Oct 3, 2018
Amazing series that shows the the perspective of an evil main character. Their is no power of love and friendship going to save the world from the overlord. Each new group of characters introduced is used as a stepping stone to build Nazarick and Ainz Ooal Gown up higher.
It is a lot more effective to stand on a pile of well developed characters then a bunch of throwaway characters with no development. The series loves destroy you're hopes of a good outcome because you are actually following the main villian. He will do anything to save money and better Nazarick and
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himself.
Overlord could easily steamroll the world, but they use manipulation to shutdown the new world and calculated assaults via Demiurge's plan. Ainz mostly lucks his way into maintaining his image as an overlord. Yet he hasn't change much at all.
only problem with the series is they cram/cut 3 books into only 13 episodes per season. They need 24 minimum for each season. Their is a enough information in the books to make it as lengthy as one piece.
First arc, the two leaders, shows how much Ainz has influenced Carne village since he saved them back in season 1 episode 3. Enri's goblin general horn's, considered a trash drop in the game of Yggdrasil, have a hidden power that is unlocked by meeting the 3 requirements of the goblin general. She builds a good relationship with the original 19 goblins.
This arc shows Enri improving the relations with the goblins while Ainz is controlling the village from the sidelines using Lupusregina Beta. Lupus drops the ball and Ainz finds out about the Giant of the west and the demon snake of the east through the adventures guild. He then hunts down the giants and uses the demon snakes army to test the village in Lupus. He only cares for Nfiera's potions, Enri, Nemu and Lizzie. He decides to use their love iand loyalty, instead of forcing him to make potions.
The second arc is the invaders of the tomb arc. We are introduced to the worker group foresight. Workers outside the adventure guild and only do it for money. Ainz uses Fluder to set up an invasion of Nazarick. He even bribes them but they charge in the tomb so Ainz sees no reason to eliminate them. Most people actually care about the foresight group but they meet their end in terrible ways.
Believe me Arche got off easy. She is not being eaten repeatedly by cockroaches, being used as a living home for a parasite, experimented on, or tortured. What most people forget is its Arche's fault for pushing her to extreme greed and its their fault for the outcome of her sisters.
1) test out the defenses of Nazarick using the lowest amount of expenses because they only have a finite amount of Yggdrasil gold.
2) Give nazarick justification to force the Empire to support them.
3) Introduces some of area guardians and terrors of Nazrick. Death is a mercy.
The 3rd arc the caster of destruction arc.
Starts off with Emperor being forced to go to Nazarick or his country will be destroyed. Ainz uses him to bring the reeztize kingdom out to fight. So he can show a portion of the power of Nazrick to scare the world and to establish the sorcerer kingdom.
Politics behind the nobility/royal dispute in the kingdom and the Empire secretly trying to inspire an alliance against AInz. The safest way he know how is to support Ainz to figure out his power. Just Ainz is way stronger then anythiing he ever dreamed about.
Brings carne village back when Prince Barbro plans to siege, kill and kidnap to force Ainz to stop his war. The villagers loyalty is so extreme that they fight back. Out of desperation to prevent the the women and children from being killed. Enri uses the 2nd horn to summon a goblin troop again. however instead of 19 goblins. She summons a professional army of 5,000 experienced goblins. Some of them being stronger than death knights. She developed her skills as a commander, good relations with the goblins and in peril by a sizable force.
The arc ends with the kingdom and empire waiting for ainz to show up. The kingdom is ready to retreat when Ainz uses a super tier spell to instantly kill 70,000 soldiers. using their corpses to summon 5 dark young. which are level 90. Then he stomps the remaining 180,000 soldiers into a full route of the kingdoms forces.
Gazef challenges Ainz to a duel. level 100 vs a level 30. Ainz shows deep respect to Gazef by making his death instantaneous. He wanted to have Gazef as a subordinate but Gazef planned his death to show the true power of Ainz.
Ends with Ainz taking over Erantel fortress city and the surronding land establishing the sorcerer kingdom. ready to manipulate the world to bend its knee in the future books/seasons.
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Only problems with the season was the rush budget with subpar CGI and lack of detail compared to the light novels.
They really did cram 3 books into 13 episodes. Books are a lot more dark. Censorship and low budget caused problems for some new to the anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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