>>183141562TFW We will never read the next installment of the dullest franchise in the history of anime franchises. Seriously each episode following Ainz and his pals from Nazarick as they fight assorted schlubs has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of fanservice, all to make magic unmagical, to make Isekai seem Iseshit.
Perhaps the die was cast when Maruyama vetoed the idea of Tsurumaki directing the series; he made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody? Just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for his books. The Overlord series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-Evangelion series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>a-at least the LNs are good though"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the books are terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "was sexually tortured and murdered as her younger sisters were sold into slavery."
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Maruyama's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that he has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Overlord by the same Tite Kubo. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these fags are reading Overlord at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Tite Kubo." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Overlord" you are, in fact, trained to read Tite Kubo.
