After days of nothing but studying it’s always good to get loose and enjoy some free time with something you love and had I been a gamer I probably would have been 48 hours into some hectic gaming session, or better yet the next best thing is some anime about gaming seems to be the cure for a quick fix for my little nerdy heart. Enter Overlord, the anime that brings another gaming world to life.
Aside from being another anime that makes me question why I am not a hardcore gamer, Overlord proves to be yet another intriguing story based on a character that gets pulled into a world of gaming and left to his own devices. The premise reminds me of anime like Sword Art Online and Log Horizon and thus has me anticipating quite a lot from it while still keeping me slightly wary as to the fact that yet another anime took this route. Still I won’t complain as long as it delivers and to some extent I have to say it sort of does.
The story revolves around our lonely hero who is logged into a seemingly outdated game that has had most of its players now moved on to other commitments while he roams alone as a dark lord in his castle built by him and his friends. In the final hours that he spends in saying farewell to the game and all the memories made there something happens that has him waking up unable to leave the game.
Along with his inability to log out he discovers that all the NPCs (Non-Player Characters) have somehow come alive beyond their usual selves. Curious to the extent of the change our hero explores the world further and discovers that the game he once knew has changed into a more real world than it was before and that he was now more than just a character in a game.
Intrigued by these changes our hero then takes on the name of his previous clan as he decides to embrace his new world and maybe even conquer it.
Though the introduction to world is a bit flimsy and the story basically jumps right into the plot of being stuck in a game, the overall idea is familiar. Still that kind of laziness grates a bit, however, the story does make up for it in character development of our hero as he slowly realizes he has now become this ‘overlord’ of sorts and we see his personality change to that of his new persona.
Another treat is the NPCs who have now become their own individuals as they serve their master. The varying personalities are fun to watch and their extreme devotion to their overlord is a source of great enjoyment.
So I’ll admit it’s a shaky start to liking the anime at first, but it draws you in as you continue to watch and enjoy the antics of the group who wants to take over the world they’ve been thrown in.
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