There often are no real cliffhangers, but you still want to watch the next episode because the story is always rolling on. Likely as a result of that the anime is far less episodic then most.

Overlord was first published as a web novel on the Japanese website Shōsetsuka ni Narō (where e.g. One of this is when one of the guild’s strongest NPC gets mind-controlled and he has to fight her himself and kill her (to be costly revived). What follows is a lot of fighting and quite some politics from someone who does not feel like he is a good leader and tries to hide that fact (and others) from his own underlings.Īnd of course he is right! Quite a lot does not go as planned, even if it seems so, and Momon’s/Ainz’s conclusions often leave quite some room for future disasters. And then there are the “Battle Maids Pleiades”, not exactly Maids and not exactly made for fighting purposes, they still get a lot of the action.Īren’t they cool? Maid-chan would fit right in! Speaking of supporting characters, the Great Tomb of Nazarek is home to a score of lesser personnel and some seriously strong area or level guardians. The ones on two feet.įinally an anime where a lot of the main’s supporting characters describe humans as the filthy bugs they are! Maid-chan feels refreshed! Unfortunately that NPC, Narberal Gamma, or Nabe as adventurer, is not very fond of the insects. But of course he cannot go alone, so he takes one of the guild’s few human-looking NPCs with him.

He calls himself Momon and goes out under the disguise of someone who does not want his face to be seen (in the rare cases he has to, he uses an illusion spell).Īs a player he easily outranks everyone he meets. The second role is that of an adventurer. One of an undead Lord, who takes over the world to spread the name of the (once very famous) guild, which name he assumes. With this goal in mind, Momonga decides to assume two roles. The guardians of the guild are made by different players, each one with his or her own quirks and behavior, but all loyal to their boss, whom they think of as a “higher being”.Īlso in other anime the main character seldom goes out to subdue the world just because it sounds interesting and may help to find other players that may exist somewhere. Second are the amount and design of NPCs that play a secondary role. There are a few things that are not usual though.įirst is the character of the main person, a skeletal Lord. Well, the background story is not that different from a lot of “lost in game” anime. Three, two, one, zero… and the servers are still up! And he, Momonga, is stranded in a world that he knows well, but that is still quite different, for suddenly every single NPC seems to be alive and “real”… Then he sits down to see the timer go to zero. Momonga takes his farewell from the Great Tomb of Nazarick, as the guild area is called, and also of the NPCs there (and making an embarrassing decision on a whim). So when the day comes that the servers are to be shut down, only Momonga is there, with only one other guild member out of 41 visiting for a short time.

That is probably also true of “Momonga”, the game character of a player that is the leader of the guild “Ainz Ooal Gown”.īut as time goes by, that game suffers the same as everything else: People leave it, for whatever reasons. They often try to soothe their existential angst by pretending to be someone powerful in those games. Do you like playing computer games? Many humans do.

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