The Archmage Returns After 4000 Years

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Synonyms: 4000-nyeon Man-e Gwihwanhan Daemadosa

Japanese: 4000년 만에 귀환한 대마도사

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Type: Manhwa

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: May 1, 2020 to ?

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Theme: Reincarnation

Serialization: KakaoPage

Authors: Nakhasan (Story), Kim, Deok-yong (Art)

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Ranked: #3601²

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Lucas Trowman was the greatest archmage in history until he was condemned by Demigod to spend eternity losing his mind. But 4,000 years later, he's thrust back into this world, into the body of Frei Blake, the weakest, most un-talented student at the prestigious Westroad Academy for mages. After all this time, the world of magic has barely progressed. Could this be the work of Demigod? Determined to find out, Lucas seeks to reach the highest levels of power once again and get his revenge.

(Source: Tapas Media)

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The Archmage Returns After 4000 Years has been published digitally in English by Tapas Media since January 4, 2021.

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Blake, Frei

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Ricky

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Trowman, Lucas

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Elliah

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Aquareed, Sonia

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de Friedickwood, Snow

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Phisfounder, Iris

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Lord

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Lilith

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Ailee

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Sep 19, 2022

tokiyuh

Recommended

Preliminary (143/? eps)

if you've been left with the void from reading countless short, unfinished, and recycled plot manhwas I can highly recommend The Archmage Returns, I'm honestly shocked I haven't heard more about it and really only stumbled upon it just going through the Manhwa on MAL. Typically I feel the desire to read a lot of Manhwa because I am just looking for something to pass the time, just some simple entertainment, most of the time I get that in a recycled unoriginal format (Not that it's all bad of course). I did not know that what I would be getting from The Archmage Returns would ...

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Jun 20, 2025

whiteflame55

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (200/? eps)

This series returned after an almost 2 year hiatus and graced us with a final run of 11 chapters to round out the story. So, after such a long delay, how do I feel about it?

I still think this was a good time. A revenge story built on 4000 years of torture that led to the overthrow of tyrannical demigods with crazy powers? Yeah, it was worth seeing it through. These last few chapters were a pretty strong wrap-up that concludes the main elements the story. I wish I'd gotten to experience this ending when it was still fresh for me so that I could ...

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Aug 17, 2023

TheLewdOtakuRe

Not Recommended

Preliminary (25/? eps)

I had to write this review because every other review is slobbering all over this manhwa like crazy and acting like it's the second coming of Christ himself.

This manhwa does nothing new, it is extremely unoriginal and while the art may be pretty to look at but it's boring to see at this point. Redice Studios has over saturated the market to such insane degrees that this art is just average, it is the very least you should be expecting from a manhwa nowadays and is nothing worth giving the authors a pat on the back over.

You would hope that something action based ... like this would at the very least have some cool choreography, and neat spells, since it's about mages and stuff but no. For the first part of the series you essentially see the mc spam the most uninteresting moves in the world while characters cream their pants about it. The author is basically trying to gaslight you into thinking any of this is even remotely good. It's not.

There's also another thing about this that is extremely grating visually, the entire cast is extremely drab. The mc himself is a pain to look at, it's boring and very visually unappealing. This goes for the rest of the cast as well, besides the girls that the author clearly wants to incorporate into the harem, everyone looks like background characters and have the bare minimum thought put into them, I can't say the same for much else about the series though.

The villains and random groups you see in this world are so garbage, it is painfully clear that the author is just insanely lazy and isn't even trying to make an interesting story worth reading. You will come across about 7-8 villains and groups very early on in the series, and the author doesn't even try to name these characters and group. He straight up calls them crap like "death edge city gang of death" and other equally stupid titles, one could argue that this is more of an attempt at humor. I digress. It's pretty obvious this is another mass produced manhwa meant to make money, with zero thought or care put into it whatsoever. It's laziness they try to play off as comedy, and it does not work.

It's so rushed to put out that there are scenes where one panel is a guy with a scar on his right eye, and then in the panel immediately after it, the scar has disappeared. These are just unacceptable mistakes to me, I know it's easy to overlook in manhwa since this medium is like the fast food of reading. But I can't let that slide when so many other aspects of the story are so brazenly lazy and border on plagiarism.

Moving onto the MC, the mc is extremely two dimensional. He is passive to a fault 80% of the time and will do nothing until the author wants to throw a giant giga demon at him for him to kill to wow the audience. He's not fun or compelling at all, the only thing he ever talks about is money and milfs.

I do not mind lecherous main characters, they can be insanely entertaining and even endearing. This one though? Not so much, the author obviously doesn't understand what makes those types of characters fun to read. Just saying "haha I wanna sleep with a milf also I like money" is not enough to make him funny.

There's only so many ways I can say this manhwa is boring and mediocre so I'm going to end this review here.

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