Overlord Is WAY Deeper Than You Think
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2023
- Overloading Overpowered Overlord Ainz Ooal Gown here is an Isekai anime legend. he gets a lot of hate in general for just being a generic OP Isekai protagonist and today I set the record straight.
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Correction: He is not IN the game, he became his character from the game in a world unknown to him. IF this was Yggdrasil he would not need to look for information about his surroundings, he knew a LOT about it, enough to be a top 10 guild at least.
thank you
I was just about to say this.
This is wrong. He is in Yggdrasil, but it is just far in the future. And for a second point, only around 30% of the world of Yggdrasil was discovered before the game shut down
I haven't reed the LN, but I friend of mine said to me that, it is, and it isn't Yggdrasil, that's why he's constantly making the "that's just like in Yggdrasil" or "Yggdrasil have those" notes.
As far as I understood, it's like in the "how not to summon a demon king" anime, where it's the same world, but developed from a realistic point of view, were people isn't leveling up farming XP like crazy bcus neither people and mobs respawn when you reach the bonfire.
@@nukifehl2603 source? I never heard Maruyama said that but I heard alot of theory like that
People don't realise this
- Overlord isn't the hero's journey to be the strongest
- it is the story of someone who lived long enough and became a villain
It’s a villain journey
Which is precisely why I don't realise it until now. Thank you for clearing things up in my thick skull! 💀
The final battle is funny and the epilogue storylines in book 19 is amazing. Major spoilers Alert:
Ainz does win in the end. Pandora‘s actor does a giant Lore dump in book 18 and 19. Technically he is the narrator in book 19 which is both a prequel and sequel to the main story.
@@joshportal2808volume 17, 18, and 19 out? Where to read if so?
They are not, maybe he is talking about a manga.@@reubiz12
The point of the series is that it's an ironic hell for Momonga. He's dealing with loneliness and is constantly reminded that all of his friends are gone. The removal of his emotions is the only thing not immediately driving him insane. In addition, he cannot make new friends, because he is just so otherworldly.
He is actually capable of making new friends but the npc are holding him back. In an alternate time line he makes new friends
@seanmurphy3357 don't forget the bloody emperor. He has a one sided friendship with him in the main timeline. Ainz was even upset that during his fight with the wartroll his friend didn't support him.
I think the best part that's really only picked up if you've read the LN's is Ainz's relationship with Renner. She's terrified of him because she thinks he's playing some kind of super master class 4d chess and his whole pose agrees with Renner and that's why she's accepted. Meanwhile, he thinks she's bat-s**t crazy.
His playing the villain for Climb put Renner on Albedo’s shit-list. She thought he did that to force her to go as a desperate servant strategist focused on getting in his good graces so Albedo doesn’t end her.
Yeah She’s terrified because in all of Nazarick he’s the only one who she can’t read. He doesn’t just think she’s bat shit crazy he’s scared of her figuring him out completely and exposing him lol
I mean Renner is pretty insane 😂 but it might be Ainz induced insanity
At least one of them is right. 😂
@@SonicGurl82 I wonder if the theory that Ainz is being influenced by his class is true? If that's the case it might be that Ainz is indeed making the right play.
Note: the Goats that Ains summons are actually the children of Shub-Nigguroth from the Cthulhu mythos. They are correct in scale and power and their design is also correct to depictions in that mythos. Hope this helps showing just how over god tier Aines is.
However they are not real cthulu beings. They were programed in game to be like that and they are only level 90 or 95. So they existing as a magical summon doesn't mean that God of fertility exists in New world and probably not on yggdrasil (she could appear as a boss but it's never mentioned nor hinted so no reason to believe that)
I really like that Ainz is actually shown to be intelligent, and makes shrewd calculations. Instead of everyone just yelling how smart he is all the time for no reason
And then the characters will mistakenly delude themselves to thinking he IS amazingly smart. Hell, the funniest part in the story to me is how much albedo and demiurge shout SASUGA AINZ SAMA. And he’s sitting there like «demiurge, explain the plan to the other subordinates here.» knowing damn well he never knew what the plan was in the first place
I hope this is sarcasm. Because it sure is phrased as if you were serious.
He is more paranoid than intelligent and a high luck stat that seems to be actually effecting the events around him.
@@Arc_Nix He's been shown to be rather quick-witted and intelligent when it comes to battles and battle strategy, but he has a major lack in running everyday things that a ruler should know; which makes some sense, since the RPG he got stuck into doesn't have any sort of mini-games or systems that deal with such management (unless I'm misremembering or the actual LN says otherwise).
All of his subordinates praising his shrewdness in those other categories is a mix of a joke on people yelling about how smart or whatever the MC is for no reason and of him using that same adoration to get away with not having to explain what he doesn't know but his subordinates would. You're likely right that near the beginning it was most certainly a joke (Or par for the course), but there's enough of a twist on it to make it distinct and no longer purely a gag or bad writing.
@@JonathanScarlet What I don't like about Ainz is not even that he doesn't know something. It's that he is content with not even trying to learn.
Ainz is no longer in the same Yggdrasil he knew, the Tomb of Nazarick was itself isekai'd. It's easy to miss this if your anime only because its only mentioned in passing a handful of times compared to the Light Novel. When he first sends Sebas to investigate outside the tomb while he gathers the Guardians for the first time in the Arena. Sebas comms with Ainz an tells him there in the middle of a vast planes when Nazarick was supposed to be in a swampy Bog.
You don't even really need to read the light novel because it's pretty heavily implied in the anime if not outright stated early on. For example, I'm an anime only myself and I knew as much. Nazarick was in a bog and suddenly it isn't and all of the people and other locations in the world are different.
@@Plazmasoldier Yeah it really is, but I have watched quite a bit of reactors miss that plot point entirely😅
Idk how it's easy to miss seeing as it's made a big point in the first episode that they're in a different place
still tons of skipped content tho 😱
I don't get all these comments making the most obvious points that everyone whose watched the series knows, and labeling this HEAVILY/WIDELY KNOWN SIMPLE FACT, as "Not many people know" or "Most people missed tHiS". Like, what the fuck is going on here?
5:31 Let's thank the editor for not cutting the coughing fit out.🙏 Truly a legend.
How dare they say such a thing, he is one of the only interesting overpowered Isekai characters.
I whole heartedly agree.
What about slime Isekai?
@@amird9684 He is too PG, really a safe character, like I get that his show's thing is being incredibly wholesome and stuff but I feel like Rimiru is too strong to fail and not enough bad stuff happens in the show to ever feel worried for him.
So he kind of is on the opposite end of the Isekai spectrum to Overlord in that he is too much of a good person to be a generic Isekai protagonist, but at the same time makes his show seem too safe to expect real drama. So ehhhhhh yeah.
@@yammoto148 agree
Ainz is the the only deeper isekai MC aswell.
I have seen lots of people who hates the Lizardman ark, bcuz "why i must see and relate a story that isn't about the main characters?", AND i was like "seriously? When have you seen a story than takes the time of deepening the existence of the 'antagonist' characters? Making them fully fleshed existences with their own story, desires, likes and dislikes?" Overlord isn't about a overpowered characters in a fantasy word, it's about a fantasy world were at some point, appeared overpowered characters.
I feel like it makes it more interesting how our protagonist becomes the antagonist, and we don't know their objectives, only that it isn't merely to conquer because obviously they would have wiped the floor with the lizardmen easily.
Hate is a real strong word, but it was a real risk from the author to make the lizardmen the focus of the Arc. If the story had focused more on Cocytus, it could have been as well received as the Sebas Arc.
@@battlesheep2552 to be fair, the reason why they are doing all of that's it's pretty obvious... Its because Demiurge said it 🤣🤣🤣
I just love the philosophical dichotomy of Ainz essentially imposing modern morals and ideals of equality and economic cooperation on medieval level slave empires and religious Theocracies, via overwhelming shows of force and magical power.
This show just perfectly hits an itch I didn't even know I had before watching it.
I feel this is what will happen whenever somebody says “if I travelled back in time and became king, I would create a democracy”. The reason democracy and capitalism came to be was because people argued and discussed said ideas over 1000 years if not more. If somebody became a king and then tried to create democracy, it would fail almost immediately. I’m not sure where I heard it (maybe in a college class) but when you are spending every moment of every day of your life to survive, you don’t have the time to actually think of democracy or politics, only when there is technology advancement, agricultural development, where life gets a little bit easier and little bit better do we see these conversations happen and start.
I feel like everyone here forgot, what a murdering psychopath he and his underlings are. I mean, Demiurge literrally enslaved and killed hundreds of innocent civillians and Ainz was okay with it.
Ainz himself manipulated Adventurers to come to Nazarick, just so he could kill, torture and Experiment with them and use it as an excuse to start a war.
Ainz planned to whipe out an entire Species, just for training of his underling and using their corpses as new Recruits for his Army.
He Genocided an Entire Kingdom.
He by no means trys to bring modern morals and Ideals to the world.
He is more trapped in this form of the overlord, without emotions. He is persuing his selfish goals, trying to find his old comrades and wanting to be loved by his underlings.
While doing this he trys to remain some minimal morals, but without understanding them anymore. And as the story progresses, he cares less and less about the morals he once had as a human.
Through the entire story Ainz’s constantly has to pull a balancing act between his two identities, were he constantly has to do whatever he can to maintain how the NPC view him as well also avoiding taking advantage of them and keeping every NPC with different morality happy. It very much shows how much stress he goes through showing how human he is and how his true self slowly leaks out of the mask he wears.🐱
The part of it I enjoy the most is while he tries to be true to his original values and the memories of his friends, his natural lack of empathy as a Lich corrupts that mindset. He’s brutally efficient to the point of heartlessness at points, he cares little for the deaths of others (a fact that bothers even him) and his cold detachment from humanity conflicts with his love of the NPC’s his friends made. Like he’ll pretend to be friends with someone while plotting their hideous downfall all because of a misunderstanding that resulted in his general being hurt. Because his food was raided by an idiot noble he attacks that kingdoms capital and kills the royal family Vlad the Impaler style as a warning to everyone else. His good intentions are undermined by his Evil Nature
@@Broomer52yup.
By the way nux put it in the beginning of the video when explaining his character.
It feels like we follow the GAME CHARACTER that has been infected by the main character's mind.
While the brain/body is of the lich overlord, the soul is that of the the human dude.
@@Broomer52 Well that and his twisted view on morals. Since his best moral figure is Touch Me who is a walking hypocrite, a man who preaches justice and righteousness while being a really corrupt cop in real life. It goes to show that Ainz doesn't have the same humanity as normal people, and that the only thing he has to attach him to that is the Guild he built with his friends.
@@yammoto148 I don’t recall a point in the books where they mention he’s a dirty cop, when was this?
@@Broomer52 When talking about characters persona's in the real world, I believe it was either a databook or a specific chapter. But the long and short of it is, Touch Me is a dirty cop or an enforcer for the corporate dystopia the world which Ainz comes from.
Aniz is the event of Overlord. He and his army is effectively a natural disaster. After the first few arcs which established Aniz & co, the actual main character of each arc has always been the locals of the new world. How the people of the world try to survive the disaster is the main focus of the story.
^ this one gets it
so true my guy
I like how Ains wins at 4D chess when he still thinks he's playing checkers
That's one of the best ways to win at 4D chess. Play it like a different game until your opponent loses their mind with paranoia and makes a Real mistake.
Alot of people forget that Ainz is actually Smart but is so unsure of himself leading that he pretty much lucks his way around his subordinates even when he has no clue they are thinking.
Ive seen people complain about the side characters and how much time they get but the Author didnt want this to be a generic power manga with overpower hero with harem and instead was meant to be how a powerful entity can effect the world around him.
Ikr the side chracter focus reminds me a bit like one punch man.
Nux: I don't want to spoil anything.
Video editor: I got you.
Proceeds to put every spoiler imaginable into the background up to and including last season.
To be fair nux has great talent to be 100% right and completely wrong about the plot at the same time
Why come to a series analysis if you havnt watched it already? Spoilers should be a given.
If you read the novel, you'll learn that his build is actually a role playing build and not that good for PVP. So if he ran into a PVP build that had all of the pay to win stuff he does he'd be in trouble.
That and he knows the 8 Greed Kings were killed. Loved the cliffhanger and his reaction at the end of the last novel.
Which makes his win against Shalltear all the more impressive as her build is optimized for PVP. Touch Me, the most powerful of the Guild and one that Ainz never defeated, would have utterly wasted Shalltear in combat. Rubedo, the most powerful NPC, is to Touch Me what Shalltear was to Ainz. In other words, the odds of victory are the same, 3 to 7.
"He's a generic OP protagonist!"
"Okay name a non-generic OP protagonist."
"Uhh..."
"You just hate the entire genre don't you?"
Well said.
Subaru. The only OP thing about him is that he can revert to a "save point". Aside from that, he's a baseline dude in way, WAY over his head.
Urano Motosu - aka Myne of Ascendance of a Bookworm. Wakes up as a sickly six year old that can't even go out to play.
@@aroventalmav888her Mana consider to be one of the greatest in the kingdom even at that age. In the light novel she is The most OP in Mana character because of Gods blessings.
I forgot the name but it's supposed to be "Dark Guild" something where the MC is pretty normal guy but what makes him so OP is that he has bunch of Yandere adopted daughters who would kill anyone that try to even lay a finger on him let alone mess with him.
Momonga (Ainz) is OP yes, however with all the power he has, he still doesn't have the one thing he needs ever since he saw his dead mother and orphaned at a young age in a world forsaken by God and the elites.
Overlord is not a story about some bullshit overpowered self-insert, it's a story about someone who seems lile he has everything but has nothing in reality, burdened by his persona and suffering from the grief of the emptiness within his heart (literally and figuratively), living his life with no clear purpose but to process his place in the new world.
It's why he clings to his friends and even more so their children (NPCs) now that his friends are gone
I mean the "taking over the world" thing is because he only wanted to Protect what was dear to him and to find his comrades and he had to take the role of the bad guy because of that so that he could spread his name as far as possible in hope that another player is there with him
Well op in New world terms. In the game he was not focused in pvp and it's been stated how he was at most in the mid high players because his character was built surrounding role-playing. What made him stay above mid is the amount of knowledge he has on pvp.
He also could die if the platinum dragon lord fights him in person as he is the counter to him and shalltear (you can see how bad it went to shalltear in the non Canon official extra from maruyama tweet stories where shalltear got destroyed with such a pain that she couldn't even think)
For me, it's been more of a political drama anime. A huge focus is the various nations and nobles reacting to the emergence of Ainz/Nazarick. It's almost as if the world itself takes a "heros journey" and it's why I love it so much.
Yes, it's a game of thrones type of anime but instead of slight power differences between kingdoms and backstabbings that shift power, it's a nuclear bomb vs the the current power structures and they have to figure out how to deal with it.
One thing i love about Momonga, aka Ains, is that his character design was originally built for roleplay purposes only.
When Touch Me found him Touch Me is a min-max player who built his character to be as OP as possible, while Ains was built for roleplay purposes only.
During combat and testing Ains was able to keep Touch Me in bay because on how random and bizarre his kit and spell list was.
So out of everyone in the guild Momonga is the WEAKEST in the guild but the best roleplayer.
-Also side note: Momonga in this new world is only afraid of
1. Players getting trapped in the world because he wants to make friends and hope others that are struggling in the world will find piece with him.
2. His NPCs are his greatest treasure so if even 1 of them dies he will never forgive himself. He is fighting the world to protect them, not conqure it that Demiurge thought he wants.
actually momonga combat strength in his guild was average, out of the 41 supreme beings he was ranked in the middle, but if you include his guild weapon the staff of AOG he becomes the 3rd strongest in the guild, only ulbert and touch me would be stronger then him
Ainz never could keep touch me at bay, the only talk about it was that ainz knew he could never win so he always treated his spars with him as training.
Hes not the weakest in the guild but he is one of, if not the most versatile member of it.
Ainz is not one to make friends easily, hes mostly wary of other players because of the possibility of an ensuing guild war. He desperately wants a player to be a guinea pig so he can see if they can actually be resurrected
@@-Apoptos-Ainz was able to win once against him, though.
@@SenhorAlien he never won, when talking about his pvp record he said he only counted matches against him as training since he never won even once
Random fact: Touch Me is short for Touch Me If You Can, as he was one of the top, if not *the* top, PvPer in the game.
Ainz’s Floor Guardians/Generals and other residents of the Great Tomb of Nazarick are seen by him as the “children” of his dear friends and guild mates. This is Ainz’s main drive to “game” this world to reunite with his crew and protect his “family”. The conflict is given flavor by the fact that they are all MONSTERS and Ainz is doing all he can to act ethically despite everyone assuming the most evil motives.
Ainz is one of my favorite characters of all time. Over the course of his arc we see the layers pulled back as he becomes more and more like the monster he now appears to be, however, while this is a great concept, it has its limitations, what makes Ainz unique, is around the 10th novel, very slowly, the layers start peeling back even more, but in the entirely different direction, in an absolutely genius move from the author, we start to see the contradictions in Ainz’s inner thoughts, we slowly start to see that its all been a lie, Ainz is not slowly becoming the monster, Ainz was always the monster, long before he gained the power and the appearance. He just didnt have to power to act on it. All that changed about him when he came to this new world was he gained the power to act as the monster he always was. We can see these contradictions not because he is narrating to us and telling us lies, but because the inner thoughts we see from him are his lies to his own self. In the very first novel, when he watches the first attack on Carne through the mirror, he thinks about how watching people die doesnt bother him now he has his new body, and that its strange, however we learn later that the world he came from is a 1984 style distopia and he is used to seeing dying people. He is just lying to himself to justify his real mentality. In the 13th novel, Ainz finds a room containing abandoned test subjects from Demiurge’s research on healing magic, where he would cut limbs off live people and use healing magic to attach them to different people, insanely gross and inhumane research, and when Ainz finds it, his very first thought is to wonder what information was gained from this research, and then almost as if he had to remind himself to have morality, he asks himself why Demiurge would do this, despite the answer being obvious. As the story goes on we see Ainz making more and more excuses to himself in order to justify what hes doing. And more and more those excuses make less sense and are easier to see through. And this, this is the genius of Ainz Ooal Gown. The human becoming the monster, only to slowly realize, he was always the monster, but refusing to admit it to himself.
I'm glad someone finally has the same love for this story that do. Read the books, watched the anime, read the books again, and enjoy all it has to offer.
Same. I re-read the light novels all the time! Volume 9 and 12-13 are my favorites 😀
Overlord does a wonderful job as the antithesis of both the western theme of the heroes journey and the eastern theme of unseating false authority. Ainz Opal Gown is an antagonist MC. Instead of meeting failure and journeying to overcome a heros trial this journey falls on the underdog Climb. Instead of being an unjust and tyrannical god to be overthrown, Ainz struggles to make his followers accept good living and working conditions when they want an all demanding tyrant. This is just two of the many themes they choose to overturn and it is refreshing.
They still also cover heroic themes and sacrifice. We get the sacrifice of Gazef for his kingdom and friends to try and get a sliver of a chance of victory. In the light novel we see the death of Brain was even better because it included how he finally surpassed Gazef in his last moments. It subverts this where Climb still fails even with the Sword that could kill Ainz in a fair 1Vs1 fight, but brings him back accepting it for Renner.
My favourites is just how much you could look into from the main cast of the npc's his friend created. so many personalitiy seeping through each detail when you actually look at them. makes you wish there's a series about his days just playing the game before the isekai with his homies
There is a short story of how the guild of ainz got their guild base.
I really wish they would animate that.
i think part of why i like Ainz is... he doesn't think he's the most powerful person out there, he's constantly worried there might be someone out there stronger so he's being cautious it feels, i think, human.
that said i love seeing Ainz in Isekai Quartet because of how much of an oddball he is XD
I mean someone did kill the 8 Greed Kings.
@@sidecharacter7165I think they killed each other. And, maybe the platinum dragon lord wanted to do something similar to Nazarick
@@Rick-rv4uv Does Ainz know that? Also, PDL did kill one and got trapped in the process.
@@sidecharacter7165 probably not what I said is just a speculation amount fans, but the Emperor Jircniv Rune Farlord El-Nix was planning to do that to Ainz. That's the most possible logical outcome, and there is a reason they are called Greed Kings
To be fair, Ainz and Sheltear confirmed that Sheltear is genuinely stronger than Ainz. The reason Ainz won against Sheltear is because of 2 main things. Buffs and Genuine Strategy (Smarts).
Spoilers for season 4:
One of my favorite scenes from Overlord was when Prince Zanac started talking to Ainz about why he couldn't just leave them alone. Then the prince asks just why he is doing this and Anz says for happiness. And that felt so humanistic and showed just how much Ainz grew as both a ruler and his overall character. Just a masterfully done and beautiful scene. It gave me chills when he responded with just one word "Happiness"...
Full agree
I really love that scene, it somehow managed to give Zanac's death so much more tragedy even though his fate was a foregone conclusion.
I believe the thing that is the issue with Overlord's story is that despite how good the Anime adaption is, it misses so many details from the LN that would easily make Ainz not be a generic isekai protagonist and Overlord one of the best written Isekai in the genre. Especially since it goes into detail about what kind of world Ainz is from, why he cherishes the Guild NPC's like his own children. Why he goes on an absolute power trip, because there is a lot more to it than just *UNLIMITED POWERRRRRR* . There is an entire channel called Aninews that covers everything that was left out of the Overlord anime so that you guys can get better context.
But in general it is one of my favourite Isekai anime because our protagonist is not someone who is heroic and good, but someone with twisted morals who would justify their means with the results they achieve.
Ainz Ooal Gown is what inspired to me play necromancers in D&D.
Its ironic considering Overlord was heavily inspired by D&D.
I love overlord, it answers the age old question of why the frick is the demon lord suddenly attacking our world and why do they have a bunch of demon generals who look absolutely nothing like him
The answer is because they are the isekai protags and you are merely an npc
Love the premise
Also, because alot of the abilities are based of D&D specifically, like goblin slayer, it makes it extremely easy to understand how Ains is beating master swordsmans in physical combat with no items
Like, your unarmed strike goes up with proficiency bonus, and isn't class dependent in accuracy, same with new stuff like escape grapple DCs from 5e, I mean sure they also scale off strength, but a huge part of their scailing is literally just what level they are
Ains doesn't need to use weapons or magic when fighting weaklings, as he is immune to low level physical damage, and is legitimately strong enough to outclass anyone who isn't a minimum level
There are a few scaling things which make it similar to D&D, and a few scailing things which make it different
Spells with similar names and levels:
-Dimension door level 4
-fly level 3
-Lighting bolt level 3
-Cause fear level 1
But then misc things like exactly how the spells interact with the game world are different, damage scailing, unlike in D&D, damage is exponential, which makes sense considering Yggdrasil is a videogame, not a ttrpg, and most videogames do this to force artificial level pre-requisites on high level fights, basically this extends the playability of the game, while making being low level more impactful
Then, they made a level down on death mechanic, meaning it is difficult to stay at say, level 100, even though levelling is actually fairly quick in Yggdrasil, so you could speed run the game 1-100 in only a couple weeks
However, if you didn't have enough equipment and such, you may die repeatedly and go back down to a level more fitting for you, meaning the true factor which determines your overall level is a combination of gold and other resources
One massive resource was friends, ains only got to level 100 because Touchme helped him out, and without the support of his guild, he genuinely wouldn't be considered very strong
So, Ains is overpowered, but mainly from the artifacts and magic items which he had acquired as part of a group, and they will eventually run out of course, I mean if ains was dropped into the new world just being a level 100 with no Nazarik, he would still be formidable, but he wouldn't be a god-level threat, and he would probably end up just like any anime protaganist
What differentiates overlord specifically power-wise, is precisely his buddies
And we do sort of see this when he fights any enemy at all, he only brings a small fraction of nazarik with him, but that small fraction has such immense power, that you could conceivably imagine ains taking over the entire world so long as his generals survive, which now makes sense as to why heroes take out the demon generals before killing the demon lord, like, without the generals, as well as armies, there is no demon empire
Long comments... now I gotta make them shorter...
Yes its very familiar to D&D, what I like about it is the fact you don't just have class levels but racial levels too if you are playing a demihuman race.
For example Naberal is a Doppleganger but you wouldn't know because she only has level 1 Doppleganger so she only has 1 form to take. Where as Pandora's actor is a level 75 Doppleganger and can almost completely imitate who he copies.
This means you can double dip in terms of diversity, because you can customize your character to be anything you want based on what racial levels you get. This also means you can't just start as a powerful race as you have to start as a weaker race gain a couple of levels then get levels in the race you want. For example Albedo doesn't start as a Succubus, she is initially an imp and has 10 levels in it, then she gets 15 levels in Succubus and she has more racial levels in other areas that aren't revealed in her character card.
This is actually a system I wish they would implement in D&D in some form, even if its in a limited capacity. Like imagine starting as a Kobold then evolving into a Dragonborn then evolving into a full Dragon.
Pf2 does not do this specifically but the ancestry feats help with this
The author basically wrote Overlord because none of his friends had the time to play DnD with him. I'm assuming Ainz is a reskin of one of his characters.
I watched season 4 recently and it really took me back to the good old days when Overlord started and I enjoyed it so much. The internal conflict, world affairs and not knowing what will happen next. So good, even put it in my top 5 of this year before I remembered it was last year
4:50 Ainz even stated about his emotions in the early episodes:
Why don't I feel uneasy while seeing these villagers being massacred by the knights from this mirror? it feels like my emotions is being suppressed somehow... don't tell me, is it because I am now undeath?
overlord is one of the few stories that explores more about the effects of how changing body does to the human psyche
If anyone really wants to know who the true person behind Ainz, I suggest you the side story The Vampire Princess of the Lost Country. For short synopsis, Ainz was still teleported to the new world but he was outside of Nazarick when it happened. This is a what if story where you will be able to appreciate the man behind Ainz and how he appreciates everyone around him. Plus it's a bit goofy so it's a fun read as well.
Nux, are you alright man? You're making way more jokes about being lonely than usual. Best wishes reguardless. You fight the good fight against haters!
1: Ainz wasn't op in the game he was weak among his guild as his character momonga is a rp character.
2: This world isn't the same as the game. it just uses lots of the games items/magics/monsters.
3:Albedo best girl.
You clearly haven't read volume 12-13
1. 2. or 3. for reading volume 12-13
1 and 2 are true.
I wouldn't say he's afraid perse of others. He's afraid of others who would try to harm what's left of him/his home. He searches for others like him eagerly so he can feel less alone while trying to make the world hospitable for growth (while also trying to make coin.)
"I also have bones! He's like me 4r 4r!"
Definetly one of the most wholesome animes and manga and novel out there, it even has a happy sheep farm!
das crazy dude like demyurge is realy demonic
Overlord is such a cool show. it was my introduction to Isekai Animes.
Best choice I've ever made. haven't found an Isekai, yet, that could live up to this masterpiece.
Also, Pandora's Actor is the fucking best xD
Love to see overlord getting the respect it deserves
Ok u took my attention cause overlord is my favorite anime
Overlord is a great anime
True, but S4 kinda became boring at some bits
@@the_cringe_nerd A lot of the light novel's narrative wasn't adapted and other parts were censored, unfortunately.
@@44Quantum yeah the fact they left so much out is to blame for the decline in S4
@@lordofmojang9564 True, I hope season five will be better, apparently season four was rushed, therefore sloppy work. Disappointing.
@@the_cringe_nerdblame the anime, read the novel
What made Ainz Ooal Gown appealing to me, is the fact he TRIES to be a good father and a good leader to the NPCs, whom he sees as his nieces and nephews. Having survived and abusive relationship with my father, and newly promoted leaders who then went on power trips and became abusive to their subordinates in the Army, Ainz's concern and care are things I desperately wanted in the real world.
There are a few important destinctions from normal Isekai in Overlord:
1. Ains alone didn't get teleported, his entire guild did and the various NPC's made by his friends did as well.
2. While those NPC's did have some base personalities coded into them by his guild mates, everything not specified has been filled in with the personalities of his guild mates, making them almost reincarnations or children of his friends.
3. His character suffers from emotion suppression. This makes it very hard for him to become attached to things in the new world since attachment is almost like a debuff to his Lich character. The exeption being his NPC's which he has attachment to from BEFORE being Isekai'd.
This makes the story less about exploring exploring a new world and more about how does he protect his guild and the legacy of his friends from this hostile new world.
Ainz didn't stuck in a game world
New World isn't Yggdrasil
I wanna say something, Nux. This world isnt Yggdrasil, the game that Momonga has been playing. It may have some very basic ties to yggdrasil, but it isnt yggdrasil. Its an entirely new world that he has no knowledge about, yet he learns what he has to in order to survive and thrive with his servants/companions
Overlord, is like watching a different anime every season,
Season 1 - he was warrior
Season 2 - he was Adventurer
Season 3 - he was a conqueror
Season 4 - he was a state man
Pandora’s actor is exactly who I expected nux would think is the best
Love this story so much I got ainz tattooed on my arm. I find it funny how the workers ark made people go like “how could he!” Like come on he was never the hero but the villain. But even than he warned them before going that they will die. I also love all his misunderstandings throughout the story. Can’t wait for the holy kingdom ark to be shown, they taking to long with it since it was announced. Like whole ass ark was glossed over in the anime so it can be a movie but no movie has yet to be shown (unless I’m blind no it’s out already 😂).
I feel like people who "watched" Overlord and didn't realize he was a villain more so than a hero, came into the anime just inserting stereotypical isekai tropes to fill in the gaps where they just decided to not pay attention.
Probably one of the best reasons to watch a sub over dub is because you better absorb the material being given to you, due to the fact that a viewer more than likely can't speak the language and has to actually read what's being said.
As someone who's still rewatching and following overlords story continuously, this show is fantastic and has so much more depth and merit than it gets credit for
I really enjoyed the interactions between Ains and Prince Zanach. Zanach was surprisingly a very good ruler and it was cool to see Ains’ respect for him and subsequent anger when he was betrayed by his subjects.
I've been currently reading Overlord and despite loving the anime it doesn't do this series justices. Kugane Maruyama goes into so much detail to a point that he basically created 3 worlds, a human world which is basically a dystopian where only the rich can get a middle school/high school education and companies rule the world, YGGDRASIL a multi-layer RPG and the new world a world with it's own history and people.
I love how unlike other MC Ainz isn't a good guy but an actual villain who has lost his humanity and becoming one of the ruling party in the new world despite being a human with a primary/elementary education basically following the saying "fake it, until you make it". This is easily my 2nd favourite light novel series after Re:Zero
I really enjoyed the volumes 1-13 but after that man. Yikes. Dissapointment doesn't even depict my feelings. Maruyama did bone daddy so dirty.
@@juusovuolle8251 I'm only a couple of vols in as I've been reading other stuff. Like i previously said I'm loving this series. I hope i don't get the same feeling when i catch up.
My favorite part of the series that I felt makes it different is the several characters they introduced with backgrounds and development, make them out like they’ll have a lot more screen time in future episodes, and then Ainz proceeds to shit on that potential arc and the character dies. Arche from season 3 is the best example of this, honestly.
In the LN, when Sebas meets the six arms, they all get about a whole page of really cool exposition.
"However", this is Sebas.
(Kind of reminds me of that old meme "However, I am the high king of Skyrim")
My favorite thing is that Arche got axed HARD because the fans pleaded for her to survive, but didn't give a good reason for it other than "She's cute".
Honestly what In admire most about this is that they kept with the more inhuman aspects for the main characters. Often times they turn human eventually. But, not this and I truly admire that. As it opens up to a tonne of new dynamics simply by not being human without mentioning anything else.
5:30 - 5:35 Nux. Almost dies. "Editor, cut that terrible coughing fit out."
Editor, "No. I don't think I will."
Everytime I hear "editor cut that out" I can almost also hear him loosing 5 dollars and saying "worth it"
I feel like a very important part of Ains was missed here and no one in the comments mentions this.
In the the Yggdrasil game, Ains and all his fellow friends who played races that weren't human were picked on by the Humans in the game. Because in this game there was no penalty for Human players to attack other races. It created a vicious cycle where humans bullied other races in the game. Ains's guild was formed to protect these other races and was therefore filled with strong players that hated the human players and who actively attacked human players to keep the other races safe...
That's why all the Guild NPCs have such strong hate for humans and since Ains was the leader he was also a PvP expert in the game.
Fast Forward... Ains is now trapped in a world that is not Yggdrasil but has some similarities to the game... and already in this game he experiences hate towards him and his other non-humans which already creates some anger in him. this is further fueled by the fact that he is now also experiencing the side effects of being a lich. Which is being emotionless. Add this to the fact that he was actually a human in real life and he realizes that this game is not a game but a real world, he is conflicted regularly by his emotions being hateful to humans and not wanting to hate them.
this conflict is very present in the show and you can often see why he is ruthless.
this balance between his emotions is what makes him such an amazing character. And not only this, but also the way in which he tries to educate the denizens of the guild. He doesn't just want them to follow him blindly, he wants them to show compassion and not only hate toward humans, but partly because he also wants them to be there to correct him should his lich side completely take over and he can no longer feel emotion. He needs them to be better to make him better.
Its such an amazing show and such a deep character building behind it.
You sir, are a fucking GOAT for this comment. Holy shit its nice to see someone not only know what they are talking about, but also not predicating the comment with a stupid attempt at making themselves feel special for noticing basic things in the anime, then trying to say that "No one noticed this" or "this wasn't covered except in passing very shortly" bs that is just basic common knowledge of the show if you watched it at all. Long winded comment I put here, but jesus some these comments in this video are downright brainrot to read. So thank you for not being an idiot!
Overlord is dope 🔥
I think people forget this was amazing and original when it first came out in 2015 or whatever. Years later after every thing has taken inspiration from it and some jackass jumps in out of nowhere and says "this is like everything. It's generic". Yeah, it is now.
*the voice of a 5AM to 7AM sleep schedule* Overlord is an anime where a guy gets turned into a bone daddy, becomes slightly evil so his and his friend's OC's can be happy and gets stalked by a succubus that can't succubus...
so glad to see someone else gets how great overlord is
Ainz is Benevolent because he will grant the mercy of death while most IRL governments will just have their people suffer this Languishing Inexcusable Forced Existence
Oof 😓
the sheer amount of detail overlord puts into EVERYTHING is insane it's just that the anime can't make it justice
The thing that separates ainz from other overpowered main characters, is that overlord does not start at the begin of his journey. Almost every other OP character starts being OP and discovers how to use that in their favor.
Ainz gained his status by being an elite player in yggdrasil, and that was not just granted. He was/is clearly a mastermind tactitian, and his mind was so ideatic (at least with in-game related content) that he memorized and learned how to use in his favor more concepts, spells and data in general, even information not related with his build, that very few people could rivalize with him.
What moves the plot is his impostor complex: He gained his almost almighty power without cheating, and he does not underestimate others and keeps learning, but he also does not see himself worthy. The trust (or fear, or both) that everyone feels towards him was earned, and he needs to learn to accept that fact.
Still, he's sympathetic because, even if he does not sees himself as everyone else sees him, he values his subordinates (children) and his domain more than everything, and makes their happiness and wellbeing his ultimate goal, even if that means obliterate everything else in existence
🤓 As a Light Novel reader... I can say whatever he is saying is true...😔
Ainz is not in yggdrasil anymore. From that onwards you can't expect to tell that he is correct
Ainz gets more character ark in his first episode than most isekai protagonists get over multiple series.
Some people think overlord is an anime about how strong ainz is. It isn't it is about how will this world will be shapen by someone with ainz's power, thats why he is also the type of protagonist that will open a fight with a crotch punch because he can, unless his aim is to look cool or make people fear him, he will probably drown you with minions then he will fight you with another 100 minions. But people seem to want something different from this anime, some people have told me that they wamt ainz to struggle in a fight and that they want him to have a challenge, but thats not gonna happen, thats not what this anime is about, we know ainz is never gonna die or fail, he is gonna conquer the world, he is gonna become this world's overlord, ainz struggles aren't physical or with enemies they with himself, how can he become the overlord he already is? How is he supposed to act as an overlord? What do people expect of him? This anime is about the ascension of an overlord.
I fucking love overlord, the LN went even deeper into many things and it's just so goood
Overlord is a really well written anime. Unlike a lot of other animes. Haven't watched much anime this year, bad writing and too much fan service has ruined anime for me.
Everyone who hasnt read the novel says nonsense like that. Overlord ignited my love for isekai so i might be a little biased. He is from the gameworld Igdrasil hence the name but stuck in a new world similar to igdrassil. Also not a team who wrote the novel just one guy Kugane Maruyama. Not the story of a king but a god the god of life and death to be exact, he himself doesnt even relise it yet in the story but the world around him starts to get it. The second season is a good giveaway for that. He is not interested in getting home he wants to conquer the world to possibly reunite with his friends if the got isekaid too. B plus for humor you kinda got the story
best moments are Ainz just interacting with his NPC's
I wonder if a god would treat his people in Heaven like Ainz Ooal Gown
The NPC's are his true treasure not the stuff in the tomb
I liked hearing that point about how antagonists shape stories. I hadn't realised that before but you're absolutely right about that. And it makes me happy that, while I do have that in my own project, the antagonist is not the *only* one doing that there.
The ONLY things I disagree with in this video is that you didn’t include the English voice actor saying “Ainz Ool Goan” cuz his voice is EPIC and REALLY fits the character.
Also that it’s a completely different world from Yggdrasil that, after the servers shut down, him and the entirety of his guild’s base are transported to a new world.
Agreed. Ghris Guerrero's voice is awesome, and I'm very happy that he is narrating the overlord audio book right now
WHAT?!!! I’m gonna buy that as soon as it’s available!!
1. Bible Audio book read by James Earl Jones? ✅
2. Overlord Audio book read by Chris Guerrero?
Soon
@@Jaszi007 there are 10 volumes out now enjoy 👍
@@Rick-rv4uvWooHoo!! Hyped to start listening to those omw to work tomorrow.
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When Ainz straight up doodoo'd on "Power of Friendship" against the Workers in Season 3 was one of the most satisfying thing I've ever seen in Anime. Man's straight up said "get that twink ass shit outta here!"
The funniest thing is that he does it AGAIN in Season 4.
"If this was a fairy tale, passion would awake a dormant power, to grant you the ability to defeat me. But this is reality. Nothing so perfect would happen."
Fucking hilarious
He genuinely felt bad he had to crush that belief, but was also pissed that they tried to lie to him. The best part is if they had have been honest about WHY they went there to Momon (Ainz) when he asked while escorting them to the crypt, they probably would have survived and been made to flee rather than dying. He's not evil, he just has priorities, but his empathy sometimes overrides that and arches story probably would have.
I love Overlord. Very well thought out. It has levels of intrigue that boggle the mind. Definitely keeps you on your toes!
Thanks for the shout out nux, on behalf of the lonely people I appreciate you continued solidarity.
Thanks for making this video Nux. I really love this series, but people are always making fun of me for it. I read the light novels, so I have a lot more information they don't get in the anime adaptation. I always come with fun facts and lore for what happened during the airing of season 4 of the show, but still, my friends think it is meh/average and many people I talk to won't watch it because of "bad CGI". The story is so good though and they don't even give it a chance most of the times.
The story is strong enough to carry the show with a bad CGI
@@Rick-rv4uv That is what I tell them
That second arc you mentioned, where they go and interact with people, reminds me of a story from Greek myth where Zeus and Hermes disguise themselves as humans and go to earth to see if they can find one decent family who will grant them hospitality. They eventually do find an elderly couple who, despite poverty, offer to share all the have with guests for an evening. They reward those guests, after revealing their true nature, with care of a temple and with a wish granted that allows the two to never be separated, going out into their temple garden and becoming a tree when the time for their lives--which were massively extended, btw--to end comes along.
There’s so many small details that you can easily miss, each time I watch Overlord, I learn something new or figure something out
I wouldn't really call Ainz benevolent. As the saying goes, what separates a good guy from a bad guy is how they treat those that aren't of any immediate use to them. Ainz has shown again and again that he doesn't care about anyone but his subordinates at the guild and some of the things he did were absolutely heinous. Like what he did to the lizardfolk or the time he overthrew and tyrannized a country from the shadows, just so he could test his own limits and create some propaganda for the weapons he sells.
Ainz himself even admitted that he lost his humanity and doesn't feel any compassion for normal living beings anymore, so he's far from a good guy and any "benevolence" he shows is just to gain some kind of advantage for the guild.
Only light novel readers gets to like this comment.
For me Ainz is relatable, because he is so lonely. To outsiders he "has everything", but to use the viewer we know he is alone and unhappy. It makes him one of the most human characters in fiction, despite being an undead monster.
I loved that a lot of the show isn't from his perspective, it's from the perspective of others seeing this terrifying pantheon of gods appear in their world that they have no real hope of defeating. You get to see characters lives, relationships, hopes and dreams and how they're crushed, changed or made by this overwhelming force.
In Overlord you want to see the main characters win but you want to see as much or even more the characters in the world survive because they cannot win and they cannot hide from Nazarick, as a viewer knowing this you hope that Ainz and Nazarick can see value in these characters that we grow to enjoy and care about because we know the result if their value to nazarick is greater dead than alive.
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Ainz is the most overpowered character in the entire show, some of the spells he has could most likely instantly kill anyone instantly, the only way he could pass is if he was being careless, arrogant & reckless, his powers show that he cannot be beaten, even if another player is there he still is unkillable with his artefacts like his staff & ect make it even more impossible.
Read the light novels my dude.
no bro you wrong.😧😧😧when u don't know the story
I would appreciate both of you telling what is wrong about it instead of just stating it, please provide feedback and how I could improve my comment, for what I know he was never defeated in the new world, and I am just clarifying this, if either one of you brings up the platinum dragon in the anime that was pandora’s actor. Anyways please tell me what I am wrong about instead and help out, thank you🙏
a good summary for this vid would be Ainz Ooal Gown in Overlord is far from a generic character. His moral complexity, meticulous planning, and unique skeletal appearance make him a standout figure in the anime and light novel world. Additionally, his character development and exploration of vulnerabilities add depth
I agree with you on all of it except that he doesn't know about this world, his 'clan base' has been transported to another world that is similar to yggdrasil as he connects so many common elements in both worlds. The first thing he does after realizing that he is trapped in the game is he sends Sebas on a recon mission to check out the surroundings of their location. He then cautiously starts exploring the 'new world'.
in some ways the main character is treated more like a natural disaster than a character with regards to the plot. this is more like if someone made an anime in the lovecraft universe from the perspective of Cthulu.
17:16 fun fact, in the light novel they're really small, like actual goat sized and still trample everyone to death while moving much, much faster.
And the story becomes even more fleshed out and refined after where the anime currently is when you learn the story of the Great Gods and the Greed Kings and how they shaped the world (which isn't Yggdrasill, it's another world that essentially Yggdrasill was let's say place in)
Thank you for the shout out at the beginning. It’s nice to be recognized.
One thing people need to keep in mind when watching or reading Overlord, is that the creator is a D&D Game Master. You don't notice it completely on the anime but from what I've heard from the source material readers, the World Building is top tier, the magic and skill system is detailed and awe inspiring. If you are, like me, an anime only fan but the show bored you a bit bc it felt like it was skipping important information or w.e, watch the show again but this time watch alongside with AniNews' Overlord Cut Content, Overlord Systems and Character explainers. Or read the LN/manga
I noticed it completely in the anime. That's kinda why most people LIKE the ANIME...
Overlord is same ball field of Code Geass both world ideal anime, where the story is about making a change using figure to represent as justice and even having get your hands dirty just get job done. But the inner character doing this isn’t doing this for themselves but for those they loved.
Judging by your fervent dedication you probably already know this.
There's a fanfiction called Valkyrie Shadow like I dare say is written better than the original Source material for Overlord.
They go into macro detail for Kingdom building.
And it highlights perfectly what you're saying it's about how the world around our bone Daddy has to adapt and change.
I'm pretty sure you already know about though, but I had to say.
I love this type of setting.
I've played so many games and read enough stories about somebody starting with nothing and building up to a barely functioning something.
I want stories and games where you already are at the max level/top, and pretty much every battle in your way is a slaughter (I don't want a challenge, why would I want a challenge if my target was overwhelming power? if my enemy is still a challenge then clearly I've not reached the goal of overwhelming power yet)
Before I even begin to watching this.... Thank you for finally recognizing Overlord's greatness
The novels are much darker and deeper. I don't enjoy anime but this book series is actually decent and fun.
A small addition is his connection to his underlings. That connection is also written with a smart twist.
They are loyal to him and love him. But Ains does not know what this loyalty is based on and how long it holds, because it is only written in their character not based on anything he really did (at the beginning). So he has to be vary of them and deppend on them at the same time.
Yo these are the kind of videos that I miss. Thanks and be safe.
Overlord is my absolute favourite anime of all time. I've watched through it so many times, and there's so many things you don't pick up the first time through. so many things keep clicking. such a well thought out story, and well made from manga to anime, imo.