This is also my biggest pet peeve with the original author. I don't care at all about some of the side characters - people whom we won't even see anymore once this (very long) arc wraps up. This wouldn't be so bad if they focused their attention on people that mattered to the world-at-large. At this point I'd almost argue it's hard to tell who the actual protagonist is supposed to be considering how little screen time he gets anymore. They're starting to spend a lot more time fleshing out side characters. Seriously, that episode all by itself probably dropped the scores for animation and sound by a full point. It's just bad CGI.Īlmost exact same issue as the animation category. what they hell were the producers thinking? They don't match either the promo art nor the text description. At least until the second to last episode. The story, if anything, gets slower.Įverything's pretty basic here. If this type of story bothers you then I can tell you that it's only going to get worse if they continue animating based on the light novel. This is why each episode is so slow and there's very little actual focus on our protagonist. The original author of Overlord wrote the series to be less about any single character and more about the world our protagonist is now inhabiting. Overlord is different than a lot of other action/adventure series. Maybe it's handled better in the novels, but as for the anime, it's just a let-down after the potential shown in the first season. TL DR: Poor handling of the premise, one-dimensional characters, and cheap shortcuts in VFX make this take on the 'Overpowered MC' genre fail to shine. If there were some emotional conflict between loyalty to his companions and what he knows to be morally right, that might be an interesting story, but if he doesn't even care that he's evil, either to balk from his evil actions or to revel in them, then why should the viewer care? On top of all that, Ainz just keeps going further and further down this path of a heartless evil overlord, and we're shown that he doesn't even care. This culminates in the ridiculously bad copy-paste CG and wooden animation of the Goblins and Eldritch monsters in the last episodes, where things that were supposed to be awe-inspiring and epic instead became laughably amateur, like a preschool performance of a Shakespearean play. So if characters and plot are out, the only draw left would be sheer spectacle and flashy action, and with the fast consecutive releases of these seasons, they took so many shortcuts with crappy CG and poor animation that it's just not fun to watch anymore. Once again, we find the internal conflicts of the human nations are vastly more intriguing than the schemes of Demiurge, but in the face of Nazaricks power, their power struggles are ultimately meaningless. If the characters are out, then maybe a political drama could work, but Ainz is just so blatantly, massively overpowered, both personally and in terms of resources, that there's really nothing anyone else can do about him. Honestly, the main character is the least interesting part of the story, and that's really not good. The most interesting characters are the humans of the various native nations, but with the massive power gap between them and Nazarick's forces, there's little they can do to actually affect the plot. Ainz himself could be a focus, but honestly he's an incredibly passive character who just goes along with whatever plan his guardians think he's made, without actually trying to plan anything himself. You could choose to focus on the characters and their stories, but the other Nazarick guardians are all too busy worshipping Ainz to actually have their own stories. The whole "massively overpowered MC" thing has been done a lot, and there are a number of ways to deal with it. Honestly, the second and third seasons of the anime were just disappointing.
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