Past Life Returner

Description

In a world crawling with monsters and dungeons, Na Sunhoo and the other Awakeneds fight to protect humanity. But after he is killed in a deadly battle, a screen appears: "Initiate Time Regression?" Now with a second chance at life, Sunhoo returns to the past, determined to make as much money as possible to buy the land the dungeon is on and destroy it before the monsters can appear. With innocent lives at risk, can Sunhoo strike it rich and vanquish the monsters once and for all?

Original Webtoon:
Daum, KakaoPage

Official Translations:
English, S.Chinese, Japanese

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

Past Life Regressor (Alternate Version)

Past Life Returner (Novel) (Adapted From)

Associated Names

Jeongsaengja (2022)

Past Life Regressor (2022)

Reincarnator (2022)

転生の太陽

转生者

전생자 (2022)

Groups Scanlating

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Latest Release(s)

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Status in Country of Origin

139 Chapters (Ongoing)

S1: 48 Chapters (1~48)
S2: 44 Chapters (49~92)
S3: 41 Chapters (93~133)

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Anime Start/End Chapter

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User Rating

Average: 7.3 / 10.0 (110 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.08 / 10.0

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Last Updated

October 2nd, 2025 2:25am PDT - 1 week ago

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Genre

Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Seinen
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

Na Min Chae

Artist(s)

Aigostudio [Add]

Next Level Studio

Year

2022

Original Publisher

Daum

Kakao

Next Level Studio

Serialized In (magazine)

KakaoPage (Kakao)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Tapas

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #530

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Monthly Pos #1059

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3 Month Pos #2010

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6 Month Pos #2447

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Year Pos #2074

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List Stats

On 711 reading lists

On 112 wish lists

On 4 completed lists

On 37 unfinished lists

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Chapter 111

by Air Wolf
9 months ago

Rating: N/A

... Is how far I have read. Spoilers Ahead!

There is a few parts to this that I have read so far.

Part 1 starts over 20 years before the attack on the planet and consists of the MC gathering resources $¥€¢£ to keep the economy from crumbling to dust. This consists of a number of times where luck could turn either way and while knowing he would "win", it still caused some excitement in me when what needed to happen, did happen.

Part 2 is where he really starts picking up on training himself. He has gathered the capital funds and purchased the land the early dungeons are at and has gone into and cleared who knows how many of them. I'd say this lasted about 10 years in the book tho he doesn't look like it has (awakener ability I guess).

Part 3 has him giving the final preparation details to even those not in the know which prevents catastrophic measures from occurring and saves tons of lives in the process. This is also when the test site is finally opened and probably 6% of the population was swept away by the system to the site.

I'm pretty sure part 1 finishes around 60-70 chapters in, but it could be that that is when part 2 finishes. Don't blame me for inaccurate information, I'm only human.

By the way, he's doing everything for his family and is Always trying to stay out of the public eye. Partially to protect his family and partially because he really doesn't want the attention. He will wield his authority like a sword when needed and cause others to submit. It's a balance between "Here is the benefit, come join me." and "Give in. You can't compete against me."

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Bad remake or bad story?

by RoiYagi
1 year ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

I absolutely loved the previous one so I thought the reason why I didn't enjoy this as much was the fast pace and the below-average art but as the story continued I realized I might enjoyed the original more because it stopped before the bad parts started to show.

The financial aspect was my favorite. Unlike the usual MCs who just train a little and say "There's nothing else I can do" the MC here is using his knowledge to the fullest and thoroughly preparing for the future catastrophe from every aspect. But as the story progresses MC's personality becomes dogsh*t. What he's doing no longer feels like for the benefit of humanity but for his own ego. He basically turns into yet another arrogant cold OP MC who is worshiped by everyone.

This could've been wonderful writing if it was intentional to show how easy it is to become the worst version of yourself when there's literally no one on earth who can oppose you without getting their life ruined or straight up getting killed and seeing MC actually try to go back to being a good person but no the author just decided to sh*t on their own story by making MC and other characters so unlikable it makes you wish the bad guys would win.

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Shtty art..

by FANGURL999
1 year ago

Rating: N/A

Bro 😭😭😭 ick

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Wolf of the wallstreet.

by LazyM0nday
1 year ago

Rating: N/A

Well its basically only a wallstreet manhwa til like ch 70 ? and i dropped after like ch 80,...the mc is to much of douchbag in my op. the wallstreet takedown and world domination with tradings was way better then the lame few fights in the dungeon. Tbh my drop reason is i started to feel sorry for the fl lol..one siseded love, mc a paranoid douchbag. this maybe will change in the future chapters..but im not gonna wait a nother 100 eps min for that " if" ..coz the real thing starts a like ch 70..before hat it was all just money hording and prep work.

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Different from the average dungeon story

by BepsRose
1 year ago

Rating: N/A

Like 85% of the first season could be called "Wolf of Wallstreet: Korean Drift", taking place in the late 90s/early 00s. A lot of the story so far is the MC setting up a solid foundation of power and influence so that he can direct a better response to the future "monsters breaking from the dungeon and governments collapse" event.
The way dungeon battles and awakeners are handled feels very dark and gritty. Mature.

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Quite novel

by Joese
2 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

Up to now almost everything is mainly centred in the economic aspect and it's rather interesting. It's also refreshing to see how they recicle the draft panels instead of the big blank spaces many webtoons leave.

The only bad part I see about the series is how money hungry the MC is (he usually centers on the economic aspectof a broker regressing, but since there aren't any daily life scenes it feels a bit dissociated). It's a bit frustrating when he throws money at random stuff (the contracts he offers most are always said to be 100 million dollars anual) and then is relatively stingy on other things.

There are also some anticlimactic conclusions, but the story stays interesting mixing the economy stuff with action.

... Last updated 2 years ago

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Not as good as the previous one, but with the source material you cant go wrong

by C-Base
3 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

It is a restart of the same series under a new artist.
This novel has a quick start with a slow burn.
MC regresses to his childhood and builds himself up statwise and financially.
The pacing is very good and based on reality. The first 20 chapter are all about getting the money to finance his future dungeon dives.
I give it a 9/10

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