Audience reviews
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carnelia_
If you are looking at reviews to see if this anime is worth watching, save yourself the trouble and the time, it is not and it won't be.
This anime just does not innovate, same plot, same development, same conclusion. No drama, no suspense and nothing interesting at all ever happens. Everything just goes according to plan or even better. The main characters are just too overpowered and nothing really matters. The people that call it a masterpiece or a deep, "philosophical" story are clearly trolling.
And if you think that maybe it is worth giving it a try to see how it concludes at the very end... well, the author himself does not seem to want to finish the story, this season and the movie adapt up to volume 14 and he has been stuck for years on the last two volumes of the story (its con…
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There is no need to review Overlord. All has already been said about it. Overlord is now recognised as a classic in the animation and light novel worlds. The number of animes Overlord not only inspired in every genre but became popular due to the inspiration is enormous. It has to be in the hundred thousand. This season alone, there are at least two animes inspired by it.
What is great about Overlord is that It gets better every season which is rare. It's not the only show like this but usually the majority of shows gets worse over time.
Overlord does not become stale because of three reasons. First, the characters. The characters make a show. You can have the most beautiful animation in the world but with trash characters, the show is still trash. Overlord has a lot of characters which…
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We've gotten to the point now with Overlord that the show has officially become extremely stale and the fanbase itself it starting to turn on the show.
The biggest issue with the show is, like many people have already alluded to, and you can already guarantee that I'm going to bring up, is the fact that the main cast of characters are way, way too strong for everything else that's going on around them. There's absolutely no suspense, no drama, and no point to anything that's going on in this entire show. It's crazy to see how badly the show has fallen off from what the show could have been in Season 1. In Season 1, we compellingly see Ainz go up against a manner of issues that he has to face and did not feel at that point that he was so powerful that the show basically didn't have a point…
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ah yes, the plague of most fantasy anime nowadays:
S1: lots of fun, lots of thing happening, lots of development
S2: it gets toned down a bit but still fun
S3: stale, slow, gets political
S4: goes full political and boring. Forget all the fun, all the action, all the development and all the things happening. Here are some episode-long dialogues that nobody cares about, here are some antagonists making sophisticated plans that have absolutely no value to the fun factor of the show and no weight because you already know that the god almighty protagonist will whipe them out in a second, so why waste screen time with that. Ah, and remember those well developed characters from the first seasons? well, now they're just hollow shells of what they used to be. This season could have been a 90 min m…
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This is not a full review, but rather explanation why I feel Overlord stands above the standard.
Something are good because they are good, and somethings are good because they are something that others are not. For me, Overlord is good not because I feel it objectively shines above all other in terms of story and characters (though I feel they are certainly above average), but because it scratches a very specific craving I've developed over the years with excessive anime consumption.
To put it short, I've had my fill of holy savior protagonists, the messiahs, the good boys, the infallible morally just protagonists. I am also sick to death of the edgelords that talk all dark and edgy, yet also never do no actual harm to anyone who isn't literally so evil they eat babies for breakfast. Als…
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The remarkable thing about the Overlord franchise is that it just gets better and better with every season, which is why, at this point, I am saying that you absolutely must watch this show, void of any and all reservations. Everything I said I liked about its previous seasons still holds true, but it comes with the added bonus of Ainz truly coming into his own as a villain in this latest installment.
I did not believe the franchise could top the dramatic ending of season 3, but it did, and then some. There was just such a sheer amount of “HOLY SHIT!” moments this time around, that it took me some 7 hours to get through 13 episodes, because I kept rewatching spectacular parts and scenes, of which there was no shortage. I simply cannot wait for the Sacred Kingdom movie!
Read at the sourceLibrarianJukka
This season of Overlord is reflective of a large shift in tone and philosophy, and it's one I'm not fully satisfied by, as a fan of the previous three seasons. What I enjoyed about those three seasons was the comedy inherent in the premise, of an extremely self-serious fantasy world butting heads with Ainz, who is the most powerful being in the world despite not even really trying or caring, and, of course, the action sequences. Unfortunately, these are both aspects which have taken a backseat in this new season. The order of the day is politics: in showing Ainz's efforts in building his own kingdom, as well as the reactions of other empires to those efforts, as shown through conversations in palace rooms. There is a lot of talking, and not a lot of action; I don't think there was a single…
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Complete waste of time. I really can't imagine how this season can claim to cover 3 whole volumes of the source light novel when all its content boils down to a showoff joke of a "war" and little else. I guess it just means the light novels are not any good either. There is only one noteworthy event in all of it, the so to say "origin story" of a potentially interesting character combo in the future, Princess Renner and her pet.
There are also a few other countries which the MC accidentally conquers as he stumbles around, but that feels just like a side story, completely not serious and not worth mention.
The whole season could've been reduced to one or two episodes for the "main" war+origin story event and one other episode for the accidental side dishes and nothing would've been lost…
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As I get older I find myself watching less and less anime. Maybe I just have less free time. It is true that I have much more responsibilities and much less free time then I had a few years age. Maybe I finally acquired a refined taste and so generic shows no longer satisfy me. I went through my anime list a few weeks ago and I can safely say that if I were to watch all of these shows now, I would scarcely finish half of them. Or perhaps my interests simply changed and anime really was just a phase. Maybe its all of these reasons combined, maybe its something completely different I really cant tell. Either way I cannot deny that my heart is simply not in it like it used to. However, when a show manages to stir my interest and I get my sencond wind, I usually binge the show like a madman. W…
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I am one of the biggest fans of this work.. overlord 4 gave me what I wanted
The story..The animation and mystery element And also the audio was and still what makes this anime great
The story was also great, For this season, he presented a lot of surprising things and secrets that needed an answer, but not all of them, of course.
I wish there were more episodes I think this anime deserves more than 13 But anyway, as long as the episodes are perfect, that's the most important.
Anime is one of my favorite anime in this year and Without much talk, I hope there will be a fifth season because this anime is in one word masterpiece
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Since this season got 8/10, I felt like I'd give Overlord a go since I stopped watching season 1 due to nonsensical plot.
I was wrong. There is no redeeming value, simply the people who continued to watch season 4 are the people who enjoyed the first 3 seasons, so of course they would rate it high.
Towards the end of season 4, I was really rooting for the antagonist to kill Ainz. Ainz is singlehandledly the most boring MC I ever had the mispleasure of watching, and the pain continued for 4 whole seasons. This is a power fantasy for people who enjoy beating single player games with cheat codes.
Now not only do we jump into the "game" in episode one, but Ainz does not react at all from being stuck in the game except a few sentences like "the server didnt shut down in the end" and "wow the…
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after watching the 12 ep , I gave a nice 3 ... it 's a nice notation because I really liked the 3 seasons.
BUT AFTER THE FINAL episode I changed for a 2 ...
I dunno what happened to this anime, it completely changed in the very bad way... humour is gone, characters profils are ultra basic, the balance blabla /action became blabla only. it's now a very very bad anime. You have news characters coming from nowhere without any explain and next episode forgot them and move to any other arc in the season. flet like 4 teams worked at the same time on 3 episodes without any link and they mixed it in a thing they named overlord4. and one bonus ep at the end to end the season and maybe the all overlord anime.
It's more a spin off or a Reboot of Overlord and I can"t consider this is overlord4 has…
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Overlord's main issues are that it's unpleasant and boring.
There are no stakes because we know Ainz and his minions are insanely OP and are going to win every fight. Everything almost always goes according to plan, and if it doesn't it goes even better than expected for our villain protagonist.
Speaking of our villain protagonist, let's talk about the characters. Most of the Nazarick crew are entirely flat and static when it comes to character development, especially when it comes the past 2 seasons. Ainz somehow does whatever the opposite of character development is, having less and less of a personality over time.
After how decent the first 2 seasons were, I really wanted to believe that this story was going somewhere interesting, but, at least so far, Overlord has been yet another…
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Bone Daddy and his goons are back, and they are twisted as ever. This season had a much slower-paced set of events, which was actually a nice change as we got to see the story conclusions of multiple characters. I also think that this season had easily the darkest tone out of all of them up to date, as we saw a ruthless side of Ainz that was teased, but not shown to this amount before. It's another solid season in the books for Overlord.
Art: 7
The art was good, it's nothing groundbreaking, but I'm willing to give that a pass since this season seemed more political. The character designs are still fun and creative, and the music absolutely SMACKS, but overall it was good, but not great.
Characters: 9
In my opinion, this was the best part of this season we got to see some more points of v…
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Very slight spoilers below.
If there was a World Item that would magically turn Summer 2022 into an actually good season, I would do anything to obtain it. I would set up a tent under the nearby bridge and never worry about the real estate market again if it meant I didn’t have to see people raving about a 35-year old grooming a 14-year old. I would create an OnlyFans and join the bottom 99.5% of small, unsuccessful accounts if it meant that uninitiated watchers didn’t look to an emotionless pseudo-intelligent high-schooler as a flawless role model. I would become the world’s most authentic Indian sword-swallower if I could have walked up to an incel character, complete with four cardboard wish-fulfillment girlfriends, and erased them off the character sheet. And if I could find any reaso…
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Overlord is undoubtedly one of the best-built worlds, and has a great cast each with their own screentime all of which only make the world and story richer but many fail to realize that overlord as a whole is a story just about one often overlooked and trivial thing…..
It's the story of a guy who is just lonely.
“Death was sitting on that throne”~Jircniv s3
"Each move he made had meaning-"~also Jircniv s3
But the actual Ainz is……
“They hurt a man I liked for 5 mins, torture them, and make sure their death is painful!”~ Ainz
The way overlord carries comedy with it is how ainz is supposed to be benevolent the all-knowing the all-seeing yet inside, he is the most confused person in the room!
Overlord delves more into the character of ainz, he is now thoroughly bored of the Yss sir attitu…
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There's no easy word to describe the Overlord franchise, although it's often synonymous with words related to isekai and fantasy. With a dedicated fanbase and four seasons that spawned since its animated debut in 2015, it's no wonder this franchise has established itself in the eyes of its fans. Overlord IV continues the saga of Ainz Ooal Gown, a guild master and overlord of the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
Being an established franchise has its advantages. It gives us a general impression of what to expect for its audience without taking much risks. It's like a regular going their favorite restaurant and ordering their favorite meal. Overlord IV is no different except for its ever changing plot. Known for its well-versed dialogues and dark humor, the anime attempts to replicate that experienc…
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Papa Bone Daddy is back ladies and gentlemen.
After 4 years, two seasons and a movie of Isekai Quartet and watching so many clips of the first three seasons, Overlord is indeed back. Now it goes without saying that I freaking love Overlord. I love how it constructs its world, it makes a story about overpowered characters enjoyable and is fleshed out by a large yet distinct cast of characters that are capable and have a purpose. It also is one of the best villain centric anime and makes them interesting and entertaining. Now sure, it ain’t perfect. Not every arc in the series hits equal highs, not all characters are interesting and the animation seems to get worse with every season. But Overlord gets what it does right so damn well. It makes for a really good anime in my opinion. So much…
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Fans and haters of Overlord all know that Ainz is probably one of the most overpowered isekai protagonists out there. In this season, that is no exception. This series follows a similar formula throughout its run, and that formula is “People underestimate Ainz, and then get slaughtered”. This time around, the characters are actually somewhat catching on that, yes, Ainz is nearly unbeatable, so maybe we should work with him instead. To me, I think that the change in formula made the series a bit boring, but there were also quite a few other issues that presented themselves in this season.
My grading criteria: Story: /25 Art: /10 Music: /10 Characters: /20 Enjoyment /15 Thematic Execution /20
STORY: 11.2/25
The story isn’t by any means messy, it’s just that I struggled to care about the p…
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SASUGA AINZ-SAMA! For the 4th (and possibly the final) time.
It's been a long while since we've ever anticipated anything new about Overlord...well, ANYTHING besides the Isekai Quartet "spin-off" chibi series that for some reason, has progressed much faster in the 4-year gap since Season 3 came out. YES, you heard me right. Season 1 came out in Summer 2015, EXACTLY 7 years ago, and then Seasons 2 and 3 in quick succession in Winter and Summer 2018, which was a terrible mistake for Madhouse since it was basically crunch time that ultimately landed on subpar production values that are abysmal for Overlord standards. The Sorcerer King Ains Ooal Gown ONLY demands the best of the best, and thankfully, after 4 long years of abstinence that Madhouse is entering a new revival, the production team…
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