Overlord IV

E-Rantel, the capital city of the newly established Sorcerer Kingdom, suffers from a dire shortage of goods. Once a prosperous city known for its trade, it now faces a crisis due to its caution—or even fear—of its king, Ainz Ooal Gown. To make amends, Ainz sends Albedo to the city as a diplomatic envoy.

Meanwhile, the cardinals of the Slane Theocracy discuss how to retaliate against Ainz after his attack crippled the Re-Estize Kingdom's army, plotting for the Baharuth Empire to take over the Sorcerer Kingdom. However, when Emperor Jircniv Rune Farlord El Nix arranges a meeting with the Theocracy's messengers at a colosseum, he is confronted by none other than Ainz himself.

With their secret gathering now out in the open, the emperor and his guests learn that Ainz has challenged the Warrior King, the empire's greatest fighter, to a duel. With Ainz's motivations beyond his comprehension, Jircniv can do nothing but watch as humanity's future changes before his very eyes.

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Momonga Main

Hino, Satoshi Japanese

Albedo Supporting

Hara, Yumi Japanese

Bloodfallen, Shalltear Supporting

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Gamma, Narberal Supporting

Numakura, Manami Japanese

Demiurge Supporting

Katou, Masayuki Japanese

Sebas Tian Supporting

Chiba, Shigeru Japanese

Pandora's Actor Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Zeta, Entoma Vasilissa Supporting

Shindou, Kei Japanese

Evileye Supporting

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Fiora, Aura Bella Supporting

Katou, Emiri Japanese

Kikushima, Kazufumi Producer

Fukao, Satoshi Producer

Isogai, Noritomo Producer

Yoshida, Yuuki Producer

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Apr 4, 2025

Isafreyr

Recommended

REJOICE! For you have or will be experiencing, indulging and caressing ABSOLUTE CINEMA.

The fact it is ending soon is the most vital sign of the upcoming judgement day to the absolute state of our modern society, and it saddens me, NO! It's not only me! HOW SELFISH OF ME TO EVEN GIVE THAT A THOUGHT? HOW UNSIGHTLY TO HAVE SUCH A NARROW SOLO PERCEPTION OF THIS WHOLE SITUATION!? Please, forgive me.

This masterpiece of a world has been cursed, just as Berserk animation was. Although the improvements over the god aweful animation we bled our eyes to view were something in Seasons 2-3, at least they ... tried here. And I am ever grateful. To be fair, it's not easy to capture the magnificent stature and elegance that is Overlord. Can't really blame them entirely although a flame rages in my heart.

Am I biased? That is hard to say. Am I brainwashed? possibly. My score and glaze over Overlord stem mostly from the light novels and my ever raging inferno over what the Anime has presented. But again, I can't do anything about it. Wish I could. Is it unreasonable? yes. Is this Anime bad then? Yes and no. Won't go into detail as I am rubbish at that.

The story moves, but skips of character development and backstories are just hard to accept. Especially the crazy time skip to volume 14. Understandable for the sake of the movie and having it all in one setting. Overlord fans know that this adaptation's direction is hurtful. For anybody who picked up the books and felt the amount of hard work that went into them, and how much they weighed would understand this pain. To me, it's a mockery. This is peak world building, and I am not over exaggerating.

And, it's really obvious with how the story later on progresses that lord Maruyama Kugane is trying to end the story. A vital group of characters and curiosities shoved to far away places that we know are safe and there but out of reach to perceive by our own. It's such an easy and quick way to put them out of the hurdles of how they will cause problems to the path which will end this series.

I wish we were in the moment more.

Lord Maruyama Kugane, please give us a gentle death. It's so difficult, we know you are tired and need rest. Please, somebody, become our reason to live. Pick up the Overlord's mantle, and just give us what we know is made for us. Everybody has that ONE THING, and THAT ONE THING that they don't expect and when they realize it, they cling to it. Overlord IS THE ONLY THING, that I can be confident, with zero hesitation that it was made for me. I'm not the only one.

Is the soundtrack impressive? Does it captivate? For me yes but generally, if you listen to it... as a fan of Kevin Penkin, Masayoshi, Yoko Kanno, etc... This is weird. It's the nostalgia? I don't know. the warmth? I can't describe it. Probably biased or brainwashed, could be both, however, that is possible.

I'm just tired, I have been tweaking throughout this review. I am but one of the souls that will have to wander, when this all ends. To you, the reader, who knows about this grand world and what opportunities it has and will lose, or to you the reader who has no idea and is trying to give it a try, or even you, the person who doesn't understand how I even have passion to the point of trying to support the artist's creativity to keep on writing or just have them know that we are here and love their world, have a great day.

Thank you so much for reading.
Farewell.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jun 8, 2023

LibrarianJukka

Mixed Feelings

This season of Overlord is reflective of a large shift in tone and philosophy, and it's one I'm not fully satisfied by, as a fan of the previous three seasons. What I enjoyed about those three seasons was the comedy inherent in the premise, of an extremely self-serious fantasy world butting heads with Ainz, who is the most powerful being in the world despite not even really trying or caring, and, of course, the action sequences. Unfortunately, these are both aspects which have taken a backseat in this new season. The order of the day is politics: in showing Ainz's efforts in building his own ... kingdom, as well as the reactions of other empires to those efforts, as shown through conversations in palace rooms. There is a lot of talking, and not a lot of action; I don't think there was a single fight scene until episode 4. (Disappointingly, they've continued to rely on 3D CG much as in season 3 for these sequences.) But more importantly, it seems that Ainz, having lived in this world for years by now, has begun to see it just as seriously as everyone else, and has lost that amused detachment I enjoyed so much; he's just as self-serious as the rest of the world now. To be clear, the political intrigue is fairly well done, but it's just not what I expected or wanted from this series. Perhaps you feel differently, but for me, this was a real disappointment.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Aug 2, 2024

MatzoiWu

Not Recommended

ah yes, the plague of most fantasy anime nowadays:
S1: lots of fun, lots of thing happening, lots of development
S2: it gets toned down a bit but still fun
S3: stale, slow, gets political
S4: goes full political and boring. Forget all the fun, all the action, all the development and all the things happening. Here are some episode-long dialogues that nobody cares about, here are some antagonists making sophisticated plans that have absolutely no value to the fun factor of the show and no weight because you already know that the god almighty protagonist will whipe them out in a second, so why waste screen time with ... that. Ah, and remember those well developed characters from the first seasons? well, now they're just hollow shells of what they used to be. This season could have been a 90 min movie.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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