The problem here is if you even care at all who they are.
The problem here isn’t even in you losing track of who they all are. The problem is that the new season starts with a new set of characters you don’t really care about and then the show botched its attempt at making you care about them and then uses them for only five episodes before they are then discarded to introduce yet another fresh batch of characters. Heck, done well it could have been a good thing. The characters could have been the saving grace in the transition but here’s the thing: Overlord S2 sidelines the Season 1 characters with significant screentime to side character status.
That’s simply not enough time for two different stories (with at least two different storylines running in parallel.) in two different types of settings. These are two very different arcs with vastly different locales, (massive) set of characters, and conflicts that need to be established all under 13 episodes. Volume 4, however, connects to Volume 5 with only the barest, thinnest of threads. Volumes 5 and 6 are two continuous stories, a mega-arc if you will. Season 2 is an adaptation of Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the light novel. It starts off with a little bit of disadvantage but just really needs to present itself right and everything will fall into place. Again, this isn’t a fault of the adaptation and it can very easily be rectified by solid execution. It’s risking the fact that you may not get invested in the flow of the story because there is really no smooth flow of the story yet. You could say that they are merely individual build-ups sections – badly done build-ups at that, not because there is no immediate pay-off but because they feel like (and probably are) build-up to different things. The first season does not easily expand into this second season and the first arc of this season does not expand into the second arc. Suffice is it to say that the way Overlord is setup forces a quandary on the series. We’re not going to tackle the source materials here though because it is a review of the anime adaptation so let’s keep it to the anime adaptation. Overlord has multiple plot points and threads hanging in the air, the energy and time establishing them being wasted away. It does when you keep adding without expanding on what is already established. You might wonder how can adding more and more detracts from a narrative.
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Overlord, due to the nature of the LN, is a series that adds and adds, but rarely expands. What Overlord S2 is trying to sell now is the idea of a world bigger than its protagonist and that one fails too on two fronts: the core idea itself and the execution of that idea. The problem with the anime series is that it fails so hard to translate and convey the strongest core selling point of Overlord. He’s all they have left of the great beings they worship, and by jove they will raze the world to the ground in his name if that’s what it takes to keep him by their side.Įverything else about Overlord is just barely decent. He’s a man trapped in a situation that already slipped out of his control, propelled by his ever-faithful minions’ tendency misconstrue his words as gospel, his musings as genius, and his luck as omniscience, as well as their fear that he would leave them as his guildmates already have.
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He must pretend to be prescient when he knows next to nothing and carefully delegate his subordinates in a way that gets his wishes done without revealing that he knows less than them on how to carry it out. On and on, his everyman impulses struggles with what he thinks a supreme ruler should act. the most powerful known beings who can threaten his safety are those under him. In the strange world he finds himself in, And he intends to keep that image because anything else might disrupt the equilibrium of Nazarick and, more importantly, jeopardize his safety and base of operations. He can’t afford to make mistakes because his servants cannot imagine him making one. His utterly devoted fanatical underlings treat him like that of a god who can do no wrong. The greatest allure and strength of the Overlord narrative has always been Ainz’s delicate dance between the ordinary dime-a-dozen salary man of Earth and his Overlord status in this other world.
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