Is Revenge of the Baskerville Bloodhound Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read

Quick facts
Format	Manhwa, 167 chapters
Run	2023–present · ongoing
Community score	AniList 8.0 · MangaUpdates 7.8
Where to read	Tapas — official

Overview

Vikir Von Baskerville spent forty years earning his place in a family that raises its children like weapons — the Baskervilles are famous sword-hounds, and Vikir clawed his way up from unwanted illegitimate son to trusted operative through over 500 brutal missions: espionage, assassination, and worse. His reward for four decades of loyalty is execution, framed for conspiring with demons by the very father he served. Then he wakes up back at the start, memories of his entire first life intact, still a child, still years away from the betrayal that killed him. This time, Vikir isn't interested in earning the Baskerville name. He's interested in destroying it.

It's a reincarnation-revenge story, but the family itself is the antagonist from the start rather than a twist reveal, and the brutal "raise assassins from birth" premise gives the setup a harder, darker edge than most regression fantasy.

What it does well

Vikir's four decades of lived experience as an operative — not just a fighter, but a spy, killer, and survivor of a genuinely cruel upbringing — gives him a different toolkit than the usual regression protagonist. He doesn't just hit harder; he reads people, anticipates betrayals, and plays the long game in ways that feel earned by an actual lifetime of hard-won paranoia. That makes his climb through the Baskerville hierarchy feel like a real campaign instead of a straight power line.

The Baskerville family itself is a strong villain — not cartoonishly evil, but a system that produces monsters by design, training children through things like the infamous Cradle of Swords and treating loyalty as disposable the moment it's inconvenient. That gives Vikir's revenge real thematic weight: he's not just settling a personal score, he's tearing down a machine built to make more people like him. The art is a genuine highlight too, handling both the brutal training sequences and the family's cold, oppressive atmosphere with real polish.

Where it falls short

The "reborn with a lifetime of memories to get revenge on the family that wronged him" structure is familiar regression-fantasy territory, and the first stretch of chapters spends real time re-establishing the family's cruelty before Vikir's counter-plan gets fully underway. The large cast of Baskerville siblings and half-siblings can be hard to track early on, since several of them are introduced with similar sword-hound backgrounds before their individual personalities get room to stand out. Readers looking for a lighter, less grim regression story should know this one leans hard into dark fantasy territory.

Verdict

A protagonist whose strength comes from decades of hard-earned experience rather than a sudden power spike, working against a family designed to produce killers like him, gives this more thematic teeth than most regression revenge webtoons manage. If you want your reincarnation fantasy dark, sharp, and genuinely mean about what it's critiquing, Vikir's climb through the Baskerville ranks delivers.