As a LN reader, it annoyed me *so much* every time the subtitles referred to the Holy Kingdom as the Theocracy in this episode. Like seriously, anime-only fans are going to be SO confused by that (especially with the movie version of volumes 12 & 13 not being out yet)
indeed. The part where the prince talked about the Theocracy wanting to help the Kingdom and then a few minutes later, the Kingdom suddenly asking food aid to the Sorcerer Kingdom didnt add up at all.
I mean actually anime only fans are not confused by that since the anime has literally showed or spoken absolutely nothing of the Holy Kingdom. Like it’s a a non-entity so I’m not confused that Nazarick isn’t sending supplies to nowhere. I’m more confused by the seals on the letter to the Kingdom.
Operation carrot and stick as you mention was called "Whip and Candy" in light novel, was actually mention in this episode when Hilma was send back to her mansion around 11:50 She said "I never know how sweet the Candy until she know the pain of the whip" something like that.
It’s just the different in idiom between Eng and Jpn language. One uses “carrot and stick” and the other uses “candy and whip”. Otherwise same meaning. It would be pretty weird if Hilma says “the sweetness of the carrot” now that I imagine it lmao.
I think it's really really bad that they didn't show Phillip robbing the carriage. That scene is the whole reason for the war. Boy literally threw the Sorcerer Kingdom flag on the ground and stepped on it.
I find it amazing how fast every single Nazerik member is okay with resorting to genocide without Ainzs there, like if they all ended up in the new world without Ainzs half the nations would be either gone or farms within a month
Not really just look what happened to shalltear in the first season DDDL , PDL , Slane Theocracy and the elf king the new world is dangerous ainz is really smart when he decided to explore the new world and sending the death knights first
Well look at it this way, they were originally NPC's in yggdrasil that did nothing but stand guard and attack any non-guild members on site. Nothing else. There was no personality and only flavor text to them. So this is their baseline. That is then affected by flavor text and gaps are filled in with their creator's personality.
Great review man. Yeah I thought Hilma’s reaction to Ainz’s mercy kind of came across as simping, rather than her being overjoyed to know that there is hope for the Eight Fingers members if they subordinate themselves under Ainz directly. Which in the novels kind of felt like she was admiring Ainz as some merciful god that saved her from hell.
If I remember correctly. Ramposa actually wanted to let Zanac be king but they couldn't find the timing to do it because if Zanac were to take the throne in the wrong manner it would cause a split between the royalist and the noble faction. Ramposa decision to give up his head was actually well thought. It would let Zanac take the throne with very little friction. I remember Zanac being really impressed with his father's resolve.
that is true but i felt he was lost and he really wanted to see his friend again and wanted to die. the depression i felt was very huge but not gonna lie it was his plan to let zanac take over with any problem.
@@FairchildTom yea gazef, he kinda went mad by hiting lackus for not being able to resurect him even tho ainz had notice brain and climb, that it wont be possible with low tier magic. After that he just went full depression and wanted to die, that what i felt tho.
I've seen a theory somewhere and it's been in my mind ever since. Maybe in reality Ainz has been subconsciously smart this whole time, but his own conscious doesn't realize that. Like his own thought push him to do/say this without himself knowing why he said that, but in reality it's his subconscious doing the work.
I mean that could make a lot a sense. If we look at his character class and race he’s an overlord the strongest and wisest of the undead races, Along with the fact that he’s a necromancer with essentially maxed out intelligence given the fact that I believe, and I may be wrong don’t quote me on this, he knows more spells than any other player. So it could be very likely that he is super intelligent subconsciously like mentioned, it’s just that his real life personality is overriding his subconscious.
@@jerrylawson384 yeah, I only read volume 14 so I don't know if it's the case with all volume, but the narration really focus on the fact that the npc shouldn't have believe his word/action for this long. And we have seen that npc is capable of thinking on their own and act outside of Ainz's words so it's unlikely that then npc just go long with what Ainz's said as fact 100% of the time if all Ainz said is random bullshit.
@@jerrylawson384 there is no intelligence stat in DnD. But if you ask me if its not intelligence what is it then, my guess would be his passive skill, dark wisdom, subconsciously making all those ingenious moves
You know something ironic is that When Ainz was giving the speech of a boss blaming a subordinate the fault of a mistake, his superior was the one who takes the most responsibllity for said mistake? Ramposa was doing the exact same example of this and was offering his head in exchanges from his noble subordinate who cause all this. I think Ainz could take some respect of this gesture of a good boss.
There is a difference between taking responsibility for the mistake of your subordinate and saving an ungrateful imbecile who thinks attacking a humanitarian aid carriage, dragging countless number of innocent people into a war that he himself probably wasn't even willing to participate in if he knew about the level of carnage that would occur is a good idea
@@wasdwasd609 Well he is offering his head because of that so in some way I think his trying take responsabilty. Now it depends if the next ruler don't to repeat the same mistake.
I've read the manga, read the novel, watch the anime, watched different channel doing breakdowns, analysis and explanation to overlord, and still I'll never get tired in this. SASUGA AINZSAMAA!
Man I wish they had planned overlord better. Madhouse should've release the first seven episode but filled with every detail. Then transition to the movie, since that will rake in money. Which in turn allow for the last episodes to have a bigger budget, and a better send off for season 4. edit- 69 likes nice
Is the movie going to pick up at the tail end of season 4? Is that confirmed? If not then it might just be featuring the Demihuman War arc, they just leaving it out and only mentioning it in passing in order to pique the curiosity of Anima-Only Watchers.
There is a problem when anime try to fill in every bit of the sourse material it can start to stall the progression if not done carefully, we love the anime or we wouldnt be here but 5 episodes of dialoug is cool and all but it dont mean its going to be enjoyable to watch, its alot easier to read a large volume at your own pace then watch a large volume at the pace they tell you to. Thisnis the first anime iv ever oicked up the LN for so i will gladly fill 8n those blanks my self because it intrests me but i will be the first to admit some other popular anime i like after 2 or 3 season began to be so full of filler episodes i was literally skipping 5,10, 15 mins of them just to get the just before the season finale got interesting again
Grimgar did exactly this and majority of viewers (that werent LN readers) complained it was slow and boring. Its hard to convert reading material to viewing material because the pacings are completely different. 10 pages of a book could translate to only 30 seconds of screen time. I think we can all agree the pacing of Overlord is on point and does not need changing. If you think the pacing is too fast then your complaint is valid and perhaps a slower pacing suits your taste. If not then there shouldnt be any change since for the anime only watchers they are having a blast which is exactly what we want to encourage more anime sequels in the future.
@@harriermk2 agreed, I have seen some people complain about episode 1 and 2 because of the talking, and those episode already have cut content, so imagined if it is fully detailed they would complain even more
Thanks for covering Overlord. I'm always looking forward to your episode breakdown videos - it's such helpful content making cross references with the LN. Actually, because of you I bought my own copy of the LN for better context. Anytime I see LN reader content or comments I'm motivated to read the LN more.
3:08 oh, that makes so much sense now. I was wondering why on Earth happened that Slane asked monster nation for help, as they were human supremacists, and why Magic Kindmgdom needed to go through Re-Estize to get them aid, if Re-Estize, Slane and Bahalmut were bordering each other near E-Rantel. But Holy Kingdom makes so much sense now!
9:25 Thank you for mentioning that The anime version depicts her as yander love Which is so far different from the light novel as she sees him like merciful king Hilma is one of my favorite character
Another fantastic overview. I look forward to each of these after every episode. Just makes me appreciate the episode even more. That's even after having read the books.
Phillip is a genius who guides the strongest character in all of Overlord, yet, to control Ainz's and the other denizens of Nazarick with his super rare spice magic. He also made himself impossible to be perceived by anyone who smells his spices, so no one knows he exists. Ainz is just a pawn in Phillip's game!
As an anime only watcher I really appreciate your deep dives into the LN for the things we missed. Even then, the pacing of the show has been amazing. Was not confused for the most part other than the "Theocracy" switch up that you mentioned earlier. The lore and world building of Overlord has been top notch . Can't wait to see more of this arc!
Thank you for clearing that up. It was bugging me, I was like" Theocracy!? Literally one episode ago was a face to face confrontation with the Theocracy
Thank you for the clarification on the translation of "Theocracy" as well as the Jaldoboath (probably spelled that wrong) cut content. When I watched that, I was like "ok... Hopefully ZeronicKiba will go over this part".
Thanks again ! I am only catching up on the novels and on Novel 8 so far and It’s only thanks to your videos that I can have a little bit of deeper understanding with the anime :)
I didn't really take it from the Anime that Hilma was romantically inclined toward Ainz. I think that since she's an underworld leader and a woman who's been subservient to others all her life, she's never been shown mercy or rationality from her superiors before and it was so relieving it was cathartic to her and at the same time it showed her what working for or being part of an organization with intelligent and charismatic leadership can be like. She went there fully expecting to be horrifically tortured again, but instead the absolute head boss of the group--a person her direct superiors all consider to be God, let her off with the smallest of reprimands and no pain. That was life changing for her.
Philip's plan is so outrageous that it went through very smoothly. The people who transported the food thought there's no way anyone would rob the sorcerer kingdom's goods and it may be a miscommunication of sorts that they are supposed to hand over the food to the robbers but the info just didn't get to them.
Can someone clear up something with me? So the theocracy is the country lead by those priest looking people that met up with jircniv right? And The reestieze kingdom is the one that Ainz and demiurge fought in as momon the adventurer The empire is Jircniv’s, and where Ainz was in the arena And the holy kingdom hasn’t been covered yet right?
As an anime only, the only reason why I thought it was a mistranslation was because geographically it didn't make sense. The goods wouldn't need to travel through the country to get to the Theocracy. (I think)
Who's dumber though? Philip thinking it was a genius move to attack the Sorcerer kingdom OR a room full of nobles who decided that immediately surrendering was unacceptable despite the Sorcerer kingdom and almost half a dozen other powerful factions admonishing them.
If you really think about it it's the room filled with nobles that the dumber one after it's becoues of them that Zanac has to walk on legos every time he wants to better the relationship with Sorcer kingdom as well as becoming the king and while Philip does have some at least some reason for being an idiot this guys have non
Both. Because while Phillip’s actions of stealing from a transport of humanitarian relief efforts had caused all other nations to avoid contact with Re Estize. The Kingdom can’t even ask for support from any of the other nations because they are protecting Phillip from the responsibility of his amoral act of selfishness.
OK. This helped clear the confusion about the Theocracy in this EP. From the coliseum duel episode to the Sorcerer Kingdom sending food to the Theocracy....what? I had to check what I was smokin'.
late night upload lets goooooo! i'm glad you made the mistranslation clear and i was very interested to hear about the king's stress from gazefs death and it' kinda funny that ainz actually unintentionally got something right for once
Thanks for the video! Yes I was so confused they kept saying they were sending aid to the "Theocracy" which is the most wealthy human kingdom. I've barely gotten into the light novels so I didn't realize they had skipped a few here.
How kind the Theocracy are to have been working in the shadows trying to form an alliance against the Sorcerer Kingdom in the start of the season to suddenly being sent food supplies by them. What a great strategy, Sasuga Ainz-sama!
The King just wants to be done with his reign. He’s so broken he’s “opting out” the same honorable way Gazef did. Logically it makes no sense. If he had real honor he would guide his Kingdom into this new world with as much intelligence and wisdom as he could muster, and just allow stupid people to pay the stupid price of their actions. But deep down he’s a coward and wants out.
Rampossa is actually done. I feel bad for the prince. Also, I wanted to see neai, Her and hilma's feelings towards Ainz is like a servant's feelings to their GOD.
1:58 I watch Overlord Season 4: Episode 8 on BiliBili, and the translation there was correct, they said; "Holy Kingdom" not Slane Theocracy. However, the Sorcerer Kingdom was mistranslating there and was callled as "Nation of Darkness"?
All I can think about whenever anyone mentions holy kingdom arc? Bludgeoning. If you know, you know; but I have a feeling that’s a big reason it’s a movie instead.
I've honestly never religiously watched an anime like I do with overlord before. I hide my shame to everyone that I like anime, however I just casually watch it and if I don't finish one, I'm just meh and move on. Overlord has been the first one where I literally can't get enough. The character development, world building, and details are outstanding.
from what i could tell what was sent was not a declaration of war but more of an announcement that due to the attack war was likely should the kingdom not do something to placate nazarick. this can sort of be proved by the fact that after the conversation of the kingdom discussing the letter that albedo had shown up for a meeting with the king where the king offered his own head in return for continued peaceful relations.
Madhouse wanting to be done with Overlord, like Maruyama wanting to go write about anime girl MMA fighters and raising pigs lmao But anime onlys don't care, so who cares? I just turn my brain off and enjoy watching the characters move, training my brain cells for the eventual release of the horrible movie adaptation of the 2 best volumes in the franchise.
in LN 14 two characters gave their opinion of ainz, hilma and renner. a courtesan and a genius, views from people whose insight to the hearts of men are paramount. though their vaunted experience and intellect failed to see through ainz acting. ainz is THAT GOOD, TOM CRUISE WHO@. unfortunately, we didnt get to see hilmas impression of ainz this episode
As I recall, Ainz did inflict True Death on Gazef, which means low-level resurrection spells wouldn't work to bring Gazef back to life. Plus Gazef did tell Ainz that he didn't want to be restored after their duel. Either way, Lakyus wouldn't be able to revive Gazef and I doubt even the Holy Roble Empire resurrection spells would work.
*Let's steal from an insanely-powerful Demon King. What's the worst that could happen?* Phillip only proved that there's no such thing as foolproof, because there will be a fool that will prove you wrong.
Thanks for clearing that up and reminding me how much I hate Crunchyroll with their piss-poor translations not worth a cent. I was confused every time they mentioned the theocracy, I'm like "When the hell did the Slane Theocracy fall and become indebted to the Sorcerer Kingdom?"
The Reason they couldn't revive Gazef is because of #1 Gazef does not want to be brought back #2 The spell Ainz used True Death. This can only be overwritten with the same tier or above of resurrection magic. True Death is a 9th Tier Magic Spell
Knowing a bit about history, and having played strategy games like Crusader Kings, I immediately thought Albedo and Demiurge would be happy with what Phillip did, because it played into their hands. This very similar what happened with the Empire sending in workers, which was Demi's plan. They just didn't have to scheme for it. An act of aggression by a vassal, let a rumour spread with merchants about the incident to all neighbouring countries, blame the King for not reigning him in, threaten war, in negotiations demand Phillip's land or part of it and finally, when you have it, have one of the nobles bring up: if the king cedes land and doesn't protect his vassals as is his duty, why is there a king? Jircniv even did what the prince suggested. Blame the noble give Ainz his head. Demi should/could have thought of this from the start. That the Kingdom suspects Ainz deliberately schemed for this is not unwarranted. Previously they didn't show all that well that Phillip was stupid. But his conversation with the other 2 nobles did. I had many red flags pop up immediately, of which I suspect the writer knows the implications of. Not listening to peasants what can grow and wanting to make cash crops to sell is usually the mark of a tyrant. He will get rich, but everybody else won't. You will be heavily dependent on outside forces strong-arming yourself, you'd need to buy food and actually sell your cash crops for it. You can't do that as a faction leader. You need that independence or a very reliable trade partner. There will be a high risk transition period. Where there could be no food or money. It's labor intensive, there is a reason colonial powers used slaves for it, especially the Spanish and Portuguese. Harder to innovate, because it's just extracting resources without making an end product, creating stagnation. No need for education with just hard labor. With a labor shortage it's doomed to fail. He would cause a famine in his domain. Or/and have a revolution on his hand. On top of that attacking a Kingdom which subjugated the Empire stronger than the his own entire Kingdom he is a part of, not expecting the destruction/invasion of his own domain as retaliation at the very least. Ainz having undead work the fields could also cause problems btw. Right now it's fine because there is such a labor shortage, but replacing them for decades is going to cause problems. It's like automation taking away jobs.
I wish, wish, wish that you would do a breakdown of the intros and all the new things they are introducing. There are new (and old resurfacing faces) faces in the crowd. Since they are already showing them i think its only fair to delve into them... Some anyways. xD
I half glossed over the Theocracy mistake. I knew the Theocracy is going to be in more direct conflict with ainz though with the Kingdom conflict, so I did think it odd they were suddenly on good terms. If it was the Theocracy seal on the war document the Kingdom should 've immediately given in or subjugated themselves to the dragon Council state. Also Gazef was killed by Ainz using a spell that made revival impossible. This was in the anime. Lakyus was probably just unable.
i'm gonna be honest, if the anime is a 7/10, then the ln is a 11/10, there's just sooo much detail in there that if they were to adapt lhe whole thing we would need like 8 seasons of overlord to get to this point instead of the 4 that we got. I highly highly highly recommend the ln, it's on another level.
So are we going to for now point out for all the animes watch only that they are referring to the Holy Kingdom not the theocracy, cuz a lot of people are saying that there's a translation error from Crunchyroll because of season 4 episode 8 cuz A lot anime Watchers will probably get confused cuz the last time they see the theocracy they were scared and see the sorcerer Kingdom as a threat but now they're taking help from them?Also what a miss opportunity 😢 to have Philip to step on flag of the sorcerer Kingdom.
I admit, I watched the s4 fan-subbed from a local website (I don't support piracy, but Crunchyroll isn't available in my country). Fortunately, the translation did simply refer them as "holy kingdom" not "theocracy", despite the fact that they didn't explicitly mentioned Holy Roble Kingdom. *edit: in the fan-sub, they also refer the name of their operation as "Whip and Candy"
I thought the conversation between Zanac and Reniar summarized the Holy Kingdom arch pretty well with the bare bones pieces of information as to not spoil the movie. But I hope they fix the 'Theocracy' botch. That was shameful.
As a LN reader, it annoyed me *so much* every time the subtitles referred to the Holy Kingdom as the Theocracy in this episode. Like seriously, anime-only fans are going to be SO confused by that (especially with the movie version of volumes 12 & 13 not being out yet)
ikr like they’re talking about neia demiurges actions in the holy kingdom like bruh
They'll going to change it eventually. It's not uncommon
indeed. The part where the prince talked about the Theocracy wanting to help the Kingdom and then a few minutes later, the Kingdom suddenly asking food aid to the Sorcerer Kingdom didnt add up at all.
Theocracy* asking for food aid
I mean actually anime only fans are not confused by that since the anime has literally showed or spoken absolutely nothing of the Holy Kingdom. Like it’s a a non-entity so I’m not confused that Nazarick isn’t sending supplies to nowhere.
I’m more confused by the seals on the letter to the Kingdom.
Operation carrot and stick as you mention was called "Whip and Candy" in light novel, was actually mention in this episode when Hilma was send back to her mansion around 11:50 She said "I never know how sweet the Candy until she know the pain of the whip" something like that.
whip and candy is the subtitle in bilibili
It’s just the different in idiom between Eng and Jpn language. One uses “carrot and stick” and the other uses “candy and whip”.
Otherwise same meaning. It would be pretty weird if Hilma says “the sweetness of the carrot” now that I imagine it lmao.
@@Euruzilys the one I watch first said carrot and stick then next she change to mention candy and whip. I was confused until I watch this video
@@Euruzilys candy is a better reward than carrots. Must be a peasant thing.
@@Euruzilys tbf translations this episode overall have been pretty shody
I think it's really really bad that they didn't show Phillip robbing the carriage. That scene is the whole reason for the war. Boy literally threw the Sorcerer Kingdom flag on the ground and stepped on it.
Exactly how I felt, not sure who was making that “cut it” choice but they dropped the ball here.
Philip be like "They don't know I'm the one who steal the foods" meme 😂
I find it amazing how fast every single Nazerik member is okay with resorting to genocide without Ainzs there, like if they all ended up in the new world without Ainzs half the nations would be either gone or farms within a month
Not really just look what happened to shalltear in the first season
DDDL , PDL , Slane Theocracy and the elf king the new world is dangerous
ainz is really smart when he decided to explore the new world and sending the death knights first
Well look at it this way, they were originally NPC's in yggdrasil that did nothing but stand guard and attack any non-guild members on site. Nothing else. There was no personality and only flavor text to them. So this is their baseline. That is then affected by flavor text and gaps are filled in with their creator's personality.
@@RedLights9000-f3l that's why it's only half
Great review man.
Yeah I thought Hilma’s reaction to Ainz’s mercy kind of came across as simping, rather than her being overjoyed to know that there is hope for the Eight Fingers members if they subordinate themselves under Ainz directly. Which in the novels kind of felt like she was admiring Ainz as some merciful god that saved her from hell.
If I remember correctly. Ramposa actually wanted to let Zanac be king but they couldn't find the timing to do it because if Zanac were to take the throne in the wrong manner it would cause a split between the royalist and the noble faction. Ramposa decision to give up his head was actually well thought. It would let Zanac take the throne with very little friction. I remember Zanac being really impressed with his father's resolve.
that is true but i felt he was lost and he really wanted to see his friend again and wanted to die. the depression i felt was very huge but not gonna lie it was his plan to let zanac take over with any problem.
@@KyubiANDnaruto i think its both. a silver lining to an otherwise ruined sense of responsibility as head of state.
@@KyubiANDnaruto His friend again?
@@FairchildTom yea gazef, he kinda went mad by hiting lackus for not being able to resurect him even tho ainz had notice brain and climb, that it wont be possible with low tier magic. After that he just went full depression and wanted to die, that what i felt tho.
I've seen a theory somewhere and it's been in my mind ever since. Maybe in reality Ainz has been subconsciously smart this whole time, but his own conscious doesn't realize that. Like his own thought push him to do/say this without himself knowing why he said that, but in reality it's his subconscious doing the work.
I mean that could make a lot a sense. If we look at his character class and race he’s an overlord the strongest and wisest of the undead races, Along with the fact that he’s a necromancer with essentially maxed out intelligence given the fact that I believe, and I may be wrong don’t quote me on this, he knows more spells than any other player. So it could be very likely that he is super intelligent subconsciously like mentioned, it’s just that his real life personality is overriding his subconscious.
@@jerrylawson384 yeah, I only read volume 14 so I don't know if it's the case with all volume, but the narration really focus on the fact that the npc shouldn't have believe his word/action for this long. And we have seen that npc is capable of thinking on their own and act outside of Ainz's words so it's unlikely that then npc just go long with what Ainz's said as fact 100% of the time if all Ainz said is random bullshit.
Yeah smt like that.
@@jerrylawson384 there is no intelligence stat in DnD. But if you ask me if its not intelligence what is it then, my guess would be his passive skill, dark wisdom, subconsciously making all those ingenious moves
I mean Ainz did get Dwarfs on his side all on his own
You know something ironic is that When Ainz was giving the speech of a boss blaming a subordinate the fault of a mistake, his superior was the one who takes the most responsibllity for said mistake?
Ramposa was doing the exact same example of this and was offering his head in exchanges from his noble subordinate who cause all this.
I think Ainz could take some respect of this gesture of a good boss.
There is a difference between taking responsibility for the mistake of your subordinate and saving an ungrateful imbecile who thinks attacking a humanitarian aid carriage, dragging countless number of innocent people into a war that he himself probably wasn't even willing to participate in if he knew about the level of carnage that would occur is a good idea
Negligence doesn't make you a good boss. The issue will repeat if they accept his gesture. Big difference.
@@GG-xm2cm You are right that saving like him it could become an even a bigger mistake.
@@wasdwasd609 Well he is offering his head because of that so in some way I think his trying take responsabilty.
Now it depends if the next ruler don't to repeat the same mistake.
Yeah in the LN I remember Hilma having more of an admiration for ainz in how forgiving he is rather than actual romantic feelings for him.
The Faceless One is indeed Neia.
Can't wait for best girl to finally show up 💖
Agreed! Refreshing to find someone else who truly realizes who the best girl in Overlord is.
I've read the manga, read the novel, watch the anime, watched different channel doing breakdowns, analysis and explanation to overlord, and still I'll never get tired in this.
SASUGA AINZSAMAA!
Man I wish they had planned overlord better. Madhouse should've release the first seven episode but filled with every detail. Then transition to the movie, since that will rake in money. Which in turn allow for the last episodes to have a bigger budget, and a better send off for season 4.
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Agreed👍
Is the movie going to pick up at the tail end of season 4? Is that confirmed? If not then it might just be featuring the Demihuman War arc, they just leaving it out and only mentioning it in passing in order to pique the curiosity of Anima-Only Watchers.
There is a problem when anime try to fill in every bit of the sourse material it can start to stall the progression if not done carefully, we love the anime or we wouldnt be here but 5 episodes of dialoug is cool and all but it dont mean its going to be enjoyable to watch, its alot easier to read a large volume at your own pace then watch a large volume at the pace they tell you to. Thisnis the first anime iv ever oicked up the LN for so i will gladly fill 8n those blanks my self because it intrests me but i will be the first to admit some other popular anime i like after 2 or 3 season began to be so full of filler episodes i was literally skipping 5,10, 15 mins of them just to get the just before the season finale got interesting again
Grimgar did exactly this and majority of viewers (that werent LN readers) complained it was slow and boring. Its hard to convert reading material to viewing material because the pacings are completely different. 10 pages of a book could translate to only 30 seconds of screen time.
I think we can all agree the pacing of Overlord is on point and does not need changing. If you think the pacing is too fast then your complaint is valid and perhaps a slower pacing suits your taste. If not then there shouldnt be any change since for the anime only watchers they are having a blast which is exactly what we want to encourage more anime sequels in the future.
@@harriermk2 agreed, I have seen some people complain about episode 1 and 2 because of the talking, and those episode already have cut content, so imagined if it is fully detailed they would complain even more
Thanks for covering Overlord. I'm always looking forward to your episode breakdown videos - it's such helpful content making cross references with the LN.
Actually, because of you I bought my own copy of the LN for better context. Anytime I see LN reader content or comments I'm motivated to read the LN more.
3:08 oh, that makes so much sense now. I was wondering why on Earth happened that Slane asked monster nation for help, as they were human supremacists, and why Magic Kindmgdom needed to go through Re-Estize to get them aid, if Re-Estize, Slane and Bahalmut were bordering each other near E-Rantel. But Holy Kingdom makes so much sense now!
9:25
Thank you for mentioning that
The anime version depicts her as yander love
Which is so far different from the light novel as she sees him like merciful king
Hilma is one of my favorite character
when they said the theocracy in the anime I immediately was like "oh they probably not saying the kingdom cuz we don't know what that is yet".
I wonder how long til EP. 9 breakdown I need it in my life
this is such a great breakdown, as a felllow LN reader i could have not said it better myself. Keep up the great work!
Another fantastic overview. I look forward to each of these after every episode. Just makes me appreciate the episode even more. That's even after having read the books.
I always look forward to your light novel breakdowns after watching the latest episode. Thanks for making these
Phillip is a genius who guides the strongest character in all of Overlord, yet, to control Ainz's and the other denizens of Nazarick with his super rare spice magic. He also made himself impossible to be perceived by anyone who smells his spices, so no one knows he exists. Ainz is just a pawn in Phillip's game!
hes so good that it hasnt been covered in the light novel or the anime, man transcends both mediums
Its actually Jet-sama who have SUPER SPICE MAGIC,he a alone can defeat every overlord characters with just his pinky finger
Thanks so much for the Holy Kingdom explanation I was so confused before.
As an anime only watcher I really appreciate your deep dives into the LN for the things we missed. Even then, the pacing of the show has been amazing. Was not confused for the most part other than the "Theocracy" switch up that you mentioned earlier. The lore and world building of Overlord has been top notch . Can't wait to see more of this arc!
Thank you for clearing that up. It was bugging me, I was like" Theocracy!? Literally one episode ago was a face to face confrontation with the Theocracy
Hoo boy, can't wait to see your reaction to Nigredo in episode 9
Thank you for the clarification on the translation of "Theocracy" as well as the Jaldoboath (probably spelled that wrong) cut content. When I watched that, I was like "ok... Hopefully ZeronicKiba will go over this part".
Thanks again ! I am only catching up on the novels and on Novel 8 so far and It’s only thanks to your videos that I can have a little bit of deeper understanding with the anime :)
can't wait for your episode 9 breakdown
Demiurge called it, "Men of 'some' intelligent such as himself, are often easier to predict than fools" season three
I didn't really take it from the Anime that Hilma was romantically inclined toward Ainz. I think that since she's an underworld leader and a woman who's been subservient to others all her life, she's never been shown mercy or rationality from her superiors before and it was so relieving it was cathartic to her and at the same time it showed her what working for or being part of an organization with intelligent and charismatic leadership can be like. She went there fully expecting to be horrifically tortured again, but instead the absolute head boss of the group--a person her direct superiors all consider to be God, let her off with the smallest of reprimands and no pain. That was life changing for her.
It cracks me everytime when Ainz innner voice keeps screaming "what?"
welcome back to our fav. channnel on Ainz-Sama
Philip's plan is so outrageous that it went through very smoothly. The people who transported the food thought there's no way anyone would rob the sorcerer kingdom's goods and it may be a miscommunication of sorts that they are supposed to hand over the food to the robbers but the info just didn't get to them.
I just watched episode 9 and i can't wait for you to break it down.
Props to the overlord opening in the background
Finally, been waiting for this breakdown
2:25, I was confused asf, thank you for clearing that up for me 👌 (side note, you could talk for an hour straight and we'd still listen bro)
"Ains Ooul Bone"
That really hit me
Can someone clear up something with me?
So the theocracy is the country lead by those priest looking people that met up with jircniv right?
And The reestieze kingdom is the one that Ainz and demiurge fought in as momon the adventurer
The empire is Jircniv’s, and where Ainz was in the arena
And the holy kingdom hasn’t been covered yet right?
Correct!
All correct, theocracy are also the people who brainwashed shalltear although ainz doesnt know.
@@plantcrone9662 well not until the end of Volume 16 he didn't.
I made myself subscribed here bc of a healthy conversation here in comments really wholesome
As an anime only, the only reason why I thought it was a mistranslation was because geographically it didn't make sense. The goods wouldn't need to travel through the country to get to the Theocracy. (I think)
Phillip should be a mindset, I'm not hustling anymore, I'm Philliping
"How Not To Summon An Overlord" is a name of a fanfic. I bet you can guess the crossover.
I definitely was confused I’m glad I saw your video it helped slot sense I never read the light novel
It did seem strange that Ainz was sending food supplies to the Theocracy.
Who's dumber though? Philip thinking it was a genius move to attack the Sorcerer kingdom OR a room full of nobles who decided that immediately surrendering was unacceptable despite the Sorcerer kingdom and almost half a dozen other powerful factions admonishing them.
If you really think about it it's the room filled with nobles that the dumber one after it's becoues of them that Zanac has to walk on legos every time he wants to better the relationship with Sorcer kingdom as well as becoming the king and while Philip does have some at least some reason for being an idiot this guys have non
Both. Because while Phillip’s actions of stealing from a transport of humanitarian relief efforts had caused all other nations to avoid contact with Re Estize. The Kingdom can’t even ask for support from any of the other nations because they are protecting Phillip from the responsibility of his amoral act of selfishness.
Just found this channel, loved the content. 👌
OK. This helped clear the confusion about the Theocracy in this EP. From the coliseum duel episode to the Sorcerer Kingdom sending food to the Theocracy....what? I had to check what I was smokin'.
Nice to see that we are getting into volume 14! I don't know much about this volume but i heard it is a crazy as volumes 12-13. Lets go!~ 😁
late night upload lets goooooo! i'm glad you made the mistranslation clear and i was very interested to hear about the king's stress from gazefs death and it' kinda funny that ainz actually unintentionally got something right for once
Some people, are just too dumb to live.
RIP Philip rest in pieces, if there's anything left of you.
Albedo will still have a use for him.
Thanks for the video! Yes I was so confused they kept saying they were sending aid to the "Theocracy" which is the most wealthy human kingdom. I've barely gotten into the light novels so I didn't realize they had skipped a few here.
They skip an entire arc (2 volume 12&13) so it will confuse anime only fans.
I came for the title how dare you … I love it
The whole theocracy/holy roble kingdom thing had me so fucked up so thank you so much for that clarification 🙏.
Good looking out!
For explaining which country the subtitle mishap was relating to.
How kind the Theocracy are to have been working in the shadows trying to form an alliance against the Sorcerer Kingdom in the start of the season to suddenly being sent food supplies by them. What a great strategy, Sasuga Ainz-sama!
Yeah i hope you make all country/kingdom explain in 1 video 🙏
Tbh I still confuse bout that 😅
The other cut content would be Princess Lana’s reaction when she saw the report of the attack on the transport.
The King just wants to be done with his reign. He’s so broken he’s “opting out” the same honorable way Gazef did.
Logically it makes no sense. If he had real honor he would guide his Kingdom into this new world with as much intelligence and wisdom as he could muster, and just allow stupid people to pay the stupid price of their actions.
But deep down he’s a coward and wants out.
> the way this guy says
YAO " DA BAE" OH
GOT ME CRACKING UP
That some kinda Chinese dude with demon fire or something
Would you consider making a video about the Overlord Bonus Novel: The Vampire Princess of the Lost Country ?
i like how u express Lord Philip genius move hahahahaah
TH-cam didn’t notified me that you uploaded 🙃
Thank you for the clarification on the holy kingdom
I’m so confused, then I found your channel 🤣tnx
Rampossa is actually done. I feel bad for the prince. Also, I wanted to see neai, Her and hilma's feelings towards Ainz is like a servant's feelings to their GOD.
holy
*King of fear's bugs eating them from the inside out
Me: ah yes, the shion treatment.
1:58 I watch Overlord Season 4: Episode 8 on BiliBili, and the translation there was correct, they said; "Holy Kingdom" not Slane Theocracy. However, the Sorcerer Kingdom was mistranslating there and was callled as "Nation of Darkness"?
Ainz like: "Bone? Which one? But don't ask the bone I don't have."
All I can think about whenever anyone mentions holy kingdom arc? Bludgeoning. If you know, you know; but I have a feeling that’s a big reason it’s a movie instead.
I've honestly never religiously watched an anime like I do with overlord before. I hide my shame to everyone that I like anime, however I just casually watch it and if I don't finish one, I'm just meh and move on. Overlord has been the first one where I literally can't get enough. The character development, world building, and details are outstanding.
Can relate. It's the only Isekai I liked enough to read the Novels and I don't regret It.
from what i could tell what was sent was not a declaration of war but more of an announcement that due to the attack war was likely should the kingdom not do something to placate nazarick. this can sort of be proved by the fact that after the conversation of the kingdom discussing the letter that albedo had shown up for a meeting with the king where the king offered his own head in return for continued peaceful relations.
I was gonna say why would they send food to the theocracy.
Madhouse wanting to be done with Overlord, like Maruyama wanting to go write about anime girl MMA fighters and raising pigs lmao
But anime onlys don't care, so who cares? I just turn my brain off and enjoy watching the characters move, training my brain cells for the eventual release of the horrible movie adaptation of the 2 best volumes in the franchise.
Hopefully it turns out somewhat decent. If the Holy Kingdom Arc is filled with Season 3 cgi I will lose hope.
in LN 14 two characters gave their opinion of ainz, hilma and renner. a courtesan and a genius, views from people whose insight to the hearts of men are paramount. though their vaunted experience and intellect failed to see through ainz acting. ainz is THAT GOOD, TOM CRUISE WHO@. unfortunately, we didnt get to see hilmas impression of ainz this episode
I love all the episodes so far, wish we see Enri and her goblin army again
I wasn't confused about the switch... but I can see it needing like, a title card in future eps lol.
I believe the holy kingdom movie should be a 2-hour movie that way the vol 12 & 13 have proper breathing room as the first middle and third Acts.
LOL bro there is no way to predict stupidity KEKW
As I recall, Ainz did inflict True Death on Gazef, which means low-level resurrection spells wouldn't work to bring Gazef back to life. Plus Gazef did tell Ainz that he didn't want to be restored after their duel. Either way, Lakyus wouldn't be able to revive Gazef and I doubt even the Holy Roble Empire resurrection spells would work.
*Let's steal from an insanely-powerful Demon King. What's the worst that could happen?*
Phillip only proved that there's no such thing as foolproof, because there will be a fool that will prove you wrong.
Thanks for clearing that up and reminding me how much I hate Crunchyroll with their piss-poor translations not worth a cent. I was confused every time they mentioned the theocracy, I'm like "When the hell did the Slane Theocracy fall and become indebted to the Sorcerer Kingdom?"
The Reason they couldn't revive Gazef is because of
#1 Gazef does not want to be brought back
#2 The spell Ainz used True Death. This can only be overwritten with the same tier or above of resurrection magic. True Death is a 9th Tier Magic Spell
I have to say this title is everything
Knowing a bit about history, and having played strategy games like Crusader Kings, I immediately thought Albedo and Demiurge would be happy with what Phillip did, because it played into their hands. This very similar what happened with the Empire sending in workers, which was Demi's plan. They just didn't have to scheme for it. An act of aggression by a vassal, let a rumour spread with merchants about the incident to all neighbouring countries, blame the King for not reigning him in, threaten war, in negotiations demand Phillip's land or part of it and finally, when you have it, have one of the nobles bring up: if the king cedes land and doesn't protect his vassals as is his duty, why is there a king? Jircniv even did what the prince suggested. Blame the noble give Ainz his head.
Demi should/could have thought of this from the start. That the Kingdom suspects Ainz deliberately schemed for this is not unwarranted.
Previously they didn't show all that well that Phillip was stupid. But his conversation with the other 2 nobles did. I had many red flags pop up immediately, of which I suspect the writer knows the implications of.
Not listening to peasants what can grow and wanting to make cash crops to sell is usually the mark of a tyrant. He will get rich, but everybody else won't.
You will be heavily dependent on outside forces strong-arming yourself, you'd need to buy food and actually sell your cash crops for it. You can't do that as a faction leader. You need that independence or a very reliable trade partner.
There will be a high risk transition period. Where there could be no food or money.
It's labor intensive, there is a reason colonial powers used slaves for it, especially the Spanish and Portuguese.
Harder to innovate, because it's just extracting resources without making an end product, creating stagnation. No need for education with just hard labor.
With a labor shortage it's doomed to fail. He would cause a famine in his domain. Or/and have a revolution on his hand.
On top of that attacking a Kingdom which subjugated the Empire stronger than the his own entire Kingdom he is a part of, not expecting the destruction/invasion of his own domain as retaliation at the very least.
Ainz having undead work the fields could also cause problems btw. Right now it's fine because there is such a labor shortage, but replacing them for decades is going to cause problems. It's like automation taking away jobs.
last night while watching the episode near the end I was subconsciously saying war, war, war, war.😈😈😈
I wish, wish, wish that you would do a breakdown of the intros and all the new things they are introducing. There are new (and old resurfacing faces) faces in the crowd. Since they are already showing them i think its only fair to delve into them... Some anyways. xD
Hey, where the heck is the new video? I'm waiting for the episode 9 analysis
I half glossed over the Theocracy mistake. I knew the Theocracy is going to be in more direct conflict with ainz though with the Kingdom conflict, so I did think it odd they were suddenly on good terms. If it was the Theocracy seal on the war document the Kingdom should 've immediately given in or subjugated themselves to the dragon Council state.
Also Gazef was killed by Ainz using a spell that made revival impossible. This was in the anime. Lakyus was probably just unable.
Man I need to start reading the LN.
it’s so fucking good you won’t regret it
i'm gonna be honest, if the anime is a 7/10, then the ln is a 11/10, there's just sooo much detail in there that if they were to adapt lhe whole thing we would need like 8 seasons of overlord to get to this point instead of the 4 that we got. I highly highly highly recommend the ln, it's on another level.
@@nandy2012 completely agree wit yu
Alright!
Start with volume 12 and 13
So are we going to for now point out for all the animes watch only that they are referring to the Holy Kingdom not the theocracy, cuz a lot of people are saying that there's a translation error from Crunchyroll because of season 4 episode 8 cuz A lot anime Watchers will probably get confused cuz the last time they see the theocracy they were scared and see the sorcerer Kingdom as a threat but now they're taking help from them?Also what a miss opportunity 😢 to have Philip to step on flag of the sorcerer Kingdom.
i love your breakdown more spoiler please i like it
Great breakdown
I admit, I watched the s4 fan-subbed from a local website (I don't support piracy, but Crunchyroll isn't available in my country). Fortunately, the translation did simply refer them as "holy kingdom" not "theocracy", despite the fact that they didn't explicitly mentioned Holy Roble Kingdom.
*edit: in the fan-sub, they also refer the name of their operation as "Whip and Candy"
I was very confused about the whole thing I thought I had miss a episode
I thought the conversation between Zanac and Reniar summarized the Holy Kingdom arch pretty well with the bare bones pieces of information as to not spoil the movie. But I hope they fix the 'Theocracy' botch. That was shameful.
More please. Yes to match skipping hard to track what would be happening next thats why the light novel is the best.
*I can't give you the details cuz I let my friend have the Volume 14 book*
Me: you're a good friend, can you be my friend.
I hope they at least show the caravan attack in a flash back.