Where to start with this little beauty of a gem without revealing any spoilers.

So our hero gets trapped in an mmorpg as his player character, yet his player character is some skeleton lich character and he belonged to a guild of people who are no longer in the world he get's trapped in, yet he has access to the servants and artifcats they've gathered and crafted.

The main character is entertaingly over powered compared to mostly everyone he meets, and shows a interesting level of cunning and deception that the goddess Lloth herself would be pleased with as he tries to find out more about his new world. There is also exploration into how his mind is slowly changing from human form to undead form, and I am looking forwards to how this may change with the whole 'keeping hold of his humanity' aspect.

The humour is interesting, mainly of all the girls fawning over their undead lord (like, seriously, how on earth is he meant to bone them, pun intended), though their reasons for loving him seem rather flimsy currently aside from 'they were programmed to do that before and it's just carried over', though I am looking forwards to seeing him earn their trust a bit more.

I see massive amounts of potential here for a truly unique take on this genre.

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The manga adaptation of Overlord adapts the light novel directly.

So, if one came to the manga after anime series, which has multiple seasons of it, one would discover subtle differences. But the main complaint would be is that the manga is too slow, with anime lapped the manga as of the end of the fourth season.

This manga ended around just the start of the season four of the anime. The final chapter had a hopeful tone, with a positive view of the future, with Momonga doubling down on the establishing and strengthening his rule of the Sorcerer Kingdom of Nazarick.

This is a good adaptation, given the art, since the likeness is spot on and connects the light novel and anime visual approach on the characters.

However, pacing was a torture, especially when it was serializing since it was at minimum a monthly update.

I recommend reading the entire manga, instead of re-watching the first three seasons, and then re-watch the fourth season, when preparing for the Overlord cinematic movie in 2024. Now that we are almost halfway the year (2024), the release is imminent, unless an unexpected delay derails it.

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