Overlord (light novel)
| People do keep bandying the word "world-building" around like having an ounce of it suddenly makes a series better or that Overlord is good at it. Give me a pen, a paper, and 4 hours and I can make a map with city names and town names. And I can nick off races from D&D to liberally sprinkle around it. |
EankiAug 16, 2022 10:24 AM
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Eanki said: People do keep bandying the word "world-building" around like having an ounce of it suddenly makes a series better or that Overlord is good at it. Give me a pen, a paper, and 4 hours and I can make a map with city names and town names. And I can nick off races from D&D to liberally sprinkle around it. you haven't read the LN have you |
Zprotu said: Oh I have. Up until the second volume involving Remedios Custodio, my favorite character.Eanki said: People do keep bandying the word "world-building" around like having an ounce of it suddenly makes a series better or that Overlord is good at it. Give me a pen, a paper, and 4 hours and I can make a map with city names and town names. And I can nick off races from D&D to liberally sprinkle around it. you haven't read the LN have you |
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Comander-07 said: Im the first to ask for stakes but here the stakes are simply different. The question is "can Ainz rule peacefully" or will he have to destroy everyone, the easy way? What kind of futile resistance will the humans mount? Stuff like that. There are still strong beeings and items left which can harm them, but if you want Nazarick to completely lose then you can stop watching now. Author confirmed a happy end. Whoa, the author confirmed a happy end? Was it during an interview or something I would love to hear more about it |
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Eanki said: Oh I have. Up until the second volume involving Remedios Custodio, my favorite character. Ew. God i hated that bitch. I cant believe anyone liked her. Plus she was always super rude to best girl neia. I hate that those two volumes are gonna get butchered by being turned into a movie. |
MightyRoos said: Most of isekai didn't have any clear direction at first but they will gain their purpose when the story progress. Regardless, their main strong point is the world building and I think Overlord did it successfully. Some stories didn't require a purpose to be enjoyable. If you like it then you had a quality time watching it and time well spent on something you like. But if you don't like it why bother watching until season 4 since you said it lost it purpose after first season? Problem is Overlord had clear direction at first season but lost it after that. |
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kingpin120 said: yeah interview I think. Basically he said he is tired of the bad guys always losing in the end tropeComander-07 said: Im the first to ask for stakes but here the stakes are simply different. The question is "can Ainz rule peacefully" or will he have to destroy everyone, the easy way? What kind of futile resistance will the humans mount? Stuff like that. There are still strong beeings and items left which can harm them, but if you want Nazarick to completely lose then you can stop watching now. Author confirmed a happy end. Whoa, the author confirmed a happy end? Was it during an interview or something I would love to hear more about it |
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cyf1986 said: Nah its common knowledge on the subs reddit. Admittedly I never read the part myself. But everything so far hints at it, I mean there is literally 0 threat.Comander-07 said: Hmm, I tried googling but I can't find it. The only interview I find is one from 2017 where the author basically said his world is "might makes right".yeah interview I think. Basically he said he is tired of the bad guys always losing in the end trope Even a potential ending discussion thread on reddit from 14 days ago, nobody mentioned what u just said, so maybe u heard partially wrong ? But my personal guess is that he is going to win and become the true overlord, but after some time he will get pulled back to the real world and lost what he earned. We also know how he ended up in the new world. Backstory of the 13 heroes and such. It was also hinted at in ep11. |
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Okeanix said: MightyRoos said: Most of isekai didn't have any clear direction at first but they will gain their purpose when the story progress. Regardless, their main strong point is the world building and I think Overlord did it successfully. Some stories didn't require a purpose to be enjoyable. If you like it then you had a quality time watching it and time well spent on something you like. But if you don't like it why bother watching until season 4 since you said it lost it purpose after first season? Problem is Overlord had clear direction at first season but lost it after that. Maybe watch at normal speed with brain engaged instead of 10x speed while eating glue? |
Okeanix said: Series lost its purpose after Season 1. There was stakes like World Items controlling Shalltear but Overlord throwed away this stake and forced us to watch some generic lizards, dwarfs or other generic race backgrounds. Ignoring important topics like Slane Theocracy. I don't think this is good worldbuilding or something, i don't understand what author are building up to because series will be over in 2 Volumes and everything will go the waste pretty much. Story gets less interesting and boring each season and awful CGI is not helpful either. Bro, there was no sense of danger even at the start, the first season, everyone is too op and Ainz can just resu anyone bro, this show was mid from the start |
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Oremonogatari said: I also agree with this notion.I disagree and will not elaborate further |
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