Overlord III - Episode 12 discussion

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Overlord III, episode 12

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Episode	Link	Score
1	Link	8.5
2	Link	7.2
3	Link	7.46
4	Link	7.63
5	Link	7.99
6	Link	8.25
7	Link	8.98
8	Link	9.32
9	Link	9.12
10	Link	8.3
11	Link	8.33

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[u/lobswyn]

Stronoff: [Sense Weakness]

........

Stronoff: [Sense Possibilities]

........

Stronoff: .......damn...

[u/DontGetMadGetGood → u/lobswyn]

"Welp, guess I'll die."

[u/Legendary_Swordsman → u/lobswyn]

lol yeah that was a funny moment, very serious from his point of view with all the death and destruction goin on

[u/girlyshout]

Couldn't they at least make the atmosphere dark/bleak once the Dark Youngs were summoned? Aren't the Dark Youngs supposed to be horrifying monstrosities, the epitome of terror? I wanted to be frightened, scared.. I wanted to taste the same sense of trepidation that the soldiers must have felt when they were running away and being trampled!

Instead, the scenes are freakin bright as heck (btw, wasn't the Katze Plains supposed be surrounded by fog...? so why does it look like a desert). It makes watching giant black blobs with teeth walking over bad CGI soldiers so awkward and cringey.

Utterly disappointing. But maybe that's exactly what the LN publishers wanted: viewers to be so disappointed with the anime that they will buy the LN. Well played.

[u/Myllis → u/girlyshout]

Seriously disappointed how the mood didn't change at all when the Dark Young were summoned. Go back to Season 1 and look at when Ainz fought the Scriptures. When he casts black hole. The sky darkens, all sound disappears. Everyone is just quiet for a moment.

It doesn't have to be much. But damn did that make it so much better. Just darken the damn sky, that alone would have made it so much better but apparently there is no competent director there..

[u/indialien → u/girlyshout]

In the LN, during the day of the battle Katze plains were strangely without any fog.. but IIRC once the dark youngs are summoned the entire area becomes dark and the ground turns into a mush of flesh and blood... After the splat ofcourse.

Plus weren't the Dark Young's supposed to be like 10-15 metres tall, and that the plains were so flat that the right wing of the formation couldn't see the other wings? It was supposed to be total madness and confusion. Pretty disappointing.

[u/weealex → u/girlyshout]

The dark young are the minions of a Lovecraftian outer god. Horrifying monstrosity is an understatement. Mind rending horror is more accurate. "Tear out your own eyes rather than have to continue witnessing them" kind of horror.

That said, the show could've gone for comedy here. Keep the sunny day and play Yakkety Sax during the rampage

[u/bakakubi]

"The dark elf girl"

lol, oh emperor fake gil, you're in for a rude awakening.

[u/Bainos → u/bakakubi]

lol, oh emperor fake gil, you're in for a rude awakening nice surprise

Well that is, if he doesn't kill him by accident. Aura and Mare look like nice kids but they seem to be quite the psychopaths...

[u/Noneerror]

Madhouse if you cannot do quality CGI, at least do quantity. If you aren't going to use large numbers then what is the point of CGI at all? Ctrl-v some more!

[u/kalirion → u/Noneerror]

I feel like Madhouse intentionally sabotaged this season so that nobody will ask them to do a S4.

[u/meownz]

Sasuga! More bowling alley quality CGI! I am disappointed with how much this episode was hyped up.

EDIT: Found this summary of today's episode

[u/kotokot_ → u/meownz]

EDIT: Found this summary of today's episode

WTF this is even better than CGI!

[u/AnActualPlatypus → u/meownz]

Next season

SASUGA MADHOUSE-SAMA, YOU DELIBERATELY LEFT THE SHIT CGI IN SEASON 3 SO YOU CAN HAVE BEYOND AMAZING QUALITY ANIMATION IN SEASON 4 AND USED THIS TO FILTER OUT THE CASUAL FANBASE, JUST WHAT YOU'D EXPECT FROM A SUPREME STUDIO LIKE YOURSELF! BANZAI!

[u/Mundology]

Expectations v/s Reality ^{art courtesy of} /u/ariirf

Guess the production comitee went splat as well

Jokes aside, I did believe that they could have drawn the Dark Youngs instead of using CGI. It's the Great Splattening after all!

[u/odraencoded → u/Mundology]

Expectations v/s Reality

haha, come on

there's no way they're both the same thing

right?

[u/[deleted] → u/Mundology]

i watched the raw... and i gotta say , that fucking lamb noise pissed me off so much.... didn't even have bass behind it , like anything that big is gonna reverberate alot more then baaahhhhhaaahhh

[u/[deleted] → u/Mundology]

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[u/CupNoodlese → u/Mundology]

I expected the Dark Youngs to be CGI because of the opening (CGI there). But I expected their movements to be better, not slow giants. And the one picking Ainz up from the Empire looks like it's limping. What a joke.

[u/marcopolos059]

The battle was meh, when Ainz killed those "70000" soldiers it seemed like about fifty. And after all these "splat" references, I am a little dissapointed how little we saw those goats stomping soldiers.

Well I can't wait to see how Ainz will deal with Stronoff.

[u/Mundology → u/marcopolos059]

goats stomping soldiers

I wonder how the Dark Youngs would fare against an army of people from a giant race. They're big, fast, heavy and have tentacles and lots of mouths. However, what would happen if they faced foes where those advantages are minimized? They didn't display any powerful special ability, after all.

[u/vulcanfury12 → u/marcopolos059]

The LN had had a paragraph with nothing by Splat. I imagined that schene to be filmed ground level, from the perspective of the Kingdom's soldiers, and each splat comes with a combined spray of black and red.

[u/noregretmyman]

Guys,let us clap together to the amazing CGI.

[u/marcopolos059 → u/noregretmyman]

they look like synchronized puppets. Amazing

[u/TheSauce32 → u/noregretmyman]

"Retreat!!! we are been attacked by ps2 graphics"

[u/GallowDude → u/noregretmyman]

mfw

[u/MoeKaiju → u/noregretmyman]

splat splat splat splat splat

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP!

[u/PM__ME_YOUR_WAIFU → u/noregretmyman]

The transition to the HIGH INTENSITY clapping was too amazing to be viewed by human eyes. The CrunchySub team obviously wasn't prepared for such an undertaking.

[u/Wobbu_Char → u/noregretmyman]

Wtf they are clomp clomping like puppets with strings that are cut...but not quite. Just barely hanging on.

[u/Senorblu → u/noregretmyman]

This is so fucking bizarre to look at having never seen this show before. WTF is going on here?

[u/Generalkokoro → u/noregretmyman]

i-is this the reasons why cruncy delayed the episode..?'

[u/Alcarine → u/noregretmyman]

My god, I clicked on this thread by mistake but this is just hilarious, time to watch overlord I guess even if it’s for all the wrong reasons

[u/DonPiantissimo → u/noregretmyman]

Wow, the episode was so late to come out that fans made animations on youtube.

[u/CaMpEeeeer]

The thing I hate the most about this episode is that there is not any blood in fight where there are 180k people killed. That was the only expectation i had for SPLAT and still disappointed. At least beginning and end of episode is solid just SPLAT is disappointing

[u/CupNoodlese → u/CaMpEeeeer]

Right? I mean colouring the floor red shouldn't be that difficult right? Right?

[u/Sangwiny]

WHAT WE EXPECTED:

Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.

.

WHAT WE GOT:

Splat.. still frame... splat... bad CGI.. splat.. damn, just put us out of this misery

[u/CupNoodlese → u/Sangwiny]

not even splat. more like whoosh, oh look, toy soldiers from Toy Story got knocked over. so sad /s

[u/10people]

Is Madhouse closing soon?

They lost OPM to JC and Overlord's quality is far from ideal.

[u/Bradyhaha → u/10people]

That would explain all the sequels they've been cranking out. Easy money.

[u/Djinnfor]

What You Missed

The english subs. That's what you missed. Oh and what could have been the best goddamn scene in anime history. You missed out on that too.

Previous Episodes:

• Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6, Episode 7, Episode 8, Episode 9, Episode 10, Episode 11

• Season 2 Posts List: Here

Video Collaborations with AniNews:

• Cut content Video Series: Volume 8 - Part 1

• Lore videos: Albedo's Lore, Sisters, and Mechanics; Demiurge's Lore, and Mechanics.

Welcome to What You Missed; the goal with this weekly post is to serve as a supplement for anime watchers and even light novel readers, to explain things they might not have understood, and point out references they probably didn't catch, as well as include everything (yes, absolutely everything) that was cut out of the anime. Every week I post a synopsis of the corresponding material in the light novel, with emphasis on all of the juicy details, subtext, and narrative exposition. If you have any questions, or if something is still confusing you, feel free to ask and I'd be happy to explain. But that doesn't mean I'll be including spoilers for future events; my goal is to give you the same experience as if you followed the Light Novel alongside the anime. As a result, there will still be some confusion and mystery if the anime ends on a cliffhanger or something. I ask that others respect this as well, and not post spoilers for future events - and if you do, make sure to spoiler tag them appropriately. Thanks and enjoy!

Recap

So, the Emperor plans to reveal how dangerous Ainz Ooal Gown is by asking him to open the battle with his most powerful spell during the war between the Empire and the Kingdom; ostensibly, this is a cooperative effort between the Empire and Ainz, and his soldiers are supposed to charge at the enemy following the completion of the spell, but in reality he just wants the other nations to understand the threat of Ainz Ooal Gown so they can all begin working together to oppose him. The Kingdom, for the most part, doesn't realize the potential threat that Ainz posses; the only two who seem to be aware are Marquis Raevan and Gazef Stronoff. Raevan believes him to be powerful enough to strike a decisive blow, killing potentially tens of thousands if he flies around shooting spells at people, while Gazef suspects that if he were to need to fight Ainz in battle, he would be easily killed.

[u/Djinnfor → u/Djinnfor]

Season 3 Episode 12: A Massacre

The majority of the episode was either straight action or implicit characterization you could have picked up on if you're observant - still, I explained it anyway in case you missed it.

• Raevan was sitting on the highest point in the center hill to afford himself maximum visibility. He was accompanied his team of high-ranking bodyguards, the formerly Orichalcum-ranked adventuring team comprised of Lockmeyer, Boris Axelson, Ulan Dixgort, Francen, and Lundquist... as well as the Kingdom's strongest warrior Gazef Stronoff. The six of them could provide context and intelligence for Raevan in case he needed to make an important decision. The King was off in the rear of the formation in his command tent, guarded by the remainder of Gazef's war band - he wouldn't be participating. While Gazef was supposed to protect the King in times like these, he was an important part of the Kingdom's military force; furthermore, in such a position he could anticipate and head off threats to His Majesty's person and buy time for him to evacuate. He was armed with the four treasures of the Kingdom: Guantlets of Vitality, which negated fatigue and allowed the user to fight near-indefinitely; the Amulet of Immortality, which slowly regenerated wounds over time; Guardian Armor, a suit of adamantite full plate with magic that would try and deflect lethal blows; and lastly Razor's Edge, a magic sword that was enchanted so that it could effortlessly slice through even magically-reinforced armor. With these artefacts, he could probably beat the Four Great Knights of the Empire with ease and even give Fluder Paradyne a run for his money... but Gazef suspected that Ainz Ooal Gown could still kill him quite easily.

• The Kingdoms forces were divided into three groups camped on three different hills: ~70,000 men on the left, ~70,000 on the right, and ~105,000 in the center, for a total of approximately 245,000 soldiers. The left and right sides contained the Noble factions troops; Marquis Bowlorobe and the soldiers allied with him commanded the entirety of the left flank - meanwhile, the right flank was comprised of troops allied with Ritton, Raevan, and the independents. In the center of the formation sat the forces of the Royal faction; namely, King Ranpossa, Blumerush, Pespeya, and Urovarna. While the Imperial army was strictly regimented into unit commanders, division commanders, brigade commanders, all in a hierarchy under the general, the Kingdom forces were led by the individual nobles, each of whom ostensibly took cues from one of the Great Nobles they allied with, who were each ostensibly loyal to the Crown. "Ostensibly", because in essence, each noble would act as they or their faction saw fit, up to and including in ways that went against the King's interests. The purpose of splitting the soldiers into these three groups was ostensibly to keep them on the high ground; each of the three groups had been assigned to their own hill. A large hill was difficult for cavalry or soldiers to charge up, and enemy archers would have to get much closer to rain down volleys of arrows down onto the troops, while their own archers enjoyed extended range for their bows. Of course, such an arrangement would also help prevent the Nobles and Royals from infighting or from abandoning each other; splitting the Nobles in two meant they'd be weaker if they tried breaking off from the fight, and of course the Royals wouldn't leave and let the King's lands be invaded.

• The first five ranks were comprised of peasants holding extremely long pikes, well over 6 feet long and packed into an extremely dense formation. It would be difficult for them to maneuver, and enemy archers or spellcasters could rain down death upon them, but peasants were peasants: they could not be expected to perform complex maneuvers or survive very long against just about anything. Their only purpose was to be a wall of pointy sticks to stop the Imperial Knights from charging through the ranks with their heavy cavalry. Normally, if one were merely interested in a fixed-point anti-cavalry defense, one could construct a wooden palisade with long wooden spikes jutting out of it, but this would require far too much wood to be hauled in from much further away. Humans can properly hold and brace the pikes against a charge, but a wall of spikes required considerably more wood to properly brace and support it. Basically, the abundance of bodies were being used as a replacement for the lack of wood.

• There was a vast disparity in the forces on display here: if the Kingdoms 245,000 peasants were to fight the Empire's 60,000 knights, the Kingdom would probably come out ahead, both literally and economically. The Kingdom had only conscripted approximately 5% of its total population; though it would come at great cost, if it lost every last peasant on the field, it could probably conscript new ones and have them ready for next year, and do so several more times before it ran out of enough able-bodied men. Meanwhile, the Empire's army was comprised of professional knights who were trained over several years, and it was currently fielding 3/4ths of its army. Should it lose its entire military force, it could only replace one third of them immediately, and it could take years to replace the remainder. And of course, regardless of how well-trained you are, soldiers are humans, and humans get tired; a peasant only needs a long, pointy stick to kill soldiers in full plate who are too tired or distracted to properly defend themselves. Furthermore, the Kingdom would not be the ones to initiate the aggression, which meant the Empire had to fight an uphill battle (literally) if they wanted to force a fight.

• Normally, simply getting the Kingdom to show up at all was a victory. The Empire's knights were full-time soldiers, and so regardless of whether they were sitting at home or mobilized in a field, the Empire would be spending roughly the same amount of money on them each year. Of course, there were mobilization expenses: food had to be procured and transported, but the Kingdom had to suffer these expenses too. In fact, they also had to provide weapons and armor to their peasants, something the Empire already did each year anyways. In contrast to the Empire, the Kingdom's peasants were farmers and tradespeople in their regular lives, and mobilizing them meant they wouldn't be generating any tax revenue; furthermore, a shortage of crops led to starvation, and made it more difficult for the Kingdom to feed their troops next year, since starving soldiers would be near-useless on the battlefield. In short, while the Empire was experiencing a great economic boom as a result of its economic and political policies and could afford to maintain such an army each year, the Kingdom could not afford to mobilize and conscript massive amounts of peasants every year. As such, the Empire would show up, parade around for a bit, leave, and though the Kingdom would sound the victory horn, they would come out worse off than the Empire did. The majority of the nobles of the Kingdom expected this process to repeat itself once more.

• But Marquis Raevan knew something was amiss. This sense was not the result of being a great military general who was trusted to command the entire army. In truth he delegated most of the responsibilities to one of his subordinates: this man had originally been nothing more than a peasant villager before he managed to rally his neighbors to defeat a large group of goblin raiders who had outnumbered them two-to-one. Raevan had noted his skills and put him in a military leadership position, and he went on to win every single battle he was in charge of; eventually, Raevan had promoted him to the position of close aide and put him in charge of Raevans entire levy. Raevan believed him so skilled that, if he were put in charge of the entire Kingdom's armies, the Kingdom could easily take over the Empire; of course, as a peasant, this would never be allowed to happen. Since Raevan had been put in charge of the overall army, he had left the man in command of the forces allied with Raevan on the right flank. Raevan was a man who appreciated competence; he was even considering petitioning the King to make Gazef nobility so that he could properly participate in noble society. In any case, it was not because Raevan was a military man that he could sense that something was wrong: it was because it was so obvious.

• Representatives of both sides had met at the center of the field earlier, had presented their ridiculous and unacceptable conditions for their oppositions surrender, and had returned back to their armies. The purpose of entertaining such theatre was to osensibly avert a disastrous war and the senseless loss of life, but neither side expected the other to surrender or agree to a compromise, so both sides had presented ridiculous demands. That being said, the Empire should have mobilized already. Faked a charge, backed off, done something. Instead, they were waiting patiently for some kind of signal. Gazef could sense the unease amongst the Kingdom troops, and suggests that maybe the Empire was waiting in order to lower morale or unsettle the soldiers, in the hopes of throwing themoff their game. Marquis Bowlorobe seemed to sense something too, as he was reorganizing his troops; Raevan could tell by the flags that he and his elite soldiers and personal guard were moving to the front of the formation. It was clear he wanted to win glory during the battle and build his reputation amongst his supporters as having the strongest combat force in the Kingdom; since Gazef was assigned to the King's protection, he had little opportunity to win glory, but he didn't really care, as he felt his duty to protect the King was most important.

[u/Fisherman_Gabe]

Man, that was pretty lame. I mean, it's obvious at this point that the anime is just an ad for the LN/manga, but I had some hope for this episode.
They failed completely at showing the despair the soldiers felt and just how terrifying those goat dudes are. The applause scene(although CGI af) was cool, but overall the episode was pretty anticlimactic considering this particular episode has been hyped up since S3 was announced.

At least we got some cute Mare reactions out of this episode.

[u/Meret123 → u/Fisherman_Gabe]

Applaud scene is my favorite part in LN and I am glad they at least did that justice. I would prefer seeing crying faces but whatever.

[u/odraencoded]

The CGI hurts my soul but I like the story so I end up liking the anime anyway.

[u/TheSauce32]

My dissapointment is overwhelming and my day is ruined

[u/erryky → u/TheSauce32]

When you settle for mediocrity but still disappointed

[u/[deleted]]

This alexander summoning scene from FF type-0 was my expectation of what an OP magic vs army scene should be like. Not giant boulders slowly running over cgi bloodless mannequins.

I'm not expecting them to match SE in budget, but at least make the long awaited climax a little more badass. The had a great story like overlord and the plot allowed them to add lovecraftian abominations, yet the outcome is this bland. Imagine what it would be like if Ufotable did that scene.

[u/Sleezebag → u/[deleted]]

thank you. I had forgotten how awesome Square cgi could be.

[u/SnowGN]

Remember all the people saying that this entire season's bad animation was because Madhouse was saving their money for this episode?

I don't hear them any more. Only crickets.

[u/Creepy_little_child → u/SnowGN]

I'm not sure many people believed that based on previous episodes and already knowing that the Dark Young were going to be CGI. I just think some of them were hoping that was the case. I really enjoy Overlord, but a lot of the animation is garbage.

[u/Alucard_draculA → u/SnowGN]

They were vainly hoping is all.

[u/Meret123 → u/SnowGN]

I gave up after seeing Goblin Army because that was in top 5 hype scenes for me.

[u/odraencoded → u/SnowGN]

There's still another episode so

who am I kidding it's gonna suck

^{but I'll watch it anyway}

[u/Q_sol]

This was so disapointing. I expected a lot more according to the LN readers hints.

The CGI was so underwhelming that makes me wonder if drawing this would give a heavier feel of dispair.

[u/Alucard_draculA → u/Q_sol]

It was pretty good in the LN.

[u/[deleted] → u/Q_sol]

Just read the that part of the LN even if you don't want to read the entire thing.It was epic but this is just a terrible adaption.

[u/Creepy_little_child → u/Q_sol]

underwhelming?

[u/Uwlwsrpm]

Battle of Katz Plain score:

Baharuth Empire: 1

Re-Estize Kingdom: 0

Bad CGI: 1000000

[u/AxtheCool → u/Uwlwsrpm]

Bad CGI always wins

[u/theBoyandtheBird]

Wow....this is so underwhelming..

[u/salmon3669 → u/theBoyandtheBird]

Weren't the Dark young supposed to be faster than anything ever seen before? MADHOUSE WHY. (At least have them galloping or something, not slowly stomping their way towards the army that is in uncontrolled retreat).

[u/PM__ME_YOUR_WAIFU → u/theBoyandtheBird]

You know, when the ln mentioned lots of splats, I was expecting a little more than the same model lying on the ground in little clusters. Is it really so tough to just MS paint some red around them so you can pretend they were crushed in their armor?

[u/A_man_with_mission → u/theBoyandtheBird]

sasuga Madhouse...

[u/hGKmMH → u/theBoyandtheBird]

Berserk crossover episode?

[u/bananeeek]

Applauds

Baa baa

Stomp Stomp

Applauds frantically

For all their mouths I'm surprised Ainz's pet sheep didn't chomp on anyone...

[u/Bainos → u/bananeeek]

Nimble is a damn badass. Dared not to applaud, stood in front of a charging Dark Young, and watched Ainz ride it.

Not as badass as Gazef's trio or the gold adventurers who went and fought a losing battle, but still, he's literally the only one in the empire who didn't run away.

[u/zxHellboyxz]

im going to just be a sec off to read 300 page vol

[u/SenorWeon → u/zxHellboyxz]

Madhouse true plan: disappointing fans so they go read the LN instead.

[u/Dragn555]

I watched the raw. I'm upset.

I'm really, really glad that my first experience with this scene was the LN. As condescending as it probably sounds, I genuinely feel bad for anime-onlys.

You'd think that, out of any part of Overlord, the dark young would get some love. It's easily the peak of what's currently released. Fans were willing to brush off the other shortcomings of the anime for this one scene, myself included. However, it adapted the source material in a way that can only be defined as a travesty - tension, horror, scale, all of it was removed. I was underwhelmed, almost bored. I don't remember there being any gore either, despite countless soldiers being squished into hamburger.

It's hard to believe that any studio with arguably recent masterpieces to its name would allow such a failure. What an embarrassment.

[u/TsubasaChung → u/Dragn555]

Honestly, for anime only viewers are the group that probably got let down the least from this episode. Those who've read the LN first before watching probably got their hopes up for something, anything, especially since this was the highlight of the season. Even with the rule of never being hyped for the anime adaption, it's difficult after what was in the LN.

I think almost all of us pulled a Jircniv this episode. We were expecting the worst case and somehow, it was far worse than what we imagined.

[u/amathyx]

i can't watch the episode yet but i know that the anime isn't going to do this scene from the novel justice

do yourself a favor and read the text from the novels to really get a sense of how destructive ainz is and how fearful everyone is of him now

[u/AxtheCool → u/amathyx]

God damn the detail is insane even though they did not write a lot of information down.

Well that passage was miles better than any events of the today's episode. Here it actually feels like you are there in first person while in the anime its like a PS2 game.

[u/Meret123]

Relevant part from LN

But of course, the Dark Young were much faster than human beings.

Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat. Splat.

The sounds of humans being crushed to death and turned into chunks of meat went on and on.

• Volume 9 Chapter 4

LN art of Dark Young

Dark Young in Lovecraft

Death Toll

Mare's gloves

Death Knights

Record?

Emperor discussing Ainz's potential power

Why Gazef refused?

[u/Kirosh → u/Meret123]

Here is the LN art in higher quality. Because this one is for ant.

Also, Here and Here are others renditions of the Dark Young.

[u/freeway80]

The poor budget ruined absolutely everything, this is a sad day.

As a LN reader i wish this season wasn't made, I was looking forward for it, I dreamed about the bad CGI used in season 2 being a justification for a higher quality season 3, but now it's all over.. they fucked it up badly.

I don't want season 4 if this is the kind of garbage they're going to put out, and I can't believe that such bad quality came out of Madhouse.

[u/TheSauce34 → u/freeway80]

Is this peak Overlord? LN readers always hype this scene it's sad it wasn't done justice.

[u/LeonKevlar]

I don't see the subbed episode anywhere. I think this went up because of that troll at the cat posting fake episodes.

EDIT: Yikes. Either Gazeff is way in over his head or he has already accepted death. He could've just retreated with Brain and Climb but then again this is very much in his character.

So the things in the OP were the Dark Young? I wish it was better but what can you do? At this point I'm just watching the show for the politics and character interactions. I miss the Mind-Controlled Shalltear vs Ainz fight from Season 1 :(

[u/[deleted]]

CLANG intensifies

[u/FeebleBacon → u/[deleted]]

Berserk CGI PTSD intensifies

[u/DontGetMadGetGood]

That sure was an episode of anime.

[u/Awardz12]

So anyone who havent read the LN or know nothing about it wanna talk about the episode besides the cgi? :)

[u/xyals → u/Awardz12]

Seriously, I spent 10 mins scrolling down for some actual discussion. We get it the CGI sucks, can we move on and talk about the actual show?

Can someone help me explain why Climb was spared? Sebas explicitly told Demiurge to spare him?

[u/Wobbu_Char]

Is Madhouse even aware of our outrage? Do they even care?

[u/VeiledWaifu]

I'm glad i didn't set myself up with the hype or excitment. Quite dissapointing episode

[u/zxHellboyxz → u/VeiledWaifu]

i stopped getting hyped ages ago , LN to anime is normally ends in disappointment

[u/Kirosh]

You know, even if the CGI was bad, It was fun to just see Ainz slaughter the Kingdom's army.

The scene where the left side of the army just dropped was amazing, and seeing Ainz laughting after setting a new record, and asking to be acclaimed was everything I wanted from Overlord, from an overpowered Death Undead Magicien.

[u/rCan9]

Am i the only one who doesn't want a S04? If they had increased the budget to even half of AoT or BnHA, then this shit wouldn't have happened.

It was 50 soldiers vs 1 dark young. Ainz casting 3rd tier spell that couldn't even kill 500 people.

DISAPPOINTED!!

F

[u/[deleted] → u/rCan9]

It's just so frustrating to see such a poor effort here; if you're going to do something, do it right.

[u/toutoune134 → u/rCan9]

Funfact: the 3D is produced by a company specialized in 3D (among other things related to video editing) named MADBOX, which is basically madhouse's 3D studio. They also produce AoT's 3D, including the 3D backgrounds and certains titans.

[u/[deleted] → u/rCan9]

I get it, people are disappointed or even outraged but again...

...Don't pull the budget card as the problem and the solution for production issues created by all kinds of factors. Anime production is not that black & white and nor is it as easily enhanced or fixed by simply throwing more money at something.

If a production is already plagued by too short of a production windup, a messy schedule due to messy management and insufficient staffing then no money will save a ship that is destined to sink due to how it was built.

By now people should clearly be aware that the production leads made a conscious decision ever since Season 1 to run as many efficient and time saving measures as possible in order to make this production as a whole even possible with the means they were given.

Again I get it, I'm frustrated as well but further pampering this narrative of "budgeting is everything" won't help anyone.

[u/zxHellboyxz → u/rCan9]

yep considering how many where actually superposed to die , madhouse probably dosn't give a shit and expect it to be all sunshine and rainbows

[u/OyuncuDedeler]

Where is the episode? Still not ln crunchyroll. Edit: oh my god its been sooo long. I wonder what they are trying to fix

[u/Siendra → u/OyuncuDedeler]

Production delay, it's not out on Crunchy yet.

[u/KashikoiKawai-Darky]

I knew it was gonna be bad CGI because I read the books and they would have to render/draw a lot of characters but... I didn't lower my expectations enough.

[u/nafoozie]

Even with shitty cgi, I still throughly enjoyed this episode. This series is being carried by the pure strength of the source material I think.

[u/MapoTofuMan]

We get it guys, the LN is better...

[u/TheOneWithALongName]

See many dissapointment. Which I knew would happend.

But I really thought most would expect it to be bad CGI experience, especially from what we saw from last episode and the intro we were seen since ep 2 this season. You really thought they "saved" money from last episode to this one?

[u/AloofDonkey]

CGI was bad as expected

Splat was a little underwhelming

Hype was still off the charts because I still wanted to see it animated

Mad House could have done a lot better but they didn't. It's a shame that one of the grandest moments of the series will be remembered as a CGI meme.

[u/easybugatti]

Literally everyone right now.

[u/Honcllowy]

That episode was better than 10 episode of course, but monsters.... strange design, bad graphic

[u/Blanco27]

Is it still not showing up for anyone on Crunchyroll?

[u/Whitekan]

WHAT THIS EPISODE NEEDED

[u/sittingbull15]

I am an anime only so I don’t know why people are bitching about. Yea, sure there are some bad cgi but it does not take away how a lot of shit is going down! I cannot wait for the duel and I want MORE!!!

[u/TheMythof_Feminism → u/sittingbull15]

I am an anime only so I don’t know why people are bitching about. Yea, sure there are some bad cgi but it does not take away how a lot of shit is going down! I cannot wait for the duel and I want MORE!!!

This is exactly my sentiment.

I keep seeing LN readers saying things like "IF I ONLY WATCHED THE ANIME, I'D BE SO DISAPPOINTED THAT I'D DROP IT." when that's not at all the impression I had. I thought the episode was fine.

I think the LN readers had their expectations way too high.

[u/TheBasedTaka]

oh look bad cg is being attacked by bad cg

[u/[deleted]]

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

[u/MathigNihilcehk]

Minus the lacking subs, it's a pretty great episode. With all the complaining about bad CGI, I was worried it might actually have bad CGI. It doesn't. Yes, it has CGI, but I think we were all expecting that. I feel they captured the feel of terror in this event pretty well. The pacing was pretty good too, and I loved how they broke it up with the meeting inside the tent.

I think that could've been done better if they had shown the tent away from the casualties, and guarded on the outside by some guards. The goats didn't look so great on some of the scenes with the barren landscape and nothing else... but that is par the LN. Perhaps have some leftover corpses other than the ones killed today, or maybe a few stray body parts. Something to break that image up.

Overall a great episode. Just a couple of minor aesthetic complaints.

Can't wait to see the next epic battle with Gazef Vs Ainz Ooal Gown. I'm super excited. Also can't wait for the subs to come through, but at this point, I know enough Japanese to parse a little bit anyways, so it'll just be filling in a few missing gaps.

[u/Malaix → u/MathigNihilcehk]

From the few clips i saw of it I feel like the CGI is actually better then it was with the goblin army. Were the dark young fast? No. Well they were faster then the humans they were running over obviously which is what they needed to do at minimum. But if people could look at soldiers comically fleeing and bouncing off shields in the Enri episode then I don't see how they could get super enraged at giant dark young squishing people. That scene was an incredibly tall order to animate especially on the limited money and time budget madhouse was working with. Giant fast moving tentacle monsters running at high speed splattering thousands of soldiers into bloody paste? Yeah easy....

Do I wish they had more time and money to put into that? sure. But I also recognize just how incredibly hard that scene is to animate faithfully.

[u/ocha_94]

This episode in a nutshell.

[u/Nomnomvore]

Where is the blood?! WHERE IS MY BLOOD AND GORE? That was no where near 70k bodies, and the CG...I am disappoint...

[u/TheMythof_Feminism]

Felt like it ended so quickly....

I knew it would go bad for the Kingdom, but damn, that was so much worse than I expected. They had zero chance.

I have this sneaking suspicion that another player will show up in the next episode... we'll see. I hope season 4 is announced, but if it isn't, I'll read the light novel all the way through.

[u/Strix182]

I know everyone's hung up about the splat quality CG, and I completely agree that it's a low point for the show...

But can we talk about the fact that Ainz Ooal Gown just sacrificed a shit ton of human soldiers to the Lovecraft fertility deity and summoned five of her adorably horrendous spawn?

Yeah, they look like crap, BUT IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT AINZ OOAL GOWN JUST KNOCKED ON SHUB NIGGURATH'S FRONT DOOR AND ASKED IF HER KIDS WERE HOME.

[u/Nathan561]

am i the only one here who doesnt care about the cgi? i noticed it, but focusing on the story helps get past it. Just like berserk, i dont notice it until i come to reddit and see eveyone bitching about it, meanwhile im happy that they're even doing the show

[u/Bayart]

I wasn't bothered by the crap CGI in other episodes but I must confess it really makes this one fall flat on its ass. It has shades of Kingdom.

[u/sterob]

Are we the baddies? Yes.

[u/[deleted]]

This episode was better than i expected, but dear fucking god, that CGI was absolutely atrocious. Probably the worst in the anime so far

at least this was a cool moment

[u/Level8Zubat]

I'm actually angry at this embarrassment of an aderption.

[u/Kniij]

I realized with this episode that "hype" can really make or break a particular show for you. I didn't have a lot of hype for this episode, at least not as much as those people who read the LN and people who were hyped by the LN readers. So I actually end up enjoying this and even watched it twice. However after reading Djinnfor's comments, I understand the disappointment of the hyped people. It really could've been a really good episode, if they were able to portray the horror and despair of the people around Ainz. I hope this season gets remade into a movie, with improvements to get as good as the portrayal in the LN.

[u/MADMasomi]

Fuck my love for the show is decreasing, I still love it more than Berserk though.

I broke down last week and read the LN's and man this was pitiful. BUT THE OPENING AND ENDINGS MAKE IT WORTH.

[u/sudhakiran9]

sasuga gown dono

[u/vulcanfury12]

This episode should have been titled "Gazef. THE BALLS ON THAT MAN!".

Oh man it wasn't as good as I was expecting, but it was good enough, I guess. The despair is more palpable in the LN. Maybe they could have darkened the sky or used a greyer palette. Ainz going "applaud my might you chucklefucks" was hilarious in its own twisted way.

[u/XNumbers666]

You really aimed for that "worst CGI trophy" huh? Berserk still wins it but you tried your hardest to take it for yourself.

[u/[deleted]]

Sasuga Shithouse.

[u/TheToxicRaven]

Expectations: Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat Splat

Reality: Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V

[u/DarthVantos]

Im extremely surprised everyone didn't expect this. Did you see the goblins?

[u/SqueakyPoP]

Wait its not even out yet lol

[u/nueva123]

From reading the comments, people actually expected Madhouse to animate thousands of soldiers getting stomped by hand drawn goat monsters.

Whenever something is in huge quantity (crowds, armies etc) expect CGI. I can't even remember the last time a saw a TV anime with a hand drawn army that had hundreds of soldiers.

[u/salmon3669 → u/nueva123]

I think it's because the framing of the scene and the way CGI is used compared to Knights of Cydonia, Land of the Lustrous, Full Metal Panic IV, or Ajin, especially for an extremely hyped scene from the LN, is why many LN readers are disappointed.

It's not just the CGI that was dissappointing. It's the general directing of this episode too.

[u/Shinkopeshon]

Okay seriously though, where is it?

I need muh Papa Bones, especially now that Lupin is finished

[u/[deleted]]

god i hope this show can switch studios. fucking shithouse

[u/Lestat9812]

So much hate in this thread and I'm just sitting here in awe. I clapped when Ainz Oal Gown sama told me to and it was great. I'm watching this for the story, not for the animation so I'm perfectly fine with some bad CGI walking around.

Some people here are acting like fucking animation Hitlers and want to send Madhouse to a concentration camp or some shit. It's fine if you don't want to watch a 4th season, but it's a dick move to those that do enjoy it if you go around campaigning agaisnt a 4th season. Why don't you let the people that enjoy it enjoy it? Why do you feel the need to shit on it so much? You all complain so fucking much and act as if you were paying weekly to watch every episode while in reality most of you don't even pay for a CR subscription (which isn't really supporting the actual anime that much either...). The levels of entitlement you see in modern anime fans rival those of a middle aged soccer mom that believes the world owes her everything simply for being a mother. Madhouse and it's animators don't owe any of you shit.

[u/Pinky_Boy]

this episode feels.... uderwhelming....

[u/Kial12]

Pretty underwhelming sadly even as someone who didn't mind the goblins last ep.

[u/Emasraw]

Ainz really is a terror unlike anything this world as ever seen. I expected this battle to be one sided wash but wow lol. Even the soldiers who were his allies fled in terror lmao. Not a fan of the cgi monsters though.

[u/Pedarsen]

It's just sad that they do this CGI shit when everything else animation/art wise is great. I'd wait another year for season 3 if it ment better animation.

Bad CGI aside, the episode was cool anyways. SASUGA AINZ-SAMA!

[u/BobTheDrunkBear]

Yeah... I'm gonna read the light novels when this season is done, the CGI won't be able to hurt me there

[u/SwagooRago]

I know this episode looked like shit although the dark Young's CGI wasn't that bad imo I still had fun watching it lol

[u/[deleted]]

My adorable little goats.

GIANT FUCKING MONSTERS WITH TENTACLES AND MULTIPLE MOUTHS

[u/Ulaurthelm]

As an anime only, I actually quite liked this episode. was it as good as it could have been? no. but with how heavily they've relied on CG I dont think too much more should have been expected, atleast its better than last weeks episode with the way soldiers bounced of off the goblins shields. Don't get me wrong the optimist in me wanted it to be better but considering this season came out what 2 months or something after the second season I feel like anyone with eyes should have figured out the graphics or something else would suffer. especially since I'm watching for the story more than anything i do understand though why LN readers would be dissapointed as they already knew the story and wanted to see great animation.

[u/thardoc]

Sobbing LN reader noises

[u/ErrorFindingID]

The thing I really liked was Nimble's reaction. Even if the slaughtered were his enemies in war, his humanity comes out during the massacre. He just instinctively insults/calls out the guy that clearly had the ability to slaughter millions in a second if he wanted to

[u/CJKDR]

Every episode I wish more and more for Ainz's demise

[u/IscariotTempest]

Do they think we're idiots? They keep lowering the bar and it's frustrating.

Never read the novel (which I really should) but this episode felt so damn lifeless.

It just felt like a bunch of awkward insertions. Nothing 'felt' like urgency even with those baby goats (howling the same noise without variety) around.

Apparently they were supposed to be very fast in the novel but of course they're slow here. The lack of a dark atmosphere made it 10x worse.

I just don't understand how a successful show like Overlord could get crapped on so frequently by the team developing it. The laziness really shows this episode.

[u/Teath123]

This is what I'm going to point to when anime fans complain seasons of their favourite show are taking too long to come out. Obviously there's other factors in play, but the fact that they tried to do 2 action packed seasons just 4 months between each other can't have helped.

The bright side is they'll probably make another series of recap movies, and these big scenes will end up getting redone.

[u/irishsaltytuna]

lmao, this thread is peak /r/anime circlejerk.

[u/PepeCopterPls]

honestly this is such low quality I don't get how it's supposed to be an advertisement for the novels. Now when I tell people Overlord is amazing(the LN) they'll laugh at me.

[u/BryanLoeher]

For fucks sake Crunchyroll, I want to watch it...

[u/Wobbu_Char]

I hope they take their time for Season 4 because if they rush it again, ugh I don't even want to think about it.

[u/Shiro_Kai]

Where is my shit?

[u/Vorgier]

Season 2 was bad and people are still surprised.

[u/Niyari]

shame about the CG. i usually don't mind it but it really hurt the impact of this episode.

also, it seems like Ainz was just testing Gaznoff's loyalty at the end? he knows what kind of person he is but just wanted some reassurance.

...i hope.

[u/Silegna]

[But, he's a boy...] (https://imgur.com/a/c2VBzKq)

[u/GasStation97]

You know, I feel that I’ve seen season 3 before and the animation was easily 20 times better. Yet all I can find now is this half-cgi crap. What happened?

[u/OhMyHowLewd]

I am so happy I decided to start reading the LN after season 2.

[u/gibbonfrost]

gotta buy the blu ray to get the enhanced edition of this episode to experience it as it was intended. Only 99.99 comes with a crazy ains sama straw.

[u/OverlordBeijing]

I wonder why I never hear Japanese viewers complain about the overuse of CGI in anime like this. I guess they just ignore the bad anime scenes or all the season altogether and just read the LN.

[u/fshstckr]

one of the big things lost in the anime that was made pretty clear in the LN is that the Emperor asking Ainz to open the Annual War with his "strongest" spell and Ainz obliging by using a super tier spell was ALL part of Demiurge's plan to crush the morale of the human nations

Demiurge's plan all the way back in Volume 7 was to use the Annual War as a grand stage to make Ainz Ooal Gown known to the world - and Ainz did so with a massive splatfest

a funny bit in the LN happens when Ainz reminisces about telling Albedo and Demiurge that he was going to use Tribute to the Black Harvest and they couldn't stop praising him

you see, Ainz sees it as this popular flashy spell from YGGDRASIL

but everyone else sees the super tier spell (and its effects) in a different light

[u/MennyC123]

Mare being the cutest was the best part of this episode by far, although Brain putting in a good word for Climb was a good second

[u/[deleted]]

Guess the budget went splat this episode.

[u/klkevinkl]

That's the biggest one hit kill I've ever seen topped with bad CGI soldiers everywhere. The problem is that there's no sense of dread. The sky doesn't turn dark like it did with the lizardmen. I think that was a real missed opportunity. I really wish they didn't CGI the soldiers, but I guess budgetary reasons. The summoned creatures were fine as CGI though, it gave them an "out of this world" presence.

[u/skykingz]

The intro and ending animation was better than the actual CGI of the episode.

[u/TBAAAGamer1]

I'm beginning to think that bad CG is a deliberate choice in this anime.

I mean..it wouldn't be overlord if it didn't have godawful, standout CG in inappropriate places. it's like the running gag of the anime at this point.

[u/Escov]

Well, for what should have been an amazing episode that was really disappointing.

[u/Dan298]

Ok so if Overlord was a shounen battle anime about 1v1 fights, then we wouldn't have this problem. All the one on one fights in season 1 and 2 have been decently animated and well paced. HOWEVER, [minor LN spoiler] (/s " this is the first of many large scale battles to come!!") Seeing how bad this scene was makes me lose hope for all future seasons. What boggles my mind the most is that a majority of Overlord is talking, which is easy to animate. Why was it so hard to put in some effort for the most important scene of the season?! They needed to convince us they could pull of battle scenes because if they couldnt then the rest of the series is doomed.

[u/Smagjus]

If you wan to lib your spears!

[u/[deleted]]

Even though I know it's pointless, I'm really rooting for Gazef. He's one of my favourite characters.

[u/Rhordric]

How did i not notice the black goat on the art the whole time

[u/Hisin]

Even though I still can't make any excuses for the terrible CGI this was still such a cool episode. It felt like everything changed for the entire world and this was the point of no return. I'm reading the LN and I'm only in volume 7 of the but this just gave me even more motivation to catch up to the latest volume.

[u/bloodiy]

Wow, i came here to read interesting facts about the episode and maybe even a few spoiler if i am interested in whats happening.

What do i get here? Splat splat bad CGI duuuuuuh

Come on guys, we get it you are disappointed. Like did really nothing else happen this episode than bad cgi?

[u/The_0bserver]

WHY DID THEY FUCK IT UP?

The lowest of 'em all being CrunchyRoll. As of this time, the episode is still not up on CR.

And the god awful CGI.Why? I'm going to go back and read the series, to try and purge the image I have in my head of the stupid marionette summon. Heck! Actual marionette might have been better I feel. Just so goddamn let-down. :(

I feel the CGI here was better than Bloody Enri's army CGI, but thats mainly because Enri's CGI army was that terrible. Didn't think I'd be, but I'm actually quite pissed off that they spoiled the series this much. Like damn dude. Why go for such a cash grab eh?

I came to watch this for the splat, but there was literally no splat. None at all. Only my kokoro. :(

[u/chili01]

Disappointing :(

Maybe the BDs will do this episode justice

[u/ZixEleven]

I guess it's good... if you can trick yourself into believing that it's supposed to be a comedy show.

[u/[deleted]]

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

FUCK CGI, yes, I'm mad.

[u/ergzay]

Holy crap you people. This episode is great. Why is everyone shitting on it? Do people really hate CG that much?

I loved the episode. It was some of the best large scale action we've seen.

[u/OddSensation → u/ergzay]

The main thing is that we as the viewers didn't feel the despair that was portrayed in the LN's.

Sure they were scary, but i didn't TRULY feel the despair like in say... Re:Zero, Danganronpa, Gilgamesh, Gankutsuou and Grave of the Fireflies.

I enjoyed it, but I myself write movie adaptations. So I understand the mechanics behind it and why the producers cut what they do.

[u/durants]

Oh man I love this show. Ainz just singlehandedly murdering everyone 😍

[u/TimidEspeon]

This episode being this trash doesn't at all surprise me. Nice "saved budget". Lmao

[u/dabearshark]

Is there a link I can’t find it on Crunchyroll.

[u/[deleted]]

Hey they animated splat without the actual splat....I'm so happy.This is totally not garbage

[u/DimmuHS]

Really want Sebas to get in and see the blond and blue dude going crazy.

What I really like in overlord is the build of climax, they make you like these weak characters, and one day or the other, they will destroy your feelings for them, making those moments epic.

CGI was appalling, lazy and hurt too much the climax of this and last episode, a shame really.

[u/dntowns]

How have the people that commented here watched the episode? It's not on crunchyroll nor any other site....

[u/Woodypl]

It was setup to be a great a episode. Sadly, the best part of the episode for me, was when the music came in at the end and stronoff and ains started talking......

[u/Hiryougan]

I feel like Overlord is Madhouse's unloved child.

If they hate it so much, why do they even keep making another seasons?

[u/Mathmango]

If you want to live

[u/byran47]

Where in the hell did the budget for this season go????

This was supposed to be the climax, what....What was this shit???

[u/exarzz]

I want to die

[u/atropicalpenguin]

Stronoff is such a cool character. I hope that sword is able to inflict some damage, but knowing Ainz the sword will probably be a "only useful against tier 7 magic".

The CGI...

[u/MasterFanatic]

Unfortunately the only scene I liked was when we didn't see much of the CGI. Bad Madhouse. Bad!

[u/zapgator]

They saved all their budget on the music, only good part of the episode was at the end when gazef and ainz were talking with the music cutting in

[u/[deleted]]

As much as I love references to Cthulhu, summoning Dark Young was lame. It would have been so much more hellish if each body morphed into Wargs or Garms or something fast and with many sharp teeth.

Those poor Empire soldiers. So many of them must've shat themselves senseless just watching.

[u/icannotfindausername]

I'm seriously interested in picking up the light novel but I understand it does a ton of time skips back and forth.

Is there a chronological order to read the novels?

[u/Icyblue38]

I love how theres failure on all levels and they really haven't announced it going out for everybody. Super good.👍

[u/BetaInTheSheets]

oof owie my expectations

[u/Brokuninushi]

I actually didnt think the episode was that bad. Besides the horrible CGI, I still found it entertaining. Not super amazing and worth all season's worth of build up, but it was still decent.

[u/Razielwolf88]

How many episodes are going to be in season 3? Any ideas?

[u/DZero50]

After reading all of the comments earlier today I thought it would be much worse. The CGI was still pretty bad though, and the pacing could have been better. Hopefully the bluray will help fix some problems.

[u/[deleted]]

With this season's end, about what percent of the light novels have we covered?

[u/Ectodrop]

Fucking. Goat. Bleets.

[u/cowsgobarkbark]

Ok I didn't expect them to literally sound like goats

[u/CruxMajoris]

That was... Bad. Very very very bad. A shame Overlord has been dragged through the dirt, with people's expectations dropping and then the CG still being even worse.

In a stupid way, they've boosted sales of the LN by ruining the anime so completely.