#OVERLORD NOVEL SERIES#

Despite the series attempting to present the protagonist and his group as evil, the best it does is having them kill completely unlikable characters that barely get more than a minute of screen time. After all, the main character is a skeleton wizard and leads an army of Saturday morning cartoon villains. Visually and aurally, it's definitely below average.īut surely despite all that mediocrity, the writing must be amazing. The OST is very forgettable to the point that I might even consider it one of the worst in the shows I've seen- Basically take whatever Yasuharu Takanashi does and make it even more generic than some of his worst works. It only truly picks up in quality at the very end of the series, and even then, it doesn't manage to be very impressive. The animation is really subpar, and there's a lot of terrible looking CGI in the show while it's not focusing on Momonga's face. Apparently when Madhouse realized that they were going to be animating One Punch Man, they saw Overlord's amazing budget saving potential- Most notably, zooming in the unmoving skeleton man's face so they don't have to animate anything at all while he's talking.

That's about the only good thing about the series as a whole- Everything else, including the writing, ranges from mediocre to genuinely awful. The original LN has some pretty nice art and cool character designs. to play as the bad guy in a roleplaying forum. Overlord does absolutely nothing original aside from having a few aesthetic and irrelevant differences from the rest, and people seem to consider it as a brilliant masterpiece because it apparently managed to appeal to those who wanted The concept of this series is the same as what most people are already familiar with A guy is playing a game, and then he's suddenly trapped in it because of some unexplained reason.

So apparently what Sword Art Online needed was for Kirito to be a skeleton wizard and Asuna to be Mahouka's Miyuki. Obligatory spoiler warning because Overlord is a masterpiece that must be experienced first-hand.

Overlord novel