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From past experience I find the majority of the trap in game anime to short anime with mediocre entertainment value and storyline. Characters tend to be poorly put together or random NPCs that don't matter. Half the time the storyline does not even make sense in these type of anime but Overlord is fantastic and one of my favorite.

I found Overlord to be a binge watch anime that I can't get enough of. Amazing action scenes with a overpowered main character with frighting powers. His name is Ainz Ooal Gown and I have not been able to decide if he is a good guy hero type or a ruthless dictator bad guy. His companions tend to sway both ways as well which makes predicting what happens impossible.

Just like any good anime it has the perfect amount of pervertedness and a ton of humor. The storyline is great and will keep you in suspense just long enough to have you on the edge of your seat. Even the scenes that are not plot fulfilling tend to be very entertaining and a no point was I bored.

I wish I could of gave this anime 10 stars but while it's perfect for what it is, it's just not quite a masterpiece but equally entertaining.

I'll start by saying it's a good watch overall. While the whole "being trapped in a video game" thing is tired, this book adaptation does well in execution. The characters are well acted, the story lines interesting and complex (usually in a two-faced political sense), and most characters likeable.

Now here's where the show falters for me:

1. Much of the show (especially the second season) actually kicks Ains's story to the side to spends several episodes on side characters, building them up as their own protagonists, only to have Ains kill them off and never be mentioned again, essentially wasting the viewer's time and emotional investment.

2. Ains's (the protagonist) allies, the NPCs him and his friends created, constantly worship him. It was humorous at first, but after three seasons, this gets very, very grating. Some scenes are literally just stroking the ego of the main character, who is in actuality a huge turbo virgin who never leaves his house.

3. To use a video game term, being a shut in and doing nothing but leveling up and getting the best items, Ains is way too OP (overpowered). The show only gets its value by expounding upon the backstories of its side characters that exist within the video game, the ones that aren't Ains or the NPCs who serve him. His fights are somewhat boring, because again, they only serve to stroke the main character's ego.

3. Ains is wholeheartedly, unapologetically evil. Something went wrong when he was trapped in the game and he lost any humanity he had. Sometimes the show will build up a character's backstory for several episodes only to have Ains or his NPCs kill them brutally and anticlimactically. Or have them tortured and then killed. Or enslaved. The show does a good job to make sure you dislike its protagonist, and root for his enemies. Maybe that's by design, but it's not for me.

Wanna find out what will happen if you find yourself in a middle earth like world with god like powers carma value -500 and army of monsters under you command well then this is just the thing you are looking for

There is little original or new about the premise, young man trapped in a MMORPG game with incredible powers, the way its done is amazingly entertaining. While all powerful, the world is unknown and the attempts at exploring this new world is both entertaining and interesting. However, we are not dealing with the good guys here. While Momonga shows an ability to help the helpless and avenge the wronged, he is not a good guy. This balance is actually critical as the key tension is the balance between being a good guy and being an evil character. Well worth the watch, i only wish the DVD's would come out quicker so i can fully view season 2 and 3.

This was such an incredible and amazing surprise!! From the first episode of the first season to the last episode of the third season I was so excited. The way the story goes on is so unexpected and I love the fact that these are not you're typical anime characters, where you can always predict who is gonna do what. Plus it's so funny. I can't wait for the next season and see what happens next!!

This is one kick ass anime with all the right ingredients to make this a tour-da-force to beat. I started watching this anime at the same time as my hero academy and hunter x hunter which are also both magnificent anime. of all the 3 I enjoyed this the most probably because it's so short and I guess it's personal opinion really but this satisfied my craving for action and magic. hunter x hunter is a class act and a very intelligent anime which the other two cannot touch in that department. but the characters in overlord are all mysterious and I can't wait to see the full potential of Ainz Ooal Gown. A fellow reviewer hit the spot when him/her said that the series was far too short. and it ended on such a high that it almost made me angry that they only made 13 episodes. I WANT MORE AND CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON TWO, THREE, FOUR AND FIVE :)

The worst part of this anime is the overarching bigger picture plot that is never discussed and hardly ever reaches any conclusions. Of course that is the fact that the mc is stuck in a video game and never answers any of the questions to why he is trapped in that world and what will he do about it to figure out how it happened. Only head canon theories can the fans lean towards but this show should bring some closure to this point that he might never get out of this matrix. They are milking it dry of Ainz taking over the lands and becoming a ruler but nothing about his "real life" origins or a need to return back. Sword Art Online literally did it in 12 episodes and us the viewers knew exactly what was going on with all those people being stuck inside the virtual environment. No investment mystery box that makes you want to keep watching. It doesn't matter, things just happen and we are supposed to feel engaged to know more about it. It isn't a slice of life. Not enough cliffhangers of intensity to generate conversation.

This anime has everything and I am really enjoying watching it.

Keep up the good work!

This is a complete and utter great anime. Lord Ainz is both badass but merciful, and he makes for a great main character. The animation style is beautiful, and the story has a deep meaning. It is your proper setup to an amazing series. Season 2 is already in the making and hopefully this can become a long running series, I wouldn't complain! This deserves a watch if your in to fantasy and action, I won't spoil too much.

Although the target audience of this anime is that the young guys, despite this anime, are simply superbly drawn, voiced and done as a whole. Unlike other animes of a similar genre, such as SOA or Gate, this anime touches a single and uniquely exciting plot, namely that you are reborn in the computer world with imbalance character. For me "Overlord" - best isekai-anime for all time, because from the first episode this anime sets the bar too high and does not let go until the last episode. Sorry for the mistakes - english is not my native language.

As the title implies: This is an Isekai anime (An anime where a character gets transported to an unknown world) where a guy gets trapped in his MMO character in a new fantasy world, with his previous NPC companions now gaining full autonomy (while maintaining an incessant undying loyalty to the guy). As a high level player, Ainz Ooal Gown comes to find out that he is in pretty much every sense of the word: invincible in the world that he now calls home.

While the concept was cool for the first season as the main character tries to understand the state of the world, his capabilities and his plan going forward: the series unfortunately suffers from the fatal flaw of making Ainz an omnipotent character. Even through the latest season: there's been essentially no character who's able to come close to the power level of even Ainz' inner circle. This leads to an exposition that relies more on overcoming abstracted political issues rather than some form of tangible villian which may or may not be an issue depending on your point of view. Much of what Ainz' does in order to overcome these tasks is less than savory and makes him seem more like a villian than a protagonist that we should care about too.

In short: while not necessarily a bad series: I feel like much of the potential was wasted in this one. If you're looking for an Isekai, I'd recommend Re:Zero instead.

The main character is so overpowered as a max level rpg player gone full "no lifer" he owns every rare epic legendary godlike item that has ever existed in the game, nothing is a challenge, he is pretty much the Sherlock Holmes of rpgs, he can understand explain and counter any setup just without any of his flaws.

minor gripes some of the rpg mechanics aren't consistent, in one episode the overlord has to equip a cham to grant himself the power of flight in another he simply calls out a spell name. also for a necromancer his spell types seem all over the place and not really restricted to necromancy magic.

in my opinion the worst thing part about this show it could have been set 100% in an actual fantasy world about the last 'supreme being' waking from a slumber in his tomb finding all the other 'supreme beings' had left and be nothing todo with a guy sucked into an rpg and nothing would be lost. not to say that is a bad thing but the rpg premise is wasted.

first season was at least semi interesting you have the evil overlord type guy actually being the good guy for a change, the trapped in an rpg as an undead but my interest was lost somewhere in the second season where it seemed they weren't going anywhere with it.

It was an amazing anime, worth watching. It wasn't childish like sword art online, more mature, grusome and etc. The character development was good. But most of it i loved the openings of anime especially season 1. I wished the story should have been more interesting and thrilling but it wasn't bad at all. For story 8/10. Its worth watching.

Although the series is based on RPG style there is nothing that needs an explanation while watching as the moves and skills are named dictionary appropriate (that is you can understand exactly whats happening even if you've never played an RPG game before) The original language of the series is Japaneses i will recommend watching the English dub as it is well interpreted. it has excellent character development even what seemed like fillers have come to play huge rows in the newer seasons begging to differ its intent. all round i cant wait to see what happens next.

Absolutely brilliant anime and loyal to the light novel although too many the light novel are hundreds of pages per volume. They execute the anime adaptation masterfully. It's totally one of the finest rpg style anime out there with unique style and incredible well done plots.

The world eventually is fleshed out in some interesting ways and some of the side characters like Enri are interesting the problem for me lies in how generic the world presents itself, we have a convoluted magic system that can do everything until it doesnt, knigths that are either boy scouts or just living garbage, no actual plot structure every arc feels very disconnected from the next and an actual interesting cast of monsters that get shafted for generic fantasy characters for the most part.

If you like Isekai you will enjoy Overlord as an overall anime is average.

Overlord is an atypical Isekai anime where the hero's background in the real world is not mentioned at all. That is ok, because this anime thrives entirely on the character that the main protagonist possesses in the New World.

I really enjoyed the first 3 seasons of the anime, although other reviewers criticized the lack of a backstory.

The fourth season though is by far the weakest season of Overlord.

I watched it within two days, like the seasons before, but by no means understood everything. This includes in particular references to the "Holy Kingdom", whose arc was skipped in the anime, as I only found out later. According to Wikipedia, the fourth season covers light novel volumes 10, 11 and 14. A movie was supposed to cover the Holy Kingdom Arc (light novel volume 12 & 13), but so far I haven't been able to find any information about it. Maybe it hasn't appeared yet - or perhaps it never will appear at all.

First of all absolutely fantastic series and makes us look at ourselves as individuals in today's world and the society we're in. My point being what would you do if you can do what you want with no consequences? Bad, good inbetween well my opinion of this series is if your small in the world you make a choice. This person is in my opinion had that choice and thinks more about his and not there's.

Watch if you want an anime where you want overpowered mc not a hero because what character building you are going to watch is far different from your normal mc vessel case he freely kill people and those writer also show you their family story and you are forced to thinking wtf about his/her now those all are dead but as i say earlier he doesnt give a damn.

So I finally went through the entire series of Overlord. I quite enjoyed myself even though there was some of that weird stuff being pushed out onto the real world with "boys dressing in girls clothes" crap. Really weirded and creeped me out, but luckily that wasn't a major point in the show. Just shortly mentioned once or twice and fell off of plot. The action was cool but there were some inconsistencies with Ainz's character from being benevolent to malevolent. Please make it make sense. The plot was pretty dry too. My questions always were why are you fighting these people and why are you taking everything away from them? Sure, we're told about someone who killed Shalltear but was quickly forgotten. Not to mention, we never learn any of Demiurge's plans when not even Ainz knows what he's doing. Doesn't make sense , but whatever. Some people might not like it but that is entirely up for you to decide. Don't listen to anyone else's thoughts or opinions on anything until you weighed things out for yourself. This isn't a horrible series but it's not a great one either. So you judge it first.