The final arc has Ainz face off against Shalltear Bloodfallen, one of his minions that has now fallen under an incomplete mind control spell and he must now slay her (normally I wouldn’t spoil this but it was shown in the opening). Ainz is out to make a name for himself under the ulterior motive of using the position to gain more knowledge about the world and the two get involved in a plot by 2 villains to raise an army of the dead. We get a brief interaction with these but it’s enough to get elements of their characters out before we are introduced to the new world though the attack on Carne village by armoured soldiers and Ainz ( as Momonga renamed himself) coming to their defence.Īrc 2 sees Ainz now under the guise of Momon a heavily armoured adventurer in black armour accompanied by one of the combat maids Narberal Gamma under the guise of Nabe. As such Overlord can be easily dissected into 3 arcs each covering the 3 volumes.Īrc one starts with the game Yggdrasil shutting down and Momonga suddenly finding himself in his game character’s body and the nps all acting like fully living beings. Though there is a clear end point of volume 2 it flows into volume 3 more organically than that of the first to the second, and having read the light novels I’m pleasantly surprised how well the episodes flow into those chapters. This is noticeable in the transition from volume 1 to 2 but not so much from volume 2 to 3. You may recall in my review of The Devil is a Part Timer that when this happens you can often see where one volume ends and another begins. The anime adapts the first 3 volumes of the light novels.
It’s present to some degree in the first episode though when he talks about the guild staff. It helps balance out the lack of certain parts in the novel, namely he goes into a lot more inner monologues while nerding out. This is further emphasized by the difference in how he speaks not just the voice which is something that can’t really be done in the written format. It helps to show the difference in who he was as a person and his new undead overlord form. One of the nice touches the anime does is have a notably different inner voice for Momonga/Ainz.
I have now refreshed my watching and am knowledgeable about both so it’s time we look at the first anime season ( might make reference to season 2, but won’t review that till it’s available to purchase over here).įor those who have read my review of the light novel I feel no need to repeat myself and the link up there should get people who haven’t read it up to date. I did look at the original comparing what I read in the light novel to what I saw in the anime. But how do I look at this, I saw the anime long before I read the first volume. You remember my review of the overlord light novel well it’s time to look at its first anime adaptions ( nicely it proved so popular it got 2 compilation movies and a second season, so you can guess this is good).