Overlord - Reviews

Just watch the anime.

Or read the light novel if you want more story. Definitely do not read this if you've already seen the anime as this just feels like a watered down picturebook-version of the anime. Plus the story hasn't even caught up with the anime, so you'll be disappointed if you picked this up to read ahead in the story.

Just watch the Anime. It's the rare occasion where there is more effort in the Anime than the manga.

Same goes for the visual aspect and pacing. The Anime is better constructed in both matters. Beside that the Author put the manga behind the Anime so the manga lags a lot.

While the story is interesting and all they tend to devert focus on the main charecter for quite a few chapters at a time and when he is mentioned in those chapters its about things we haven't read about. So the point of view i prefer reading from such as living through the main charecter as he does those things its not all that pleasing to read, however i am one to be open minded and read on for a while and it just made me feel sympathy for the other charecters raher then appreciating the main charecter i grew to dislike him a bit. Don't get me wrong if it was a story ment to be about an evil protagonist i could understand it, however this is a story about a vrmmo player whose charecter is a Skeleton Lord who got teleported to an alternate world as his game player and pretty much regards all those other then the former npcs from his guild as nothing but live stock after a few chapters. I can't see how this can come about when he was only in the world for such a short span of time.

This is a Isekai about a dude getting isekai’d into his game, he then becomes a skeleton and gets a much of op subordinates

 

Story 1/10

 

Before I start I have forgotten some things because I wanted to keep reading but I just didn’t like this, so I was in a stalemate so when I had finally decided to drop this and write a review I thus had forgotten some things, moving on this is really rushed things keep happening in a very random like order, they’ll be doing one thing and suddenly doing something else, it also feels like the MC just suddenly became evil, I mean I know he’s a monster but dude it’s 1 or 2 chapters in and he’s suddenly thinks of humans as live stock, that was just way to quick it felt unnatural.

 

 

Art 4/10

 

Like I said I’ve forgotten some things but after looking through the first and second chapters the art seems fine, it’s not anything unique it’s more ordinary then anything though it does have it’s faults, one being it’s a bit hard to tell what’s happening more so then with other manga’s I’ve red especially the fight scenes

 

Characters 0/10

 

First of all it feels like the main character is evil for the sake of being evil it just happened so suddenly for a better explanation read the story section, the other characters seemed fine I don’t really remember much about them

 

Overall 1/10

 

This is very rushed I wouldn’t recommend it

Today I admit my crimes... I don't like Overlord. I love the premise! But I don't like the story. It feels slow and lacks motivation. The premise has placed the story in the middle of a story that we haven't gotten to read. The people surrounding the mc are boring and we barely get to know them since they're already his servants at the start of the book. While eventually they get their own arcs, it feels so B plot and you just want it over and done with because they've *already* introduced these characters and *already* expected you to know them from the first chapters. I had hoped this would be great fun as I've previously read isekai with similar concepts but without the whole villain thing, but.... It just isn't. The designs are cool, and every so often there's a glimpse of actually enjoyable plot, but it's quickly hidden again but things happening. Things just... Happen. I hate when things just happen! There's absolutely no downtime in this manga, aside from the occasional chat fest where the panels are 90% speech bubbles. It's just go go go and it's so uninteresting. The author seems to have forgotten that fighting is tense and dramatic because we care about the characters, because they don't give you time to care. I hate to say it, but that manga is worse than mid. It's not just boring, it's actively annoying. It makes me wonder if that's the point. If we're meant to hate the main characters and root for their victims, since we get so little time to learn about our annoying main characters, but loads of time for the new side characters. It sounds like a cool idea but the execution is just... Annoying. It's most disappointing because it feels like a story where the mc is just influencing other characters stories and it should feel like a great growing of strength and the mystery about what's going on should be deep and intriguing and it just ISN'T. The author forgets to show us the actual effects of things. Almost everything he does seems to be forgotten about immediately. Everything that is remembered is stuff that happened OUTSIDE THE MANGA. Honestly! My rating might not be entirely fair if I hadn't known about Overlord beforehand and didn't try so hard to enjoy it, since I would've dropped it the moment it was boring and given it a 5. But, none of the numbers are fair. The review is what matters.