The children of the Baskerville family are trained as loyal hounds from a young age, knowing nothing apart from a life of death and deception. After faithfully serving his family for forty years, Vikir Von Baskerville was rewarded with betrayal and execution by the hands of the man he called his father. But when he's given a second chance at life by being reborn with his memories of his past life intact, Vikir swears to have his revenge against the family he once served. Once again, he must survive the brutal life that awaits all the hounds of Baskerville, but this time he vows to bite the hand that feeds him.

Revenge of the Baskerville Bloodhound has story by TO WALK(REDICE TO WALK(REDICE STUDIO) and art by S.arang, based on a work by Step on a LEGO. English translation is done by KAKAO ENTERTAINMENT, CORP and lettering by Adam Jankowski. Published by Ize Press (January 20, 2026). Rated 8+.

Erica Friedman
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This blood-soaked reincarnation revenge manhwa was really entertaining! I would absolutely read more about these terrible people who are named after characters from Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles novel for no apparent reason.

Vikir Van Baskerville is an appalling bastard child of an appalling man named after the appalling ancestor in Doyle's novel, Hugo Le Baskerville. Baskerville famously shod his horses in shoes that looked like cow prints so he could not be traced, after committing horrific acts. Here, he is a ruthless, powerful noble, who trains his many children to become powerful magic-wielding assassins to further his goals as his bloodhounds. The hound references are beaten to death, erm, used, very effectively and constantly, right through the family's secret sword techniques being referred to as “fangs.” This leads to an unintentionally hilarious moment when a super-even-secreter technique is called the “impacted fang.”

Sometimes it's hard to enjoy an overpowered villain who doesn't have to try very hard, but Vikir is, for some reason, rather engaging. He's not funny or charming, but his overwhelming passion for revenge carries the story. When he meets the daughter of the neighboring land and is almost immediately betrothed to her, I actually had the thought that this might actually have a happy ending? Probably not, but who knows. Vikir, reborn after being murdered by Baskerville, has a few steps up on his brethren, as he is an adult in an eight-year-old body. It is strangely fun in this volume to watch an eight-year-old taking on trolls, orcs, cerebus, etc., and winning, of course.

Sarang's art is full-color and very good. Vikir's evil plan is written all over his face, unless he is in front of his father, where he looks like a nice little kid, who just happens to have dreams of complete conquest and destruction. Who among us can say we haven't done the same?

Rebecca Silverman
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I clearly had ahold of the wrong end of the stick for this one, much to my disappointment. While I didn't really expect an accurate retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 Sherlock Holmes tale The Hound of the Baskervilles, I had hoped for rather more of a connection than is actually present. Instead, this uses several names from the Holmes story (most notably Hugo Baskerville, albeit with a random “le” in the middle) and a few hellhounds, but otherwise is unrelated to the story. I'm not sure what the point of the callback was; I tend to think it's unwise to use such loaded names unless you're planning to actually do something with them.

Instead, this is the isekai-adjacent tale of Vikir van Baskerville, illegitimate son of the aforementioned Hugo le Baskerville, killed in his prime only to awaken as an infant once more. And this time, Vikir is taking no prisoners. From infancy, he sets out to ensure that he won't meet his death at the blade of Mme. Guillotine (at his father's behest), which means proving that he's the strongest baby in the nursery. And then the strongest eight-year-old at school, presumably going on from there, since the preview for volume two says he'll be fifteen in that book. At this point he's not so much on a journey of vengeance as he is to prevent the naivete that necessitated revenge in the first place, but he does get to be extraordinarily cruel to some people before they can do the same to him.

My feelings on this are mixed. Vikir clearly lived a horrible life before, but I'm not sold on the idea that this means that he needs to ensure that others live a horrible life this time. Most, if not all, of the characters are terrible people, which I suppose mitigates the awful things Vikir is doing, like biting off someone's finger. The cruelty is the point rather than a feature, and that's just not my thing, even without me questioning whether or not he's making the best choices.

I do like the art, though. It's dynamic and good with facial expressions, and most of the gore is implied rather than fully shown. Vikir's ludicrously buff eight-year-old body is at least proportional, and Camille, whom I presume to be the heroine, looks more like an eight-year-old than I would have expected. I'm not sold on the story, but if you enjoy revenge stories, you're likely to feel differently.