Overlord Movie 3: Sei Oukoku-hen Episode 1 Discussion

Happy to hear it's a good movie, any news on when this will be available online?

Happy to hear it's a good movie, any news on when this will be available online?

This movie was GREAT!
Just as I expected from Madhouse! They did a great job on explaining the entire 12&13 Vols of the Light novel!
This entire movie had two goals. 1 is to make the cute Baraha Ainz's absolute Pawn, and the second one is to make people in the City (I think it's name was Honst?) to love Ainz more than anything else! (So they would become....well, you need to see the movie)
A very entertaining and most likely the last movie we'll see from Overlord, since there are just 3 volumes left of the Light novel to adapt... So I'm waiting for Season 5!
9/10

Hope we get that soon.

Alright y'all buckle up because the theatrical release just dropped for not Japan. Spoilers ahead!

I'll be honest, I was pretty disappointed by this. I'm sure a lot was cut from the source material but quite a bit of it just felt I don't know, empty? Like the entire mission with Neia and CZ could have been shorter to make room for sonething else.

Character development in general seemed to be a little lackluster except for Neia somewhat and that went basically nowhere. It felt like they were building her up so I thought maybe they'd have her kill JB with her rune bow or something and then she could spread the word of Ains but it doesn't seem like she really got a climactic character moment especially since everyone was basically in on it.

It was a farce, yes, but it felt like watching one as opposed to earlier instances where it was more evenly balanced between Ains' humor (he seemed surprisingly absent in the entire film imo) and other characters trying to maneuver around him. Ex, the Grandmaster: did she actually do anything worthwhile? Did she have a personality trait besides "angry?" I found myself wondering how she got that position in the first place. Were any others even worth remembering (besides CZ)?

The Ains fights as well weren't nearly as interesting as the Shalltear fight (although to be fair tat was like 45 minutes or something by itself) and just like throwing flashy moves out. It was much more satisfying imo to have the back and forth between the two because we saw it from a close-to-first-person perspective. This time it was a plot device.

Seemed a bit too spectacle over substance for me. Definitely didn't expect the Holy King to be Pandora's Actor a doppelganger though, damn.

"The people want a mark to symbolize their loyalty" I was thinking "oh yeah, next step they'll be registering them and then sending them to work camps" for blasphemy or something but I guess I was wrong about that since Demiurge already took over.

Haven't read the LNs but maybe someone that has can share their opinion on this? Is the story just written this way, or was a lot cut? Is this a bad take or am I misunderstanding or missing something?

All that said, I love Neia as a character and I hope we see a lot more of her crazy adoration going forward.
Also, the music. Man when that theme came in at the beginning. Chills.

@SawronZXZ The Holy King wasn't actually Pandora's Actor, just another Doppleganger under Pandora's Actor.

Pandora's Actor is already playing Momon and then later Ainz (vs Platinum Dragon Lord). He's at the same level as Demiurge, no way he would've bowed to him as a superior (only Ainz is superior to him).