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A young man who had surely died in an accident, was reborn in another world as a baby! After that, he was picked up by the patriot hero "Sage" Merlin Wolford and was given the name Shin. He was raised as a grandson by Merlin and soaked up Merlin's teachings earning him some shocking power however, when he became 15 his grandfather Merlin said: "I forgot to teach him common sense". 6a1k69

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Manga

Related Series

Kenja no Mago (Novel) (Adapted From)

Kenja no Mago: Extra Story (Side Story)

Kenja no Mago SP (Spin-Off)

Kenja no Mago SS (Spin-Off)

Associated Names

Cháu trai của Hiền Giả

Cucu Sang Pertapa

El Nieto Del Sabio

Il nipote del saggio

Le Petit-fils du Sage

Magi's Grandson

Wise Man’s Grandchild

Внук мудреца

حفيد الحكيم

หลานจอมปราชญ์

賢者の孫

賢者之孫

贤者之孙

현자의 손자

Groups Scanlating

Biamam Scans

Miso Soup

NekoNet TL

Tritinia Scans

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Status in Country of Origin

26 Volumes (Ongoing)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1

Ends at Vol 6, Chap 21

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Average: 6.9 / 10.0 (272 votes)

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Last Updated

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Author(s)

YOSHIOKA Tsuyoshi

Artist(s)

OGATA Shunsuke

Year

2016

Original Publisher

Kadokawa Shoten

Serialized In (magazine)

Young Ace Up (Kadokawa Shoten)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

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It just doesn't make sense.

by villasan
2 years ago

Rating: 6.5 / 10.0

Lore wise speaking doesn't make sense.
Plot development won't.....

won't follow magic mechanic's direction, like the Gate Spell that is completely ignored as a major strategic advantage in the battle field, or the flying magic that may be essential at info gathering. Ever since chapter 24 the story has been increasingly growing of loopholes nonstop. Seems like author is hopeless of quelling his own inconsistencies at this point... Going from chapter 60 onward; the manga is desperately trying to shift to a Shounen like development instead of the original Seinen fundation, which may be a desperate response of losing popularity??? idk....

In any case, this may be not a bad reading, it's fun, interesting and ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), but is rather inconsistent, each arc (3 of them by now) is like talking about completely different mangas from each other; different story telling, style, background, even the drawing style changes, sometimes it feels like the main characters are the only thing connecting everything together.

If you are looking for a good Seinen read, the "Seinen" tag in this manga may be one of the most misleading things a have seen in this web (in my opinion, it should be added the "Shounen" tag besides of it).

... Last updated 9 months ago

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Nice at first

by TribesX
3 years ago

Rating: N/A

It's a nice story at first.
OP MC, with only one female lead, and they flirt a lot, it's quite nice.

There are a lot of good things : MC doesn't always win, party has development, etc.

But lots of clichés used again and again (especially the jealous girl trope, and save the damsel in distress trope).

What made me began to loose interest is the bad reasonings why he can't give his technology to the others country or défense's positions. Oh, and the author forgot that half of the party learnt gate.

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OP...

by BRTADI31
3 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

JUST AWESOME 😌 JUST READ IT AND WATCH IT
AND FEEL RELAX 🙂 😁

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Made me feel a bit sick

by Seregosa
5 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

The characters in this manga sickens me to the core. Maybe I could've enjoyed it immensely back when I first started out reading manga at the age of 8-10. It's pathetically bad in of story and characters. It has all the tropes that makes you question if the author isn't a bit too stuck in the times of 20-30 years ago. I would say this is catering to children, at most early teenagers.

We have the mc that is ridiculously powerful for no good reason. Unlike a decent novel or manga, it isn't justified even a little. The power system reeks of nonsense. Why is he this powerful? For what reason? Why would kanji be usable? Why would the amount of characters be what matters instead of the amount of effect/power these words contain? There are no clear power levels for any of the characters, clearly the author just adds whatever he feels like. The mc is only OP and better than everyone else because the author seems to think it's cool, not because it makes sense, because he earned it or any other reason, I can't really get behind that unless it's a true comedy/gag novel with nothing else going on, not this mess of a pretend drama(the author tries to put in drama, action and stuff like that but fails spectacularly over and over again, it feels way too artificial/ridiculous).

Even if we ignore this, and I am perfectly capable of doing so, it doesn't help that everyone around the protagonist are retarded. Questionable motives, utterly illogical relationships etc. Everyone seemingly only has one or at most two sides to them, in other words, they're all flat. The protagonist is a doormat who seems to fail grasping even basic common sense despite being reincarnated from modern day japan. The author explains this away by the "logic" that the "common sense" is supposedly "different" in this world, but the story proves this theory wrong. In essence, the author trips himself up by denying the entire concept of the world's common sense being even slightly different from our own. It's just that the protagonist, somehow, is completely out of touch with reality and with an added dash of being an utter moron and airhead, he seems incapable of noticing even slightly how his actions might be abnormal. I'm not too fond of character's lacking everything in the brains department, even more so when he's far from the only character where that's true.

He gets pushed around by people and is all too happy to be screwed over. Despite his two lifetimes and powers, he's acting like a powerless and exceedingly simple 10 year old that sees the best in people and doesn't want to harm others.

Perhaps the most off-putting part of this manga isn't this, however. I find the romance to be so bad I struggle to not cringe and squirm in my chair over how bad it is. The protagonist falls in love instantly upon catching sight of the heroine, proclaiming that she's insanely cute, and the heroine instantly starts blushing, acting shy and being dazed because she's so absorbed in how cool he is and how heads over heels she fell for him all of a sudden at their first meeting when they hadn't even spoken to each other yet. Sorry, romance does not and will never work like that, any author utilizing actual love at first sight without prior interactions are too stupid for words. I get being slightly struck by desire, but that is at best a carnal desire, not one of romance or love at all. It doesn't justify acting like this. That carnal desire could gradually turn into love once you've verified eachother's personalities and have spent some time together, but not before that. After that, it's just a train of cringe. The mc wants to protect her for no good reason, she loves him to the point of insanity. The repeated attempts from the author trying to show her cuteness failed to hit home as well. Yup, she's a cutesy character, but she's also a moronic airhead, the type of character that was popular long ago. She has nothing at all in the brains department, she's exactly that cute object that is supposed to just be the "ideal" of the overly obedient woman that loves you to death. She has no proper emotions, being more akin to a fluffy little animal than an actual girl. Her purpose is to be as cutesy as possible with nothing else going on. I really can't stand that type of girl in the first place but this manga really made it as bad as possible.

Dropped after around 10 chapters, as each chapter is around 50 pages, I really can't justify trying for this long. Please don't read this unless you're really young or haven't read any novels or manga before. Even then, it would be better to read some better manga.

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Something Quite Bad

by NationsFather
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

The part is one would expect but the characters in this manga are quite bad as like lucia manga, the MC with his un-common sense (which makes no sense given he retains his experiences from his previous life and he was an adult) and the shy and cute bundle of worm fuzziness of the leading female. There is too much melodrama here and too many forced heartwarming moments. It's really hard to read, dropped after a few chapters.

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The better side of average.

by ChaoticOrder
6 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

Let me just say that I have only read the manga adaptation for this series. It's pretty standard for an Isekai
.
Don't go into this one expecting a grand story. There is a nice romance between the MC and the heroine. The heck, one of the main points of the story and it's biggest quality and greatest difference to other isekai novels is the relationship with the heroine. He and the heroine unintentionally flirt with each other nonstop and annoy the other characters because of that.

Good for a read to time.

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Quite Bad

by PZcolo
6 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

Another isekai with an overpowered MC, that part is one would expect but the characters in this manga are quite bad, the MC with his un-common sense (which makes no sense given he retains his experiences from his previous life and he was an adult) and the shy and cute bundle of worm fuzziness of the leading female. There is too much melodrama here and too many forced heartwarming moments. It's really hard to read, dropped after a few chapters.

... Last updated 6 years ago

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Unlikeable

by melquiades
6 years ago

Rating: N/A

Power fantasy to the extreme without a hint of likeness. That is how i describe this manga.
I read the initial chapters as a side dish in between waiting for other series, but it became increasingly more unbearable as the chapters went by.
I took a peek at the latest chapter to give it a second chance, just to see how the author resorted to artificial drama to justify his paycheck.

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It is what it is

by firefox1234
6 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

Generic isekai all the way and probably targeting a very young audience, my guess the U-15 range....

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Frankly, not interesting.

by CriminallySane
6 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

Generic overpowered isekai protagonist. Generic female love interest. Generic side characters. None of the above have had any real character development since the beginning of the story. The only dynamic we have now is Shin's protectiveness of his girlfriend, who, by the way, remains as boring as ever.
The artwork looks decent at first but the action is drawn in a way that the scenes don't flow, and it's frustrating.

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