But there is careful strategy planned out to conquer the world, which is enjoyable to watch as it unfolds. His empire of super high level characters could easily take over a kingdom or two right from the start. Experiencing a fantasy from a likable villain’s perspective is fresh. In any fantasy story, he would be the evil demon king that a hero must prevail against. However, the main character in Overlord – Ainz Ooal Gown (Momonga) – is kind of the villain. This can be fun to experience at first, but the sense of danger and worry for a main character are hard to develop if he is always going to win. Overlord is the latter, which appeals to the “power fantasy” of the reader. Overpowered and seemingly invincible from day one
In these trapped in a video game stories, the main character is usually one of two things:Ģ. In Overlord, this premise plays strong in the first few volumes and beyond, and the main character must analyze the way the game world works in order to progress. Once the initial “wow, I’m in a video game” wears off, it just becomes a typical fantasy, where the premise is almost completely forgotten.
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But most series that do this just use it as an excuse to create a fantasy world. Yes, the main character is thrust into a virtual video game world like in so many other stories. While this genre has actually existed for a long time, Sword Art Online brought this genre to the masses (for better or worse), and for the past several years you can’t escape novels and anime that take on this theme.ĭon’t let that deter you. It is the overly abundant, real world main character gets trapped in a video game ( 異世界 ) genre. The theme of Overlord may make you roll your eyes. It’s easy to pass over at first glance, but worth a deeper look. Hopefully I can convince you why you too should be reading and watching Overlord.
Overlord is a fantasy light novel series with 13 volumes, a manga, an anime that is about to start season 3, and is too much fun to not write an entire article about. I don’t get hooked on new long-running novel series often, but then Overlord came along, and here I am 6 books later.
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