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Hes not a hero nor evil. In his mind, hes just working to survive in the world and do whatever it takes to keep what he and his friends has achieved as safe as possible. Good and bad are concepts that the both sides realize over their own world views
@@ZohMyGods yeah that is the reason he is a mix of a anti hero and a anti villain, a good that is not quite a hero and a evil that is not quite a villain
@@diablo.the.cheater depends on the perspective. For Carne village, he's a hero. For the Theocracy, he's evil incarnate. For the Baharuth Empire, he's a God that must not be messed with.
One of the biggest things that’s made me love overlord so much is throughout the novel he starts becoming more of the person who he at first pretended to be. He goes from pretending to be a big boss to actually being one
love overlord but i feel like the anime is one big cockblock (not just albedo). the anime hints at the existence of other players repeatedly with such an amazing storyline at the beginning and the light novel is almost finished but no players have been shown at all. makes me feel like its a better one punch man when it could be so much better.
Diablo from How Not to Summon a Demon Lord is also role-playing as a Demon Lord but unlike Overlord, he doesn't want to kill anyone and will do his best to avoid it. When he does eventually kill, he feels bad about it even though he knows he had no choice. Overlord kills about as casually as a man swatting flies.
I dunno if that is true. He certainly gets better at tricking Demiurge or Albedo to explain their plans for him but he is still kinda stupid. Like when he makes a peace deal with the Empire (is it in book 8 or 9?) because he thinks that is a good idea while Demiurge thinks it is a brilliant trap since there is zero chance of the Empire ever keeping such a peace deal. I love them, but Ainz isn't the sharpest crayon in the box exactly, he constantly tries to solve his problems by using his own work experience as a salesman and tries to act like he thinks his boss would have acted. Yeah, he has some character development and his motivation is always to honor and try to find his old guildmates which seems to be the closest to friends he ever had. That is really what makes the books so brilliant, all other "cheat Isekai" novels and animes have a Mary Sue hero who always succeed, is super smart, use real world knowledge to win and have every girl fall in love with him. Overlord is making fun of all that and have the setup similar but Ainz is kinda a clutz who pretends he is a Mary Sue and is insanely scared that one of his far more capable henchmen will realize who he really is and take over. In the books, it is pretty clear that all the floor guardians have similar combat abilities to Ainz and are probably all smarter then him too, particularly Demiurge and Albedo but they think he is some all powerful God that can't be wrong and it is their scripted backgrounds that are the only reason they worship him so much. There are so many fun characters in the books too all with their own personalities while most Isekais have a few well made characters with the rest just being cardboard cut outs. I mean, a lot of them could have had their own anime show, like the Blue roses for instance, most fantasy shows have less developed main characters then them and they are basically just extras here. Normally that would make the books rather hard to read since so many side characters are usually annoying but Overlord somehow pulls it off.
@@ignoremypaststupidity2719 It took less than 10 seconds to clear the 4 members of Six Arms and probably 2 seconds to kill Zero if you're looking just at pure combat.
Ainz isn't actually a total loser. As shown in the Shalltear fight, he is actually EXTREMELY competent when it comes to PvP. that skill just isn't particularly relevant in most scenarios.
While i agree that Ainz isn't a loser, calling him *extremely competent* is really stretching the extend of his abilities as seen in the show. While it's fun to think that Ainz is a strategic genius for winning against Shalltear because Shalltear is stat-wise better than him, she was still at a massive disadvantage. All Ainz did was play to the obvious strengths that the situation lended him.
If you read the LNs, it mentions that Ains did a lot of PvP, and was really good at it. He may not have been the best (that title goes to Touch Me), but he was still competitive. After all, he was the guild-master for one of the top guilds that focused on PvP. Also, what do you mean Shalltear was at a disadvantage? First of all, the only advantage you gave (that her stats are better) isn't really true. Granted, I don't know/remember the specific total stats, however, it is safe too assume that they are roughly the same in total stats. Shalltear's advantage arises in the DISTRIBUTION of stats. In a 1v1 fight, a warrior/melee class will usually have the advantage over a magic class since the magician often relies on others to protect them while they deal damage. Add on to that the fact that Shalltear had an elemental advantage over Ains (Holy is strong against undead) and the fact that Ains' specialty magic isn't very effective against her (Undeads are immune to instant death spells and a lot of status effects. Also his ability to summon undead minions would just end up healing her due to the Pipette Lance).Ains was 100% at a disadvantage. Finally, you said that "All Ainz did was play to the obvious strengths that the situation lended him", but that is severely dumbing down what he did. First of all, the situation didn't give him really any inherent advantages. It gave him a few openings to take advantage of, but none that gave him an upper hand just by using them. Secondly, the openings weren't particularly obvious to someone who isn't extremely familiar with both the game and PvP combat. Someone who isn't familiar with both of those would have extreme difficulty figuring them out, at least without fighting her first (which isn't really an option). Finally, even if you are able to identify any openings to attack, actually putting your plan into action can be surprisingly difficult. The battle wasn't easy by any means and was extremely disadvantageous for Ains, the only reason it looked easy was because Ains was able to handle it without too much difficulty. However, you shouldn't mistake that with the battle being easy. It is just that, when a skilled person does something difficult, it can look easier than it actually is. Just try watching a top speed-runner play a difficult platformer (like Super Meat Boy or Celeste) then try it for yourself. You'll see what I mean then.
@@kylerivera3470 I did read the light novels,and i remember that it was mentioned that Ainz's build was more intended for roleplay while Shalltear was combat minmaxed. Shalltear being brainwashed lent Ainz several huge advantages over shalltear: 1. Ainz could prepare for potentially as long as he wanted and initiate battle. Shalltear was constrained to standing idle in a single spot until provoked. 2. Ainz didn't have to fully commit to battle, he had the ability to retreat. Shalltear, due to the brainwash AI, would fight to the death. 3. Ainz had access to all of the resources of Nazarick. Shalltear had only her own inventory. 4. Ainz had plenty of access regarding information about Shalltear's skillset and equipment. Shalltear had fair knowledge about Ainz's weaknesses but which is entirely negated by points 1 & 3. I think these 4 points make their fight much less impressive as it is at first glance. Shalltear was in many ways a direct counter to Ainz, but i feel it was negated by Ainz in the 2nd phase of battle by him switching between classes to respond appropriately to Shalltear, something which couldn't have been possible without the preparation leverage he had. In 1st phase of battle he was also able to lighten Shalltear's class advantage by knowing her strengths and getting proper equipment from Nazarick to counter it. I never said that the fight was easy, or that Ainz didn't have to put any thought into it (well, he actually wouldn't have if he had leveraged the strength of the guardians.) All i said was that you're giving too much credit for Ainz winning an obviously pitched battle.
Those 4 points aren't actually as big of advantages as you make them sound 1. This one is actually a decent advantage except that it requires Ains to be able to accurately predict and/or guide the battle in the direction he wants to take advantage of it, which can be surprisingly difficult. 2. Just because he theoretically could retreat, doesn't necessarily make it an advantage. Plus, with the possibility of an enemy watching the battle, retreat isn't really a good option since it would effectively give them information for free. 3. Ains may have had access to Nazarick's resources, however he can't just use them all willy nilly due to the potential unknown enemy. 4. Information gathering is an integral part of PvP as stated in the LNs. Shalltear was at a bit of a handicap, however Ains still had to research and plan around all of Shalltear's abilities. The primary mistake you are making here is that you are assuming that PvP starts at the same time as the battle, however,that is wrong. PvP starts when one side plans to attack the other, and includes all of the planning to ensure that you win the fight. If you think the battle was "obviously pitched" then that is actually a statement in favor of Ains because that battle wasn't naturally in his favor, he MADE it that way. It's the type of thing that may look simple in hindsight, but isn't that easy to do in the moment. I'm not saying Ains' battle skills are particularly excellent (although they do have to be pretty good), I'm saying that the combination of his planning ability and the ability to put those plans in action (at least when concerning PvP) is top tier. One final thing, note how Ains was calm throughout most of the Shalltear fight. He clearly had room to spare within the fight. In other words, he showed a lot of ability with the Shalltear fight, and yet he still probably could do better. After all, if there was a real threat he WOULD mobilize the guardians, but the fact that he didn't shows his confidence.
Demiurge being terrified that ainz might leave the guardians if they fail is kinda sad and this is a guy who makes families eat each other that's why I like overlord
i hope that in the end, the isekai beans are spilled and the guardians sasuga even harder and mourn with their lord for the loss of his friends; the other supreme beings.
Ainzs strongest ability is his overwhelming hindsight. Person 1: Ainz why did you do that thing? Ainz: because then that would happen Person 2: wow that thing did happen Ainz: just like i planned all along Person 1: amazing, whats your next plan? Ainz:.. Umm.. I have one Person 1 and 2: incredible.
Person 4: Why didn't you do thing even though it was easier and much more practical than your plan? Ainz: Uhhh... think for yourself B-BAKA! Person 4: I truly can never reach your intelligence, Supreme Being.
I think Ainz deserves more credit. He is actually an extremely competent combat strategist, which can be seen on multiple occasions, and makes use of military tactics which he learned from his fellow guild member. Later in the light novels, we see his diction is impressive and fits his position, and his logic is actually quite good. It makes me wonder how he can be so smart in some ways and so clueless in others... Anyway, Sagusa Ainz-sama!
the cluelessness likely comes from 'a leader is a leader is a leader'-type mindset in which a brilliant leader in one type can be slotted into another without hitch- a general is a leader, a captain is a leader, a civil engineer is a leader, a logistics manager is a leader, a city council president is a leader. Each of those are leaders, smart in their own ways, but placing a captain into the role of a civil engineer or a general to role of city council president might not end well: The captain might be able to lead the construction crew, but could he plan and calculate materials and structure to ensure bridges, roads, water infrastructure and power distribution in a way that won't end up in flames? Would a general understand the complex web of social developement and incentive-based command infrastructure without problems? What I'm saying is that Ainz is a brilliant captain, but poor engineer, and poor council president.
I think the think the line between his stupidity and genius is passion. He's not a talented guy at all, and has had very little reason to be motivated in life, but when it comes to exactly YGGDRASIL he's *super* passionate and has always gone the extra mile to improve and remember everything about it.
No one is probably going to see this but, my favorite part of this anime is when Ainz practices commanding lines and sitting on a throne commandingly, In my mind it really shows that he is a salary man with no command experience and has no idea what is going on, but he is trying to ride on top of a rampaging gorilla going mach 20
Having Ainz practice his "Such infernal discord, I demand silence!" in the mirror, and then having it show up later in the series felt really fulfilling
I don't think the Guardians of the Tomb would even care....they love him because he stayed with them to the end, not because he is a god (or whatever). Ainz is the only Great One to NOT abandon them.
Thank you...I love this show because upon my 3rd watching it fully dawned on me that the Guardians have a tragic story that grabs at my heart...honestly damn I feel bad for these OP Guardians. Imagine having a group of creators give you all those powers and who were always there telling you exactly what to do just leave you--all but one. Honestly, I know is strange...but it reminds of why Toy Story works so well as a movie franchise. Nobody wants to be abandoned...its a compelling motivation for the Guardians to stay loyal no matter what Anzi tells them.
They havent broken their "code" yet so i think they would literally need to be rewritten for them to betray him. Like shalteer and the brainwashing thing
Nate Taylor because ainz overwrote her code to where she loves him. So she sees him as both a ruler and kind of as a king, plus I’m pretty sure that because of the way she was coded, she has a looser collar so to speak. She is, after all, the leader of the floor guardians. She was in contact and took orders from all of the higher ups in Ainz Ool Gown, so she was probably programmed to follow any of their orders.
One of my favourite moments in Overlord, which sums up what the series is all about, has actually not been animated yet. An entire light novel volume is narrated through the eyes of another character (I won't say anything more so as not to spoil) and you come to understand how he can be so admired. He comes off as really wise. And then, at the end of the volume, there is short couple of sentences long Ainz POV which reminds you that everything that happened went right over his head. xD
I think he is pretty smart, it just that he compared himself to Albedo and Demiurge who are beyond human and Ainz still has his humanity in him although not much but his mind is still Satoru. He didin't have other people who have the same problems like him to compare his intelligent and the ability to act immediately. I totally did not see Ainz as some idiot who has extremely luck like someone did. He is a smart person who underestimate himself well and has extremely luck too.
See for me it was: Demiurge: As we all know Ainz-sama is going to conquer the world. Everyone nods. Then Ainz is like: “Oh I see... Wait a second... WHAT?!!!”
@@metalsadman yea...plus the maids keep staring at him all the time , so whenever they change their shifts , Ainz quickly replace the book he reads with a more tougher to understand book . (sry no word came instead of tougher atm)
and writes them in a book title how to be an overlord though when he uses the "So loud, I Demand silence" one it felt out of place as like 2 characters exchanged a line quitely, it wasnt like everone was bickering
+James Rocks Antagonist = character that fights/opposes the main character Protagonist = main character With Momonga/Ainz Ooal Gown we've got a villainous protagonist who is opposed by heroic antagonists
He does play the role of an antagonist though. He is a decent person at heart (not good by any means though) that has to play the role of an antagonist. The antagonist isn't specifically someone who opposes the main character, it can just be the main villain. Ains is most certainly a villain in Overlord. He kills humans, overthrows kingdoms, causes massacres. He is literally a lich king. He is a protagonist in the sense of being the main character, but most certainly an antagoinst when it comes to his values, ways of dealing with things in the new world, position in the world etc.
Apparently, Pandora's Actor knows fully well that Ainz has been bullshiting his way through this story, but still looks up to hi. Which makes sense since PA is a good boy.
He was created by Ainz after all. If anyone can see through his bullshit and still respect him it's PA. Kinda like how you know your dad isn't exactly the best man in the world but damm it he's trying and so you love him anyway
@@Indian_Tovarisch I wouldn't say he behaves like Ainz, his default personality is a large ham which even Ainz find cringey. He definitely knows about Ainz bullshitting things though.
I love overlord because 1. I love villains 2. I love well done OP characters 3. I love seeing different character's reactions to stuff in anime, and oh boy is overlord full of that.
Do you have any other recommendations of good works that scratch the same itch? An unapologetic villain as a protagonist, preferably op as well, but not required.
@@minacheyo6242 These are great, sadly, I've already read them. By the way, since I'm asking for recommendations, I have some : - Dark Bane from Drew Karpyshyn (protagonist is a Sith Lord in the Star Wars universe) - Reverend Insanity (chinese novel) - Death Note (need I explain?)
Having been left by friends I made in games, I wholeheartedly empathise with the author and Ainz. The 1st episode hit me HARD and I am not ashamed to say I cried during it. From Runescape to DuelingNetwork to DOTA2, people have left me as the last person in said games to do real life stuff and never came back. So an anime/LN that shows the hurt of being left behind is very precious to me. People who say "it's just a game (or show)" don't understand what it means to be IMMERSED in it and love it for everything it's associated with.
I felt this the other day logging in to Destiny 2 after a hiatus. I had been the last of my main group to still be playing before, and looking around at everything we used to do together, it just kinda... hit me.
Nope. Demiurge genuinely thinks Ainz-sama is just far too infallible for his feeble genius-level mind to comprehend. Even when Ainz says he'll make mistakes on purpose for Demiurge to adapt as a test, Ainz ends up making a fanatic prophet creating a religion for Ainz, advancing Demiurge's plans by years, to which Demiurge sasugasms out of pure respect for Ainz's prowess in "planning ahead of time" and even managing to make a fool out of the smartest man in the room, Demiurge.
He most likely has, he's just trying to figure out what Ainz' actual goal is. Or he tries to find out if he can survive if he kills Ainz. He possibly thinks that if he kills the last remaining of the creators, that every Nazarick inhabitant will die.
Something I wanted to add. One of my favorite things about Overlord is how morally ambiguous it can be. Yes you have straight up sadists like demiurge and solution, but in general the stuff ainz does becomes good or evil based on perspective. Think about it. had the lizardman arc been covered differently. As in it focused on cocyutus and his efforts to arrange a campaign against the lizardmen tribe and spent almost no time showing us what decent people they were, we wouldnt have batted an eye at the undead army swarming their forces. We would have been UPSET that the lich got killed crying out to his master. But because we got to see the lizards portrayed as people who were decent and deserved to live, we disliked the war. Same for the invasion of nazarick. The author went out of his way to make all (but one) of the adventurers seem like decent people just making a living, with dreams and goals and wanting to help people. They still broke into nazarick, tried to loot it to the bedrock, and were determined to murder anything they saw in there that was "alive" without any investigation whatsoever. Yeah it was a setup but ainz even gave them chances to back out, he checked them out himself to see if any were worth saving by questioning their purpose in taking this job and so forth. He would have likely spared some of them had they shown their honorable and good side to him. But because WE got to know them personally, the horrible fates of the invaders was far more shocking than it would have been had the first time we saw them been when they busted down the door and started invading.
Excuse it how you will, what Ainz did to the adventurers was unnecessary and pointless sadism, which the show now seems to revel in. I don't think I can watch the next season, unless something, somewhere, gives me a glimmer of hope.
They were good people (mostly) especially in the setting of a game, because that’s what you’re supposed to do. Raiding tombs and dungeons is how Aniz got to where he is in the first place and acting like they were “greedy” was a pointless hypocritical argument. He tortured those people because hes evil and he wanted to. And also it’s a digital world so it’s not like any of the shit matters. He even says to Demiurge to kill all the captives from the village. He’s nothing close to a good character
@@jeremiematte1587 spoilers for the LN In the LN Ainz literally commits genocide. Thats not even hyperbole. He literally kills every single person In the kingdom. All of them. Its really hard to find a characrer relatable when he kills millions claiming he stumbled into it by accident.
@@jeremiematte1587 the new world is a real world not a digital one, someone of the strongest race in the new world summoned players from yggdrasil by accident using a type of magic different from the one we've seen on the anime, also it's obvious he's not a good person he's a villain the name of the show is kind of a giveaway of that don't you think?
So the writer of overlord was abandon by all his DnD friends, just like Ainz was abandon by his guild mates. He thought fondly enough of them & their experiences to continue writing, just like Ainz was fond enough of his experiences to stay until the very end of his MMO.
I think that the strenght of shows like OPM or Overlord, when it comes to how they handle their OP characters, is how they do not focus too much time on them. Instead of always following the MC, most of the show is spent concentrating on the other character that are introduced, and the effect our MC has on them. Alongside how the world change and react accordingly to the rise of this new power (this part is less proeminent in OPM though).
this is actually my one complaint of the show. i have seen those side-characters before, in like, every anime. what makes the show interesting to me is the people of nazarick, and more than half the runtime of the show is devoted to these one off, boring side characters. i want to see the villains! gimmie!
Metalisha I disagree, I love all the side plots in Overlord and the characters are all written very well, just like One Punch Man. Both shows have good humor and does get very serious. The way the other characters interact with one another is satisfying and very interesting. As a guy who’s a sucker for OPM, I love Overlord for the same reasons.
@@Drae2212 True. Story with one perspective are everywhere already. Easy to be found. But to build lots of characters and stick to it, taking care of all their development, seriously, hats off for the author. That's how mature this story is.
The best thing for me are these rare moments of pure sadness/melancholy from Ainz. He does so many horrible things mainly just because he wants the times he misses so badly to come back, if not fully, than even a tiny bit.
It's fairly simple to sum up what makes Overlord so good: 1. A rich, complex world filled to the brim with memorable characters. 2. The dark comedy that is going on both directly and through subtext (eg the White Knight Climb, loyal to his Mistress the Golden Princess, turns out to be just a dog/sex-toy of sorts to the sociopathic genius that the Princess actually is).
Makara also refreshing to have a hero from a dystopian world with dystopian morals. Most Isekai are either white knights or unjustified edgelords who come off as childish (looking at you Arifureta). Ainz’s backstory allows him to be Overpowered enough to do anything and broken enough to choose to be something of a villain.
BR4hmat that’s not what I’m saying, it is an isekai by definition, it’s just that it doesn’t do isekai the way so many do it badly because it’s so saturated.
I've never even considered this an Isekai it delves in so far into the plot and the story building. It HARDLY even mentions Momonga's past life irl. All I ever learned was the world he was living in was vastly polluted, people couldn't go outside without full body gear a little other but of future dystopian stuff.
@@turtleme4811 consider it or not. by definition it is an isekai. A person from our world mysteriously finds himself in another world and the entire fact he has inner monologue questioning what he should do as a roleplay trope furthers how little you paid attention. His inner monologue is him speaking out of character within the narrative
Not sure if you know but it's because touch me is so good at pvp opponents can't touch him. Not sure if players can change name but that's why his name is touch me. Supposed to be touch me if you can or can't touch me but the name was too long.
"I am sad that there is nothing for best boy Demiurge" I'm kind of disappointed that he didn't mention Demiurge's happy farm. For all you light novel readers out there. You know what i mean ;D
@@sasugajohn-sama5014 Demiurge's happy farm is a place where they get ressources for parchment Ainz thinks it's just a slightly abnormal farm but it is, in fact, a torture camp where they skin people alive That's the happy farm
The thing I like most about Over lord is the many arcs and side story. Not all episode have Ainz as the center character and in fact in some episodes Ainz doesn’t even have any screen time. But for example the Lizardmen and The Men In The Kingdom Arc really builds and deepens our knowledge about Cocytus and Sebas, at the same time introduces us to many characters. While the bloody Valkyrie arc gives us an awesome fight scene :D.
@@buggart [MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR UNAWARE READERS REGARDING LN] I was laughing like a madman when that happened. Poor Jircniv,all he ever wanted was for his empire to become a good one and to finally take rest. He got both of his wishes fulfilled but in a way that is hard to describe as 'satisfsctory'. All the "pride of a king" destroyed so easily. I still think my favourite arc is the holy kingdom arc,but this particular moment,the Quagoa massacre,and the fact that jircniv and the quagoa leader became friends are also really awesome moments other than the kingdom arc. Then again,this moment only feels so good because of the very good setups for them so I guess I do like pretty much all the arcs afterall. As I already said,I do still think that the holy kingdom arc was my personal favourite(mostly because of the way author plays around with the ideas of 1)what is evil and what isn't? 2)And what is justice? so perfectly.
One of the bigger positives in Overlord for me is the way they do the world-building. It's a world that feels real. There's a huge cast of heroes in their own situations having their own adventurers. It's a world that the main characters happen to find themselves in, not a world that only exists to make the main characters look good. I also didn't think the "trapped in another world" idea that Overlord has was an especially overpopulated genre. I watched Dot Hack Sign back in the day, read some of the light novels for it, and then saw Overlord and read all the Overlord Light Novels. I did watch the first few episodes of Log Horizon, but it didn't have the right kind of melancholic isolation and searching for something tone I liked so much about Overlord, so it didn't grab me.
I don't get why Log Horizon is so popular. Literally no one dies so the fights have no tension and the MC's plans for creating a new society are just boring and convoluted. Overlord, however, with the constant presence of death and worldbuilding that puts almost every other anime to shame is my favorite anime/LN series.
Log Horizon is more of an average player kind of vibe. IRL hour long raids turn into literally days of boss fights which makes it sound like they're actually in game. Both are good but in different ways.
Spencer O'Keefe To answer your question, the reason as to why Log Horizon was more reputed and acclaimed than some other isekai anime is that not only did it take off an interesting twist in it, but it also had a rather interesting cast and main character that all had their strengths and weaknesses, with a dash of some likeable personalities. Also, what? As the anime Re:Zero has splendidly shown us, being unable to die when you are killed does not at all take away the tension. The tension might be lessened to a degree, but Log Horizon has also given some decent cons to being able to respawn and has displayed other ways to get us even slightly worried. It's not so muuch as the threat of dying as it is the threat of failing over and over again, and with the fact that you can kidnapping and torture become more heinous with respawning in play, and with losing memories everytime you respawn, and with the fact that the now living npcs can't respawn themselves, well, there's a lot of tension if you look at it. With the mcs plans being boring, well, that's more on your persobal preference, I guess, because I myself enjoyed it, and I know some of my friends that disagree and agree with me. But it being convoluted? I don't know about that, since Log Horizon also had the same world building charm that overlord has now, and it thoroughly explained how the mc manipulated the now guild's game mechanics and several others for it to benefit him. Hell, just the reactions from youtubers who watched log horizon did their usual "OOOH!" moment when the mc revealed just what he had done, signifying they knew just what he had done. As for Overlord, its threat of death is basically non existent. Ainz, as per usual, has plowed through most of his opponents with contemptuous ease(excluding shalltear) and not one moment do we truly fear for his life or his plans because he's solidified himself as this being that's just so above everyone in this new world, even to his own subordinates. Even the new potential rival chick to Ainz was revealed to, while having the power to defeat shalltear with her weapons, be inferior to shalltear in physical strength itself. Ainz is the slightly toned down Mary sue, given the fanatically loyal companions, admiring locals of the new world, terror of most of his incompetent, difficult to sympathize with enemies, impregnable, illogically unfair underground fortress, and the extreme power that made some of the religions in the new world liken him with their old skeleton god of death. Even the light novels have yet to give him a challenge that would pose as a threat to his himself and his guild, and even if one does show up, the amount of overpowered items and spells Ainz, like TGOALID, would be enough that unless there's direct divine intervention, there's no feasible way that either Ainz or Nazarick would fall with how much they can play. But yes, the Overlord worldbuilding is a fascinating aspect of the show and is rather enjoyable.
Fellow man "unless there's direct divine intervention, there's no feasible way that either Ainz or Nazarick would fall" To be absolutely fair, there ARE the World class spells and items that for all practical purposes could be considered Divine Intervention since they literally have the power to re-write the world. Not that your wrong in saying there's no way Ainz and Nazarick won't loose but still.
log horizon have the rpgmmo as its main thing and mechanic so as an rpg mmo fan its like a guilty plesure and it is a decent anime for its genre unlike other shitty harem isekai that full of fan service boob ass boob ass booob assss booob asss loliiiii loliiiii etc main char save slave main char save a girl in death situation and then the girl fall inlove with him that is the most thing about other isekai.... but dont have any decent story telling and world building
One of the things i think really helps Overlord, Is the fact that it takes place, not in the fantasy game world Ainz know like the back of his hand, but in a new world that he and his minions know nothing about. So while it is always clear that they are much stronger than everyone else, there are also those little hints, that he isn't the first overpowered mofo to appear in this world, and that all the others that was transported there ended up being killed, despite being so overpowered
Whats even more is that you are unsure about those hints as well, the same as the way momonga and the guardians are unsure that they know everything about this world. (The Thirteen Heroes? Were some or none of them players, what kind of power DID they have to take on the demon gods? And how powerful were the demon gods?? Were the Greed Kings players as well?) We have to piece it together from tidbits of character conversation and thoughts who themselves only have second hand info from word of mouth from hundreds of years ago in their world's history. The only surefire player activity in the past is from the Slain Theocracy with godkin and all that. And yeah how did those players die? (i personally think they just played human characters and such died of natural causes eventually. As players that pick the races as the PCs of Ainz Ooal Gown did are looked down upon and can be bullied i think its pretty likely)
5/6 great gods of the theocracy died of old age. the last one was killed by the greed kings. greed kings killed themselves except for 1 and then black something dragon lord used one of the 20 world items to kill him. the 13 heros. 2 of them were Players.
Kevin Perez it’s heavily implied that the six Great gods and the eight greed kings were players, some of them died of age since they were not playing characters like Momongo which could live forever
There were two reasons I wanted to watch Overlord 1) A story from the "bad guy" perspective. You rarely see it and I always enjoy the attempt. 2) Albedo, I have no shame in admitting it. And I can safely say the series greatly impressed me and I consider it my favorite anime, barely beating out One Punch Man.
I love how Ainz sees himself as a father to his friend's npcs. How he feels bad about some of the things he does but he prioritizes his family above all else. How he's aware his character isn't minmaxxed (compared to other Yggdrasil players) so he's constantly paranoid about finding another players.
I think part of Overlord's charm is the fact that Momonga/Ainz has a very clear explanation for his being so OP, and on top of that it shows that he's often floundering and trying to figure out what's going on. You can see that he often has bouts of panic interspersed with "ok, I'm going to pretend I know what's going on" that adds humor and humanity to his character.
+zenox bagaan You know, I initially liked SAO...but then it got really bad. The idea was interesting, but I think Log Horizon and Overlord did a lot better with how they handled the "got trapped in a game" concept. They were more realistic (Overlord's "what the hell just happened?" reaction and Log Horizon's depiction of so many characters just getting depressed or going crazy...) SAO comes off as kinda bland in comparison (not to mention the over-the-top main character who was just plain boring.)
+zenox bagaan I guess I'm just showing my age then, lol. I like my stories to have some humanity and realism...>.> This is what happens when you reach your 30s, apparently. You grow up enough to find the stories that are popular with the kids a bit bland and lacking.
He is a good strategist and good at the theatrics needed to maintain his image as the Overlord of Nazarick, but he tends to not be as ambitious as he should be which is where Demiurge basically says "You fools (insert plan here), Lord Ainz did this as part of his Master Plan", then Ainz thinks "What plan?" and proceeds to "allow" Demiurge to explain what he was "thinking".
It's actually one of the traits I love about him. He's considerably smarter than he thinks he is (which is nice, having someone who's legit humble and not the false kind we see alot in anime). Plus he's smart enough to know when to roll with things to make it look like he planned it all along.
I’ve seen an interesting theory that much like his physical stats rose to match his characters stats the same thing happened to his mental stats without his realization. Most notably his Intelligence and Charisma. Its interesting to think that his “improvisations” are actually subconscious brilliance and perfect performing.
One thing that i thinks is really over looked is what i would consider his real "isekai Cheat" his ability to have his emotions become null, alot of the decisions that were being made had to be done with a level head, and that emotion blocker has really had him stand higher than the MC's of Isekais becasue if you notice each of them have this growth modifier that happens when an emotionally impactful narrative happens. Whit Ainz-sama he is able to make a much more realistic and plot rich decision because of it
Even before season 3, Enri was still more than a one-bit character for sure. She was at _least_ a two-bit character. Maybe even a three-bit character. And eventually she just became a recurring character, along with whats-his-face alchemist with hair over his eye.
I love how Overlord brings up nearly ever hero trope (the plucky team of adventurers, the lone swordsman trying to redeem himself, the loyal street rat turned knight, the straight up legendary hero group trying to rescue the kingdom, the outcast member of a community who unites the tribes to face an overwhelming, encroaching evil, etc) and a number of fantasy villain tropes (the necromancer, the sadistic butcher bitch, the "Great Beast of the Forest", the shadowy society that's secretly controlling the kingdom, slavers, etc.)... And then just casually and indiscriminately tramples all over them. Not as tropes, mind. But as in they're all dead 20 minutes into the episode introducing them. I'm a writer myself, and this appeals to that cruel, sadistic part of me that just loves seeing worlds built up just so everything can be set on fire.
No, it's worse and I love this series for it. They kill off heroes after several episodes of character building and making you feel for their dreams and struggles. [Spoilers!] It isn't afraid of making an interesting group of adventurers, introducing you to their family, showing them laughing together, being good friends and chasing after their dreams, clapping Momon on the back as they go grave-robbing in the Tomb of Nazarick, and then all get horribly murdered with every body part of them used economically.
what you said about the "OH YOU DONT KNOW WHO YOU JUST MESSED WITH" vibe feels like it hit the nail on the head for why ive enjoyed the "OP MC" shows like this and gate jietai
Another nice thing about shows like this and Gate is there's a justifiable reason for the MC being OP. In Overlord it's because Ainz and most of Nazarick are max-level in a world where 30/100 is considered legendary. Meanwhile Gate just follows basic logic in warfare by having all that fancy magic and stuff mean nothing in the face of modern weaponry like tanks and firearms.
I was the opposite having found and read the light novel before starting the anime... I really enjoyed it, but I personally much preferred the anime adaptation... The novel felt at times like too much meat and not enough bones so having the anime condense some of the meat made it a much more enjoyable watch, but that could just as easily be because I already knew the story.
An interesting thing about this series is that everyone has a story. Even if a character has no impact on the main story, he still has lived an entire life. I'm thinking about the Undying King Davernoc (the lich among the 8 fingers). His story was not developed in the anime, but in the book it was. Sebas was arming the punch that was going to end Davernoc, then we have several pages about Davernoc and his story, how he came to be one of the 8 fingers. Then, Sebas punch lands and Davernoc dies. These kinds of things are important and make the story compelling because every time a character is killed, we do get the feeling that it was an actual person who was killed and not just some random extra.
if you hang a shotgun on the wall in the first episode then you gotta use it in the third what Overlord did was world-building; in moderation its a powerful tool but if you overuse it then it loses its meaning in most part overlord manages to give meaning to most of its character that is why we love it
That was the best part of the 8 fingers fight. Each character got a backstory, a character description, personality traits, and of course their skills and why they were ranked so high. Pages worth of reading all told just to inform us of who sebas will be fighting against.Then in a single paragraph sebas kills them all. :p
Reason why i love Overlord? *Because it isn't about the hero. The anime is taking place in the eyes of the story's main villan.* And we're also seeing this salaryman slowly loose his humanity and become said villan.
I totally agree with you ! It is THAT reason for why i love Overlord too ! FINALLY , an adventure where the hero is the bad guy yeah !!! Great and EPIC !!!
By like, Volume 11 he basically transformed from a salaryman to a sagacious "overlord", and this is what I love about the show so damn much. He lost his past self(in a very good way) and became more accustomed to that world, which is rare and brilliant in isekai. I think, i'm not an otaku XD
The residents of the great tomb of Nazarick have committed genocide and demigenocide, in a couple of years!!!... Really, how many have they massacred so far?
One of the things I really loved was how Ainz would use his gamer knowledge and mindset to figure out situations, collect information, set up failsafes, set up fights that would give him the advantage as a magic caster type class. I rewatched it like 4 times by now
What we need is for them to make it 24 episodes long. 13 episodes are just too little to get all the details from the ln crammed in! I really would like to see some of the scenes from the ln animated too, but it was sadly cut!
The thing the drew me to Overlord was the fact that main cast wasn't human. Everyone was some kind of monster etc. And usually in shows like this, Humans are portrayed as the good guys but we see on more than one occasion how messed up humans can be.
GinKadia Umm... I don't know what fantasy fiction you've experienced before this, but hate to break it to you, Overlord really doesn't break any new ground with its concept. It just reverses our POV. AOG are still the Big Bad, there are monsters roaming the land, kingdoms are fighting each other, corrupt people are in power, while the heroes are slowly trying to save their kingdoms.
+birdman Well, yeah it might be for other shows, but for Overlord it's pretty cut and dry. Climb and Gazef are good. The princess is an anti-hero/morally grey. And the Fingers and AOG are evil. And as for what the OP said, i felt he was implying that Overlord was different/unique because its protagonists though monsters, were heroic in nature, While the humans were the worst of the worst. That's why i answered how i did.
ainz doesnt really feel like a supervillain, cuz there are plenty of more evil people. But simply, a bit more malicious than an anti hero. Which I love!
maybe duo to him being in the place of a Final boss, he is at the top of the top of the world, his every action change large scales of the world and he's pretty much a ruler of a dark fortress though there's others who are worst, it's duo to how the things they do would be considered the worst of imoralities in a society and is centered around fewer characters per wicked person
I was an Anime only... Then I read the first volume out of curiosity... You're so right about the light novels. They do what an anime cannot. You really get into the characters heads on a totally different level. It's impossible to do in an anime because much of it is internal, and descriptive. And I love it all the more.
It's also pretty difficult to make a skeleton show emotions. Especially complex ones. Although the anime does a decent job with internal dialogue a lot.
bustoo it's not difficult to make a skeleton show emotions, but if you're going to do so, you'll have to concede something, either they're going to keep looking like a skeleton, or they're going to look like a rubber doll and emote. the light novel has it easier, because it just has to say "they got the impression his skull was smiling" and then leave it to your imagination.
I WAS ABLE TO CUT HER FINGERNAIL!!!!!!!!! His Power is over 9000!!! xD You know i love this show. I never thought about it why but after this video i have to say you're right, the characters are great and i want to see the other Kingdoms. It reminds me a little bit of Suikoden 1. This is the first show I'm enjoying after Fullmetal Alchemist. And i hope it'll run for many more seasons!
7:03 Holy shit. This was spot on! That was the exact thing I blurted out during those scenes. Especially the 8 fingers. I found myself laughing maniacally
There is something about Overlord. It has so much comedic moments and the MC is so badass at moments It brings some kind of evil smile on my face. It deserves more recognition and I hope new 4th season will bring him that.
True dat... Also i dunno if you read the LN but the OP for the 4th season is kinda sus don't you think? I dunno what's up, but I hope they don't skip vol 12 and 13...
well, it depends. 'Chaos Dragon' is an anime based off a D&D campaign between very good writers and it was a bit meh. The players included Rhyogho narita (The guy who wrote Durarara and baccano), Urobochi ( the guy who wrote Fate/Zero, madoka and psychopass), and Kinoko Nasu (the guy who wrote Kara no Kyoukai and most of the fate franchise) and as you can expect, their characters were really cool. But as for the story... i'll just say that for me personally, I tried to finish the anime multiple times; but every time I tried, I got disinterested and just sorta forgot about it...
@archerprototype well, saying in a fact, maybe players are better to write stories xD, hxh is a player to write aswell and the kimera arc is so good, that i personaly considered a 11/10 masterpiece.
@@matthewteo3111 apparently that's what makes everything good now. Because apparently everybody is tired of Heroes and we need more villains even though there's plenty of stuff like that around. Plus the fact they will get mad if you call it edgy.
he has a harem... he has lolis among them... namely shalltear and evileye (technically). potentially aura too but i havent seen any such tendencies yet, i think i'll prefer to keep it this way as well. man, am i glad ainz is an actual person. i've drawn faces on cardboard boxes and i could swear they had more of a personality than kirito
Demiurge genuinely my favorite character because of how supportive he is to the most unconventional plan Ainz brings out. to witness how loyal Demiurge is, is just beyond words. i didn't *totally* watch the anime because of a succubus maid.
When I first watched Overlord, I felt the sadness Momonga felt after not being able to see his friends anymore since they all moved on. The idea of not being able to be in contact with them really bothered me because I felt that way when I lost contact with some friends when playing games. I really don't think Momonga is a loser, gaming is just a pass time for him from his adult life. What kept me to keep on watching the anime was the idea if Momonga would meet another player from Yggdrasil and how is he going to escape back to reality. In general everyone just love the main protagonist and the story.
@@deathburn4329 That's true. It shows much gaming in Yggdrasil meant for him. The time he spent gaming is usually time others would spend hanging out with friends after work. But due to his personality we can understand he prefers socializing online than face-to-face.
I doubt he would want to escape back to his reality even if he has the means to. His world was implied to be a dystopian hellhole. Why would he want to go back to that when here he got near limitless power and all the luxury befitting a powerful king at his disposal?
Quick correction, the man who was playing as Momonga wasn't your typical socially awkward guy who spends all his time in an MMO. A rule for joining Ainz Ooal Gown (originally the name of the clan before Momonga took on the name of Ainz for himself) was that everyone had to be fully functioning members of society with a life outside the game. It had very few if any students and many members weren't available at times due to varying job schedules. Also I kind of thought it was clear from the get go that the Lizard men were fighting Nazaric.
He did say the protagonist used all of his *free time* playing and refers to him as a salaryman during the video, so no mistake there. Having no friends in real life and having a job are not mutually exclusive.
Overlord: I'm fully aware I'm losing my humanity and have complete control over my actions. Also Overlord: Oh well let my minions kill more innocent people.
Actually, one of the weaker parts of the anime is the fact that he doesn't really acknowledge or is even troubled by the fact that he's losing/lost his humanity. He's always just kinda gone with it. I think it would have been interesting to see him wrestle a bit with the fact that he's lost all empathy for anyone who isn't in his household and realigning what "justice" meant to him.
@@Zarastro54 I agree, the fact he kept the its just a game mentality throughout the series was off-putting. I wanted to see him struggle with his moral choices and then eventually cave. Would have made for more character development.
@@Viper4ever05 he disregarded the it’s a game theory the second he went outside. The only reason he keeps going is hope that he might find his friends and to keep nazarick and his friends children (npcs) safe and happy
@@Viper4ever05 I think he is in full justification mode really. What he does will make things better in the long run, therefore it doesnt matter how awful what he is doing is. Remember the main reason he even let sebas keep his girlfriend is whose sister she was. He felt guilty over the death of the group he joined up with as momon early on so he felt he owed a debt. So at least on some level he recognizes them as real people, its just his focus is on whats best for HIS people. And you have to admit, so far his people have been doing very well for themselves under his leadership. The lizardmen are a united and far more self sufficient and technologically advanced group than they were before he showed up, carne village only survived due to him and ever since he took them under his protection they have grown stronger and larger and better all the time. Its early days in the kingdom so i cant recall if he has turned things around there as much as he has in the ln but yeah. LOTS of work going on there.
@@Zarastro54 he thinks about it relatively frequently in the first few novels, but it also makes perfect sense for him not to be troubled by it because his emotions and empathy for humans have been greatly suppressed, so he lacks the ability to care about it even if he wanted to (and he does get frustrated with the emotional dampening thing until he gets used to it). It’s just a fact for him now and that human emotional perspective is mostly gone
The light novel this series is based on is a D&D players dream. It's packed full of so many little tidbits that any avid D&D fan will recognize. It's great. Also you get to see so much more detail of every character and their inner monologue. The scene were Sebas kills the Eight Fingers is hilarious. It goes into excruciating detail about each members backstories and how skilled they are before ending every description with "However..." And then Sebas just murders them instantly.
There are also so many details that got pulled straight out of D&D. Spell descriptions like the 6th level divine spell [Heal] or the 1st level floating disc, the notion that potions are more expensive than scrolls because everyone can use them (not needing to be a spallcaster or skilled in use magic device), the whole design of Cocytus (who is a straight-up Gelugon or Ice Devil). Or the dancing weapon quality. And yeah, I loved the "However" section. Sebas is literally a "what if XY happened to be 'born' in another world" for one of our RPG characters, matching said characters' personality and original profession 100%. (If you consider the fact that Sebas is ~5 years old and the other one is 500y+)
I love Overlord for 3 reasons! 1) The characters: Yeah, it's already been mentioned, but the characters are fun to observe. The characters from Nazerick, who would normally been goons or *MAYBE* a mook lieutenant and die off in five minutes are established characters and have fantastic interactions. Each Nazerick character (with some exceptions, and those are explicitly mentioned in-universe) was carefully created and it's a joy to see them in action. 2) The world: The New World is an interesting medieval fantasy setup. There's several independent nations and kingdoms that all jockey for control and power; each has their own ideologies and values, and a lot of them have independent motives for their actions. This gives a very organic feel to the political power struggles and allows the plot to proceed even without overt actions from the protagonist. As an aside, this also ALLOWS for Ainz to actually perform subtle acts of subterfuge and manipulation effectively. 2D cutouts are very boring to see manipulated, after all. 3) Deconstruction: The story deconstructs a common RPG mechanic (and fiction trope) by playing it out realistically. The OP main character. Ainz and Nazerick are far stronger than anything shown in the New World. The denizens are the New World are basically scared out of their minds when they realize the sheer magnitude of power that Nazerick holds. It's also an amusing play of a situation; in RPGs, most end-game players will have stockpiled scores of legendary weapons, items and magics and be overwhelmingly strong/smart/talented compared to the average NPC, but they can't actually use any of that to effect the world outside of completing the plot. When Ainz and Nazerick show up, they can, in fact, change the world around them in a disturbingly easy degree due to the aforementioned. Though the Deconstruction also plays it out realistically; the humans start adapting, to a certain extent. Nphrea is able to concoct a purple potion (implied to be far superior to the blue healing potions, though still inferior to Nazerick's red potions) due to researching and analyzing a red potion that Ainz handed out to someone else. Enri manages to get more use out of the goblin horn, Brain improves his swordsmanship and becomes capable of cutting Shalltear's fingernail, etc.
I enjoyed Overlord anime, and I thought "eh, let's give the light novel a try" I fell in love with Overlord because of the light novel. Extremely recommended. You guys don't know what you are missing if you haven't read the light novel... it surprised me the quality of it is written, it doesn't feel like your typical Japanese light novel. I don't normally like JLNs because the way they are written makes me go "ugh why?" but this one has such high quality, I forget for a moment that I'm reading a story that has a tv animated series broadcasted in the same page as freaking, idiotic to love ru!! READ THE LIGHT NOVEL! You won't regret it!
I started reading it yesterday and it is so amazing. It was also my first light novel and spent hours just reading and enjoying the interesting scenes and characters.
machinegun ive read the overlord light novels. They were really good. If you want more that are good too, re zero and konosuba novels are awesome as well.
My favorite part is how amazing everyone thinks his decisions are regardless of what they are XD It's like they're thinking to themselves, well Ains thinks it's a good idea so it must be the best idea of all time!
And if they do question it ainz can point at demiurge and demiurge will lay out some hidden reasoning as to why it makes perfect sense because demiurge just assumes ains is like 20 steps ahead of him while hes only a few ahead of everyone else because he read way too much into what ains said
Speaking exclusively for myself, the parts of Overlord that I like is the interactions between the Nazarick floor bosses because it’s this fun juxtaposition of them legitimately being horrible villains who’d commit unspeakable atrocities without batting an eye while simultaneously having a heartwarming devotion and care for one another. The fact that they’re the ones who keep unknowingly peer pressuring their boss into committing atrocities is darkly funny Also, one of the side characters that I find particularly enjoyable is Enri Emmot. Like Momonga, she has underlings convinced of her overwhelming strength while realistically the ogres and goblin army under her command are much more powerful in a straight fight. She has realistic anxieties and insecurities surrounding this position but I think she grows into her own as a leader when given the opportunity
I've always been a fan of shows exploring how an average person would act when thrust into a major position of power. Overlord scratches that itch for me. It was also why I love The Twelve Kingdoms so much.
I honestly feel like Ainz actually does have good insight and tactician skills I mean all of the 1st season most things went according to his plans he just never thought as far as his subordinates did so people only see him go with the flow never taking into account he always starts the first steps and his guardians always add more.
He was guild master of a reasonable sized pvp guild who was challenged like an unofficial dungeon regularly he might not know a lot of things someone in his position should but battles are something he does know, all hes done now is up their scale, im assuming it was a large reason he was chosen as guild master
the way I found it was a domino effect. I got Crunchyroll purely because I wanted to watch Persona 5 the Animation. When that was finished, eventually Stage Builder came to Smash Bros Ultimate. I saw the Aqua stage and eventually found out where it's from. I watched KonoSuba Season 1 and enjoyed. Eventually, I found Isekai Quartet and was interested. So I balanced out a schedule to simultaneously watch and finish KonoSuba (restarted Season 1 and started Season 2), Overlord, Re:Zero, and Youjo Senki. After that, I watched Isekai Quartet and was familiar with all those memorable characters. Then Season 2 of IQ was announced and I started watching The Rising of the Shield Hero. TL;DR, Persona 5 got me into anime.
It's like that for me as well, at first I thought this Overlord would start to feel bad for conquering the world as character development, but what I found was even better.
@@followerofthechurchofsumi3868 Feel like I would have been a lot more forgiving of the cg if the anime adapted things well. Welp,it didn't and I just end up sighing in dissapointment over the fact that neither of the three,story, characters and animation were done good. And don't get me wrong,I don't mean to say that I had expectations from the adaptation from the get-go.I didn't.I read the source after finishing the anime. I just feel that while the source is a good read for pretty much anyone who wants a dark,but mature isekai,the adaptation just narrows down it's reach to doodle who appreciate evil characters and I feel that is such a shame. The fact that people actually believe that Ainz&Co are the villains of the story is such a shame. Ofc,the anime adaptation is still decent for a seasonal anime but it is such a shame when the source is such a nice read. Welp,atleast the music is REALLY GOOD.
I'm learning a lot from the light novel. Second Volume Findings. Touch Me Not was the strongest warrior is Nazarick. In order to be accepted into the guild currently one of the hidden requirements is that all guild members must agree. Nishiki was the the guilds powerhouse. Hamusuke is actually female. The knights that Ainz took down to save carne village are more than likely still alive. There are currently three at the point in the story I'm on. The bunny ears that naberal has is part of a set of three. Ears, tail, and feet. Collect all three and your outfit changes. The markings on Hamusukes body indicate the number of spells she can use.
something I love about Overlord is, no matter how overpowered the characters get, the anime still looks like a game. The items, spells, restrictions, classes, kingdoms everything is just so... perfect.
Like because its repeated in comparison or one is better then an other because most isekai have a lot in common with sao mostly because its one of the first sao in memory.
I like the anime but the light novels are unspeakably better, they are my favorite light novel, and Asian novel, of all time. One of the scenes from book six or seven (ahead of the anime) was so badass that I got shivers and had to just get up and walk around my house for twenty minutes to bleed off all the nervous energy. There are many op characters in fiction, but even if a character is technically op a lot of the time they just don't feel op. For example, have you heard of Caeser the mighty? He is omnipotent, and can do anything. One day he punched god in the face so hard god cried. See? Even though I just wrote an incredibly op character he doesn't feel op, so it doesn't make you excited, whereas in Overlord Momonga makes fighting off a few lizardmen look unbelievably impressive. You can also see this in other media, like characters like Gandalf or Darth Vader, people who are objectively weak by most fantasy standards, feel like they could curbstomp any op character like Kirito.
A bit late, but I have watched Overlord only now (thanks Netflix and Summer without college exams). The "big cast but still likeable" is a very huge thing, something IMO few anime pull off correctly. Either they have a big cast but of useless/bad written characters or they can't properly produce enough decent secondary characters to make the world "big enough". I loved how Overlord, unlike Goblin Slayers and so, has the RPG feeling. This is a well crafted setting with good NPCs and lots of things to do, unlike several others wannabe meta fantasy anime. Hell, the whole second season is almost played by those secondary characters!
oh yeah, the meta animes. Like, it's definitely generic isekai, but with a twist. For one or two meta anime, it was a fun trip. The other that came after, feels bland tbh. Suddenly all meta isekai animes are just isekai animes because they aren't meta anymore.
Demiurge:"The plan is currently going smoothly" Albedo:"Wouldn't it be better if we change this part?" Other guardians:"Please explain the plan" Ainz's inner monologue:"YES PLEASE EXPLAIN THE PLAN!!!!"
Overlord is doing what SAO didn't. People got into it because of action, forgetting the world building and character development, which are the main focuses of S2, and not appreciating each character moment.
World building and character development are actually the weakest part of the show. The world is an amalgamation of Japanese fantasy cliches and stuff directly ripped off from D&D handbooks, while characters (especially denizens of Nazarick) are mostly two dimensional cardboard cutouts. So nope. Overlord is all about power fantasy trips.
LN does better tbh, there's more character development from characters since they do a lot of perspective switches and monologues which are fine. Though I think world building for it could do better but hey I like DnD concepts so that sits well with me.
do phat thanh To be honest most of characters seem as flat in LN as in anime. Also it's not that the author or Overlord only borrows concepts from D&D. He blatantly carbon copies a lot of stuff such as e.g. spells.
Y-yes, Demiurge. I put on pants because it was cold, and my old shin bones are horribly exposed. Sasuga, Ainz sama. By the way, why didn't you turn the heater on? It would warm everything up while not changing your lordly profile. Th-that riddle I leave to you, Demiurge. For what reason indeed? I should hope that as my advisor, you can come up with a satisfactory answer. Though I warn you, I had many reasons to do so, take pride in the ones you do discover, do not fixate on the ones you can't. Subarashii...
Personally, I believe the Lizardman Heroes arc to be the most significant to the story thus far. This is because every arc before it Ains (while not perfect) has primarily been in a "good-guy" role. True he did do some evil things, but he was always siding with the good guys. However in Lizardman Heroes he, for the first time, truly was on the side of the villain. This marked the change from anti-hero to villain in the story. This is just my opinion though.
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to that scene. Vol. 4 isn't actually my favorite. Personally my favorites would be volumes 12 & 13. I just believe that vol. 4 holds the most significance to the story and the overall mood.
Vol 4 hold the most significant only from the meta point though. If you take it from the plot point Vol 9 is the most significant since Ainz goes from 'no name' wizard to World Level Threat.
That's fair. It all comes down to whose perspective you are looking at though. Vol. 9 is when he is recognized as a threat by the world and vol. 4 is when he is truly recognized as a threat by us. Both are important.
Overlord is probably the only story where the main character is both the hero and biggest villain. The different perspectives is what really makes it interesting. The humans are what we’re used to with most stories but with the mc it’s more like a game.
Season 1 gave many people the impression that Overlord was just an action anime, when in reality it's so much more than that. But world-building really makes up over 70% of what Overlord is. For most people,if we just saw the main characters curb-stomping everything around them, that's going to get boring after a while. But there are some people who are just fine with that because action scenes are the only thing that entertain them. But the thing is, shows like that usually don't rate highly. They are a dime a dozen and they usually get more flack and they do praise. What makes Momonga interesting is largely his internal dialogue. The audience sees that he's both uncomfortable with his new role as being revered as a deity, but he's also making a genuine effort to become who his subordinates see him as. He's not as confident as he appears, but it's clear that he's a lot smarter than he gives himself credit for. It's easier to relate to that than someone who's actively attempting to be the uber Badass, 24/7. Also, Momonga is *proactive.* He doesn't just sit around in Nazarick and wait for things to happen. He _makes_ them happen through his own actions. Ever since the first season you get a genuine sense that he and his territory are affecting the countries around them, which means the world reacts to _them._ Not something you see often in anime where the MC usually just waits for event XYZ to happen and then responds to it from there.
helps that his role as an "antagonist" makes him the one to act and the "Protagonists" have to react. Also it is fun to see how these get flipped around as mormon he is reacting to threats all of a sudden
Why I like Overlord so much? The protagonist isn't a complete wet noodle with "godlike powers" as his only character trait like in so many other anime of this genre. It's fun to watch him try to overcome obstacles that he simply can't force his way through. I've also grown to be a fan of D&D thanks to some streams by Team Four Star (fun fact, the voice actor for Ains in the dub is in the Dragonball Z Abridged series as well) and Takahata101, so that's also been a huge boost in the anime's favor.
A good D&D campaign is rooted in consistent and well documented world building. It's easy to take for granted modern times and plop a character in a metropolis. On the other hand, building a world from the ground up takes time and solid effort. The fact that the story is about more than just Ainz is what gives the series longevity and fresh perspectives. I would love a Demiurge arch one of these days, if not just to confirm with 100% absolute certainty what his sheep are. Though, from speculation, I think it may be pretty clear. Each character showing how they think... How they react to this new world and how they interact with it... All combine into the series Overlord, my favorite one in the better half of the last decade.
For me I like overlord because the main character instead of "I want to go back to the real world" while in this show its like "I'm stronger here than in the real world THIS IS MY WORLD NOW!"
In some point of the novel the guardians said that they dont care about what Momonga is...''an idiot'' or a ''fucking leader'' he just need to be on their side, Demiurgus said in his foughts that he is afraid Momonga one day could leave that world for no reason, he stated that he have nightmares about it, and thats why he is so devoted and really didnt care about if he is a loser or not.
There's a good bit in one of the light novels where a bunch of "workers" (unofficial / disgraced adventurers who take on unsanctioned and sometimes illegal tasks) are commissioned to explore Nazarick. It goes poorly, but when one of the last survivors is trying to run away, she bumps into a wall that just looks like a perfect night sky. The Nazarick guardian who chased them down has a little chat with them about how they see the Supreme Beings.
Well that's intentional. The author purposely made his world shitty enough not to want to go back to and far enough into the future to make the MMO possible. So Ainz not having any living relatives, living in a dystopian world that makes Blade Runner seem lively, and literally nothing else in his life worth living for actually justify why Ainz doesn't even try to find a way back. Well, the whole conquering the wolrd bit isn't really something Ainz actually wants though, it was just somethign his friends brought up. Ainz's main motivation behind all the curb stomping, taking over the world, etc is just... to maybe see his friends again. The same reason he loved the MMO is the same reason he does a lot of what he's doing. The anime really cut it out, but he also goes along with the conquering the world in hopes that his name will spread around the world and maybe if his friends came here to he won't be alone. He's actually very sentimental about his friends and refuses to let go of that hope. The first season didn't show it, but he tries calling EVERY single friend he had, even though only 4 came to see him on the last day. He even calls a friend that quit before Ainz Ooal Gown the guild formed. So it's a bit depressing, the reason Ainz doesn't want to go back to his own world (that loneliness and no life worth living except his online friends) makes him still cling to his friends he knows are pretty much gone in his life. It's a sadder take on the "What do you get the man who has everything?", but in this case even if he conquers the world, is worshiped as a god, bring about an eternal utopia, etc etc, he still won't have the one thing he wanted: his friends. It's ironic that by playing the role of an unstoppable God Skeleton he's prevented himself from moving on in his life and making new friends or having those more casual relationships he misses from the MMO days. It's the more melancholic, tragic lens of Overlord, Ainz can rule over everything and get anything he wants, but he'll still be alone in the sense no one knows he's just a lonely man that wants a friend ( well his old friends). He's trapped himself in this role of perfect God, and even the family he still has around (the NPCs) don't treat him as warmly as he wished. It's this part of Overlord that I think the author wanted to have the subtitle "The Melancholy of Ainz" very early on in the novels. Well, he'll still be surrounded by waifus, so who cares if he has no friends!
I highly recommend reading the light novels! There’s a lot of little details you wouldn’t about, including the fact that language is automatically translated in the New World by some unknown magic present in the whole world. A much bigger fact you learn is the setting/state of the real world that Momonga/Ainz left behind, and why he played YGGDRASIL so much. I don’t want to spoil it, but I’ll say that if I were in his shoes I’d definitely never look for a way back.
I think Overlord the best anime when it comes to world building in the recent years. You intuitively know there's more to the world and wanna know what's out there. They don't give you blue balls with bad cliffhangers but instead keep you interested with the next arch or season with their world building and hinting things and spicing things up in meaningful ways.
So the question of overpowered "characters" in a now-real MMORPG as being a decent plot point seems to be tied to the quality of world building. In SAO, we have a character that is quickly so powerful, so strong he can solo areas normally reserved for 20-40 groups. In real MMOs this would be completely impossible, either due to scaling or mechanics. Such battles are designed to either one-shot solos or bar them entry in the first place. Thus Kirito becomes utterly ridiculous as a character. Overlord and Log Horizon sidestep this nicely. In Log Horizon, they focus on the group dynamic. No one is overpowered nor capable of soloing major threats. They have to work together to overcome problems. Overlord does something different, by making this new world a lot weaker than him. He is a max-level character with a gang of endgame bosses working for him, ones designed to be soloed if done carefully. And he is living in a world which is basically the starting area of the game. Thus the new story is "why should he care?"
"we have a character that is quickly so powerful, so strong he can solo areas normally reserved for 20-40 groups. In real MMOs this would be completely impossible, either due to scaling or mechanics." Someone's never played a blood DK.
@Faldegast -- I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're getting at relative to what I said. My comment was with regards to the fact that there certainly are classes and builds in real mmo's that can solo raid content.
That explanation is very stupid of you to say. You don't like an extremely gifted person that you claim is OP but loves a guy who is in every sense of the word Over Powered? No sir they haven't side stepped anything. They presented you with an OP character and his OP crew that's it. There's no real danger to his life or any of his plans. The only real interesting quality about Overlord that separates this anime from the rest is perspective that's it. As soon as you ass hats stop trying to beat around the bush and accept that your loving the view from the antagonist side the sooner we can all have real conversation about why we love it. I love it because I've always felt there's 2 sides to a story and I love villains. The hero who eventually will come around will be incredible and I can't wait to see how Ainz inadvertently will help give rise to him/her.
Faldegast “ Only Marxists have an argument against...” That is some concrete thinking. Can I ask you to engage in abstract thinking or am I a Marxist if I disagree with you? Those classical heroes (Siegfried, Hercules, and Achilles) ended up being defeated. Even the Greek, Norse, and Hindu gods died. What made Overlord season one so dull was the lack of an achilles-heel/heroic flaw in our protagonist. We knew he was unbeatable before every fight so the outcomes didn’t add to what we know. Superman vs. The Elite is watchable on some pirate sites. It is a great example of setting up a challenge for the poster-boy of OP characters. The risk of failure is what makes a challenge dramatic.
@@ScaryMason well, i dont agree, i prefer an unbeatable character, the lack of an achilles heel, is what makes me like characters like that. because they are perfection. i love perfection, and any risk of failure is something that needs to be eliminated. for me at least.
I don't read. I prefer watching. But when season 2 ended, I've been curious about the LN (since the manga isn't as far as the anime). And wow is it detailed and so well written. Especially having it from all kinds of different perspectives, makes it interesting how Ainz and other characters are being viewed from the people of the New World. Already looking forward to S3 when LN 7 & 9 are being shown (the Opening mentioned them that far). The most interesting thing is: How easily the characters die in the same LN. First there're a bunch of chapters introducing and involving them - later they're dead. Basically Game of Thrones style with Ainz having his luck skilled to the Max.
Yeah, this is definitely one of the cases where the Light Novels are significantly better. I found the Anime first, and while I still like it, it doesn’t reach the heights of the LN.
ainz: exists
demiurge: "wHAT A BRILLIANT PLAN"
Demiurge: "Sasuga"*
Arisu
@@kissing88 Arinsu*
I'm crying
Caps lock
Ainz: Demiurge what's your plan?
Demiurge: No point in telling you. You are already 20 steps ahead of me.
Ainz: I AM?!!!!!
Lul
overlord in a nutshell
"of course, now explain what the plan is for -me- the others"
Demiurge: Im sure you're already aware..
Ainz: That one?
Demiurge: Yes, that one
Ainz: *internal confusion*
Ainz: That one?
Demiurge: Yes, that one.
Ainz: That one?
Demiurge: Yes, that one.
Ainz: That one?
Demiurge: Yes, that one.
Ainz: That one?
Demiurge: Yes, that one.
-great worldbuilding
-fun characters
-literally just feels like a super fun d&d campaign
-villain story(i'm a sucker for those)
@Pybro you can say that ainz is both a anti-villain and a anti-hero
@Pybro he become a antihero as ainz later on, i will not explain how, consider this a trailer not a spoiler
Hes not a hero nor evil. In his mind, hes just working to survive in the world and do whatever it takes to keep what he and his friends has achieved as safe as possible.
Good and bad are concepts that the both sides realize over their own world views
@@ZohMyGods yeah that is the reason he is a mix of a anti hero and a anti villain, a good that is not quite a hero and a evil that is not quite a villain
@@diablo.the.cheater depends on the perspective. For Carne village, he's a hero. For the Theocracy, he's evil incarnate. For the Baharuth Empire, he's a God that must not be messed with.
One of the biggest things that’s made me love overlord so much is throughout the novel he starts becoming more of the person who he at first pretended to be. He goes from pretending to be a big boss to actually being one
Fake it 'til you make it! :D
love overlord but i feel like the anime is one big cockblock (not just albedo). the anime hints at the existence of other players repeatedly with such an amazing storyline at the beginning and the light novel is almost finished but no players have been shown at all. makes me feel like its a better one punch man when it could be so much better.
Diablo from How Not to Summon a Demon Lord is also role-playing as a Demon Lord but unlike Overlord, he doesn't want to kill anyone and will do his best to avoid it. When he does eventually kill, he feels bad about it even though he knows he had no choice. Overlord kills about as casually as a man swatting flies.
I dunno if that is true. He certainly gets better at tricking Demiurge or Albedo to explain their plans for him but he is still kinda stupid. Like when he makes a peace deal with the Empire (is it in book 8 or 9?) because he thinks that is a good idea while Demiurge thinks it is a brilliant trap since there is zero chance of the Empire ever keeping such a peace deal.
I love them, but Ainz isn't the sharpest crayon in the box exactly, he constantly tries to solve his problems by using his own work experience as a salesman and tries to act like he thinks his boss would have acted.
Yeah, he has some character development and his motivation is always to honor and try to find his old guildmates which seems to be the closest to friends he ever had.
That is really what makes the books so brilliant, all other "cheat Isekai" novels and animes have a Mary Sue hero who always succeed, is super smart, use real world knowledge to win and have every girl fall in love with him. Overlord is making fun of all that and have the setup similar but Ainz is kinda a clutz who pretends he is a Mary Sue and is insanely scared that one of his far more capable henchmen will realize who he really is and take over.
In the books, it is pretty clear that all the floor guardians have similar combat abilities to Ainz and are probably all smarter then him too, particularly Demiurge and Albedo but they think he is some all powerful God that can't be wrong and it is their scripted backgrounds that are the only reason they worship him so much.
There are so many fun characters in the books too all with their own personalities while most Isekais have a few well made characters with the rest just being cardboard cut outs. I mean, a lot of them could have had their own anime show, like the Blue roses for instance, most fantasy shows have less developed main characters then them and they are basically just extras here. Normally that would make the books rather hard to read since so many side characters are usually annoying but Overlord somehow pulls it off.
@@MyouKyuubi Fake it till you become it
“Sebas clears out a couple of bosses in minutes.” I’m sorry but this is a mistake. He clears them out in a couple of seconds
The fight took longer in the opening
well, they did have to talk for a bit so that added some time xD
Justin Chan true
@@ignoremypaststupidity2719 It took less than 10 seconds to clear the 4 members of Six Arms and probably 2 seconds to kill Zero if you're looking just at pure combat.
I think he was counting Zero. Had to walk a bit for that one
Ainz isn't actually a total loser. As shown in the Shalltear fight, he is actually EXTREMELY competent when it comes to PvP. that skill just isn't particularly relevant in most scenarios.
While i agree that Ainz isn't a loser, calling him *extremely competent* is really stretching the extend of his abilities as seen in the show. While it's fun to think that Ainz is a strategic genius for winning against Shalltear because Shalltear is stat-wise better than him, she was still at a massive disadvantage. All Ainz did was play to the obvious strengths that the situation lended him.
If you read the LNs, it mentions that Ains did a lot of PvP, and was really good at it. He may not have been the best (that title goes to Touch Me), but he was still competitive. After all, he was the guild-master for one of the top guilds that focused on PvP.
Also, what do you mean Shalltear was at a disadvantage? First of all, the only advantage you gave (that her stats are better) isn't really true. Granted, I don't know/remember the specific total stats, however, it is safe too assume that they are roughly the same in total stats. Shalltear's advantage arises in the DISTRIBUTION of stats. In a 1v1 fight, a warrior/melee class will usually have the advantage over a magic class since the magician often relies on others to protect them while they deal damage. Add on to that the fact that Shalltear had an elemental advantage over Ains (Holy is strong against undead) and the fact that Ains' specialty magic isn't very effective against her (Undeads are immune to instant death spells and a lot of status effects. Also his ability to summon undead minions would just end up healing her due to the Pipette Lance).Ains was 100% at a disadvantage.
Finally, you said that "All Ainz did was play to the obvious strengths that the situation lended him", but that is severely dumbing down what he did. First of all, the situation didn't give him really any inherent advantages. It gave him a few openings to take advantage of, but none that gave him an upper hand just by using them. Secondly, the openings weren't particularly obvious to someone who isn't extremely familiar with both the game and PvP combat. Someone who isn't familiar with both of those would have extreme difficulty figuring them out, at least without fighting her first (which isn't really an option). Finally, even if you are able to identify any openings to attack, actually putting your plan into action can be surprisingly difficult.
The battle wasn't easy by any means and was extremely disadvantageous for Ains, the only reason it looked easy was because Ains was able to handle it without too much difficulty. However, you shouldn't mistake that with the battle being easy. It is just that, when a skilled person does something difficult, it can look easier than it actually is. Just try watching a top speed-runner play a difficult platformer (like Super Meat Boy or Celeste) then try it for yourself. You'll see what I mean then.
@@kylerivera3470
I did read the light novels,and i remember that it was mentioned that Ainz's build was more intended for roleplay while Shalltear was combat minmaxed.
Shalltear being brainwashed lent Ainz several huge advantages over shalltear:
1. Ainz could prepare for potentially as long as he wanted and initiate battle. Shalltear was constrained to standing idle in a single spot until provoked.
2. Ainz didn't have to fully commit to battle, he had the ability to retreat. Shalltear, due to the brainwash AI, would fight to the death.
3. Ainz had access to all of the resources of Nazarick. Shalltear had only her own inventory.
4. Ainz had plenty of access regarding information about Shalltear's skillset and equipment. Shalltear had fair knowledge about Ainz's weaknesses but which is entirely negated by points 1 & 3.
I think these 4 points make their fight much less impressive as it is at first glance.
Shalltear was in many ways a direct counter to Ainz, but i feel it was negated by Ainz in the 2nd phase of battle by him switching between classes to respond appropriately to Shalltear, something which couldn't have been possible without the preparation leverage he had. In 1st phase of battle he was also able to lighten Shalltear's class advantage by knowing her strengths and getting proper equipment from Nazarick to counter it.
I never said that the fight was easy, or that Ainz didn't have to put any thought into it (well, he actually wouldn't have if he had leveraged the strength of the guardians.) All i said was that you're giving too much credit for Ainz winning an obviously pitched battle.
Those 4 points aren't actually as big of advantages as you make them sound
1. This one is actually a decent advantage except that it requires Ains to be able to accurately predict and/or guide the battle in the direction he wants to take advantage of it, which can be surprisingly difficult.
2. Just because he theoretically could retreat, doesn't necessarily make it an advantage. Plus, with the possibility of an enemy watching the battle, retreat isn't really a good option since it would effectively give them information for free.
3. Ains may have had access to Nazarick's resources, however he can't just use them all willy nilly due to the potential unknown enemy.
4. Information gathering is an integral part of PvP as stated in the LNs. Shalltear was at a bit of a handicap, however Ains still had to research and plan around all of Shalltear's abilities.
The primary mistake you are making here is that you are assuming that PvP starts at the same time as the battle, however,that is wrong. PvP starts when one side plans to attack the other, and includes all of the planning to ensure that you win the fight. If you think the battle was "obviously pitched" then that is actually a statement in favor of Ains because that battle wasn't naturally in his favor, he MADE it that way. It's the type of thing that may look simple in hindsight, but isn't that easy to do in the moment. I'm not saying Ains' battle skills are particularly excellent (although they do have to be pretty good), I'm saying that the combination of his planning ability and the ability to put those plans in action (at least when concerning PvP) is top tier. One final thing, note how Ains was calm throughout most of the Shalltear fight. He clearly had room to spare within the fight. In other words, he showed a lot of ability with the Shalltear fight, and yet he still probably could do better. After all, if there was a real threat he WOULD mobilize the guardians, but the fact that he didn't shows his confidence.
That was pay to win xD
Demiurge being terrified that ainz might leave the guardians if they fail is kinda sad and this is a guy who makes families eat each other that's why I like overlord
i hope that in the end, the isekai beans are spilled and the guardians sasuga even harder and mourn with their lord for the loss of his friends; the other supreme beings.
I love it when the thieves are trapped in nazirak and they said towards ainz “just you wait until we send our strongest hero, momon the dark hero”
He literally made a “ fuck, that me” when they told him, almost like he forgot until they told him he’s a popular hero
and ,we say nazarik
edgar baires Apparently in the LN (Light Novel) Ainz pulled out Momons helmet
Leviathan05 nope. Read the novel, he didn’t. He stated that there was no one out there to stop him even after they mention momon
Sora The Mye hmm, when have been cool if he did
Ainzs strongest ability is his overwhelming hindsight.
Person 1: Ainz why did you do that thing?
Ainz: because then that would happen
Person 2: wow that thing did happen
Ainz: just like i planned all along
Person 1: amazing, whats your next plan?
Ainz:.. Umm.. I have one
Person 1 and 2: incredible.
Person 3: He knew it would happen all along!
Ainz:Did I? I mean, YES I did!
Subarashe
SASUGA AINZ-SAMA
The best is when they say how smart it was for him to give Enri the horns and that he totally saw her summoning the army.
Person 4: Why didn't you do thing even though it was easier and much more practical than your plan?
Ainz: Uhhh... think for yourself B-BAKA!
Person 4: I truly can never reach your intelligence, Supreme Being.
I think Ainz deserves more credit. He is actually an extremely competent combat strategist, which can be seen on multiple occasions, and makes use of military tactics which he learned from his fellow guild member. Later in the light novels, we see his diction is impressive and fits his position, and his logic is actually quite good. It makes me wonder how he can be so smart in some ways and so clueless in others...
Anyway, Sagusa Ainz-sama!
the cluelessness likely comes from 'a leader is a leader is a leader'-type mindset in which a brilliant leader in one type can be slotted into another without hitch- a general is a leader, a captain is a leader, a civil engineer is a leader, a logistics manager is a leader, a city council president is a leader. Each of those are leaders, smart in their own ways, but placing a captain into the role of a civil engineer or a general to role of city council president might not end well: The captain might be able to lead the construction crew, but could he plan and calculate materials and structure to ensure bridges, roads, water infrastructure and power distribution in a way that won't end up in flames? Would a general understand the complex web of social developement and incentive-based command infrastructure without problems?
What I'm saying is that Ainz is a brilliant captain, but poor engineer, and poor council president.
@@Warhamer116 excellently put
@@Warhamer116 that's why he thro- trusted that jobs to the best brain in Nazarick
I think the think the line between his stupidity and genius is passion. He's not a talented guy at all, and has had very little reason to be motivated in life, but when it comes to exactly YGGDRASIL he's *super* passionate and has always gone the extra mile to improve and remember everything about it.
Oh yeah he had a high rank in competitive pvp despite his mid tier build
No one is probably going to see this but, my favorite part of this anime is when Ainz practices commanding lines and sitting on a throne commandingly, In my mind it really shows that he is a salary man with no command experience and has no idea what is going on, but he is trying to ride on top of a rampaging gorilla going mach 20
Justin Gold I did mate
@@shishasmoke8920 i did too
Same goes for me
Having Ainz practice his "Such infernal discord, I demand silence!" in the mirror, and then having it show up later in the series felt really fulfilling
@@capnceem and he impress both side with that line. All his guardians & People from empire.
"what's wrong bro"
"my sister voice acted an adult game I bought"
Where's the negative?
@@mikezgotmilk2883 oof
@@mikezgotmilk2883 lmao
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i think how perurouchino feels about bukubukuchagama maybe
I don't think the Guardians of the Tomb would even care....they love him because he stayed with them to the end, not because he is a god (or whatever). Ainz is the only Great One to NOT abandon them.
Thank you...I love this show because upon my 3rd watching it fully dawned on me that the Guardians have a tragic story that grabs at my heart...honestly damn I feel bad for these OP Guardians.
Imagine having a group of creators give you all those powers and who were always there telling you exactly what to do just leave you--all but one.
Honestly, I know is strange...but it reminds of why Toy Story works so well as a movie franchise.
Nobody wants to be abandoned...its a compelling motivation for the Guardians to stay loyal no matter what Anzi tells them.
But they don’t resent their creators. In fact, their creator’s orders take precedence over ainz’s orders at times.
@@pravus9769 With the very interesting exception of Albeto.
They havent broken their "code" yet so i think they would literally need to be rewritten for them to betray him. Like shalteer and the brainwashing thing
Nate Taylor because ainz overwrote her code to where she loves him. So she sees him as both a ruler and kind of as a king, plus I’m pretty sure that because of the way she was coded, she has a looser collar so to speak. She is, after all, the leader of the floor guardians. She was in contact and took orders from all of the higher ups in Ainz Ool Gown, so she was probably programmed to follow any of their orders.
Why you love overlord?
MB: long explenation
Me: I just want to see the expression of the people to the power of Ainz
harem is life That’s Lord Ainz Ooal Gown to you;)
Sasuga Ainz-sama!!
Ian LORD BONE DADDY
Holy shit i thought i was the only one, be my bestfriend
*AINZ OOAL GOWN*
One of my favourite moments in Overlord, which sums up what the series is all about, has actually not been animated yet. An entire light novel volume is narrated through the eyes of another character (I won't say anything more so as not to spoil) and you come to understand how he can be so admired. He comes off as really wise. And then, at the end of the volume, there is short couple of sentences long Ainz POV which reminds you that everything that happened went right over his head. xD
"His Majesty! ❤️"
Ainz's mind: _"She hates me."_
I think it was two, unless I'm thinking of a different arc...
I think he is pretty smart, it just that he compared himself to Albedo and Demiurge who are beyond human and Ainz still has his humanity in him although not much but his mind is still Satoru. He didin't have other people who have the same problems like him to compare his intelligent and the ability to act immediately. I totally did not see Ainz as some idiot who has extremely luck like someone did. He is a smart person who underestimate himself well and has extremely luck too.
Ainz: **fakes his death for a few days to conquer a new territory*
Neia: *Proceeds to start an Ainz cult*
Neia squad for the win.
epic i love this show so much
I laugh cried when Demiurge and Ainz had this "oh you mean that one thing" "yes" "and that other thing" "yes" "...WHAT THING?!?!?!" conversation.
Lune - chan that was pretty funny poor ainz
Best conversation in anime *HISTORY*
See for me it was:
Demiurge: As we all know Ainz-sama is going to conquer the world.
Everyone nods.
Then Ainz is like: “Oh I see... Wait a second... WHAT?!!!”
If they continue on to adapt volume 9, which they probably will, there's an even better conversation coming up.
And when they repeated that bit again I almost died of laughter lmao xD
Ainz practices his speeches n dialogues in his room .
he doesn't sleep, so must make most of his time lmao
@@metalsadman yea...plus the maids keep staring at him all the time , so whenever they change their shifts , Ainz quickly replace the book he reads with a more tougher to understand book . (sry no word came instead of tougher atm)
Worth. His chair sit animation was pro.
and writes them in a book title how to be an overlord
though when he uses the "So loud, I Demand silence" one it felt out of place as like 2 characters exchanged a line quitely, it wasnt like everone was bickering
We been knew
The great thing about Overlord and One Punch Man is that they actually make the OP protagonist schtick work.
Especially one punch man
DBZMacky Thanks Madhouse!
antagonist*
+James Rocks
Antagonist = character that fights/opposes the main character
Protagonist = main character
With Momonga/Ainz Ooal Gown we've got a villainous protagonist who is opposed by heroic antagonists
He does play the role of an antagonist though. He is a decent person at heart (not good by any means though) that has to play the role of an antagonist. The antagonist isn't specifically someone who opposes the main character, it can just be the main villain. Ains is most certainly a villain in Overlord. He kills humans, overthrows kingdoms, causes massacres. He is literally a lich king. He is a protagonist in the sense of being the main character, but most certainly an antagoinst when it comes to his values, ways of dealing with things in the new world, position in the world etc.
Apparently, Pandora's Actor knows fully well that Ainz has been bullshiting his way through this story, but still looks up to hi. Which makes sense since PA is a good boy.
He was created by Ainz after all. If anyone can see through his bullshit and still respect him it's PA. Kinda like how you know your dad isn't exactly the best man in the world but damm it he's trying and so you love him anyway
Pandora's Actor behaves completely like Ainz and actually questions ainz and hence is most smart sometimes
@@Indian_Tovarisch I wouldn't say he behaves like Ainz, his default personality is a large ham which even Ainz find cringey. He definitely knows about Ainz bullshitting things though.
Pandora's Actor needs more screen time
@@skafu9229 especially considering how his voice actor is the same dude who did the main character in steins;gate (one of my favorite anime)
I love overlord because
1. I love villains
2. I love well done OP characters
3. I love seeing different character's reactions to stuff in anime, and oh boy is overlord full of that.
and good story
Do you have any other recommendations of good works that scratch the same itch? An unapologetic villain as a protagonist, preferably op as well, but not required.
@@Djorgal code Geass? Arifureta?
@@minacheyo6242 These are great, sadly, I've already read them.
By the way, since I'm asking for recommendations, I have some :
- Dark Bane from Drew Karpyshyn (protagonist is a Sith Lord in the Star Wars universe)
- Reverend Insanity (chinese novel)
- Death Note (need I explain?)
You think alot as i do
Having been left by friends I made in games, I wholeheartedly empathise with the author and Ainz. The 1st episode hit me HARD and I am not ashamed to say I cried during it. From Runescape to DuelingNetwork to DOTA2, people have left me as the last person in said games to do real life stuff and never came back. So an anime/LN that shows the hurt of being left behind is very precious to me.
People who say "it's just a game (or show)" don't understand what it means to be IMMERSED in it and love it for everything it's associated with.
Well thanms now i feel kinda sad
I wish I weren't able to realate to this as much as I do...
I felt this the other day logging in to Destiny 2 after a hiatus. I had been the last of my main group to still be playing before, and looking around at everything we used to do together, it just kinda... hit me.
Hella deep
Minecraft bro everyone just stops at some point and I never did
I’m constantly terrified that demiurge has figured out Ainz and is playing him
No, not Best Boy Demiurge! (Please not...)
Mhmm mhmm same here.
Oh crap now I'm worried. Please best boy frog demon.
Nope. Demiurge genuinely thinks Ainz-sama is just far too infallible for his feeble genius-level mind to comprehend. Even when Ainz says he'll make mistakes on purpose for Demiurge to adapt as a test, Ainz ends up making a fanatic prophet creating a religion for Ainz, advancing Demiurge's plans by years, to which Demiurge sasugasms out of pure respect for Ainz's prowess in "planning ahead of time" and even managing to make a fool out of the smartest man in the room, Demiurge.
He most likely has, he's just trying to figure out what Ainz' actual goal is. Or he tries to find out if he can survive if he kills Ainz. He possibly thinks that if he kills the last remaining of the creators, that every Nazarick inhabitant will die.
Something I wanted to add. One of my favorite things about Overlord is how morally ambiguous it can be. Yes you have straight up sadists like demiurge and solution, but in general the stuff ainz does becomes good or evil based on perspective. Think about it. had the lizardman arc been covered differently. As in it focused on cocyutus and his efforts to arrange a campaign against the lizardmen tribe and spent almost no time showing us what decent people they were, we wouldnt have batted an eye at the undead army swarming their forces. We would have been UPSET that the lich got killed crying out to his master. But because we got to see the lizards portrayed as people who were decent and deserved to live, we disliked the war.
Same for the invasion of nazarick. The author went out of his way to make all (but one) of the adventurers seem like decent people just making a living, with dreams and goals and wanting to help people. They still broke into nazarick, tried to loot it to the bedrock, and were determined to murder anything they saw in there that was "alive" without any investigation whatsoever. Yeah it was a setup but ainz even gave them chances to back out, he checked them out himself to see if any were worth saving by questioning their purpose in taking this job and so forth. He would have likely spared some of them had they shown their honorable and good side to him. But because WE got to know them personally, the horrible fates of the invaders was far more shocking than it would have been had the first time we saw them been when they busted down the door and started invading.
Excuse it how you will, what Ainz did to the adventurers was unnecessary and pointless sadism, which the show now seems to revel in. I don't think I can watch the next season, unless something, somewhere, gives me a glimmer of hope.
@@douglasdaniel4504 well its a dark fantasy series so you have to expect stuff like this
They were good people (mostly) especially in the setting of a game, because that’s what you’re supposed to do. Raiding tombs and dungeons is how Aniz got to where he is in the first place and acting like they were “greedy” was a pointless hypocritical argument. He tortured those people because hes evil and he wanted to. And also it’s a digital world so it’s not like any of the shit matters. He even says to Demiurge to kill all the captives from the village. He’s nothing close to a good character
@@jeremiematte1587 spoilers for the LN
In the LN Ainz literally commits genocide. Thats not even hyperbole. He literally kills every single person In the kingdom. All of them. Its really hard to find a characrer relatable when he kills millions claiming he stumbled into it by accident.
@@jeremiematte1587 the new world is a real world not a digital one, someone of the strongest race in the new world summoned players from yggdrasil by accident using a type of magic different from the one we've seen on the anime, also it's obvious he's not a good person he's a villain the name of the show is kind of a giveaway of that don't you think?
So the writer of overlord was abandon by all his DnD friends, just like Ainz was abandon by his guild mates. He thought fondly enough of them & their experiences to continue writing, just like Ainz was fond enough of his experiences to stay until the very end of his MMO.
You just blew my mind
that's deep
do you imagine that some of the characters are actually based on the author friends? would be very meta
So... 3 days ago I barely knew about Overlord, and now I'm up to date on the 3rd season.
This channel is dangerous.
This. It just happened to me too.
WELCOME BROTHER TO THE DARK SIDE OF NAZARICK HUAUHAHUA
S a m e
A little late but welcome people. To the eternal glory of Ains Sama
Exactly. I also started reading the light novel because I can't wait for the next season if there ever be one.
I think that the strenght of shows like OPM or Overlord, when it comes to how they handle their OP characters, is how they do not focus too much time on them. Instead of always following the MC, most of the show is spent concentrating on the other character that are introduced, and the effect our MC has on them. Alongside how the world change and react accordingly to the rise of this new power (this part is less proeminent in OPM though).
this is actually my one complaint of the show. i have seen those side-characters before, in like, every anime. what makes the show interesting to me is the people of nazarick, and more than half the runtime of the show is devoted to these one off, boring side characters. i want to see the villains! gimmie!
Metalisha I disagree, I love all the side plots in Overlord and the characters are all written very well, just like One Punch Man. Both shows have good humor and does get very serious. The way the other characters interact with one another is satisfying and very interesting. As a guy who’s a sucker for OPM, I love Overlord for the same reasons.
@@Drae2212 True. Story with one perspective are everywhere already. Easy to be found.
But to build lots of characters and stick to it, taking care of all their development, seriously, hats off for the author. That's how mature this story is.
Y do u have a herobrine profpic
That's only for isekai anime not others
The best thing for me are these rare moments of pure sadness/melancholy from Ainz. He does so many horrible things mainly just because he wants the times he misses so badly to come back, if not fully, than even a tiny bit.
It's fairly simple to sum up what makes Overlord so good:
1. A rich, complex world filled to the brim with memorable characters.
2. The dark comedy that is going on both directly and through subtext (eg the White Knight Climb, loyal to his Mistress the Golden Princess, turns out to be just a dog/sex-toy of sorts to the sociopathic genius that the Princess actually is).
Makara also refreshing to have a hero from a dystopian world with dystopian morals. Most Isekai are either white knights or unjustified edgelords who come off as childish (looking at you Arifureta). Ainz’s backstory allows him to be Overpowered enough to do anything and broken enough to choose to be something of a villain.
Overlord at times is so deep into its fantasy, that its sometimes very easy to COMPLETELY FORGET its an isekai
Agreed people Need to stop thinking this is isekai anime bruh
BR4hmat that’s not what I’m saying, it is an isekai by definition, it’s just that it doesn’t do isekai the way so many do it badly because it’s so saturated.
I've never even considered this an Isekai it delves in so far into the plot and the story building. It HARDLY even mentions Momonga's past life irl. All I ever learned was the world he was living in was vastly polluted, people couldn't go outside without full body gear a little other but of future dystopian stuff.
@@turtleme4811 consider it or not. by definition it is an isekai. A person from our world mysteriously finds himself in another world and the entire fact he has inner monologue questioning what he should do as a roleplay trope furthers how little you paid attention. His inner monologue is him speaking out of character within the narrative
@@turtleme4811 it’s definitely isekai, which is a literal word for another (I-) world (-sekai)
I still cant get over the nick name *Lord touch me*
What about buko buko chagama or whatever
Ikr. Sounds exactly like something my friend would name himself in an MMO XD
Not sure if you know but it's because touch me is so good at pvp opponents can't touch him.
Not sure if players can change name but that's why his name is touch me.
Supposed to be touch me if you can or can't touch me but the name was too long.
Slade951 I thought so too ! It makes it even funnier 😂
Slade951 even more specifically, I believe it was mentioned in the LN the TM discovered a glitch that literally made him untouchable
"I am sad that there is nothing for best boy Demiurge" I'm kind of disappointed that he didn't mention Demiurge's happy farm. For all you light novel readers out there. You know what i mean ;D
Sorry sir can you explain me whats going on, Thankyou in advance
@@sasugajohn-sama5014 Demiurge's happy farm is a place where they get ressources for parchment
Ainz thinks it's just a slightly abnormal farm but it is, in fact, a torture camp where they skin people alive
That's the happy farm
@@zeul787 arigato
@@zeul787 OK, I'm reading those goddamn light novels. Time to commit piracy
@@ssm-sf8by Please do, by any means, it's worth the time to read
The thing I like most about Over lord is the many arcs and side story. Not all episode have Ainz as the center character and in fact in some episodes Ainz doesn’t even have any screen time. But for example the Lizardmen and The Men In The Kingdom Arc really builds and deepens our knowledge about Cocytus and Sebas, at the same time introduces us to many characters. While the bloody Valkyrie arc gives us an awesome fight scene :D.
"Thank god I can still bullshit my way though the world…"
~ Abridged Ainz (likely canon Ainz too).
Mood
that's canon ainz too
The fact that he was able to vassalize the Barahuth kingdom in a day compared to Demi's months is as much bullshitery you can get from Ainz.
@@buggart
[MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR UNAWARE READERS REGARDING LN]
I was laughing like a madman when that happened.
Poor Jircniv,all he ever wanted was for his empire to become a good one and to finally take rest.
He got both of his wishes fulfilled but in a way that is hard to describe as 'satisfsctory'.
All the "pride of a king" destroyed so easily.
I still think my favourite arc is the holy kingdom arc,but this particular moment,the Quagoa massacre,and the fact that jircniv and the quagoa leader became friends are also really awesome moments other than the kingdom arc.
Then again,this moment only feels so good because of the very good setups for them so I guess I do like pretty much all the arcs afterall.
As I already said,I do still think that the holy kingdom arc was my personal favourite(mostly because of the way author plays around with the ideas of
1)what is evil and what isn't?
2)And what is justice?
so perfectly.
@@LeclipsChannelAK it was mine too, especially the ones with the meatshields.
One of the bigger positives in Overlord for me is the way they do the world-building. It's a world that feels real. There's a huge cast of heroes in their own situations having their own adventurers. It's a world that the main characters happen to find themselves in, not a world that only exists to make the main characters look good.
I also didn't think the "trapped in another world" idea that Overlord has was an especially overpopulated genre. I watched Dot Hack Sign back in the day, read some of the light novels for it, and then saw Overlord and read all the Overlord Light Novels. I did watch the first few episodes of Log Horizon, but it didn't have the right kind of melancholic isolation and searching for something tone I liked so much about Overlord, so it didn't grab me.
I don't get why Log Horizon is so popular. Literally no one dies so the fights have no tension and the MC's plans for creating a new society are just boring and convoluted. Overlord, however, with the constant presence of death and worldbuilding that puts almost every other anime to shame is my favorite anime/LN series.
Log Horizon is more of an average player kind of vibe. IRL hour long raids turn into literally days of boss fights which makes it sound like they're actually in game. Both are good but in different ways.
Spencer O'Keefe
To answer your question, the reason as to why Log Horizon was more reputed and acclaimed than some other isekai anime is that not only did it take off an interesting twist in it, but it also had a rather interesting cast and main character that all had their strengths and weaknesses, with a dash of some likeable personalities.
Also, what? As the anime Re:Zero has splendidly shown us, being unable to die when you are killed does not at all take away the tension. The tension might be lessened to a degree, but Log Horizon has also given some decent cons to being able to respawn and has displayed other ways to get us even slightly worried. It's not so muuch as the threat of dying as it is the threat of failing over and over again, and with the fact that you can kidnapping and torture become more heinous with respawning in play, and with losing memories everytime you respawn, and with the fact that the now living npcs can't respawn themselves, well, there's a lot of tension if you look at it.
With the mcs plans being boring, well, that's more on your persobal preference, I guess, because I myself enjoyed it, and I know some of my friends that disagree and agree with me. But it being convoluted? I don't know about that, since Log Horizon also had the same world building charm that overlord has now, and it thoroughly explained how the mc manipulated the now guild's game mechanics and several others for it to benefit him. Hell, just the reactions from youtubers who watched log horizon did their usual "OOOH!" moment when the mc revealed just what he had done, signifying they knew just what he had done.
As for Overlord, its threat of death is basically non existent. Ainz, as per usual, has plowed through most of his opponents with contemptuous ease(excluding shalltear) and not one moment do we truly fear for his life or his plans because he's solidified himself as this being that's just so above everyone in this new world, even to his own subordinates. Even the new potential rival chick to Ainz was revealed to, while having the power to defeat shalltear with her weapons, be inferior to shalltear in physical strength itself. Ainz is the slightly toned down Mary sue, given the fanatically loyal companions, admiring locals of the new world, terror of most of his incompetent, difficult to sympathize with enemies, impregnable, illogically unfair underground fortress, and the extreme power that made some of the religions in the new world liken him with their old skeleton god of death. Even the light novels have yet to give him a challenge that would pose as a threat to his himself and his guild, and even if one does show up, the amount of overpowered items and spells Ainz, like TGOALID, would be enough that unless there's direct divine intervention, there's no feasible way that either Ainz or Nazarick would fall with how much they can play.
But yes, the Overlord worldbuilding is a fascinating aspect of the show and is rather enjoyable.
Fellow man "unless there's direct divine intervention, there's no feasible way that either Ainz or Nazarick would fall" To be absolutely fair, there ARE the World class spells and items that for all practical purposes could be considered Divine Intervention since they literally have the power to re-write the world. Not that your wrong in saying there's no way Ainz and Nazarick won't loose but still.
log horizon have the rpgmmo as its main thing and mechanic so as an rpg mmo fan its like a guilty plesure and it is a decent anime for its genre unlike other shitty harem isekai that full of fan service boob ass boob ass booob assss booob asss loliiiii loliiiii etc main char save slave main char save a girl in death situation and then the girl fall inlove with him that is the most thing about other isekai.... but dont have any decent story telling and world building
One of the things i think really helps Overlord, Is the fact that it takes place, not in the fantasy game world Ainz know like the back of his hand, but in a new world that he and his minions know nothing about.
So while it is always clear that they are much stronger than everyone else, there are also those little hints, that he isn't the first overpowered mofo to appear in this world, and that all the others that was transported there ended up being killed, despite being so overpowered
Whats even more is that you are unsure about those hints as well, the same as the way momonga and the guardians are unsure that they know everything about this world. (The Thirteen Heroes? Were some or none of them players, what kind of power DID they have to take on the demon gods? And how powerful were the demon gods?? Were the Greed Kings players as well?) We have to piece it together from tidbits of character conversation and thoughts who themselves only have second hand info from word of mouth from hundreds of years ago in their world's history.
The only surefire player activity in the past is from the Slain Theocracy with godkin and all that. And yeah how did those players die? (i personally think they just played human characters and such died of natural causes eventually. As players that pick the races as the PCs of Ainz Ooal Gown did are looked down upon and can be bullied i think its pretty likely)
Kevin Perez they died of old age.
5/6 great gods of the theocracy died of old age. the last one was killed by the greed kings. greed kings killed themselves except for 1 and then black something dragon lord used one of the 20 world items to kill him. the 13 heros. 2 of them were Players.
Kevin Perez it’s heavily implied that the six Great gods and the eight greed kings were players, some of them died of age since they were not playing characters like Momongo which could live forever
LDOE PRO deep darkness dragon lord you mean?
There were two reasons I wanted to watch Overlord
1) A story from the "bad guy" perspective. You rarely see it and I always enjoy the attempt.
2) Albedo, I have no shame in admitting it.
And I can safely say the series greatly impressed me and I consider it my favorite anime, barely beating out One Punch Man.
I love how Ainz sees himself as a father to his friend's npcs. How he feels bad about some of the things he does but he prioritizes his family above all else. How he's aware his character isn't minmaxxed (compared to other Yggdrasil players) so he's constantly paranoid about finding another players.
same ngl
I think part of Overlord's charm is the fact that Momonga/Ainz has a very clear explanation for his being so OP, and on top of that it shows that he's often floundering and trying to figure out what's going on. You can see that he often has bouts of panic interspersed with "ok, I'm going to pretend I know what's going on" that adds humor and humanity to his character.
Oh for the love of guacamole it was good because it was not SAO
+zenox bagaan You know, I initially liked SAO...but then it got really bad. The idea was interesting, but I think Log Horizon and Overlord did a lot better with how they handled the "got trapped in a game" concept. They were more realistic (Overlord's "what the hell just happened?" reaction and Log Horizon's depiction of so many characters just getting depressed or going crazy...) SAO comes off as kinda bland in comparison (not to mention the over-the-top main character who was just plain boring.)
Oh for the love of guacamole But kids are loving it.
+zenox bagaan I guess I'm just showing my age then, lol. I like my stories to have some humanity and realism...>.> This is what happens when you reach your 30s, apparently. You grow up enough to find the stories that are popular with the kids a bit bland and lacking.
Oh for the love of guacamole well I guess Reki Kawahara (one of the worst writter, but people are still loving his creation SAO) did it on purpose.
I think we give momonga a little less credit than he deserves, he is an actually good strategist
He is a good strategist and good at the theatrics needed to maintain his image as the Overlord of Nazarick, but he tends to not be as ambitious as he should be which is where Demiurge basically says "You fools (insert plan here), Lord Ainz did this as part of his Master Plan", then Ainz thinks "What plan?" and proceeds to "allow" Demiurge to explain what he was "thinking".
His fight again Shaltear proves your point. He is less strong that her but planned the fight perfectly.
It's actually one of the traits I love about him. He's considerably smarter than he thinks he is (which is nice, having someone who's legit humble and not the false kind we see alot in anime). Plus he's smart enough to know when to roll with things to make it look like he planned it all along.
I’ve seen an interesting theory that much like his physical stats rose to match his characters stats the same thing happened to his mental stats without his realization. Most notably his Intelligence and Charisma. Its interesting to think that his “improvisations” are actually subconscious brilliance and perfect performing.
One thing that i thinks is really over looked is what i would consider his real "isekai Cheat" his ability to have his emotions become null, alot of the decisions that were being made had to be done with a level head, and that emotion blocker has really had him stand higher than the MC's of Isekais becasue if you notice each of them have this growth modifier that happens when an emotionally impactful narrative happens. Whit Ainz-sama he is able to make a much more realistic and plot rich decision because of it
says "one bit character"
shows " Warlord Enri The Bloody"
ow boy.
I noticed that too... o_o
ALL HAIL WARLORD ENRI!!!!!!!
Pretty sure this video came out before season 3 did. But yes, Hail Warlord Enri!
Even before season 3, Enri was still more than a one-bit character for sure. She was at _least_ a two-bit character. Maybe even a three-bit character. And eventually she just became a recurring character, along with whats-his-face alchemist with hair over his eye.
@@sterlingmuse5808 Nfirea Bareare?
Ainz: *coughs*
Demiurge: " Brilliant my lord!"... goes into 2 paragraphs explaining Ainz's "plan"..
Ainz: "As expected by Demiurge!"
so true and so hilarious
Also ainz: (so uh uhhhh what's the plan)
I love how Overlord brings up nearly ever hero trope (the plucky team of adventurers, the lone swordsman trying to redeem himself, the loyal street rat turned knight, the straight up legendary hero group trying to rescue the kingdom, the outcast member of a community who unites the tribes to face an overwhelming, encroaching evil, etc) and a number of fantasy villain tropes (the necromancer, the sadistic butcher bitch, the "Great Beast of the Forest", the shadowy society that's secretly controlling the kingdom, slavers, etc.)...
And then just casually and indiscriminately tramples all over them. Not as tropes, mind. But as in they're all dead 20 minutes into the episode introducing them.
I'm a writer myself, and this appeals to that cruel, sadistic part of me that just loves seeing worlds built up just so everything can be set on fire.
Dude ur a maniac🤣🤣
George? Mr. Martin? Is that you?
You've touched my corrupted little heart ♥️
I think we can be friends
No, it's worse and I love this series for it. They kill off heroes after several episodes of character building and making you feel for their dreams and struggles.
[Spoilers!]
It isn't afraid of making an interesting group of adventurers, introducing you to their family, showing them laughing together, being good friends and chasing after their dreams, clapping Momon on the back as they go grave-robbing in the Tomb of Nazarick, and then all get horribly murdered with every body part of them used economically.
I love when he finally realized that everyone in Nazarick was trying to take over the world for him in the 3rd season xD
what you said about the "OH YOU DONT KNOW WHO YOU JUST MESSED WITH" vibe feels like it hit the nail on the head for why ive enjoyed the "OP MC" shows like this and gate jietai
YES!!!
100%
Ahahaha yes!
Another nice thing about shows like this and Gate is there's a justifiable reason for the MC being OP. In Overlord it's because Ainz and most of Nazarick are max-level in a world where 30/100 is considered legendary.
Meanwhile Gate just follows basic logic in warfare by having all that fancy magic and stuff mean nothing in the face of modern weaponry like tanks and firearms.
"he has no magical power"
"oh you can analize me" *takes off ring*
*emediatly pukes* "m-m-monster, run!"
"its rude to puke at someones apearence"
other anime: by the power of believe and frendship
OVerlord: We don't do that here
Ainz: *G R A S P H E A R T*
False its just that Ainz has the most power of friendship on top of his opness
power of love is bullshit
power of sword and violence; that's where the money is.
-a certain asshole
:)
@@thusharaappu5566 his power of love is over 9000 (fuel by all npcs of nazaric)
Other anime: By the power of believe and friendship
Overlord: By the power of POWER... and friendship
Overlord is the first anime that made me want to read the source material
Hentai
zenox bagaan LOL
I am the same, overlord was the first time I have ever read a LN. I had to know more about it, after watching the first season of overlord.
same. first Ln I read
I was the opposite having found and read the light novel before starting the anime... I really enjoyed it, but I personally much preferred the anime adaptation... The novel felt at times like too much meat and not enough bones so having the anime condense some of the meat made it a much more enjoyable watch, but that could just as easily be because I already knew the story.
An interesting thing about this series is that everyone has a story. Even if a character has no impact on the main story, he still has lived an entire life. I'm thinking about the Undying King Davernoc (the lich among the 8 fingers). His story was not developed in the anime, but in the book it was. Sebas was arming the punch that was going to end Davernoc, then we have several pages about Davernoc and his story, how he came to be one of the 8 fingers. Then, Sebas punch lands and Davernoc dies.
These kinds of things are important and make the story compelling because every time a character is killed, we do get the feeling that it was an actual person who was killed and not just some random extra.
if you hang a shotgun on the wall in the first episode then you gotta use it in the third
what Overlord did was world-building; in moderation its a powerful tool but if you overuse it then it loses its meaning
in most part overlord manages to give meaning to most of its character that is why we love it
That was the best part of the 8 fingers fight. Each character got a backstory, a character description, personality traits, and of course their skills and why they were ranked so high. Pages worth of reading all told just to inform us of who sebas will be fighting against.Then in a single paragraph sebas kills them all. :p
Reason why i love Overlord? *Because it isn't about the hero. The anime is taking place in the eyes of the story's main villan.*
And we're also seeing this salaryman slowly loose his humanity and become said villan.
I totally agree with you ! It is THAT reason for why i love Overlord too !
FINALLY , an adventure where the hero is the bad guy yeah !!!
Great and EPIC !!!
By like, Volume 11 he basically transformed from a salaryman to a sagacious "overlord", and this is what I love about the show so damn much. He lost his past self(in a very good way) and became more accustomed to that world, which is rare and brilliant in isekai.
I think, i'm not an otaku XD
The residents of the great tomb of Nazarick have committed genocide and demigenocide, in a couple of years!!!... Really, how many have they massacred so far?
lucho04639 A post before the "big splat" episode ... a single event that dwarfs all previous massacres combined ...
Never realised how close this is to Youjo Senki.
One of the things I really loved was how Ainz would use his gamer knowledge and mindset to figure out situations, collect information, set up failsafes, set up fights that would give him the advantage as a magic caster type class.
I rewatched it like 4 times by now
Why is overlord good?
Cause it has a skeleton as a main character
Obviously.
I wanna get off mr. bones wild ride!
Did you know there's a skeleton inside you right now?
Does it mean that Ainz-sama is inside me?!
doot
Spooks
As someone's who's read up to volume 13 of overlord I'm so happy they've stayed faithful to the story so far
But the episodes lately seems lacking with the details presented by the LN. Hope.they have better budget for.season 4.
I want to see nigredo though in the anime it needs the creepy scissor wielding ring girl look alike
With out Mark; I Am Nothing
there will be no season 4
@@benderrodriguez1616
You will burn for your treachery! O^O
What we need is for them to make it 24 episodes long. 13 episodes are just too little to get all the details from the ln crammed in! I really would like to see some of the scenes from the ln animated too, but it was sadly cut!
The thing the drew me to Overlord was the fact that main cast wasn't human. Everyone was some kind of monster etc. And usually in shows like this, Humans are portrayed as the good guys but we see on more than one occasion how messed up humans can be.
We also see how insanely crazy the main cast is, and how sometimes they can actually be a force of good without really meaning to. Also Albedo.
Not counting Tsuare who is a recent addition, Nazarick contains exactly one human NPC: Aureole Omega the seventh Pleiades sister
GinKadia Umm... I don't know what fantasy fiction you've experienced before this, but hate to break it to you, Overlord really doesn't break any new ground with its concept. It just reverses our POV.
AOG are still the Big Bad, there are monsters roaming the land, kingdoms are fighting each other, corrupt people are in power, while the heroes are slowly trying to save their kingdoms.
+Shibasis Ghosh of course it doesn't, OP never said it. again the concept of good and evil is very blur
+birdman Well, yeah it might be for other shows, but for Overlord it's pretty cut and dry.
Climb and Gazef are good. The princess is an anti-hero/morally grey. And the Fingers and AOG are evil.
And as for what the OP said, i felt he was implying that Overlord was different/unique because its protagonists though monsters, were heroic in nature, While the humans were the worst of the worst. That's why i answered how i did.
ainz doesnt really feel like a supervillain, cuz there are plenty of more evil people. But simply, a bit more malicious than an anti hero. Which I love!
maybe duo to him being in the place of a Final boss, he is at the top of the top of the world, his every action change large scales of the world and he's pretty much a ruler of a dark fortress
though there's others who are worst, it's duo to how the things they do would be considered the worst of imoralities in a society and is centered around fewer characters per wicked person
The term for him is an antivillain, for now
The MC is a skeleton
Enough said
Skeletons as MC's are always 10/10
Calcium based lifeforms are the best
Arc from Skeleton Knight anyone?
G'vukk Yorselfz MC has an army of freak shows such as a vampire, and automaton, a shapeshifting bowling, a cockroach prince, a flying fetus.
10/10 IGN
It's a skeletron with f e e l i n g s. Enough said.
Well the mc is the main antagonist that's why i love this anime, and i need season 4.
I was an Anime only... Then I read the first volume out of curiosity...
You're so right about the light novels. They do what an anime cannot. You really get into the characters heads on a totally different level. It's impossible to do in an anime because much of it is internal, and descriptive.
And I love it all the more.
Arduous Gamer yup momon is a loveble character because of his inner monologue and the subsequent actions he did based on it
G V - Well, found the semi literate guy.
It's also pretty difficult to make a skeleton show emotions. Especially complex ones. Although the anime does a decent job with internal dialogue a lot.
bustoo it's not difficult to make a skeleton show emotions, but if you're going to do so, you'll have to concede something, either they're going to keep looking like a skeleton, or they're going to look like a rubber doll and emote.
the light novel has it easier, because it just has to say "they got the impression his skull was smiling" and then leave it to your imagination.
I use to watch anime like you, then I took a novel for a read.
Overlord is definitely my favorite anime ever. Makes me happy just to see the Nazarick crew murder everything.
Overlord my no. 1 anime
Nah
Pretty badass
They about to murder their own allies soon though
@@gool5586 what allies ;)
Demiurge: So this is your incredible plan, right Lord Ains?
Ainz: Yes, it looks like this is my plan.
I WAS ABLE TO CUT HER FINGERNAIL!!!!!!!!!
His Power is over 9000!!! xD
You know i love this show.
I never thought about it why but after this video i have to say you're right, the characters are great and i want to see the other Kingdoms.
It reminds me a little bit of Suikoden 1.
This is the first show I'm enjoying after Fullmetal Alchemist.
And i hope it'll run for many more seasons!
I believe the next season comes out this winter
I heard season 4 might come out in 2021 though that's just rumours
@@hunterjenkins3209 I'm almost certain there has been no announcement of that.
@@yotengoman5413 please... don't give me hope...
Season 4 just announced guys
The main charecter is not Kirito
Justin X wait.......Justin..X?
Where’s Z?
Y?
Ill report you for stealing mr
You stole my heart
Lazyneko 90
*HE MUST BE A PHANTOM THEIF*
Which is already a step in the right direction.
7:03 Holy shit. This was spot on! That was the exact thing I blurted out during those scenes. Especially the 8 fingers. I found myself laughing maniacally
Omg same it's such a feel good anime
Too true, i was like- YOU ABOUT TO GET FUCKED BOIIIII
There is something about Overlord. It has so much comedic moments and the MC is so badass at moments It brings some kind of evil smile on my face. It deserves more recognition and I hope new 4th season will bring him that.
True dat... Also i dunno if you read the LN but the OP for the 4th season is kinda sus don't you think? I dunno what's up, but I hope they don't skip vol 12 and 13...
There will be a movie so im hyped af
So basically, we should have DnD players write fantasy animes from now on.
well, it depends. 'Chaos Dragon' is an anime based off a D&D campaign between very good writers and it was a bit meh. The players included Rhyogho narita (The guy who wrote Durarara and baccano), Urobochi ( the guy who wrote Fate/Zero, madoka and psychopass), and Kinoko Nasu (the guy who wrote Kara no Kyoukai and most of the fate franchise) and as you can expect, their characters were really cool.
But as for the story... i'll just say that for me personally, I tried to finish the anime multiple times; but every time I tried, I got disinterested and just sorta forgot about it...
Maybe just some, because I know a few people who would roll 1d100 and if the result was a one, kill off the main character.
@archerprototype well, saying in a fact, maybe players are better to write stories xD, hxh is a player to write aswell and the kimera arc is so good, that i personaly considered a 11/10 masterpiece.
Overlord will murder SAO any time of day. The light novel is so good and Dark with awesome side stories.
Is this good to read the novel since the begining after seeing the anime ?
Being dark and edgy doesn't mean it's good.
Yes for example kirito
@@matthewteo3111 apparently that's what makes everything good now. Because apparently everybody is tired of Heroes and we need more villains even though there's plenty of stuff like that around.
Plus the fact they will get mad if you call it edgy.
What's so great about Overlord?
Unlike 90% other Isekai Fantasy anime, Momonga is a well written protagonist?
and dont have a harem of loli girls xD or furries
Shalltear is kind of loli, and as many characters that fall in love with him I'm sure one will have fur eventually.
He does have a harem, he just can't do shit with it
he can bone them?
he has a harem... he has lolis among them... namely shalltear and evileye (technically). potentially aura too but i havent seen any such tendencies yet, i think i'll prefer to keep it this way as well. man, am i glad ainz is an actual person. i've drawn faces on cardboard boxes and i could swear they had more of a personality than kirito
Demiurge genuinely my favorite character because of how supportive he is to the most unconventional plan Ainz brings out.
to witness how loyal Demiurge is, is just beyond words.
i didn't *totally* watch the anime because of a succubus maid.
We watched for Albedo, stayed for everything else
@@moshpitfuneral came for copper and found gold
@@gorkemaykut5230 true!
When I first watched Overlord, I felt the sadness Momonga felt after not being able to see his friends anymore since they all moved on. The idea of not being able to be in contact with them really bothered me because I felt that way when I lost contact with some friends when playing games. I really don't think Momonga is a loser, gaming is just a pass time for him from his adult life. What kept me to keep on watching the anime was the idea if Momonga would meet another player from Yggdrasil and how is he going to escape back to reality.
In general everyone just love the main protagonist and the story.
It's stated in the LN that Ainz went to work, got home, played Yggdrasil, slept, repeat.
@@deathburn4329 That's true. It shows much gaming in Yggdrasil meant for him. The time he spent gaming is usually time others would spend hanging out with friends after work. But due to his personality we can understand he prefers socializing online than face-to-face.
I was just worried what would happen with momongas real body would it just sit there and rot?
I doubt he would want to escape back to his reality even if he has the means to. His world was implied to be a dystopian hellhole. Why would he want to go back to that when here he got near limitless power and all the luxury befitting a powerful king at his disposal?
Quick correction, the man who was playing as Momonga wasn't your typical socially awkward guy who spends all his time in an MMO. A rule for joining Ainz Ooal Gown (originally the name of the clan before Momonga took on the name of Ainz for himself) was that everyone had to be fully functioning members of society with a life outside the game. It had very few if any students and many members weren't available at times due to varying job schedules.
Also I kind of thought it was clear from the get go that the Lizard men were fighting Nazaric.
forza1sra he did spend all his free time there. He had nothing else to live for. Just work-play YGG-sleep- work.
He did say the protagonist used all of his *free time* playing and refers to him as a salaryman during the video, so no mistake there. Having no friends in real life and having a job are not mutually exclusive.
The rule was that everyone had to be a productive member of society, i think. So, Momonga just needed to have a job. Which he did.
„Functioning members of society“
That part is a lie.
You just needed a job.
No shit I thought it was clear to I mean there the over powered bad guys the shows called OVERLORD!
i love overlord because of the world building, characters will come back in some way shape or form and of course all of nazarick. great video!!
Yeah. Everything has their proper conclusion and never rushes things just for development amd the plot
Overlord: I'm fully aware I'm losing my humanity and have complete control over my actions.
Also Overlord: Oh well let my minions kill more innocent people.
Actually, one of the weaker parts of the anime is the fact that he doesn't really acknowledge or is even troubled by the fact that he's losing/lost his humanity. He's always just kinda gone with it. I think it would have been interesting to see him wrestle a bit with the fact that he's lost all empathy for anyone who isn't in his household and realigning what "justice" meant to him.
@@Zarastro54 I agree, the fact he kept the its just a game mentality throughout the series was off-putting. I wanted to see him struggle with his moral choices and then eventually cave. Would have made for more character development.
@@Viper4ever05 he disregarded the it’s a game theory the second he went outside. The only reason he keeps going is hope that he might find his friends and to keep nazarick and his friends children (npcs) safe and happy
@@Viper4ever05 I think he is in full justification mode really. What he does will make things better in the long run, therefore it doesnt matter how awful what he is doing is. Remember the main reason he even let sebas keep his girlfriend is whose sister she was. He felt guilty over the death of the group he joined up with as momon early on so he felt he owed a debt. So at least on some level he recognizes them as real people, its just his focus is on whats best for HIS people. And you have to admit, so far his people have been doing very well for themselves under his leadership. The lizardmen are a united and far more self sufficient and technologically advanced group than they were before he showed up, carne village only survived due to him and ever since he took them under his protection they have grown stronger and larger and better all the time. Its early days in the kingdom so i cant recall if he has turned things around there as much as he has in the ln but yeah. LOTS of work going on there.
@@Zarastro54 he thinks about it relatively frequently in the first few novels, but it also makes perfect sense for him not to be troubled by it because his emotions and empathy for humans have been greatly suppressed, so he lacks the ability to care about it even if he wanted to (and he does get frustrated with the emotional dampening thing until he gets used to it). It’s just a fact for him now and that human emotional perspective is mostly gone
The light novel this series is based on is a D&D players dream. It's packed full of so many little tidbits that any avid D&D fan will recognize. It's great. Also you get to see so much more detail of every character and their inner monologue. The scene were Sebas kills the Eight Fingers is hilarious. It goes into excruciating detail about each members backstories and how skilled they are before ending every description with "However..." And then Sebas just murders them instantly.
There are also so many details that got pulled straight out of D&D. Spell descriptions like the 6th level divine spell [Heal] or the 1st level floating disc, the notion that potions are more expensive than scrolls because everyone can use them (not needing to be a spallcaster or skilled in use magic device), the whole design of Cocytus (who is a straight-up Gelugon or Ice Devil). Or the dancing weapon quality.
And yeah, I loved the "However" section. Sebas is literally a "what if XY happened to be 'born' in another world" for one of our RPG characters, matching said characters' personality and original profession 100%. (If you consider the fact that Sebas is ~5 years old and the other one is 500y+)
I love Overlord for 3 reasons!
1) The characters:
Yeah, it's already been mentioned, but the characters are fun to observe. The characters from Nazerick, who would normally been goons or *MAYBE* a mook lieutenant and die off in five minutes are established characters and have fantastic interactions. Each Nazerick character (with some exceptions, and those are explicitly mentioned in-universe) was carefully created and it's a joy to see them in action.
2) The world:
The New World is an interesting medieval fantasy setup. There's several independent nations and kingdoms that all jockey for control and power; each has their own ideologies and values, and a lot of them have independent motives for their actions. This gives a very organic feel to the political power struggles and allows the plot to proceed even without overt actions from the protagonist. As an aside, this also ALLOWS for Ainz to actually perform subtle acts of subterfuge and manipulation effectively. 2D cutouts are very boring to see manipulated, after all.
3) Deconstruction:
The story deconstructs a common RPG mechanic (and fiction trope) by playing it out realistically. The OP main character. Ainz and Nazerick are far stronger than anything shown in the New World. The denizens are the New World are basically scared out of their minds when they realize the sheer magnitude of power that Nazerick holds. It's also an amusing play of a situation; in RPGs, most end-game players will have stockpiled scores of legendary weapons, items and magics and be overwhelmingly strong/smart/talented compared to the average NPC, but they can't actually use any of that to effect the world outside of completing the plot. When Ainz and Nazerick show up, they can, in fact, change the world around them in a disturbingly easy degree due to the aforementioned. Though the Deconstruction also plays it out realistically; the humans start adapting, to a certain extent. Nphrea is able to concoct a purple potion (implied to be far superior to the blue healing potions, though still inferior to Nazerick's red potions) due to researching and analyzing a red potion that Ainz handed out to someone else. Enri manages to get more use out of the goblin horn, Brain improves his swordsmanship and becomes capable of cutting Shalltear's fingernail, etc.
I enjoyed Overlord anime, and I thought "eh, let's give the light novel a try" I fell in love with Overlord because of the light novel. Extremely recommended. You guys don't know what you are missing if you haven't read the light novel... it surprised me the quality of it is written, it doesn't feel like your typical Japanese light novel. I don't normally like JLNs because the way they are written makes me go "ugh why?" but this one has such high quality, I forget for a moment that I'm reading a story that has a tv animated series broadcasted in the same page as freaking, idiotic to love ru!! READ THE LIGHT NOVEL! You won't regret it!
YES!! this man knows what he is talking about! read the light novel ppl!!
Ainz-sama is Justice and Weakness is a sin. -"Neia Baraja"
That's because you didn't read the original version
I started reading it yesterday and it is so amazing. It was also my first light novel and spent hours just reading and enjoying the interesting scenes and characters.
machinegun ive read the overlord light novels. They were really good. If you want more that are good too, re zero and konosuba novels are awesome as well.
My favorite part is how amazing everyone thinks his decisions are regardless of what they are XD It's like they're thinking to themselves, well Ains thinks it's a good idea so it must be the best idea of all time!
And if they do question it ainz can point at demiurge and demiurge will lay out some hidden reasoning as to why it makes perfect sense because demiurge just assumes ains is like 20 steps ahead of him while hes only a few ahead of everyone else because he read way too much into what ains said
7:03 "OH YOU DONT KNOW WHO YOU JUST MESSED WITH! F*CK EM UP!" perfectly expresses my thoughts during the Sebas vs Eight Fingers fight.
You forgot the part about Overlord being an all-you-can-eat fetish buffet.
Doesn't even have cat girls tho
Two words: Lizard porn.
Thanks for that Jesus
@@DeathIsLethal yet
Lupusregina would like to speak with you
It just works
Justin Y. Hey
You're here too!
Wow I need to get out more.
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Yo mate.
TheGrimReaper And yet here you are, commenting on a video about this "weeb shit"
Speaking exclusively for myself, the parts of Overlord that I like is the interactions between the Nazarick floor bosses because it’s this fun juxtaposition of them legitimately being horrible villains who’d commit unspeakable atrocities without batting an eye while simultaneously having a heartwarming devotion and care for one another. The fact that they’re the ones who keep unknowingly peer pressuring their boss into committing atrocities is darkly funny
Also, one of the side characters that I find particularly enjoyable is Enri Emmot. Like Momonga, she has underlings convinced of her overwhelming strength while realistically the ogres and goblin army under her command are much more powerful in a straight fight. She has realistic anxieties and insecurities surrounding this position but I think she grows into her own as a leader when given the opportunity
Ainz's true power is bullshiting his subordinates.
I've always been a fan of shows exploring how an average person would act when thrust into a major position of power. Overlord scratches that itch for me. It was also why I love The Twelve Kingdoms so much.
The Twelve Kingdoms is one of my top favorite anime of all time, but I almost never see it mentioned in conversation.
The twist
Overlord turns out to be one of the writers D&D session and he decided to make it into an anime to share.
Actually a lot of things from overlord come from D&D campaigns he was never able to do
@@kainthedragoon8081
Ah.
The big, beat up old binder of cool stuff you never get to run.
That's a mood you either know or you don't.
I honestly feel like Ainz actually does have good insight and tactician skills I mean all of the 1st season most things went according to his plans he just never thought as far as his subordinates did so people only see him go with the flow never taking into account he always starts the first steps and his guardians always add more.
He was guild master of a reasonable sized pvp guild who was challenged like an unofficial dungeon regularly he might not know a lot of things someone in his position should but battles are something he does know, all hes done now is up their scale, im assuming it was a large reason he was chosen as guild master
I found out about Overlord by stumbling on the OP, which seemed like an epic villain story about world conquest.
I was not disappointed.
TheBrickMasterB lol I found about it the same way
well....it is,with a twist
the way I found it was a domino effect. I got Crunchyroll purely because I wanted to watch Persona 5 the Animation. When that was finished, eventually Stage Builder came to Smash Bros Ultimate. I saw the Aqua stage and eventually found out where it's from. I watched KonoSuba Season 1 and enjoyed. Eventually, I found Isekai Quartet and was interested. So I balanced out a schedule to simultaneously watch and finish KonoSuba (restarted Season 1 and started Season 2), Overlord, Re:Zero, and Youjo Senki. After that, I watched Isekai Quartet and was familiar with all those memorable characters. Then Season 2 of IQ was announced and I started watching The Rising of the Shield Hero.
TL;DR, Persona 5 got me into anime.
It's like that for me as well, at first I thought this Overlord would start to feel bad for conquering the world as character development, but what I found was even better.
I got it from watchmojo ngl
What's so great about Overlord
Definitely not the CG.
it's not tht bad honestly it's passable
@@followerofthechurchofsumi3868
Feel like I would have been a lot more forgiving of the cg if the anime adapted things well.
Welp,it didn't and I just end up sighing in dissapointment over the fact that neither of the three,story, characters and animation were done good.
And don't get me wrong,I don't mean to say that I had expectations from the adaptation from the get-go.I didn't.I read the source after finishing the anime.
I just feel that while the source is a good read for pretty much anyone who wants a dark,but mature isekai,the adaptation just narrows down it's reach to doodle who appreciate evil characters and I feel that is such a shame.
The fact that people actually believe that Ainz&Co are the villains of the story is such a shame.
Ofc,the anime adaptation is still decent for a seasonal anime but it is such a shame when the source is such a nice read.
Welp,atleast the music is REALLY GOOD.
@@LeclipsChannelAK the music is pretty kickass
Goblin army vs bowling pins
I really like the Novel’s covers :P
I'm learning a lot from the light novel. Second Volume Findings.
Touch Me Not was the strongest warrior is Nazarick.
In order to be accepted into the guild currently one of the hidden requirements is that all guild members must agree.
Nishiki was the the guilds powerhouse.
Hamusuke is actually female.
The knights that Ainz took down to save carne village are more than likely still alive. There are currently three at the point in the story I'm on.
The bunny ears that naberal has is part of a set of three. Ears, tail, and feet. Collect all three and your outfit changes.
The markings on Hamusukes body indicate the number of spells she can use.
-YES
something I love about Overlord is, no matter how overpowered the characters get, the anime still looks like a game. The items, spells, restrictions, classes, kingdoms everything is just so... perfect.
I'm always cringing when someone is comparing Overlord to SAO.
Like because its repeated in comparison or one is better then an other because most isekai have a lot in common with sao mostly because its one of the first sao in memory.
@@carson9974 overlord came first
@@doge1733 even though I prefer overlord to sao any day (SAO Abridged is another story) sao was the one that made the genre main stream
full body cringe to the max
@@gorkemaykut5230 Yeah, tbh I like sao (2 and 3, I hated season 1) but I can understand the distaste for it.
I like the anime but the light novels are unspeakably better, they are my favorite light novel, and Asian novel, of all time. One of the scenes from book six or seven (ahead of the anime) was so badass that I got shivers and had to just get up and walk around my house for twenty minutes to bleed off all the nervous energy.
There are many op characters in fiction, but even if a character is technically op a lot of the time they just don't feel op. For example, have you heard of Caeser the mighty? He is omnipotent, and can do anything. One day he punched god in the face so hard god cried. See? Even though I just wrote an incredibly op character he doesn't feel op, so it doesn't make you excited, whereas in Overlord Momonga makes fighting off a few lizardmen look unbelievably impressive. You can also see this in other media, like characters like Gandalf or Darth Vader, people who are objectively weak by most fantasy standards, feel like they could curbstomp any op character like Kirito.
A bit late, but I have watched Overlord only now (thanks Netflix and Summer without college exams).
The "big cast but still likeable" is a very huge thing, something IMO few anime pull off correctly.
Either they have a big cast but of useless/bad written characters or they can't properly produce enough decent secondary characters to make the world "big enough".
I loved how Overlord, unlike Goblin Slayers and so, has the RPG feeling. This is a well crafted setting with good NPCs and lots of things to do, unlike several others wannabe meta fantasy anime.
Hell, the whole second season is almost played by those secondary characters!
oh yeah, the meta animes. Like, it's definitely generic isekai, but with a twist. For one or two meta anime, it was a fun trip. The other that came after, feels bland tbh. Suddenly all meta isekai animes are just isekai animes because they aren't meta anymore.
Demiurge:"The plan is currently going smoothly"
Albedo:"Wouldn't it be better if we change this part?"
Other guardians:"Please explain the plan"
Ainz's inner monologue:"YES PLEASE EXPLAIN THE PLAN!!!!"
Overlord is doing what SAO didn't. People got into it because of action, forgetting the world building and character development, which are the main focuses of S2, and not appreciating each character moment.
General Penny Sounds cliche but you really took the words right out of my mouth
World building and character development are actually the weakest part of the show. The world is an amalgamation of Japanese fantasy cliches and stuff directly ripped off from D&D handbooks, while characters (especially denizens of Nazarick) are mostly two dimensional cardboard cutouts.
So nope. Overlord is all about power fantasy trips.
General Penny doesnt work when there is no reason to care about other characters
LN does better tbh, there's more character development from characters since they do a lot of perspective switches and monologues which are fine. Though I think world building for it could do better but hey I like DnD concepts so that sits well with me.
do phat thanh
To be honest most of characters seem as flat in LN as in anime. Also it's not that the author or Overlord only borrows concepts from D&D. He blatantly carbon copies a lot of stuff such as e.g. spells.
Ainz: *does anything*
Audience and Demiurge: *Sasuga ainz sama*
Subarashi~
Y-yes, Demiurge. I put on pants because it was cold, and my old shin bones are horribly exposed.
Sasuga, Ainz sama. By the way, why didn't you turn the heater on? It would warm everything up while not changing your lordly profile.
Th-that riddle I leave to you, Demiurge. For what reason indeed? I should hope that as my advisor, you can come up with a satisfactory answer. Though I warn you, I had many reasons to do so, take pride in the ones you do discover, do not fixate on the ones you can't.
Subarashii...
Personally, I believe the Lizardman Heroes arc to be the most significant to the story thus far. This is because every arc before it Ains (while not perfect) has primarily been in a "good-guy" role. True he did do some evil things, but he was always siding with the good guys. However in Lizardman Heroes he, for the first time, truly was on the side of the villain. This marked the change from anti-hero to villain in the story. This is just my opinion though.
Kyle Rivera i prefer volume 9 in the light novels were he went on a massacre and killed 240 000 people
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to that scene. Vol. 4 isn't actually my favorite. Personally my favorites would be volumes 12 & 13. I just believe that vol. 4 holds the most significance to the story and the overall mood.
Vol 4 hold the most significant only from the meta point though.
If you take it from the plot point Vol 9 is the most significant since Ainz goes from 'no name' wizard to World Level Threat.
That's fair. It all comes down to whose perspective you are looking at though. Vol. 9 is when he is recognized as a threat by the world and vol. 4 is when he is truly recognized as a threat by us. Both are important.
Kyle Rivera yah. I love me some lizard smexy time
Overlord is probably the only story where the main character is both the hero and biggest villain. The different perspectives is what really makes it interesting. The humans are what we’re used to with most stories but with the mc it’s more like a game.
Season 1 gave many people the impression that Overlord was just an action anime, when in reality it's so much more than that. But world-building really makes up over 70% of what Overlord is. For most people,if we just saw the main characters curb-stomping everything around them, that's going to get boring after a while. But there are some people who are just fine with that because action scenes are the only thing that entertain them. But the thing is, shows like that usually don't rate highly. They are a dime a dozen and they usually get more flack and they do praise.
What makes Momonga interesting is largely his internal dialogue. The audience sees that he's both uncomfortable with his new role as being revered as a deity, but he's also making a genuine effort to become who his subordinates see him as. He's not as confident as he appears, but it's clear that he's a lot smarter than he gives himself credit for. It's easier to relate to that than someone who's actively attempting to be the uber Badass, 24/7.
Also, Momonga is *proactive.* He doesn't just sit around in Nazarick and wait for things to happen. He _makes_ them happen through his own actions. Ever since the first season you get a genuine sense that he and his territory are affecting the countries around them, which means the world reacts to _them._ Not something you see often in anime where the MC usually just waits for event XYZ to happen and then responds to it from there.
I completely agree. I didn't know why I appreciate Overlord so much, and you've just put the words on it. Thank you.
helps that his role as an "antagonist" makes him the one to act and the "Protagonists" have to react. Also it is fun to see how these get flipped around as mormon he is reacting to threats all of a sudden
@@browal14 pfft "mormon"
Why I like Overlord so much? The protagonist isn't a complete wet noodle with "godlike powers" as his only character trait like in so many other anime of this genre. It's fun to watch him try to overcome obstacles that he simply can't force his way through. I've also grown to be a fan of D&D thanks to some streams by Team Four Star (fun fact, the voice actor for Ains in the dub is in the Dragonball Z Abridged series as well) and Takahata101, so that's also been a huge boost in the anime's favor.
HelloChief117 Well he kinda is a wet noodle. Many times Ainz just wants run away lol.
Wait are you saying Taka's the VA for Ainz in the dub?
No, that'd be General Ivan.
A good D&D campaign is rooted in consistent and well documented world building. It's easy to take for granted modern times and plop a character in a metropolis.
On the other hand, building a world from the ground up takes time and solid effort. The fact that the story is about more than just Ainz is what gives the series longevity and fresh perspectives.
I would love a Demiurge arch one of these days, if not just to confirm with 100% absolute certainty what his sheep are. Though, from speculation, I think it may be pretty clear.
Each character showing how they think... How they react to this new world and how they interact with it... All combine into the series Overlord, my favorite one in the better half of the last decade.
For me I like overlord because the main character instead of "I want to go back to the real world" while in this show its like "I'm stronger here than in the real world THIS IS MY WORLD NOW!"
Nah. He is just trying really hard to not be gang raped by all nazarick forces if they saw him as "unworthy" of their devotion
In some point of the novel the guardians said that they dont care about what Momonga is...''an idiot'' or a ''fucking leader'' he just need to be on their side, Demiurgus said in his foughts that he is afraid Momonga one day could leave that world for no reason, he stated that he have nightmares about it, and thats why he is so devoted and really didnt care about if he is a loser or not.
Interesting. I'll pick up those books when I can.
There's a good bit in one of the light novels where a bunch of "workers" (unofficial / disgraced adventurers who take on unsanctioned and sometimes illegal tasks) are commissioned to explore Nazarick. It goes poorly, but when one of the last survivors is trying to run away, she bumps into a wall that just looks like a perfect night sky. The Nazarick guardian who chased them down has a little chat with them about how they see the Supreme Beings.
Well that's intentional. The author purposely made his world shitty enough not to want to go back to and far enough into the future to make the MMO possible. So Ainz not having any living relatives, living in a dystopian world that makes Blade Runner seem lively, and literally nothing else in his life worth living for actually justify why Ainz doesn't even try to find a way back.
Well, the whole conquering the wolrd bit isn't really something Ainz actually wants though, it was just somethign his friends brought up. Ainz's main motivation behind all the curb stomping, taking over the world, etc is just... to maybe see his friends again. The same reason he loved the MMO is the same reason he does a lot of what he's doing. The anime really cut it out, but he also goes along with the conquering the world in hopes that his name will spread around the world and maybe if his friends came here to he won't be alone.
He's actually very sentimental about his friends and refuses to let go of that hope. The first season didn't show it, but he tries calling EVERY single friend he had, even though only 4 came to see him on the last day. He even calls a friend that quit before Ainz Ooal Gown the guild formed.
So it's a bit depressing, the reason Ainz doesn't want to go back to his own world (that loneliness and no life worth living except his online friends) makes him still cling to his friends he knows are pretty much gone in his life.
It's a sadder take on the "What do you get the man who has everything?", but in this case even if he conquers the world, is worshiped as a god, bring about an eternal utopia, etc etc, he still won't have the one thing he wanted: his friends. It's ironic that by playing the role of an unstoppable God Skeleton he's prevented himself from moving on in his life and making new friends or having those more casual relationships he misses from the MMO days.
It's the more melancholic, tragic lens of Overlord, Ainz can rule over everything and get anything he wants, but he'll still be alone in the sense no one knows he's just a lonely man that wants a friend ( well his old friends). He's trapped himself in this role of perfect God, and even the family he still has around (the NPCs) don't treat him as warmly as he wished. It's this part of Overlord that I think the author wanted to have the subtitle "The Melancholy of Ainz" very early on in the novels.
Well, he'll still be surrounded by waifus, so who cares if he has no friends!
I highly recommend reading the light novels! There’s a lot of little details you wouldn’t about, including the fact that language is automatically translated in the New World by some unknown magic present in the whole world.
A much bigger fact you learn is the setting/state of the real world that Momonga/Ainz left behind, and why he played YGGDRASIL so much. I don’t want to spoil it, but I’ll say that if I were in his shoes I’d definitely never look for a way back.
I think Overlord the best anime when it comes to world building in the recent years. You intuitively know there's more to the world and wanna know what's out there. They don't give you blue balls with bad cliffhangers but instead keep you interested with the next arch or season with their world building and hinting things and spicing things up in meaningful ways.
So the question of overpowered "characters" in a now-real MMORPG as being a decent plot point seems to be tied to the quality of world building.
In SAO, we have a character that is quickly so powerful, so strong he can solo areas normally reserved for 20-40 groups. In real MMOs this would be completely impossible, either due to scaling or mechanics. Such battles are designed to either one-shot solos or bar them entry in the first place. Thus Kirito becomes utterly ridiculous as a character.
Overlord and Log Horizon sidestep this nicely. In Log Horizon, they focus on the group dynamic. No one is overpowered nor capable of soloing major threats. They have to work together to overcome problems. Overlord does something different, by making this new world a lot weaker than him. He is a max-level character with a gang of endgame bosses working for him, ones designed to be soloed if done carefully. And he is living in a world which is basically the starting area of the game. Thus the new story is "why should he care?"
"we have a character that is quickly so powerful, so strong he can solo
areas normally reserved for 20-40 groups. In real MMOs this would be
completely impossible, either due to scaling or mechanics."
Someone's never played a blood DK.
@Faldegast -- I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're getting at relative to what I said. My comment was with regards to the fact that there certainly are classes and builds in real mmo's that can solo raid content.
That explanation is very stupid of you to say. You don't like an extremely gifted person that you claim is OP but loves a guy who is in every sense of the word Over Powered? No sir they haven't side stepped anything. They presented you with an OP character and his OP crew that's it. There's no real danger to his life or any of his plans. The only real interesting quality about Overlord that separates this anime from the rest is perspective that's it. As soon as you ass hats stop trying to beat around the bush and accept that your loving the view from the antagonist side the sooner we can all have real conversation about why we love it. I love it because I've always felt there's 2 sides to a story and I love villains. The hero who eventually will come around will be incredible and I can't wait to see how Ainz inadvertently will help give rise to him/her.
Faldegast “ Only Marxists have an argument against...” That is some concrete thinking. Can I ask you to engage in abstract thinking or am I a Marxist if I disagree with you? Those classical heroes (Siegfried, Hercules, and Achilles) ended up being defeated. Even the Greek, Norse, and Hindu gods died. What made Overlord season one so dull was the lack of an achilles-heel/heroic flaw in our protagonist. We knew he was unbeatable before every fight so the outcomes didn’t add to what we know.
Superman vs. The Elite is watchable on some pirate sites. It is a great example of setting up a challenge for the poster-boy of OP characters. The risk of failure is what makes a challenge dramatic.
@@ScaryMason well, i dont agree, i prefer an unbeatable character, the lack of an achilles heel, is what makes me like characters like that. because they are perfection. i love perfection, and any risk of failure is something that needs to be eliminated. for me at least.
I don't read. I prefer watching. But when season 2 ended, I've been curious about the LN (since the manga isn't as far as the anime).
And wow is it detailed and so well written. Especially having it from all kinds of different perspectives, makes it interesting how Ainz and other characters are being viewed from the people of the New World. Already looking forward to S3 when LN 7 & 9 are being shown (the Opening mentioned them that far).
The most interesting thing is: How easily the characters die in the same LN. First there're a bunch of chapters introducing and involving them - later they're dead.
Basically Game of Thrones style with Ainz having his luck skilled to the Max.
Still painfully waiting for volume 14. Loved volume 13 to death and I can't wait to see what happens next
Yeah, this is definitely one of the cases where the Light Novels are significantly better. I found the Anime first, and while I still like it, it doesn’t reach the heights of the LN.