Overlord

[Kraco]

" In the year 2138, virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, one player named Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as 'the most powerful wizard.' The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) beginning to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become." -ANN

"I will not turn into a snake. It never helps." -Peter's Evil Overlord List

Subber: Horriblesubs
Genres: Action, adventure, seinen, virtual reality





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I decided to have a look at this show after I read the main character is a bloody Skeletor. That's something you don't see every day and definitely separates this positively from the more traditional titles of late, like SAO or Log Horizon (or the old predecessors like .hack). I have to admit I felt incredibly amused every time he was shown. I'm far from sure how evil he actually is, despite the looks and the fact the followers are like from the villain gallery of a regular show of this type. Even the... Uh, love interest was making all those crazed faces when he was testing the properties of the new world. I hope she's yandere. Actually I don't know how she couldn't be.

The animation budget leaves much to be desired, which is a huge pity as this looks like a show that can keep me entertained for sure. I love settings with a twist such as this.

[neflight86]

Just got around to this. Was pretty entertaining for an MMO anime, and they somehow made the main character seem like a regular guy, so to speak.

It was a wise move to largely ignore the setup and technical specifications of the game-space, as that kind of world building is typically only good for inviting scrutiny and distracting from whatever story the author is trying to tell with generally unrelated exposition.

[David75]

Stange MC, some tropes, and probably a quest and fights. I hope I can get some good laughs from this.

[Kraco]

Episode 2 - HS




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I enjoyed this episode almost as much as the first one, which is saying a lot. The animation still doesn't look too hot, but I'm getting more used to that as the story and characters themselves are speaking for themselves. I especially enjoy how the MC is so divided between two. He's still the player, a gamer, essentially, but on the surface he must play the role of the Overlord for the sake of the NPCs turned alive, who know nothing else. He's a real gamer, however, by trying to pull it off, and succeeding well enough, although I suppose it's not so hard considering everybody in the castle is worshipping him. It also helps he's a real gamer because it gives him some natural tendencies making things easier, like considering taking over the world, as if that was the plot of this new game.

I keep appreciating the interaction between Momonga and Albedo. It's jolly good he changed her personality before the game ended. This is much better than a bitch. Although I guess she can be bitchy enough when facing somebody else than Momonga, especially another woman.

I hope life is life in this story and thus when someone or something is killed, it won't result only in particle effects but a corpse.

[NeoCybercoin]

I am loving this anime so far. At first I thought Albedo was hot! But then....she just..opens her mouth like that and I am fucking scared of her now. Bitch is INSANE!

[neflight86]

The two floor master/wive candidates went full on Hellsing there for a moment. It looks like he might have some justification for taking over this world if the NPCs are already killing and pillaging each other.

[Kraco]

It looks like he might have some justification for taking over this world if the NPCs are already killing and pillaging each other.

If it's a (fantasy) medieval setting, there's simply no way the NPCs/people wouldn't be continuously warring. That's just how it was all over the world in reality as well during those times. Momonga doesn't actually seem like an evil fellow, so once he really starts to think of the NPCs as real living beings, it might be hard for him to have them killed in great numbers. I suppose there might be ways to avoid that, but since he's the Overlord of monsters, I don't think it would be easy. He needs to at least defeat the armies he's immediately facing if he plans to expand his influence. Would any human/elf settlements be willing to live under the rule of a Skeletor and his court of monsters, though?

[NeoCybercoin]

I like how the NPC's everybody left them and that they are mostly following him because he stayed behind for him. Gives it a better twist.

[Buffalobiian]

Momonga just gave crazy bitch a teleporting ring.

One just doesn't give crazy bitches teleporting rings. Ever.

[NeoCybercoin]

Not gonna lie...that bitch scares me.

[shinta|hikari]

Wait... Since he is just a skeleton, doesn't that mean he doesn't have a dick? What's with all this heir business?

[Ryllharu]

They're afraid he'll eventually leave too, and want an heir that is part of the "game" world that they can continue to worship as their leader.

He mentioned his libido...and while I have no idea how being mostly a skeleton still works for that capacity, they've left it open to the possibility.

[Buffalobiian]

Boner......

[NeoCybercoin]

Yes, he would have to bone(h)er.
I think they meant his mindset. Like now he can't even get turned on or something.
Besides even if he could...there will probably be some kind of skill/magic to turn him human or something to make that heir. That or the other route...adoption :P

[Kraco]

Not gonna lie...that bitch scares me.

I don't see any problems as long as he's not planning to cheat on her (she might murder the other girl). He's supposed to be an evil overlord. The lady has to be of that calibre at least, surely. She's the leader of the various guardians in any case, so she can't be any yamato nadeshiko. It doesn't seem like he minds his role, either, playing it outwardly quite smoothly.

[Buffalobiian]

He just has to seemingly show favour to another of his servants - and it doesn't even have to be a girl.

[shinta|hikari]

Yandere was actually fine with Momonga having multiple partners. She just wanted to be number 1. Her quarrel with vamp girl and quick turnaround from jealousy to ecstasy in the tele-ring scene showed this.

[Buffalobiian]

Exactly. Whatever benefits he gives his other servants, she has to receive even more from him (or else she'll think she's not #1). Still crazy scary as fuck.

[Kraco]

Exactly. Whatever benefits he gives his other servants, she has to receive even more from him (or else she'll think she's not #1). Still crazy scary as fuck.

That sounds about right. It's a lair of monsters, after all. Momonga simply has to make sure the ultimate end result is beneficial for his plans, no matter if it's Albedo trying ever harder to gain his greatest favour over the others or some infighting making them all stronger in a villainous way. They need to be ready to survive occasional backstabbing in the service of Skeletor.

It's all cool, really.

[Kraco]

Episode 3 - HS





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Bloody great episode. It's an interesting aspect Momonga's emotions are stunted due to being an undead, yet he realises it himself, as a player. I'm not 100% sure how to feel about his rather mellow and friendly approach, but at the same time I pretty much think I'd have done everything more or less the same had I been there myself, so it wouldn't be right to criticise him. He did call it only acting, so it's cool so far.

Above all it was great to see him create the death knight and then send it to slaughter the hapless soldiers. That sure brought back good memories from Warcraft. Actually the whole sequence of scenes was great, right from the soldiers being baffled by the portal. It was a good combination of the freshness of a liche being the MC and the somewhat more usual asskicking MC. I wish we had seen a bit of fighting from Albedo but in the end those small fries weren't really worth the effort, as Momonga noted. Her attitude was suitable, that much was revealed.