, frustrating, and lame.

Another increasingly apparent issue is that the authors have their MC unnecessarily toying with enemies, resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent lives. Nuclear-level explosions go off and large swathes of cities are wiped away, just so the MC can smile and say a clichéd, "Is that all you've got?" Unfortunately, it makes no sense within the plot's context, appears as a lazy means to drag out chapters, and is another example of the authors' poor writing. It also makes the MC, who we are supposed to sympathize with, additively appear just as disgusting as the villains he's contrasted against.

As others pointed out, the art and occasionally unceremonious MC are just about the only positives.

P.S. As usual, the Korean authors can't stand--gods forbid--a "bad-looking" MC. So they have to change his mature and disfigured face and body from bad- to good-looking by some "mystical process" that also reverse-ages him before the story can really get started.

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Pretty Nonsense

by MondSemmel
4 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

In this supposed revenge story, the protagonist swears revenge, then spares several of his targets for no reason. Also, he announces his return to his targets, and yet, rather than banding together to crush him, they instead line up one by one to get crushed.

The only good parts of this manhwa are the art and the humor.

... Last updated 4 years ago

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