Overlord

Spoiler free section: The writing in this show is terrible and the author is clearly a hack. The characters are totally unrealistic and only behave in evil ways so they can have the maximum shock value. The characters in this show were clearly designed by a 12 year old edgelord and behave to be as edgy as possible with no regard for their setting or personalities. Skip this show. If you want to see a well written mmo anime watch Log Horizon or The King's Avatar.

Spoiler section (not just for season 1 but some things from the following seasons as well):
The main character is a ... normal person with a boring job and no known desires to kill or torture any real people or game characters. He is the last remaining member of what was once the greatest guild in a dead mmorpg that is being shut down. He finds himself transported into another world as his game character with his guild's base and npc characters brought to life and turned into actual living and free thinking beings. At this point I loved the show, amazing setting and world building and as these characters are at max power they are all basically gods in this world (although it takes them a little while to realize that) and it is incredibly fun to see what they will do with that power.

But then things quickly go downhill. In the first interaction he has with the new world he finds himself in he decides to save a village but not resurrect the people that died in the attack before he arrived even though it is easily within his power and if he wanted he could also erase the memories of the people that died and those that saw them die so no one would know he had this power. He could make a huge difference in the lives of these innocent people but instead chooses not to for no reason other than that he doesn't feel like it. That just isn't a good enough reason. So many cool things could have come from that, maybe those memories could come back at some point/be discovered by an enemy that captures someone from the village in the future, ect. A lot of cool things could have developed from this moment but instead nothing happens just to demonstrate how uncaring the main character is. This isn't a show ruiner but it was the first red flag.

Later he accompanies an adventuring group. A group of friends that band together and go on adventures just like the friends he used to have and lost and misses dearly. This new group is all killed after the adventure and he leaves them dead. Once again he can easily revive the dead and erase memories. He has the power to stop something in the past that traumatized him from occurring again but he chooses not to. (I'm told in the light novel he looked down on the party but in the anime he was friendly enough with them so the adaptations clearly differ and it is wrong to say that he should act the same way in every adaptation even if the events play out differently. The author also agrees because the actions he takes in the anime differ in places from the actions he takes in the light novels so this is clearly not a 1:1 translation of the light novel). Someone that has lost all their friends they used to adventure with and explore a world of mystery together with should see this happening and think "I have the power of a God now and this will never happen again" and bring those dead adventurers back to life. But he doesn't. They remind him of something he lost so his reactions should either be to protect them so he can feel like he protected his friends memories or he should feel like they are a pale imitation of his relationship with his friends and get angry at them for the perceived mockery of that bond. But instead he just shrugs it off. This is the moment the show was ruined for me. I've played a dying mmorpg and lost all my friends one by one. I am a borderline sociopath so I don't give a crap about most of what happens around me. But I would spit in the face of God if it would bring back even a small part of the fun times I used to have adventuring with my friends. The way this character behaves does not fit himself or his personality at all and that is why this show is terrible.

Yes he is a sociopath so he feels no emotions but allow me to phrase it like this: If you see a random object of no use to you lying around do you break that object? Just because you don't care about something doesn't mean you have a desire to destroy and get enjoyment from it. Some people just throw away paper plates when they are done with them and don't crush them up for the thrill of crushing something just because they can. Now imagine that paper plate was a plastic plate and had a picture on it that reminded you of something special to you. It would make a lot more sense for you to clean that plate and keep it when you were done instead of snapping it in half just because you're so cool and edgy. Not caring about something isn't the same as wanting to destroy everything. This author clearly thinks being a sociopath is cool and dark and that honestly isn't the case. Mental illnesses are not cool no matter what the media wants you to think. This is just another failing on the part of the author to display anything accurately. Not his characters, not mmorpg players, and not sociopaths. Everything is just how he wants it to be to satisfy his desire to show us evil characters acting like shitheads.

At the finale of season 1 the main character needs to fight against a npc guild member under mind control (The only challenge these characters have in this world is against each other because they are the only beings even close to the power level of the main character). And you get all excited because you finally get to see a serious fight using their mmorpg spells, items, and abilities. And how does the main character win the fight? He uses cash shop items that are stupidly overpowered and break the mechanics of the game. Do you know what real mmorpg players/gamers in general hate? God damn microtransactions that break their game. Selling game breaking items/xp to make money off the corpse of your game is sickening to anyone that actually loves the game and wants to have fun in it. No real mmo player would be like "oh boy gotta show off those cash shop items in my anime and have them be the main mechanics in how this fight is won". It's terrible.

Many other things continue to happen in later seasons as well. For example:

Even if you want to argue that those earlier adventurer group he watched die should have been left for dead because he didn't care about them the same way he cared about his actual friends/guild members one npc of his guild saved a human woman in need. The person that created this npc once saved the main character in the exact same way. Is the main character touched by these actions reminding him of his cherished friend he lost that once saved his life? Nope. He instead tortures the npc, dragging him in front of him and joking about having the girl killed before bringing the girl in and ordering the npc to kill her to prove his loyalty. That is not the actions the main character should have taken based on his background and personality. Once again the author clearly only cares about making him as edgy and cool as possible. It is dumb and written terribly.

Even if you want to argue that him threatening an npc is in character you can't because he previously revived the npc he had to fight at the end of season 1 and showed great concern for her. So not only do his actions not make sense based on his personality and backstory they also don't make sense based on the things he has previously done in the show. The author is clearly a terrible hack.

Later on a village of lizardmen are attacked, they all band together and the main character sees use in keeping them alive but he still kills a bunch of the village leaders who have the strongest abilities just to prove how edgy and cool he is even though this directly goes against the reason why he decided to recruit the lizardmen in the first place.

After that his base gets invaded by adventurers looking to loot the place and he personally kills a group of them that have bonds of friendship so strong all of them agree to band together and try to hold him off so a young female member of their party can escape. As you should expect none of this reminds him of his lost friends that he cherishes so deeply. He cares nothing for their teamwork and personally kills them all, except for the girl they let escape. He orders one of the npcs to kill her instead. (In the light novel she is kept alive and tortured).

All this show does is make you care for characters by showing off how much fun and adventure they have together and how strong their bonds of friendship are before torturing and killing them to show how cool and edgy the main character is. It's a terrible show and I can't suggest skipping it strongly enough.

A guy is isekai'ed into a world that superficially resembles a game he played. He's evil. That's about it.

I have no idea what people see in this, unless it really is the case that simply making the lead evil is considered genius by virtually everybody.

There is barely a plot, there is absolutely no character development, what happens is frequently driven by the lead or his minions simply overpowering anything in their path or by his minions figuring things out but assuming that the MC was five steps ahead of them the whole time - a lame plot device that would be funny if deployed sparingly ... but here it gets old really fast through frequent overuse.

The lead is as OP an MC as any, which requires finesse to be interesting, but here he's actually not very bright and so there really is nothing to be interested in, as I say most problems are simply brute-forced through or his minions figure it out for him.

Being evil (Oh, the genius of having an evil MC!) he does some despicable things, committing murder and ordering slavery and a teensy bit of genocide too. Well, clearly, given that he was just some sort of middle manager last week this must call for some serious soul-searching or PTSD or something, right? Nope. He's an evil lich now so all is a-ok, he can simply send his arch-demon #2 off to conduct breeding and torture experiments on thousands of captives and not miss a wink of sleep. Any possibility of serous commentary, character development or storytelling is completely ignored.

In fact any time the MC starts getting emotional, some unknown effect literally kicks in and turns his emotions off. So that a modern guy who is a product of a modern educational and ethical system can go straight back to ordering the deaths of thousands of people without having to ponder for a second if this is the best way of doing things. What fabulous writing.

Let's talk about the supporting cast: they all worship the lead, literally, are completely sycophantic and totally uninteresting. But they're evil, so they must be the best characters ever. No. They're boring as hell.

Let's talk about how and why he was isekai'ed. No let's not, because Overlord doesn't care about that stuff. We're here to be unremittingly evil for no good reason so you should just lap it up.

The character designs are about the only redeeming feature, the CGI is legendarily terrible, everything is grindingly dark and boring. The first season finishes off with the MC having to fight one of his absurdly strong minions himself - we're now in season 4 and we still don't know why this happens other than MC's speculation that a MacGuffin of some kind is responsible. The fight is settled by the MC using other MacGuffins in his possession - and which he owns because as a player he simply purchased them, because the game he was playing was explicitly as pay-to-win as they come (so the whole crappy mess is ironically originating from a crap PTW game).

If you took everything that people think is crap about bland generic isekai - girls who do nothing but fawn over the lead, lack of threat because MC is too overpowering, poor world-building, no elaboration of the 'game' systems, no exploration of why the isekai event happened, no examination of the consequences of actions - this has all of them. But without the fanservice.

Basically, it's rubbish.

"The supreme lord of garbage"

There are so many horrible things about this show, but let's analyze them all in detail.

The plot: a boy who is passionate about video games, without a social life and with a tiring job that does not pay him enough, gets trapped inside his favorite video game. A story that is repeated practically in all the "Isekai". I do not consider this a big problem, since he is practically a narrative “topos” typical of these series. But trying to create a product with a slightly more original story was obviously not the author's intention. And it doesn't change over the course ... of the series! This "Overlord" aims to be able to make a name for himself by trying to overcome "quests" disguised as a Knight of the Night. The last four episodes tell nothing: the rebellion of one of the characters seemed a filling choice, dull and devoid of pathos.
So given the simplicity with which it begins, and given the dull way in which it continues, this series does not reach enough for me as far as the story is concerned.
Plot Rating: 4

Technical Sector: another sore point concerns the Madhouse Studio. We remember great adaptations such as those of HxH, Death Note and Death Parade, which are true masterpieces. This series really feels like a distant relative of these adaptations. In general it is not bad at all, directorial choices and animations that let themselves be watched. But the CGI is really awful. It doesn't blend in at all with the rest of the animations, and you notice a mile away that it's practically a foreign body. I think it's clear that the budget used for its production was really low, and that there wasn't a lot of interest in this show. OSTs are not unforgettable and they don't shine. On the other hand, the Opening was positive; she is pretty and can be listened to.
Technical Section Rating: 5

Characters: Here we come to the sore point of the series. Although, despite an interesting Character Design, with the Ainz Ooal Gown skeleton that is very recognizable among the various Brook (One Piece) Jack Skeleton (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and company. Despite the various characters such as Albedo, Shalltear, Demiurge, Sebas Tian or Cocytus, all of which have a very recognizable design, rich in details and colors. The real big problem with this series is the female characters. If on the one hand we have serious characters, characterized by great composure, on the other hand we have characters who in almost all of the scenes in which they appear reach the "cringe". The coarse smiles, with an oral opening that goes from ear to ear and the uvula always in the foreground made me immediately distance myself from these characters. And what makes them even more horrifying are the moments when there are interactions between them. Shalltear and Albedo, always in conflict over Momon-San's heart (which he doesn't own for obvious reasons), is expected to turn out as a comedic part of the Show. Their face to face is characterized by silly insults. Clementine turns out to be the classic Villain because she has to be Villain and she has a characterization of Villain because yes. That is, an empty character, who has nothing to say. She is the Main Villain of this series! Then her interpretation of her, nothing to take away from her Japanese voice actress who is quite good, but it happened on a character who had to constantly have a coarse voice, which is neither in heaven nor on earth. Who talks round the clock with that voice? Nobody!! The only one who is saved from this group of geese is Narberal Gamma who entered my heart for the excellent characterization of her as a "normal" character among "abnormal" characters.
Character Design Rating: 7
Characters Rating: 1

In short, a series that saw all in all interesting clashes, well scripted by the Madhouse studio, but in his hands he had a script that was not at all particular and really annoying characters.
Final grade: 4

Overlord is probably the most chuunibyo series that I’ve ever seen and despite the reviews you may see on MyAnimeList, I believe that it’s worse than Sword Art Online. I’m not sure whether this series was supposed to be purely a gag/comedy series, but if that was the point, it had nothing but dry coughs emitting from my throat at how juvenile, light novel that whole thing was.

• The beginning of the series seemed to have promise, with a main character being trapped in a game with characters that his friends had programmed. But, the show never really emphasizes on the struggles of being ... trapped in a video game or gives any of the characters any identity crises involving the fact that their entire personalities are scripted by people, instead of them being unique individuals.

• But, I suppose a character wouldn’t realize that their personality was all wired, just as us humans inquire about genetics and God. Aside from me justifying that point, I wish all of the characters hadn’t felt so empty. The protagonist is pretty much straight out of a self-insert fan-fiction.

• Albedo, one of his servants, is obsessed with him and thirsts for him constantly, because that’s what her pre-established purpose in the world is. All of the servants, in fact, constantly praise the main character, when in reality, he’s probably a scrawny programmer or something.

• There are some interesting character designs and traits, such as: a loli vampire in a video game world getting a boob job, a miserly servant with with diamond sphere eyes, and a nazi that looks like it came out of Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Wait, what?

• This is what I hate about light novels. They don’t form a cohesive plot and instead write anything and everything that they think looks cool or comes to them in some delusional drug binge. Everything in Overlord seemed retconned to shit and back. There was no severity about anything and since they’re characters in a video game, they can just re-spawn.

• The best part of the series were the designs, except for the weird maid bunny girl, fuck that; the voice acting was top-tier, I was especially impressed with the voice actress that did Madoka Kaname doing the most demented voice that I think I’ve ever heard on a character, and, well, that’s it. I mean, Albedo’s hot.

• Overall, Overlord is not something that is worth accolades and an eight average on MyAnimeList. It’s pretty much pandering chuuni garbage that will make any well-adjusted adult cringe upon watching. I give Overlord, the first season, a 2/10.

The production value of this show is fine, It all looks and sounds very good. But the story is absolute garbage and I can't stop watching it.

The main character is a a player trapped inside a game where he is now a super powerful Lich. Women fight over not who will become his wife but rather who will become his first wife because he is so great that of course he will have a harem.

There's no challenge here for the cast. The main character has a small army under his control and most of them have the power to outclass a god of the world ... they're in. There is no threat that is introduced that even comes close to the main casts power level.

There is no character development. The main character's entourage unconditionally loves him. They all think he's the greatest ever and bend over backwards to justify any stupid thing he might do. From start to finish they're all exactly as they were. As for the main character he's got some magic spell on him that they don't want to elaborate on that stunts his emotions so they've added an in universe reason why he can't develop as a character.

There are no consequences. Right from the start the main character has the ability to resurrect anyone. So even if he were to lose everyone close to him he can just bring them back, and presumably the same can be done to him, but only his team has this power.

But here's the thing, It's such a train wreck that I can't look away, There's always something happening, It'll have terrible pacing and be incredibly contrived but this is what I imagine the Japanese version of Axe Cop would be except it's made by adults and not a 4 year old.

In Russia many people consider anime as masterpiece. No, really, when second season was finished, I couldn't find a single person who had problems with that series. Except me, of course. When people say to me "Oh you should totally check the second season, it is great" I think to mmyself "Why should I?".
I watched this season fair and square and all I can say about it is "wasted potential". People. this anime is named "Overlord"! A big boss of scary dungeon! Wouldn't it be great if this anime was about that skeleton dude organising his lair, luring a band of loveable, but somewhat dimwitted ... or otherwise flawed adventurers to play pranks on them with stupid enemies and maybe comical traps? What about some character development for his eeeeviiil minions? I mean. the great manga "The Devil King Is Bored" has all of these elements. Why doesn't it get anime?
And what do we have here? An isekai. No more. no less. Just another isekai with slightly different power scale and spoooky costumes of characters. And magnificent powerless enemies who can't do shit against OP MC? Wow. Just wow people.

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS AND BAD LANGUAGE!

NOTE: This review will be a full review of the Overlord series up until Season 3, which is the latest season to come out. It will not just be a review of the first season and I will likely not be updating it after season 4 comes out because I highly doubt I will watch it. Please enjoy the review!

Well, this is embarrassing.

After posting my review for Death Parade where I showered Madhouse with praise, I started watching Overlord not a day later. I heard good things about this anime and even though I generally don’t like Isekai, ... since it was a Madhouse show I thought, why not? The studio hasn't let me down so far. I thought that even if the show ends up being typical Isekai wish fulfillment, surely Madhouse would, at the very least, have solid artwork behind it. I was wrong.

I'm going to try and keep this review as spoiler-free as possible, though I will be spoiling some things (mostly from the first season) regarding certain characters and events. Even though this is technically a review of the first three seasons, this review will be written with the expectation that you have seen all the way through Season 1 at least, so if you get don't understand something in the review, that may very well be the reason why.

First things first, here's a brief synopsis for the show:

Overlord is an isekai fantasy/action anime adapted from the light novel series of the same name developed by Madhouse Studio. The protagonist of the story is an evil lich-king sorcerer who goes by the moniker Ains Ooal Gown (or Momonga) and he is on a mission to take over the world. The twist of this series, which isn't really a twist, is that the protagonist is actually a video game nerd who ended up getting trapped inside his favorite game as his playable character right as the servers were being shutdown and the reason he's taking over the world is to find a way to escape back into the real world.

To start off, I'm going to start by analyzing the good, then the bad, and share my final thoughts at the end.

THE GOOD:

Easily, the strongest part of Overlord is its world building. It has a really awesome world with tons of lore, monsters, races, spells, towns, and political intrigue and it slowly grows over time as the story progresses.

The show has some decent side characters. Some of the better side characters of the show include examples like Gazef, Climb, and Brain. Each of them has motivations that make sense and decent dialogue and banter pretty much all throughout the story. They fight for their people and their tribe, they are noble, they have different methods of fighting, and different hopes and dreams. They feel like genuine characters in a world where most other characters are plot devices/stereotypes that largely serve only to make the protagonist look good.

The politics of the empire, of the king, the nobles, and the soldiers is generally well written, decently developed, and is mostly interesting, especially in the third season. I'm genuinely surprised that many people found this aspect of the sequel seasons to be one of its biggest drawbacks. I do agree that it was the cause for the lack of action in the later seasons (especially Season 3) and it did admittedly bring the pacing to a crawl, but this aspect was necessary to develop the imperial legions in which Ains would find himself in conflict with. Could it have been better? Absolutely, but as it stands, it’s definitely not bad. The politics is solidly used to develop the world, the conflict, the lore, the minor characters, and the battles to come and I greatly appreciated Gazef, Climb, and Brain's parts in it.

The way in which Ains begins his conquest of the world makes sense, for the most part. World domination takes a very long time and the methods by which Momonga achieves his goals are well thought out, if a bit too easy, and he utilizes those under his command properly and distinctively, as any leader should.

The idea of Overlord is a solid guilty-pleasure for any video gamer out there. I must admit that while watching the show, I found myself entertained by the prospect of getting stuck in a virtual reality game and finding a way to get myself out or just fucking take over and destroy the world for shits and giggles, and I greatly enjoyed Momonga's conquest of the video game world in which he found himself trapped inside.

The spells are awesome. The magic system is heavily influenced by the Dungeons and Dragons style magic system. They are plentiful, powerful, and there are new spells every other episode, which is fanastic. My personal favorites are Grasp Heart, Death Knight, Time Freeze, and Delayed Magic, True Death.

The gore is solid, especially in the first season. One of my favorite moments in the show involves Ains slowly crushing the first season's antagonist, Clementine, to death in his arms while she is screaming and begging for her life. It was an excellent way to kill an adversary; one that is truly worthy of a dark lord.

The soundtrack overall is decent and it improved with every season released. It's nothing you'll remember or go out of your way to listen to on Pandora or Spotify, but it does it's job fairly well. The sound design is also fine, especially the sound effects of various spells and the english dubbing is surprisingly well done.

The backgrounds and characters are generally well designed and detailed. The backgrounds are easily the best part of the artwork and while the art style is pretty generic, it's not bad.

THE BAD:

Overlord is one of the most generic anime shows I've seen in a LONG fucking time! The biggest problem the series has since the first episode is that the writers are constantly finding ways to obtain, increase, and retain a massive audience by checking off boxes for various cliches, stereotypes, and fan service tropes pretty much whenever they can. It has gamma male wish fulfillment, fan service, lolis, badass spells, gore, boobs, hot women who are madly in love with the male protagonist and are always fighting over him and talking about how great and awesome he is, cool fight scenes, you name it. It doesn't matter if any of it makes sense with the context of the world or story at large, just throw it in there and stop asking questions! It completely breaks any and all immersion the show has for anyone paying attention.

The series' protagonist, while he has his moments, is a mediocre character at best. He's a video game nerd who is dropped into a world where he is suddenly in charge and easily the most powerful thing in existence, and never once does he earn any of it or seem to even make a mistake. The world and everything in it serves only as a means to make Ains look cool, badass, and smart. He always knows what to say, where to be, and is constantly making a fool of everyone. This series has zero stakes involved and is painfully predictable.

Most of the characters look cool, albeit generic, but besides that, they can hardly be considered characters at all. Many of them are badly written cardboard cutouts designed either to shower Ains with praise, become an enemy for him to slaughter later, or an ally to join Ains' army as one of his underlings. Almost none of the characters are interesting or relatable. Whether the motivations or actions made by any of the characters makes sense doesn't seem to matter at any point in time, especially with the primary female characters, Albedo and Shalltear, specifically.

Albedo is one of the series' worst characters by far. She is a super hot demon lady with an admittedly cool design who exists solely to be in heat over the protagonist. The same is true of Shalltear, a loli vampiress who, at one point, actually came simply from Momonga's presence. The difference between the two is that Shalltear actually has moments of genuine badassery where she's brutally slaughtering entire squadrons of human soldiers and collecting their blood. Albedo, on the other hand, spends 90% of her screen time fawning over Ains or acting upon sexually-charged impulses with cringe-worthy banter.

These are but TWO of the characters in the show that are constantly pledging their undying love and affection to Ains Ooal Gown, and despite all the attention he gets from women, never once does he make a move on any of them, sleep with any of them or anything. It's not for a lack of interest or a desire to retain his virginity till marriage, as we witnessed him literally fondle Albedo right in front of his highest ranking soldiers. He has all the power in the world, but lacks the confidence to make moves. He never commits to anyone or anything outside himself. And this is where the crux of the show's purpose for existing comes in: The protagonist is a pussy, yet he's somehow also a total badass who is better than everyone else at virtually everything.

This is textbook gamma male wish fulfillment written by a man who's likely had very little success with women and is despised by better men. It's the same trope with which many have had to weather and suffer relentlessly in countless other stories, and it's not limited to the realm of anime. If you've read any modern/sci-fi books (especially ones written by John Scalzi or Robert Jordan of “The Wheel of Time” fame), you're very familiar with the trope already even if you don’t realize it and it's even more plentiful in those genres than anime. You'll even find it on occasion in historical fiction pieces and quite often in Hollywood movies now and again.

The only reason all these people so greatly admire the protagonist is because of how powerful he is (which, I mean, fair enough I suppose) despite doing jack all to earn any of that respect or admiration from any of them. The circumstances for which the characters rank and social status begin have been made for him prior to the start of the show. Now, it makes sense. He’s become this powerful by grinding out on the video game, but it doesn’t make it any less uninteresting.

The writer is very clearly a nerd. And whether you call them nerds, beta males, gamma males, or whatever else, what they all have on common is that they think they’re special and that they should be recognized simply for that reason without doing anything to earn it. They don't believe in adapting to survive and fit in with the rest of the world. They don't believe in asking women out or approaching them. They don’t believe in hard work or struggling to make a living. They believe that all these thing should be given to them; they believe in the world adapting to them. They believe in women asking them out instead. They believe that everyone else should change based on their idea of a perfect world and that everything should just come easy to them. If it doesn’t, it’s everyone else’s fault. It doesn't matter if the idea is realistic or practical in any way, in their minds, that's the way the world should be and since it isn't that way, the world is cruel and unjust in their eyes and everyone is out to get them. That is what lies at the foundation of these kinds of stories. It’s a way for them to escape reality and enter into a bubble of delusion and entitlement.

The reason nerds create these worlds with these ludicrous scenarios wish because the protagonist is an image and/or representation of themselves. What that means is they can pretend and enter a world where they get what they want. They are the secret kings of their own make-believe worlds and are better and stronger than everyone else when that’s not true in real life— where every beautiful girl within a mile's radius of his presence is constantly horning over the nerd and can't stop talking about how great and attractive the nerd is, where all the men look up to him and admire how much smarter and/or more powerful he is than them, where the nerd always wins, where he always knows what to say, and where he can make a fool out of everyone around you. They release these to the public for the self-gratification of seeing many people praising their stories as well as thinking they must be special. Gamma male stories, such as Overlord, are so inverted and twisted from anything resembling objective reality that nothing about them or within them can possibly be construed as making any kind of sense or having any power of immersion or believability.

Normally, I'd just fucking stop reading and move onto something else, but the problem exists everywhere nowadays so it’s hard to find a newly written solid story that doesn’t have it in some manner. This is the reason why this Gamma Male/nerd infestation is such a big issue because A) it's fucking everywhere, and B) in Overlord's case, the very events and variables that made the show even slightly entertaining and decent, such as the action and political development of the empire and world-building, are either built to elevate Ains or are swept aside in favor of absurd and cringe-inducing moments like hot girls infatuating over Ains for the 100th time or the men praising him and telling him that he's so smart and important and better than everyone else.

I am so fucking SICK of these kinds of stories. I'm so sick of hearing all these good things about a show or story only to watch/read it and find it making the same damn mistakes over and over and over and over again. I'm sick of these overrated, badly written stories being propped up in their respective industry when they can't even compete with genuinely good stories, much less find themselves in the same league as any of the greats. And the most annoying thing about all this is that these writers-- these talentless hacks who've sold their souls just to get their name out there-- actually believe their own bullshit. They are so fucking delusional that they actually think they're great when they are so obviously not.

Shows like Overlord are the reason why I was so hesitant about getting into anime because I knew the industry had trash like this! I know Overlord is considered one of the isekai genre's best works, but that's an extremely low bar. 99.9% of all isekai is horrible, and even if Overlord is one of the better trash shows, it's still trash nonetheless. I'm greatly disappointed that Madhouse chose to adapt this series, and am even more disappointed by the lack of quality art!

And speaking of Madhouse, you might be thinking, even if the characters and stories are bad, surely the art and animation much be good. This is Madhouse after all and they've made some of the finest works in the industry! They've never done wrong in the art department, right? Wrong. While the background and character artwork is solid if underwhelming for a studio of this caliber, the CGI is absolutely atrocious! I know Japan is known for producing horrible CGI (unless it's for a video game like Final Fantasy or Metal Gear Solid, then they're fucking spectacular! :/), but this is really, really bad especially by Madhouse's standards! It's not quite Berserk 2016 bad, but it's pretty damn close.

The CGI clashes spectacular with the 2D art and it's so noticeable it becomes comedic. It’s very hard to take the moments in which they are utilized seriously. Even the artistic elements that are well done lack a surprising amount of detail for a Madhouse show in 2013 (which is when the first season came out). If you told me Madhouse was the studio who developed this show before I ever knew who did, I would have called you retarded. I am genuinely shocked this was produced by Madhouse of all studios!

CONLUSION:

Nobody is perfect. Even the best fail at least once, and such is the case with Madhouse and their hit series, Overlord. I'm genuinely stunned that this show is as highly regarded as it, though the same can be said for a number of highly overrated anime shows such as Sword Art Online, Fairy Tale, or Domestic Girlfriend.

This is the first blunder I've seen Madhouse make so far and though it is the first, it is a HUGE blunder! This show isn't even remotely good. It's horrible and nobody in their right mind should say otherwise.

Overlord's first three seasons, as a whole, get a 3/10. The first season on its own gets a higher rating of 4/10. The other two share the same score as the entire series. If you're looking for a series with good storytelling, characters, and artwork, do yourself a favor and watch something else. Unless you are just looking for yet another guilty pleasure isekai series that satisfies your personal gamma urges, skip this show altogether and watch something else instead. You won't find good storytelling, deep and memorable characters, or Madhouse's quality artwork in this show.

SHORT VERSION:

- Story: 3/10 (Bad)
- Art: 5/10 (Mediocre)
- Sound: 6/10 (Decent)
- Character: 3/10 (Bad)
- Enjoyment (Subjective): 3/10 (Bad)
- Final Score: 3/10 (Bad)

Overlord has an interesting take on on the Isekai genre, but for me it is sub par in execution through out.

Most central of all my issues with the anime, I found it extremely hard to reconcile Ainz's actions with his supposed motivation. Simply he doesn't behave like a person trapped in a game, he behaves like an actual evil undead overlord.

Additionally most of the character interactions, especially earlier on, simply boil down to repetitive and unquestioning praise of the main character. The only saving grace for the characters in this anime is the rare occasions when they aren't flattering Ainz, some of the side ... characters can be somewhat charming.

For the story, the pacing seem's to move at a snails pace, with a minimal amount of "stuff" happening for the entire season. That being said, it is an interesting enough premise that the slow pace could be tolerated while they set it up.

The art was sub-par, main due to occasional jarring CGI taking me out of the world that the well designed characters started to being me into.

Taken as a whole the soundtrack may have been the best element of overlord, especially the opening theme, but taken all together it is nothing exceptional.

There are certainly enough little things that kept me interested here and there, along with a promise for things to pick up in a big way later on that it is (maybe) worth trying. However there are anime that tell a much more compelling story with much better characters in the same number of episodes of just this first season that would make a better watch.

This review will contain no spoilers.

Overlord has probably been the most overrated anime I have ever watched. The high MAL score would make me think there was an interesting story or a compelling character or two, overlord cured me of those delusions very fast. The protagonist is incredibly bland with no discernable personality beyond being wise and kind or whatever. In a lot of ways, he believes his own hype. At no point in the series did I believe that this is just some gamer thrust into becoming the real demon lord, Ainz just is a demon lord, which if you wanted to make an ... anime about an actual demon lord that's fine but this was supposed to be an isekai. Ainz is also basically all-powerful there is maybe one fight in the whole series in which he has to try something different. Supporting characters have a little more personality but they get swapped in and out in various missions and their personality is most highlighted when they interact with each other but when they are with Ainz it's just all subservience. the story is also hardly compelling, often there is a lot of name-dropping of terms we just heard that mean nothing because they're either all weapons that are used once or twice or are just lore-drops. There is also a running theme of each of Ainz's servants being former friends but this ultimately doesn't really impact much because it's just mentioned once or twice without actually impacting the actual story much. Ultimately Overlord falls into the issue of showing instead of telling which makes for a very bland and forgettable viewing experience. The name of XYZ weapon or item matters extremely little to me, I don't care Overlord gives me quite a bit for me to not care about. The only plus of the series is that the artwork is actually quite good a lot of credit to the animators on that front.

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.

first time reviewing something here on mal, so i decided to start with this, something everyone seemed to love, so here we go, around 2 years ago i got back into anime, was really enjoying these new shows after some time i realized there was this sub-genre where people get sucked into different worlds like in tron called 'isekai',

i decided to watch all of the top stuff since its really popular, watched konosuba, rezero, log horizon and basically the actually good ones of this genre and was really looking forward to watching overlord where the mc is a villain and has some of the ... renowned worldbuilding out there! or so i thought

the anime starts off with momonga or ainz getting trapped in this virtual world because he just happened to be logged in, not the worst getting-sucked-in-to-another-world reveal or whatever you wanna call it and everything after that is simply the most generic and mediocre shit you'll see, so basically he has these floor guardians who are basically a bunch of op servants who are very, VERY loyal to this guy, i mean thats all there is to their character, 3/4 of their dialogue, INCLUDING ones they have with each other consists of them praising their skeleton daddy as if it wasnt as clear as day after the first few episodes

one thing people often say when defending this show is that the character designs are amazing, sure but thats pretty much it m8, if a character is dependent on their design and not overall personality the fuck's even the point lmao the other thing about its art is that something i came to know only a little while before writing this review, MADHOUSE was the studio behind it, yup thats right the one behind one punch man and hunter x hunter, and this was probably the most low budget shit they ever made ngl, from bad looking cgi to the main characters mouth not moving an inch cause hes a skeleton xD

the other thing is that if someone were to shit on the terrible animation (at least in madhouse's standards), they quite often say that this isnt supposed to be an action heavy series and its about the worldbuilidng, ok but where?? sure they explore the world and kill this random bad guy because his friend saved him back when he was just a little skeleton in rags getting bullied on vr like a little bitch and that saving someone in need is common sense or something, wish he remembered that later in the series, alright back to "worldbuilding" im just gonna say i watched this over a year ago and yeah i watched all 3 seasons because my young developing weeabo mind thought that "i shouldnt judge a series off just the first season! im gonna stick until the very end!1" and i dont remember all of it maybe because it was so fucking boring but what i do remember is: there's no point of any worldbuilding after he got the gist of whats going around there, he doesnt have any well thought out plans in conquering this world, he does this simply by his power, which would make sense in reality but what the fuck is entertaining in that? if he can take care of absolutely anything in this world by his raw strength so why even dragging this shit off for 2 more seasons?

sure there're way more shows where the mc takes care of everything simply his strength, much like the aforementioned one punch man, but opm handles this very well, not simply by one-shotting potential threats but it creates tension and explains how grave the situation is before eventually it being taken care of by saitama but even then, they manage to deliver it in either a really comedic or a really badass way, being entertaining to the audience till the very end. those kinds of things are what overlord lacks, it doesnt have worldbuilding, a good action scene or two, no personality in any of the characters and it still has 8.01 on mal, why? because friends there's no god

if you have enjoyed this first season in any way and is still going to watch the rest, who am i to stop you? this show was all over the place and it had no idea what it wanted to do, (much like this review gomen nasai senpai this is my first time uwu), like i said i watched all the seasons and trust me when i tell to you there was little to nothing going on, i do not recommend watching this in any way, if you're interested in this genre and want stuff with good worldbuilding i heavily suggest watching log horizon or even that time i got reincarnated as a slime, lh is an underrated piece with far superior worldbuilding and same with slime but you've probably at least heard of it, so go watch those if you were disappointed by this series as much as i was

overall, i think the only kind of people who'd enjoy this are those who have a power fantasy and gets their dick wet for something like having loyal slaves and shit like that, i know a lot of those unfortunately, again if you did like this, be my guest go watch the rest of the series and if you didnt i think we could be friends

aight, i'll wrap up now, was pretty fun finally getting this out, sorry if this review was all over the place, looking forward to make more of these, hopefully next one would be a rather positive one

This review is written after watching all three seasons but the numbers reflect the first season (my overall rating would probably be a 1 or 2). The first season has some interesting world building and creates the impression that we might eventually see some character growth from the titular character but that never materializes, and I think it became worse with each season. There are some vague spoilers below.

If you enjoy watching an overpowered psychopathic protagonist, who often comments that he feels nothing for the humans he casually and cruelly slaughters, this is the anime for you. The titular character's underlings are programmed to fawn ... over him and are even more sadistic and evil and really pretty pathetic because of it. The protagonist and his minions eventually commit mass murder of civilians in the 100,000+ deaths range that he feels no remorse for but the story keeps that off camera so you can ignore that the titular character and his minions are psychopathic mass murderers. We also eventually get to see him cruelly murder a group of decent people we're given backstory on because, well, the titular character an evil murderous psychopath.

I can understand a story doing cruel things to nice people if it serves a point in the story or is done by villains (see Goblin Slayer), but much of it is done in this anime by the protagonist and his minions and it doesn't produce any empathy or character growth because, well, the protagonist and his minions are psychopaths and psychopaths are incapable of feeling real empathy or compassion (there is one exception, that gave me some hope, but it wasn't allowed to override the programmed loyalty and produce any actual rebellion against the titular character).

I watched it through to the end, hoping there might be some redeeming character development or growth, developing empathy, or maybe the defeat of the evil titular character by the few decent side characters that are left helpless against him to make the time I put into watching this mess worth it, but that never happened.

I wish I'd never watched it.

Had sudden urge to write something about this...
At the moment of writing, I saw 95 anime titles, and can proudly say that this one is the worst I've seen yet. It surprises me, how high it is in ratings.

_Points:

Minuses:
- Horrible main character: MC is superpowerful and is not charismatic, smart or otherwise interesting in any way. Yet everybody around likes him. Yawn...
- Horrible secondary characters: empty shells with different appearances. Absolutely shallow, those feel like useless decorations. Also, almost everyone simply adores MC - extremely boring position.
- Unsurprisingly, horrible villains: they are simply evil, arrogant or crazy without any level of depth or any real ... reason. Also, they never really posses any amount of threat to MC, so I don't know how they can be interesting in any way...
- Bad plot - MC tries to find adventures on his ass, while being ultra-powerful from the start. This is it, this is the plot. He isn't overcoming anything - no enemy posess real threat to him, nor becomes better or something.
- Stupid\slow dramas - most of the dramas were predictable, as none of their participants were smart or interesting... But maan, those were also a record-high sluggish!
- Extreme animation saving - the animation was too slow most of the time (even I noticed this as a flaw) and accompanied those stupid dramas.
- A snorefest - Sluggish, predictable and boring show in general - this is a result of previous points.

Pluses: actually none. This setting has potential (I mean - MC aka Lich in a castle with slaves - non-ordinary idea), but the anime didn't try to unfold it even the slightest. Setting also plays the role of simply a decoration, to this otherwise extremely generic isekai show.

I watched this with two friends, and we talked a lot along the way, so this was the only reason I haven't dropped this show somewhere after the first few episodes.

Summary: I am not sure why this show is so high in ratings. Maybe, it is being watched only by kids or something... If you consider yourself a thoughtful, or maybe deeply empathetic person - avoid this as a plague. This show is empty, or more precisely: exceptionally hollow.

This review encompass season 1, 2, and 3.

The thing that bothers me most about the show is the main character. If the wish fulfillment bullshit was absent in the show I think it would be a jolly good time. Nothing particularly deep or well written, but with fun action, a neat world to explore, and interesting characters to meet.

The main character is by far the worst thing in this show. All his faults can be boiled down to two points.

1. The way the NPC's interact with him. Re-writing the main hot chick to love you is ... stupid and cringy. But the worst thing about it is its totally unnecessary, since all of the female NPC's, even the male ones sometimes, want the MC's dick anyways. Adding this only serves to make the MC out to be a complete weirdo, which IS the point of his character, but it messes the whole dynamic of the show up for me. Since every character already acts like this, it ONLY serves to taint my opinion of the MC and the Albedo. Her whole character is just devoted to being in love with MC, and MC just becomes a creep.

I have a problem with this because it ruins a theme that could actually be really interesting to explore, which they hint at. And that is the dynamic between creator and creation. Having the NPC's love the MC because he helped create them and then stayed with them when all of the other guild members left is a really cool idea. Especially if they found out what Ains is really like. That hes not the "overlord" but just some nerd. I think that could be really fun, and heartwarming. For them, it would be accepting that their creator is a weirdo, and for him allowing himself to show his true side. But that is all ruined by the fact that albedo is demoted to being just a slave with a sole personality trait that every other character has anyways.

2. Ains is fucking boring. I like the joke that this guy does not know what hes doing. I genuinely think its funny. But just imagine, if he was allowed to have emotions on top of it.

It boggles my mind that this guy is not allowed to have emotions by some bullshit green lights. I simply cannot wrap my head around the justification for restricting him to being generic and vaguely evil.

Just imagine, Ains being allowed to react in a way that might get him into some hot water. Like he gets embarrassed by some social interaction and he has to justify it to the people loyal to him. He could pull out some BS, make it out to be a positive, and everybody would love him for it. This happens already, but just at the absolute base level, and without much of Ains' input at all.

When the joke stops being funny, you can pull back the veil, and you can do the interesting character stuff from my last point. I think that would be great. As it stands now hes just a boring, husk of a character. Again, they hint at this concept, allowing us to hear his inner thoughts. But actually allowing him to stumble, then try to pick himself up would be 10x better.


The rest of the show is pretty alright. Season 2 onward raised this show from a 3 to a 5, with its emphasis on other characters besides Ains. Season three broght it back down to a 3.

The world and characters are pretty fun to learn about, its just a shame the main character drags the whole thing down so much.

Overlord has an "original" plot of a guy getting stuck in a video game that we "haven't" ever seen since Sword Art Online, apparently the plot itself is not used often enough at all even though its such a wonderful one, so Overlord has to take on the plot and do something to it.

Story 3/10: Plot is the same as Sword Art Online, but Kirito is now a skeleton who is lord of the bad guys, and Asuna is now an AI programmed to love Kirito. The story revolves around how our skeleton tries to act evil to live up to the expectations of his ... AI servants who have been programmed to love him and loyal to him. The story is boring, slow, dull and never actually achieves anything, there's nothing interesting about it.

Art and sound 4/10: both decent, the only tolerable thing about this anime.

Character 2/10: throughout the story, his character remains boring, he's suppose to be the one of the members of the strongest guild in the game, and he's carefully planning out stuff when he can easily do it with raw power every time, and his AI servants will say that all of his actions are wonderful and have an amazing purpose every time, even though his decisions are just dull and boring.

Enjoyment 1/10: i loved the last episode, because after that i can finally say that i finished this "masterpiece" and never have to touch it again.

Overall 3/10: not recommended for anyone, the only thing thats "new" and "original" in this manga is a boring protagonist who carefully plans out stuff that he can easily do with a snap of a finger, and also he's a bad guy, mostly.

I know I'm going to get a lot of hate for this review right here. All the people saying that Overlord was a masterpiece, I'm not going to argue with you, however with me, the anime was dreadful for me watching it. In the first episode, the animation was so choppy for me that I literally wanted to puke. I'm unsure whether it was the server I was using or what, but it was utterly disgusting. The story was mediocre because, what am I supposed to say? Oh... A guy got stuck inside a VR game... that's very original (not like an anime became mainstream ... before that). I mean seriously I took this up since it was one of my friend's favorite anime, but I just couldn't watch past episode 2, the characters are OK they could be a whole lot better if someone thought the idea through. Overall I can say that I hated the anime and don't plan on starting it again. 3/10

This is one of the most disappointing anime I have ever seen. I saw parts of the animation in an AMV and was pretty fascinated by the dark and gritty designs. After seeing the high ratings i decided to give this show a chance.

Thirteen episodes later i exclaimed "That's it?!" and was filled with regrets. All the characters are bland tropes and the show has zero interest to give them any development. The setting and Dungeons & Dragon style item and magic system could have been a basis for a great show, but they're only used to provide lame exposition and enanle the bare-bones ... self servicing plotline that - spoilers - leads nowhere.

Do yourself a favor, watch the two and a half decently animated fight scenes and skip the rest, because its only there to justify wasting a whole BluRay for this snoozefest.

4/10

I was curious at first how it would play out because of how popular it seemed and how much attention it gets from other users. As I have previewed the series without even looking at the synopses/reviews, and to my disappointment, I did not find the reason behind Overlord being hyped. Overlord is another Isekai show... Nothing too unusual, except for the fact that the main character--although generic at best--is a hero wearing the capes of a villain.

The story revolves around a male protagonist who happens to be a guild leader of a dying MMO. The show doesn't delve deeper into the information regarding "the ... real life" of the user, except for several flashbacks that shows fragments of memories about his guild-mates who apparently quit the game due to their circumstances. Even taking for granted how convenient the world transfer and the world setting is for our main character, Momonga (AKA Ainz). As overpowered as he is, mainly because of being a cash user and gaining the items of 40 other cash users, the setting of the show tells us that the universe he was randomly transported into is inferior to his character and guild. Along with the non-player characters (NPCs), he first hints at taking over the world in order to help other players of the MMO by making the name of his guild Ainz Ooal Gown known throughout the country (thus, the name change from Momonga to Ainz). The difference in the show itself is that our main character technically has no people from the same game by his side--as opposed to other "Isekai-MMO shows" that usually have a group of people working together to accomplish a goal. The story gets dull as the show is full of useless banter and dragged out dialogues. The overpowered being is just not appealing when the show is just slow-paced and not clear on what direction the series wants to go to. The progression of the plot is not evident as it goes randomly from here to there. Also, the series contains a lot of information that seems to be irrelevant despite the possibility that the information might be used for setting up flags/necessary events for plot advancement. For me, as a viewer, it feels like the author might be a bit scatterbrained.

Our characters all have different personalities and character designs. As usual, such a thing is necessary in order to make the show seem a bit more dynamic, but in this case the contrast just feels outright annoying. The inconsistency of some characters and just how they were designed appeared to be quite irritating because it felt like the show always hints at fan-service. On the other hand, there were times that I felt fairly amused because of how stupid the characters became. Although, considering that Overlord was produced quite recently, the art is mediocre, not to mention the poor CGI designs in several scenes. I was also bothered by how usual they forced "English" into the show as it contained many commands or skills, but I felt that it was not necessary.

It's fairly decent but it's just a little bit better than some of isekai anime adaptations out there. I finished watching the whole season 1 in one sitting and it feels lacking in several aspects (such as its plot,conflict, character development, world-building, art & animation, flexibility in voice acting/script-writing)... but I managed to watched through it so I guess it's bearable. I can't see why people are/were hyped over it.

[TL;DR]
Overlord is a generic Isekai anime adaptation with a not so generic main character archetype. It's not bad per se; it is somewhat bearable and sometimes fun to watch.
Story : 4 (40% = 1.6)
Character : 4 (25% = 1)
Art & Animation: 5 (20% = 1)
Sound : 5 (15%= 0.75)

Overall : 4.35 ~> 4/10
(Enjoyment : 6, Not Included in Criteria Rating)

This anime is boring! So-so boring!

Protagonist don't face challenges or struggles whatsoever.

Not only the strongest human fighters can't even scratch him or even his guardians, but you can also ressurect others in this world.

The only enemy that could actually damage protagonist (Opening spoilered her, BTW), was standing ABSOLUTELY still, that allowed Momonga to prepare however he liked before battle.

Love line is don't exist, both love interests simply fighting over him.

... Protagonist don't know what he wants. "I sorta gonna kill you, because you sorta pissed me off".
We can't even see the real him, because the world tones him down.
Who thought that would be a great idea, when protagonist can't even act like a human, that he is?

Oh, but he is great! Every two minutes someone tells, how great he is.
Everyone just shove Momonga in my throat.
Not let me judge by his actions, no! He is great, deal with it!

And he isn't even that great!
He played this game for years, and his skill is mediocre at best!

Wich makes this anime just boring.
You now why OP characters works in other anime?

In One-Punch Man it works, because it presented with humor.
In Hellsing it works, because Alucard gives you some great guro all the time.

In Overlord they hide, and being careful, and you don't even know why (i'm talking about the anime). So you have to read ranobe as a manual.

Recently i've read manga: Skeleton Knight going out to the parallel universe.
And that was done better. The same concept with OP skeleton in game-like world is working better! Because the protagonist don't have a whole army of OP servants, that will do your every wish.
Also protagonist is making some facial expressions.
Skeletons can do that! Look at Brook from One Piece!

Verdict: This anime is one jiant Momonga's suckfest.

Here is more elaborate version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRBhRCDyy4s

A show with a protagonist so powerful that nothing can stand in his path, sounds like an interesting concept? Think of it, a guy whose guild of 40+ members worked hard to create the best castle and obtain ultimate items, finds himself trapped in virtual world with all the skills and items he possessed. He's also magician class, thrown into some generic fantasy land full of mediocre and weak creatures. He has also got numerous extremely powerful servants, so does such starting point of an anime or any RPG sound interesting? What is the point of playing a game where you already have dominance?
I've mentioned ... some parts of the story in former paragraph, the story is blunt - a guy is trapped in RPG world and tries to protect his place from any possible invaders. He's also scouting around, but that's what I've got from story so far, I've read some reviews and noticed there isn't much of a plot at all.
Art and sound are mediocre, though I'd say some character designs don't look appealing at all, especially the protagonist whose design looks pretty bad (why creating such giant cloak, also those two red balls on shoulders which look horrible?).
The show falls horribly at characters. The protagonist is typical guy in harem shows, making stupid reactions when a female makes a move to him, for example: *gulp* I...I touched her *loses breath*. He repeats this every time, and no matter that most of those scenes are supposed to look like jokes, they are just blunt and annoying. Let's move to the servants, they are typical AI, no personality, just responding to the player. They are just talking about the protagonist and how much they love him, though there was a feud between Albedo and Shalltear who will marry the protagonist and give a birth to the heir... which is just.... I almost puked when I watched that scene. Especially since they are undead, so why would he need a heir?? It was just pathetic scene, especially the art and sound were horrible when a character would become obsessed about the protagonist. What about others? I haven't watched much, but I'd say they have barely any role in the show, to let us see the capabilities of protagonist and his servants. They are typically good guys or bad guys, nothing more or less.
Now about enjoyment... There wasn't any. All these elements combines heave a pathetic image of a horrible show with no interesting scenes and characters or good points. The whole show is that some bad guys try to do bad stuff to good guys, the protagonist gets involved, the whole drama starts and it's built slowly, the bad guys spend a lot of time summoning their champion which gets destroyed in a blink of an eye. Is the purpose of the show to make us see how ridiculous power of the protagonist is? To see how the servants can be robots who do nothing but obey their master?
Overall: the show is annoying, contains only one generic character while others are just some beings who react to the protagonist and have nothing of their own, jokes are overused and blunt, action is boring and done in matter of seconds... Makes me wonder why do people adore this show.
I lasted only 4 episodes, I don't know will I ever get enough strength and nerves to watch more to provide more details because this show is just pathetic.
If you think of watching the show, I kindly suggest you to skip this rubbish.