Before you scroll down, let me insist I'm not turning my nose up at you. I understand you like Isekai. Even if the vast majority of these shows are potato chips, I endorse potato chips, and if you want some, I'll happily direct you to Sword Art Online, Log Horizon, Tensei Slime, Oda Nobuna no Yabou, No Game No Life, Zero no Tsukaima, etc. For the most part, every recommendation you'll see in the bottom navigation bar of these titles is also worth a weekend's entertainment.
Overlord, on the other hand, is god awful. Its main character isn't even a character. Momonga doesn't have identifiable traits, long-term goals, or a consistent personality. The supporting characters are slightly more developed in the sense their trait is lusting after the MC, their goal is pleasing the MC, and their personality is fawning over the MC. These supporting characters are in reality all the same character. They are dressed in different costumes to appeal to different fetishes in the promo material. (For example, you have the big tits vanilla option, the jailbait, the trap, the reverse trap, and even some beefcake for the ladies in the audience.) Again, I'm not turning my nose up at you. When I say there's nothing else to their characters, there is *nothing else* to their character. Not even being afraid of lightening, or being bad at cooking.
Overlord's story doesn't make sense. I'd go as far as to say Overlord doesn't have a story. After being transported to another world, the main character spends the season undercover to quietly scout information about his new surroundings. And yet he conspicuously obliterates every legendary enemy he finds in his path to "spread his name" while undercover. So is he trying to be stealthy, or is he trying to be ostentatious? I don't know. The writer doesn't know. But the plot kills some NPCs to remind you the show is supposed to be edgy.
As for its setting, Overlord doesn't have one. I have no sense of the lore or politics of this universe. Overlord's world is less developed than the most by-the-numbers fantasy setting I've experienced in any medium.
So, here's your tally. Overlord has no characters. Overlord has no story. Overlord has no setting. This show is garbage. If you're looking for an evil protagonist isekai, *Saga of Tanya the Evil* is infinitely more worth your time.
