This Tomb Raider King reading guide starts with the answer: new readers begin at Episode 1 on Tapas, and anime watchers can pick up at chapter 52, where the 12-episode season stops. The manhwa is finished. AniList counts 411 chapters, the last on March 27, 2023, and Tapas lists 412 episodes and marks it completed. The one deadline that matters is Tapas itself, which shuts down on March 31, 2027.
Want the verdict instead of the route? Our Tomb Raider King review scores it 7.5/10 and covers what works and what drags. This page is only about where to start and how to get through it.
Tomb Raider King reading guide: what you're signing up for
Tomb Raider King. Korean volume 1 cover via AniList.
Tapas sums up the setup: "Mysterious tombs appeared all over the world one day, each containing a relic which grants its owner supernatural abilities." Jooheon Suh is a tomb raider "betrayed by his employer," and about to die "at the hands of a powerful new relic" when he wakes "15 years in the past, before any relics or tombs made their debut." He knows where the tombs will be, so he goes to get there first.
AniList credits Yoonz with the story and 3B2S with the art, adapting Sanji Jiksong's web novel. The sequel, End Line, only starts after the original's ending, so you can ignore it until you're done.
The early episodes show the rhythm you'll be reading for a long time. The first twenty Tapas episode titles include "The Buddha Statue," "Prince Shōtoku's Future Guide," "The Gold and Silver Axe," "The Code of Hammurabi" and "Voodoo Priest's Zombie Powder." Each tomb is a famous name with a superpower attached. If that loop doesn't grab you in twenty episodes, the readers quoted below suggest it won't later either.
Step-by-Step
1. Pick your starting point. Never watched the anime? Start at Episode 1 on Tapas. Watched all 12 episodes? Dexerto France says the Episode 12 finale corresponds to chapter 52 of the webtoon and tells readers to resume at chapter 52.
2. Give it the first twenty episodes. That covers the Buddha Statue through the Zombie Powder tombs, enough to know whether the relic-of-the-week format works for you.
3. Expect the middle to feel long. Readers keep flagging the same stretch. One r/manhwa reply says it "was fun at the start tho after like 100 ch it became reapetitive." If you hit that wall, it's fine to stop; the series is finished, so you're not leaving a cliffhanger.
4. Finish any paid Tapas binge before March 31, 2027. Tapas says that after that date you can't access "any previously unlocked content," and unlocks can't move to another Kakao service.
5. Move to the sequel if you want more. Tomb Raider King: End Line is on Tapas with 24 episodes so far.
What the 12 episodes cover and how they compare to the manhwa:
Tomb Raider King Manhwa vs Anime →
Coming from the anime: start at chapter 52
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The anime is a 12-episode season from Studio EEK. Crunchyroll streams it with an English dub, and in Japan Fuji TV listed it from July 8, 2026. It barely scratches the story. With the finale at chapter 52 and 411 chapters in total, there are 359 more chapters after the anime.
Crunchyroll's official Tomb Raider King trailer.
No second season has been officially confirmed, per the same Dexerto France piece, so the manhwa is the only way to see how it ends. One thing to know before you jump in at 52: the premise doesn't change. A hero who already knows where every tomb is rarely looks like he could lose. When a reader asked r/manhwa in July 2026 whether it was worth starting, the top reply was "if you turn off your brain, it's not bad."
Tomb Raider King anime key visual. © 3B2S, Yuns (REDICE STUDIO), SAN.G / Tomb Raider King Partners. Via AniList.
Where to read Tomb Raider King
Tapas is the English digital home, and it's closing on March 31, 2027. If you're paying your way through all 412 episodes, finish before then, because the unlocks don't carry over. If you'd rather own it, Yen Press licensed the series in English under its Ize Press imprint.
For the bigger picture on legal options: Where to Read Manhwa Legally →
After the ending: End Line
Finished doesn't mean the end of Jooheon. End Line picks up after the original, and its Tapas blurb says he "is sorely mistaken if he thinks he'll get a break after saving the world" once the "Majesty War" starts. With 24 episodes out, it won't add much reading time. It's also on Tapas, so the same March 31, 2027 caution applies.
Tomb Raider King: End Line. ⓒ 3B2S, yuns, SAN.G 2019 / REDICE STUDIO. Banner via Tapas.
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Our take: read it in bursts, not as a marathon
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We'd start anime viewers at chapter 52 and everyone else at Episode 1, then treat chapter 100 as a checkpoint. If the tomb-of-the-week loop still makes you grin there, keep going to the end and into End Line. If it's starting to blur together, the readers quoted above felt the same, and stopping costs you nothing on a finished series. One reader's summary is the fairest expectation to bring: "Story was 6/10 world building and myth variety 10/10 so 8/10."
How We Checked This
We checked 23 facts on October 13, 2026 against Tapas (series page, End Line page and the end-of-service FAQ), AniList, Wikipedia, Dexerto France, the Japanese broadcast site, YouTube and three r/manhwa threads, one quoted row per fact in our sources table. This pass fixed the chapter count (AniList has 411; Tapas's 412 counts episodes), the hero's name (the old page said Jooheon Kwon), the credits, the betrayer (his employer, not a colleague), how far the anime reaches (chapter 52; our old estimate ran well past that) and the print publisher (Ize Press). It removed a three-phase arc structure, reading-session estimates and an art-team link to Solo Leveling that no source supported.
Last reviewed: October 13, 2026
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