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Montegoraon posted:Overlord, the manga. Why does it look so much better than the anime? (Latest chapter has Shalltear's true vampire form) Both do a decent job of following the description of the form, but the anime made the mistake of showing it completely.
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Is there any hope in getting a second season sooner or later?
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Feb 1, 2016 21:50
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Well, it is Madhouse, so... Probably unlikely.
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Feb 1, 2016 22:59
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There's plenty of LN content, it's just a question of whether there's any interest. Log Horizon got a season 2, so who knows.
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Feb 1, 2016 23:22
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Vengarr posted:There's plenty of LN content, it's just a question of whether there's any interest. I wish log horizon had not gotten a season 2.
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Feb 1, 2016 23:23
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Serious Frolicking posted:I wish log horizon had not gotten a season 2. I know exactly what you mean.
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Feb 1, 2016 23:24
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I just want Mamare to stop loving up his taxes.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:42
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Grouchio posted:Is there any hope in getting a second season sooner or later? I'm really worried that the Overlord production committee is satisfied with the results as it, I mean the light novels got reprinted how many times now? Annointed posted:I just want Mamare to stop loving up his taxes. At least fire the guy who did them for him if he had one in the first place. Has any group touched the presumed short story pages that come with each printed volume of the manga?
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Feb 2, 2016 16:06
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Hey, watched Overlord in the last couple days because I played too many MMO/MUDs and like skeletons and thought it was okay enough to watch a second season (if it gets one). "I miss my friends" is a surprisingly good enough hook to follow the exploits of God-Emperor Murder Skeleton. Hoping they might at some point in the future explain what the hell is going on or if this is all some kind of Jacob's Ladder poo poo where Momonga's living out a mental life even though he's dying edit: holy poo poo the last post in here was in February
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Apr 10, 2016 07:18
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ellbent posted:Hey, watched Overlord in the last couple days because I played too many MMO/MUDs and like skeletons and thought it was okay enough to watch a second season (if it gets one). "I miss my friends" is a surprisingly good enough hook to follow the exploits of God-Emperor Murder Skeleton. Hoping they might at some point in the future explain what the hell is going on or if this is all some kind of Jacob's Ladder poo poo where Momonga's living out a mental life even though he's dying It's pretty doubtful it'll get a new season any time soon.
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Apr 11, 2016 02:23
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ellbent posted:Hey, watched Overlord in the last couple days because I played too many MMO/MUDs and like skeletons and thought it was okay enough to watch a second season (if it gets one). "I miss my friends" is a surprisingly good enough hook to follow the exploits of God-Emperor Murder Skeleton. Hoping they might at some point in the future explain what the hell is going on or if this is all some kind of Jacob's Ladder poo poo where Momonga's living out a mental life even though he's dying The light novels are translated into English here if you want to go past where the anime stopped. I wouldn't rule out a second season in the future, especially if interest in the series remains high (sales of the novels spiked hard when the anime was airing), but it's not likely to happen anytime soon. It's a shame, the first three volumes (which was what the anime covered) were the most conventional of the bunch. Everything afterwards is way more interesting and off-the-rails.
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Apr 11, 2016 02:42
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So, volume 10 is out and a Japanese->Chinese->English translation is proceeding. Let's see how long it takes Ainz to unknowingly say or do something stupid.quote:He picked up Mare as he approached, and placed him on his left thighbone. Oh, Ainz, you almighty moron.
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Jun 8, 2016 23:15
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*licks lips threadbumpfully*
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Jun 8, 2016 23:47
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Montegoraon posted:So, volume 10 is out and a Japanese->Chinese->English translation is proceeding. Let's see how long it takes Ainz to unknowingly say or do something stupid. You really should post links when you find something like that. Found this myself after a quick google: https://www.reddit.com/r/overlord/comments/4lrf9e/overlord_vol10_prologue/
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Jun 9, 2016 01:53
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Namtab posted:*licks lips threadbumpfully*  After having started on reading the Yen Press publication of the light novel in loving English, I don't think I can stomach any more fan-translation of this material. Besides, the books are really cool-looking if you take off their sleeves.
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Jun 9, 2016 07:05
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Mordaedil posted:
Fan translations and general story quality are why I dropped SAO. Professional stuff tends to be better, unfortunately.
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Jun 9, 2016 07:26
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I actually just watched this anime on hulu because I saw a skeleton and it was dope. I tried reading the manga but it feels like a cliffs notes version of the light novel cause it jumps around without explanation a lot so if I hadn't seen the anime first I'd have been lost. Anyway Ainz owns and there should be more games where I can be a Skeleton Wizard. Guess I'll play some Hyrule Warriors as Wizzro or something, that's close.
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Jun 9, 2016 08:16
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If you mod Neverwinter Nights to include the Player's Resource Consortium, you can multiclass into a Lich at level 11.
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Jun 9, 2016 09:04
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PringleCreamEgg posted:I actually just watched this anime on hulu because I saw a skeleton and it was dope. I tried reading the manga but it feels like a cliffs notes version of the light novel cause it jumps around without explanation a lot so if I hadn't seen the anime first I'd have been lost. Yeah the manga doesent bother to explain a lot and skips a lot more. Its mostly good for the art and funny faces.
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Jun 9, 2016 10:39
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Men of the Re-Estize Kingdom: Brain Unglaus Gazef Stronoff Climb Zanack Valreon Igana Ryle Vaiself Barbro Andrean Ield Ryle Vaiself Ranpossa III Elias Brandt Dale Raeven Nfirea Bareare Pluton Ainzach Panasolei Gruze Day Rettenmaier And now, given half of a chapter to himself, we have a new character: Phillip. That's his entire name, I just want a big black bar. 
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Jun 14, 2016 23:58
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Gave up on the LN fan translations after about two chapters, switched to the manga once the anime ran out. Someone wanna spoil me on Ainz's secret plan for a not-terrible resolution to this lizard man arc? Because it's hard to see this as anything but committing genocide for shits and giggles.
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Jun 15, 2016 00:59
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Rangpur posted:Gave up on the LN fan translations after about two chapters, switched to the manga once the anime ran out. Someone wanna spoil me on Ainz's secret plan for a not-terrible resolution to this lizard man arc? Because it's hard to see this as anything but committing genocide for shits and giggles. I loved the Lizardmen arc. It's pretty divisive though, some people think its the worst arc and others (me) think its one of the best. I really liked the ending too. Still holding out hope for a Lizardmen Heroes OVA or something but I'm not holding my breath. Although Volume 10 apparently sold gangbusters in Japan. It ends with everyone surviving
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Rangpur posted:Gave up on the LN fan translations after about two chapters, switched to the manga once the anime ran out. Someone wanna spoil me on Ainz's secret plan for a not-terrible resolution to this lizard man arc? Because it's hard to see this as anything but committing genocide for shits and giggles. Big ol' spoilers. The entire thing is an elaborate plan by Ainz to see if the leaders of Nazarick are capable of learning, adapting, and evolving like real people when they used to just be NPCs and monsters. It's basically a big test to see if Cocytus can make decisions on the fly based on what he thinks and feels instead of just robotically following Ainz's commands. It ends with Cocytus deciding that he respects the lizardmen and effectively pleading for their lives to Ainz because they put up such a good fight despite having absolutely no chance of beating him, which surprises/delights Ainz because this proves that Cocytus(and by extension, the rest of the Nazarick bosses) isn't just an NPC anymore. The lizardmen are then basically conscripted into the Nazarick fold and the dead major lizardmen are resurrected.
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So does Ainz ever realize that being a huge jerk and letting Demiurge be a huger jerk is taking the easy way out?
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Jun 15, 2016 04:51
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It's a real shame the manga for this is monthly and spends too much panel space on battle scenes.
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Serious Frolicking posted:So does Ainz ever realize that being a huge jerk and letting Demiurge be a huger jerk is taking the easy way out? He eventually becomes a real jerk lich alright.
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Mordaedil posted:He eventually becomes a real jerk lich alright. Ah, so he never grows as a person or learns anything. Good to hear I was justified in dropping it.
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So what's the furthest the story has gotten and could someone give a quick summary of it, I'm curious but not enough to read light novels and the manga is monthly and plodding (even if the lizardmen are rad)
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The last part of book nine that is the furthest I've read now that I'm waiting for official translations, Ainz makes a deal with the Child Emperor and organises a big war between the three nations of the Empire, the Kingdom and the Tomb of Nazarick. Forgive me for not remembering their names. Empire has fewer soldiers, but they are well-trained, the Kingdom has the most soldiers but they are basically drafted from farmlands and the like. War comes, both sides show up on each side of a swamp and Ainz as a spellcaster is given the honor of beginning the battle with a single spell. He starts coming to the final conclusion that there are none or cannot be any player characters in this world, so he's free to do as he wishes and promptly summons: A bunch of these fuckers except in epic shadowy form, right in the middle of the enemy army. He roll 1d4 and summons four of them. They tear the enemy army apart by literally falling all over them causing massive panics. He decides he wants to do this close up and call one of them to him and his Empire allies shits their pants so hard they break formation and end up trampling their own friends to death in pure horror. He laughs and jumps on top of the abomination and rides it into battle. There he meets Brain, Gazef and Climb and is really willing to let them join his fun party, but they don't quite find it as jolly as he does, so Gazef does the honorable thing of challenging him to mortal combat so maybe Climb can grow a little bit. Ainz offer to raise him from death if he dies, but he refuses as it'd complicate things for the king. So he dies and I am not sure exactly what Climb or Brain could learn from a finger of death spell other than don't melee a caster with death spells. And then Ainz conquers the frontier town as a demon army and uses his alter ego to make the population complacant by having him admit to everyone that he wouldn't stand a chance going all out. Watch as Albedo nearly fucks everything up. Watch as Albedo turns into a bit of a psycho because she loves Momonga, not Ainz Ooal Gown.
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Serious Frolicking posted:Ah, so he never grows as a person or learns anything. Good to hear I was justified in dropping it. He's learned plenty. Like the best way to sacrifice human armies to the dark gods   We do really need to start moving towards whatever treacherous bullshit Albedo is cooking up though, it's the only obvious source of drama and conflict in the story at the moment.
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he is the dark god in that setting. a guy gaining absolute power and losing his humanity and deciding to kill everyone just because he can is like the least interesting outcome imaginable. worse, it is lazy.
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So he literally just summons summons a bunch of shubnigguraths to ruin everyone's day? Great. Is there any sign of the series winding down or finishing, everything I've heard about it is that it's kinda boring with no real threat ever presenting itself against him and he steamrolled anyone who gets uppity.
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cant they ever give the overpowered main character a proper rival or a foe? someone who can go toe-to-toe with him on their terms, someone who can become a proper foil
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i would be fine if he lacked an external enemy if he had ever really fought internally. all those potential inner conflicts were resolved when ainz decided to just kinda go with the flow.
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Captain Invictus posted:So he literally just summons summons a bunch of shubnigguraths to ruin everyone's day? Great. The setting is one where the humans are the weakest race if I recall correctly, so I think the next step is for Ainz to go challenge the real powers of the setting, which I don't think is going to anywhere nearly as easy as so far. Besides, the story is peppered with smaller scenarios and things that make it still fairly entertaining and interesting to read and if you liked the Lizardfolk storyline, you'd love the story involving the Carne village and when it focuses on Enri, a far more complicated character than Ainz, whom even Ainz is forced(don't read this choice of words pendantically) to respect in some capacity.
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ainz is the strongest dude! but what if there was a dude who was stronger by 1 level????? as a connoisseur of poorly written juvenile power fantasies, i gotta say that doesnt really grab me.
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Jun 15, 2016 08:18
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ainz's low-detail grumpy face is probably my favorite thing in the manga tbh
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Jun 15, 2016 08:23
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It's definitely bad that we've reached Volume 10 and we still don't know what the central conflict of the story is. The corrupting influence of power? The need to let go of the past and move on? All of the themes set up in volume 1 and 2 have basically been ignored in favor of Guardian hijinks and peoples' asses getting stoved in. Still a fun ride though
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For me, the big appeal of the series is taking me back to the days when I used to play Neverwinter Nights on Persistant World servers and we'd all have different factions, overpowered guilds and gear and we had people from all over the world play at the same time and some played as the good guys and others played as the bad guys and the big thing on the order of the day was spionage on the other guilds plans so we could have large conflicts, with the bad guys often only having one guy confront an army of good guys and somehow actually pull out a win because of powerful equipment he had earned through DM questing. For me, much like Ainz, I like to delve into nostalgie of a time where I once played as the bad guy and remember the friends I had once made and of the successes we had. And now all I have left to play with are the memories of those friends in an otherwise empty world where there is no challenge anymore, no big conflicts, only NPCs that amount to nothing more than insects.
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