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Overlord (LN)
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Rating(4.5 / 5.0, 1581 votes)
5 | 79% (1252 votes) |
4 | 7% (117 votes) |
3 | 4% (69 votes) |
2 | 2% (37 votes) |
1 | 7% (106 votes) |
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Status in Country of Origin. One entry per line
16 Volumes (Ongoing)
1 Side Story Volume
1 Side Story Volume
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Completely Translated
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Weekly Rank: #3246Monthly Rank: #2194
All Time Rank: #473
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On 18520 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #603
All Time Rank: #41
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.In 21st century, world entered a new stage of VR games…and “YGGDRASIL” is considered top of all MMORPG…but, After announcing that all its servers will be off, the internet game ‘Yggdrasil’ shut down…or so was supposed to happen, but for some reason, the player character did not log out some time after the server was closed. NPCs start to become sentient. A normal youth who loves gaming in the real world seemed to have been transported into an alternate world along with his guild, becoming the strongest mage with the appearance of a skeleton, Momonga. He leads his guild “Ainz Ooal Gown” towards an unprecedented legendary fantasy adventure!
Associated Names
One entry per lineŌbārōdo
オーバーロード
不死者之王
오버로드
オーバーロード
不死者之王
오버로드
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Latest Release
Date | Group | Release |
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09/20/22 | Hitori | v16c5 part3 +... |
09/11/22 | Hitori | v16c4 part5 + c5... |
09/04/22 | Hitori | v16c4 part4 |
08/28/22 | Hitori | v16c4 part3 |
08/22/22 | Hitori | v16c4 part2 |
08/21/22 | Hitori | v16c4 part1 |
08/14/22 | Hitori | v15c3 part2-4 +... |
08/07/22 | Hitori | v15c2 part3 + c3... |
07/31/22 | Hitori | v15c1 part3 + c2... |
07/24/22 | Hitori | v15c1 part1-2 |
07/23/22 | Hitori | v15 prologue |
07/28/22 | Hitori | v15 illustrations |
06/08/20 | Hitori | v14 epilogue |
06/05/20 | Hitori | v14c4 part11 |
06/02/20 | Hitori | v14c4 part10 |
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- Very cliche story setup.
- MC can at times be mediocre.
- The combat and fights are a bit mediocre.
The Good:- Amazing world building. I feel this is the best LN I've ever read in terms of world building.
- Great characters. They are consistent and believable. It feels like all characters have their own motivations and reasons for what they do.
- MC has flaws and they matter. This is something that many stories with completely OP MC fail at. However in overlord the MCs flaws are relevant (mostly for humour).
- Very funny.
- Extremely well written, I could have easily thought this was a book written by a native English speaker based on the quality of the writing / translation.
All over I highly recommend this novel.Dark fantasy with decent premise, great world building and side characters, but somewhat poorly executed since they get way too sidelined by OPness of MC.
The closest analogy would be a story about ants like a "A Bug's Life". There are interesting powerful ants, there are boring insignificant ants. We learn much about the ants' daily lives, societal interactions, power struggles, dreams/hopes/frustrations. Then one day, a big clueless bumbling elephant comes along and accidentally stomps on the ants without realizing it. No, not like Saitama from OPM where he contributes meaningfully to characters' lives. Just stomping on them.
Rinse and repeat for 13 volumes.
EDIT: Watch the anime adaptation as an accompaniment to the novel. At least you'll finally figure out what all those verbose descriptions really look like. PREMISE
One of the original isekai (other world transportation) stories. The MC plays a VR game in its final days and finds himself transported into an unknown world, complete with OP RPG-type attributes. He brings with it his OP dungeon (Nazarick) and crew of bad-ass NPCs. CHARACTERS
So so. One of the major failings in the novel, even after it was re-written. A lot of other reviewers pointed out the same flaws.
- MC is quite useless. A former salaryman who becomes ridiculously OP, but is still incompetent and foolish even at 13 volumes. Zero character growth, he continues to be plagued by insecurities and is mentally weak. Very similar to Mushoku Tensei, although he isn't that much of a complete loser.
The concept of an OP main character isn't bad if it's done well (One Punch Man). But again, we've moved past the era of loser MCs.
The joke of plot armor and bumbling strokes of genius is so repetitive that you're already expecting it.
- Author tried to add a darker side to MC where because he is an undead, his emotions get suppressed due to a buff/debuff and somehow becomes a psychopath. It was very poorly written since there was no proper transition (a lot of commenters have indirectly mentioned). At the beginning he's mowing down villains and being a good samaritan. Suddenly he becomes a ret*rded psychopath like Trump with nuclear launch codes.
Loss of emotional highs/lows does not EQUAL psychopath. That's a poor understanding of human psychology. Psychopaths are defined by complete lack of empathy. The fact that a debuff comes on whenever he experiences highs/lows means he can feel. Even if he was a loner in his past life, it doesn't automatically mean he should act out on a power fantasy. There's just no justification provided on how and why he becomes a psychopath, and at the same time still act like an awkward bumbling fool in his interactions with other people.
- MC has a team of amazing talent under him, but cannot seek their help to perpetuate the myth of his invincibility. Very inconsistent with the fact that none of his subordinates cares since their loyalty is programmed in. This all comes down to weird Jap culture of "face saving" even if everything goes to shit. Very weak concept to sustain the whole novel.
- Author decided to really embellish side characters (mostly ordinary residents of New World), devoting multiple MULTIPLE chapters to create their backstories, way more than ALL of the primary characters. I get that author wants to establish different POV for readers, to empathize with side characters and realize how a lot of them end up as pawns in larger schemes (inadvertent or not).
Here's the writing problem. When you devote an INSANE amount of content to obvious side characters that don't advance any plot before killing them off, then it's not Game of Thrones, it's just a s*upid WASTE OF THE READERS' TIME. It's a confusion of who the main actors in a story really are. And worst of all, most of them are killed off because MC is just a bumbling fool, which just leaves a bad taste.
EDIT: I read that author was a HUGE fan of AD&D tabletop games and frequently played the role of Dungeon Master. That explains the character sheets at the end of chapters.
I applaud author's depth of detail and get his enthusiasm for developing characters, but it's overdone with little left for subtext. I'm no longer reading a story, just an insanely complex RPG. WORLD BUILDING
This is where the novel shines. Great descriptions, epic battles, very well fleshed out. Illustrations are really impressive and create a dark fantasy atmosphere to go along with the novel's theme. The illustrator definitely sold this novel as much as the author. I guess marketing is (almost) everything. LOST IN TRANSLATION/WRITING
Maybe this is a problem from that earlier generation of Jap novels, or perhaps most jap novels, but they tend to be ridiculously verbose and rambling. Multiple pages go on with characters expressing every thought in their head out loud with zero conclusion. I'm not sure what happened to good old subtext. Conversations fly back and forth with no indication of who is speaking.
It gets so incredibly annoying that I skim/skip through most of the conversations now.
I thought Chinese web authors were bad with verbosity since they are paid by the word, but this takes the cake. I'm not sure if Jap web authors are paid by the word either.
lol he undead (no male reproductive organ?)