OVERLORD – Fascinating Anime

A Japanese light novel animation television series followed by the novel named Overlord which was illustrated by So-bin and written by Kugane Maruyama. The overlord television series was directed by NaoYuki Ito and was produced by Madhouse.

The series premiered on AT-X on 7th July 2015 and simultaneously broadcasted on different several television networks including Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, BS 11, and TV Aichi. The series has cast 39 episodes over a total of three seasons and concluded on 2nd October 2018.

Abstract

The series was based on a storyline of a popular online video game named Yggdrasil. In the series, the game suddenly shut down and a player of the game remained in the game. The player, Momongo was the only one left in the offline game.

He got surprised as he found himself active with all the programming acting on its own. He was having nothing to lose and everything he can gain. He stepped forward to his new home to make it his empire. He was trapped in the game as a Warrior king and now the emperor of his new empire.

The boy trapped along with Nazarick, and on the other hand, the inhabitants got tuned into a completely developed one. He began exploring the fantasy world to find out whether his friends or fellowship players were also brought to the fantasy world or not.

Starred Cast

The series involves a very long list of the casted characters. The lead characters include Satoshi Hino, Yumi Hara, Emiri Kato, Chris Guererro, Masayuki Hara, Elizabeth Maxwell, Jill Harris, Jeff Johnson, Shigeru Chiba, Felecia Angelle and many more characters are there in the series cast.

Episodes

The series involves thirty-nine episodes in total with connecting storylines. The episodes of the season 1 is based on plot related to the end and beginning of game, introduction to floor guardians, the battle of Carne village, ruler of death, introduction to two adventurers, journey to Carne village, introduction to magical creature known as wise king of forest, twin swords to sting death, the dark warrior, true vampire, confusion and understanding, the bloody valkyrie, and introduction to player vs non-player character.

Second season’s episodes are based on the plot headings that include the dawn of despair, departure of a dark entity, the gathering of lizard men, introduction to the army of death, the freezing god, the difference between those who pick up and those who are picked up, blue roses as finance, depicting a boy’s feeling, steeping the sparks for fire, beginning of disturbance and interruption in the royal world, leading to a final battle, and the introduction to the ultimate trump card.

Season third concluded the series relating the topic like a ruler’s depression, again the battle for Carne village, Enri’s disturbing and hectic scheduled days, search for giant of the east and snake of the west, two leaders ensuring the safety of the villagers, adventurers of darkness invite for death, entrapped in the clever web, looking for hope, preparation for the other war, and at last player vs player.

Critics views

The critics reviewed the series as the most fascinating and cool RPG anime series. The series has made the audience experience something different from anything in an entertaining way.
The series was a perfect and satisfying fantasy and entertaining animation for the anime lovers.

The show became the most-watched and loved series of the anime version ever.

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