Overlord Volume 3 - The Bloody Valkyrie - Review + Reaction
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- My review / reaction of Overlord Volume 23.
The book shown is the english translation by Yen Press.
Overlord is written by Kugane Maruyama and illustrated by so-bin.
00:00 Intro
00:57 Artwork
02:27 Shalltear
04:42 Brain Unglaus
06:13 Ainz Ooal Gown is losing control
07:26 Ainz and Albedo
08:44 Pandora's Actor stands out
09:34 Ainz VS Shalltear
11:29 World Items aka WARUDO ITEMU are a bit silly
13:07 SPOILERS: How volume 3 fits in the series
15:18 Closing Thoughts - บันเทิง
It's overboard but I guess world items is still somewhat acceptable by the fact that it's almost impossible to attain them. The only reason nazarick has 11 is because they are hardcore players with nothing else to do.
No stakes for nazarick is definitely the most common criticism of overlord. I understand why people dislike overlord for this as pretty much every other series in existence use stakes for tension (except of course series with OP MC)
Imo, No stakes isn't necessarily a bad thing. A series can still deliver a good and engaging story and characters despite low stakes by compensating it with other aspects of the show for example, one punch man compensate no stakes with comedy, peerless art and great action.
I'd argue overlord is among series with OP MC and no stakes that works like OPM. All the more when overlord compensate no stake with presenting the stakes towards side characters, worldbuilding and good side characters. Plus personally, I'm tired of series with "good guys fighting against all odds" trope and I welcome the bad guys stomping on the good guys..... Which is what overlord exactly is
Thus, the reason why no stakes for nazarick works for me is because, If I want story with stakes towards the good guys, there are thousands of those. if I want a story with no stakes towards the good guys, there are thousands of those.
BUT, if I want a series with no stakes for the bad guys, there is only one which is overlord. Overlord is unique indeed
Yeah that's a great comparison, Overlord as a whole is definitely closer to OPM than to most generic isekais. Still love Overlord, but I feel slightly cheated that the author can write such compelling action and we barely see it again (the closest is probably volume 14)
@@OverlordDio understandable, I wish at least the final battle will be somewhat satisfying in displaying the true strength of nazarick.
Even training fights like ainz vs wrath and pleiades in vol 12 is welcomed
If anything, Ygdrassil sounds like a terrible game with all the information we have on it. But that actually kinda makes sense if you consider the backstory for the series.
The earth where Ainz originally came from is not our earth, it's a dystopian future earth that pretty much exacerbates all the issues with out current earth. It's polluted as hell, corporations own everything and the people are worked like slaves with poor conditions and working hours.
In a world like that it makes sense video games also went in the same direction with more predatory microtransactions trying to get all your money if you want to get anywhere in the game.
The thing is, this is also a game that was shutting down right before the isekai happened. Which if the game was so bad would actually make a lot of sense too.
So Ygdrassil being bad is most likely intentional from what I can tell. It just happened to be the game our protagonist was addicted to.
That makes a lot of sense, I'd never thought about it being intentional that way. Even if the game was flawed or poorly balanced it's still easy to see how someone like Satoru would enjoy playing it