Overlord

The final hour of the popular virtual reality game Yggdrasil has come. However, Momonga, a powerful wizard and master of the dark guild Ainz Ooal Gown, decides to spend his last few moments in the game as the servers begin to shut down. To his surprise, despite the clock having struck midnight, Momonga is still fully conscious as his character and, moreover, the non-player characters appear to have developed personalities of their own!

Confronted with this abnormal situation, Momonga commands his loyal servants to help him investigate and take control of this new world, with the hopes of figuring out what has caused this development and if there may be others in the same predicament.

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Momonga Main

Hino, Satoshi Japanese

Albedo Supporting

Hara, Yumi Japanese

Bloodfallen, Shalltear Supporting

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Gamma, Narberal Supporting

Numakura, Manami Japanese

Demiurge Supporting

Katou, Masayuki Japanese

Sebas Tian Supporting

Chiba, Shigeru Japanese

Pandora's Actor Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Zeta, Entoma Vasilissa Supporting

Shindou, Kei Japanese

Beta, Lupusregina Supporting

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

CZ2128 Delta Supporting

Seto, Asami Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Tanaka, Shou Producer

Kikushima, Kazufumi Producer

Yoshida, Yuuki Producer

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Nov 13, 2024

Zomoko11222

Recommended

Overlord is the Game of Thrones of anime. There are only few shows at its level or beyond it. Every action makes sense and affects the plot. The level of foreshadowing is unmatched. A plot point introduced in the first Season becomes relevant in the fourth Season. Most importantly, there is conflict and consequences for everyone. Each action Ainz takes has a consequence on him and the World. For example, the fight against the Undead has an impact on Ainz, causes the appearance of a hidden character and the departure of another character. Also, Ainz has real conflict. His conflict is not fighting someone stronger ... than him which is a boring conflict for a protagonist. He has the best conflict, inner conflict. Ainz has to find ways to conquer this World while maintaining stability between the different kingdoms under him. This is Real conflict which does not depend on training or getting stronger through a powerup like a lame shonen protagonist. This is also a conflict which will never get resolved because the different races under him have different characteristics and preoccupations. Also, Ainz has another conflict. He is constantly at War with himself if he should be cruel or merciful.Sometimes, he does not know what methods to use.The carrot and the stick. Ainz, having two internal conflicts make him one of the best protagonist of all Times not only in anime but in cinematography and the best isekai protagonist of all times.
What is great about Overlord is like I said actions have consequences. So, It is unpredictable. You know Nazarick is going to win but you dont know how they are going to win and what events will unfolfd during their conquest, you dont know what individuals they will encounter. There is plot twist on top of another plot twist.
Every character in Overlord is unique and tied to a theme and each has a character arc.
This Season, Ainz,Enri, Clementine, nphirea, Brain, Albedo and Shalltear grew as characters and the best thing about Overlord is it is not the end of their character arcs. They will keep growing in future Seasons
All these reasons make Overlord a masterpiece

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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May 24, 2024

Beatles1

Mixed Feelings

Overlord is definitely an interesting anime. At times, it feels as though there's signs of what could be a great anime, however these signs quickly disappear and the anime goes back to the same boring, repetitive, stereotypical anime. The worst part of Overlord is hands down the characters. Ainz is by all means a good main character, he's fairly interesting and fun to watch. Outside of Ainz, I could'nt care to learn a single characters name. The side cast are all bland and forgettable. All of the girl side characters are just in love with Ainz, not a single one of them show any interesting ... characteristics. The male characters are even worse, they have barely any personality except for the fact that they love and want to protect Ainz. This is the main reason why I gave this anime a 5 and find it hard to recommend this to other users. Characters are the most important part of a show, and its where Overlord fails unfortunately.

Other than the characters, Overlord is fairly good in some other areas. The animation is nice, although the character for some of the characters are downright bad, and dont get me started on the CGI. Throughout the show, the pacing is good and the story is easy to get invested in despite it being pretty bare bones. The fights are fun, but the constant shouting of names for their moves gets really annoying, really quickly. Overlord also does the stereotypical anime thing where they'll fight for 10 seconds, and then stop to talk, repeat this 5 or more times until the fight finally ends. Overlord really loves doing this, and at times it felt like the characters would fight for 2 seconds before stopping and having a little chat about how they're finally going to play their 'trump card' or they say something dumb like 'is that all you've got?'

Ultimately, Overlord is a good anime if you want to turn off your mind and be entertained for a few hours. The story is easy to get into, the characters are basic and the action is just barely okay. If you're expecting some amazing isekai show that changes the genre I would not recommend this show. Overlord was just barely okay in my opinion, however it didn't do enough to make me want to watch a second season.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 12, 2024

slightexag

Not Recommended

I don't understand how the premise of this story would sound interesting to anyone: OP lvl999 guy gets SAO'd into a new land and then decides to role-play as a rookie adventurer, during which time he beats up weaklings for marginal benefit when there are thousands of better decisions he could make to reach his goals. This whole anime is like watching an NBA player play semi-seriously against kindergartners. There are no interesting characters, the plot is slow and pointless, the storytelling is all over the place, the art design of characters is ugly and ridiculous, it's chock full of terrible CGI and bad animation, ... an endless stream of stupid attack names that seem like they were chosen by letting a 3rd grader pick out "cool" words from a hat. All of his followers are flat cult follower boot-lickers who treat his middling IQ plans as genius. The action consists solely of face-slapping character we don't know with no emotional or plot build-up to make it enjoyable. This is not how to write an OP protagonist story. The only good part of this is that him becoming skeleton guy robs him of an appetite for ecchi, even if there are pointless sexual asides from his follower harem anyway.

Imagine all the worst qualities of isekai and OP protagonist stories and this one has them all.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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