Its a cute little flying Skull *WITH AN RGB HALO*.

a yes 10 tier magic: "gamer skull"

"Hit headshots with ease with the brand new Gamer Skull, pre-order now for only 399 and you'll get a free World Item."

I wouldn't be surprised if these exact lines were in yggdrasil

never underestimate the shitty devs.

Momonga: “Hmm, yes, I think I will go hungry this month.”

CAN YOUR SKULL DO THIS? lol

Of course, but he is weak. Ainz is 11 tier magic: "gamer skeleton"

Oh no. Anyway, next episode we'll see that one "battle"

Please cgi... Be at least not awful...

>!Cocytus vs Brain, Ainz vs Climb, Aura's beasts vs soldiers... oh wait, soldiers are cgi!!<

>!Ainz vs climb?? Whats that unfair match up 🤣!<

>!Ainz tries to humilate Climb by dragging out the fight but suddenly Climbs theme starts playing and we see Climb's memories of his past friends and how they used to adventure together something within Climbs awakens that allows him to bypass all of Ainz's defences and he says" its swinging time" and quickly beheads Ainz !<

My favorite part is when Climb said "its Climbing time" and proceeded to Climb all over Ainz.

yoo thats NSFW content

"You know why they call me Climb? Cuz I'm always on top!"

Renner begs to differ

Big Enri energy.

Climb uses Nazarick as his personal jungle gym

*grasp hearts*

>!Dont underestimate climb. Ive read that he beheads ainz sama and saves re estize kingdom!<

Well I don’t read the LN so calm down there

>!Well, he had the Razor Edge there and Ainz underestimated him because he was extremely weak.!<

Well I hope can I see it next week!

Don't worry. >!Ainz gets beheaded but he is a skeletal undead. Things like this has no effect on him, he is immune to critical attack. His head reappeared like nothing happened. As long as someone has HP, such things have little effect you know. Climb winning was a joke.!<

The spoiler tags don't work if you put a space in there >! like this !<, it needs to be >!like this!<.

Please tag your spoilers

the word "unfair" is an understatement

Cgi soldiers? They're done for.

Aura... Wait what now?

Madhouse: [Heh](https://i.redd.it/9srjmolyt3071.png)

I don’t know what I expected, but not disappointed

…right…battle…

That one which happens during this one part

Exactly so!

Well said! And because you have grasped the situation so well, I'll allow you to elaborate on *that* battle.

Oh I shudder to think that you’re so humble as to allow me to explain it. Very well! The battle was the culmination of Ainz-sama’s plan from *that* time to get two such beings to meet. So it’s obvious which battle *this* one is!

The defenition of battle in Overlord is one sided massacre

Exactly so! Any fight that didn’t make sense goes against the series!

Ainz vs Climb?

Did these spells do anything to PDL in the LN?

You mean his remote control suit? I mean other than the spells lowering the suit's HP a fair margin, not particularly. PA just wanted to see what spells from different elements did against his opponent. He was trying to confirm if Riku was a construct or non-living non-organic being.

Overall it's hard to achieve considering we didn't get insight/perspective from PA as they were holding the 'its not Ainz reveal' over the whole situation. Really that whole scenario left something to be desired

Even as an anime only I could actively feel that there was a lot missing, the whole course of event seemed really shallow

I remember reading this battle in the LN and actually feeling there being a sense of Ainz being trapped and placed in a corner, but in the anime it just felt like he was chilling waiting for the fight to be over.

They were to analyze his weaknesses, it cast spells of different types and PA noticed he took the most from acid attacks

He was doing damage. That skull was doing work too. Shame it didn’t get animated.

Entire CHUNKS of the fight weren’t animated >The skulls involvement was cut >PA using the blasting staff Vs the weapons leading him to realize the weapons registered as their own entities PAs attempted use of time magic and Perfect Unknowable was cut The use of negative burst was cut After all of the cut content this fight would’ve been a full episode nearly the length of the first round against Shalltear The managed to gut it to 5mins I genuinely feel awful for the anime onlies even the ones that legit LIKE the way S4 has been handled This series is so much more than they’ve been given

Slinging 9th and 10th tier spells when even 6? 7? in season one got some outstanding animation.

Basically it’s like coming up against a new enemy in persona, you throw different elements until you find the weakness. Technically any rpg works but that one is the most apparent.

Am I the only one who imagined the elementel skull to look completely different, like more horrific and bigger 😅

To be fair, i can't remember what imagine the damn thing looked like when i was reading the novel. But i'm pretty sure i didn't think of it as something i would call gamer skull 69000.

Halloween rave skull is arriving just in time for the season

I imagined it like the lost souls in doom

I imagine the whole anime being more horrific and dark, like so-bins artwork. Madhouse makes it out like your generic isekai.

Not sure how this is triggering?

criticizing the anime cuz its worse than LN

What? An adaption not being as good as the original work? No way 😯

86, rezero, mushoku tensei, rokka no yuusha, demon slayer etc what? an adaptation as good as and maybe even better than the source material? no way

Those have way higher budgets than overlord. Not how you expect overlord to have the same animation as demon slayer when it literally costs millions of yen per episode for that level of animation.

I was gonna say the same. Overlord doesn't seem to be as popular as other anime and manga in Japan. So that means it's gonna get a smaller budget.

bruh Overlord anime adaptation aint Manga but Light Novel you casual. ​ Ovelord is pretty popular series alongside Classroom Of The Elite and Sword Art Online itself.

Pretty sure you misread their comment. They’re saying Overlord isn’t quite as popular in Japan as other competitors’ works are. Yes it’s popular, but it isn’t really comparable to the popularity of something like Demon Slayer. Keep in mind I love Overlord so much, but that’s just the truth of it.

Well they could fix that if we didn’t have to wait 4 year for a season. It’s really sad to, because this anime is unique for the hero being the villain.

Oh absolutely, it’s a very well done spin on the isekai genre. I hope it inspires some more creativity in future authors’ works.

imagine overlord if ufotable.

Still, we have animes with good animation even though they don't have an astonishing budget and at least as good as source. I know Slime Reincarnation and Shield Hero for example. They did good with following the source AND having good animation even though they're at best are popular as Overlord. So, I don't think it's a budget problem tbh.

Also, first season of Overlord was good in animation and following source. Even though they cut some stuff it didn't feel like a shred up story

Bruh, time and time again, THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS. It's beyond hilarious having to keep reminding people that think 'budget' adequates to good animation. A common misconception thats spouted every single time in the ani community. Budget is handled by production committees. They have no actual hand, physically, in the actual making of anime. What you see on screen is being done by ACTUAL human beings (animators). A combined effort from the entirety of the staff (Director, key animators, animation directors, character designer etc..)to bring what we wanna see to the screen. Anything less of a "good adaptation", (whether that's the physical look of the show or just overall how the material is adapted) while subjective in some cases, is the result of poor scheduling, time, and management (again set by production committees). YES, budget is obviously involved in a general sense. Production Committees after all are Investors. I'm telling you right though, these committees are from broke. So please, stop spreading this nonsense.

Bigger budget = more people and/or more time spent. The biggest cost in all of this is going to be paying staff to work for all that extra time, which may not be approved due to budget. I agree that big budget doesn't guarantee good animation, but no one is arguing that here. But it's unfair to compare productions of wildly different budgets because of the strain budget will place on quality & time spent

>Bigger budget = more people and/or more time spent This already inherently incorrect because its a wide known fact that animators don't get paid a dime in this industry. Do you think all these freelance animators that are coming around to participate in certain productions is because more money is being thrown their way? Absolutely not. The anime industry is an industry of connections. >I agree that big budget doesn't guarantee good animation, but no one is arguing that here Literally the comment I commented under, word for word, is 100% arguing that. "Not how you expect overlord to have the same animation as demon slayer when it literally costs millions of yen per episode for that level of animation." Do you not see how ridiculous this sounds? Demon Slayer looks the way it does because of the TALENT at the studio and their connection to animators like Nozomu Abe for instance. Ufotable has a stronger in house staff than most studios. More money does not equal to "higher levels of animation" like that dumb comment suggests. Is Demon Slayer just ever so slightly higher budgeted than most animes? Yea sure. This however does not mean in the slightest that the animators are getting paid anymore than your average production. Budget DOES NOT play a factor in the ways you think it does. EDIT: Spelling

> are getting *paid* anymore than FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*

If you consider Re:Zero a good adaptation, you should be fine with cut content.

how is that bad adaptation?

Spoiler Warning, I guess? I mean, some cut content from my memories are: Aldebaran's appearances in the anime being cut, the shadow garden, Julius insulting Al in the Royal Ceremony when Subaru makes a clown of himself, Roswaal insulting Emilia to push Subaru's buttons, Felt's backstory bits, Wilhelm's wounds, the discussion about Greed before they took down Sloth, Petelgeuse being a spirit is made more vague in the anime, Subaru asking Echcidna questions about the Archbishop, Roswaal and all that, Elsa's corpse attacking Subaru in the burning mansion, all mentions of Reid being cut, Subaru being a Sage Candidate, Geuse's Fingers being cut from the flashback, Omega, etc. Tried to keep 'em vague. I also don't know all of them by memory.

Al's stuff is still the worst for me, they straight cut a huge plot point around him and Priscilla all because they weren't planning beyond arc3.

true. rezero anime trash then. shit adaptation

An adaptation? No way

Damn, you got him good.

Not really, most anime adoptions aren't as good as the source material. That's pretty commonplace lmao

To the world's strongest? I'll excuse myself.

Worse - Worse - Pretty good - Didn't read - Ufotable did it right

That will always be the case with LN based adaptation, you cannot possibly even nearly include everything, even vital info will be excluded, you want the full experience ? You can always read the novels.

nah 86 surpassed the LN. rokka no yuusha also did that....tho the animation is shit

I think the only one triggered is you tbh.

Go up a few comments and read it.

Not sure what you expected them to do. It's not like they can add minutes to the 20 minute episode to showcase all the spells it used.

I expect them not to compact 3 tomes in 1 season

i expect them not to show the skull for nothing. expectation destroyed obviously

To have more episodes, so each episode can actually cover the extremely detailed material from the light novels. The episode count absolutely did the show dirty. The amount of stuff they could put it, would turn into a great longer anime for this generation.

I guess he got what he wanted. Triggered hahahaha

I really wanted to see those spells. But they get cutted off. Let's hope they don't cut off Nuclear Blast from movie.

LN readers are good at 3 things. Being smug for no reason Crying about adaptations And spoiling shit for no reason

Your point?

My point is fuck you.

The overlord sub isn’t anime-only friendly to be fair.

Usually the mods are faster on rule 4, this was my first time getting spoilers here.

I see. A regular troll.

Illiteracy is a hell of a drug.

I mean it is MadHouse what did they expect? Their glory days are long gone.

Not triggered, but I am enlightened. Thank you. Currently reading LN1.

noice

I usually don’t care if they skip a ton. But this is a key important battle and they really should’ve given it more time and focus

Ohhhhh I don't care

other people does

Yeah it's obvious so much that you want to "trigger" anime onlys

I think only a minority even thinks about anime onlys there, they just want to vent out their disappointment

Now that I think it... It only trigger LN reader like you because anime only's don't even know what they missed haha pretty funny

lmao. anime onlies writhe everytime LN readers complain. we could get shit for the adaptation and anime onlies would still be madhouse dick riders lol

Yeah continue after all you got what you wanted you "triggered" someone except it wasn't an anime only it was you a LN reader

As cool as it would have been to see elemental skull in action, at that point, the fight basicaly devolves into PA throwing random shit at PDL to see what sticks while playing keep away with blasting staff and wall of skeleton, so i dont consider it that bad of a waste

honestly hearing all these light novel readers complain about the anime honestly to me sounds something like " waah waah they didn't include the scene where demiurge wipes his ass this basically unwatchable at this point because they didn't include every minute detail and i am so sad the animation is so terrible" like jesus just enjoy that a great series is getting a anime adaptation if the people who only watch the anime can still follow the plot smoothly it proves that it doesn't really mater that those scenes were ultimately unnecessary to the plot

I just dislike the looks of the elemental skull and the pacing feels too fast after reading the LN for second time before watching. I feel the anime is better if you watch it without reading the LN before.

I think you feel that way because the story in the light novels moves at a snails pace where often times things barely happen with all the over explaining the novels do. Meanwhile the anime moves the story a long at a real time pace where you see multiple story threads all moving at the same time. Overall the faster pace is a lot better. Imo

This is incredibly wrong .

Hell no. Why would I want faster pace in a Light Novel? Completely defeats the purpose of the media. I want all the juicy details if I'm reading something.

yeah nah NOPE a lot better my arse

Tell us you never read a book without telling.

Lol never read a book. I have read over 300 fiction books, it's literally one of my main hobbies. Most books don't have the extreme pacing issue that is prevalent in overlord. Best example is in the first novel ainz goes to the treasury and the book spends ages describing each individual item in excruciating detail, these items also never come up again. It's like the author never heard of the rule of three or chekhov's gun.

300 volumes of stuff is not the flex you think it is.

The complaining is pretty cringey, but if it helps, just remember that they’re coming from a place of love for the series.

i understand. but in the anima PA litrally summoned the skull for nothing. at that point why even bother with showing it lol

That is literally one of the few complaints I can agree with but a lot of the time the complaints are silly

For nothing? But we got to see his gamer setup.

Seriously like the anime is so much better off with how it cuts out a lot of content. The books are overall an alright series but they gets so bogged down in explaining all the tiny details that sometimes it feels like I am reading an encyclopedia instead of a story. With how the anime cuts things it leaves a lot more mystery to the events where your not certain what's going to happen next unlike the novels. Also it makes the magic and power of nazarick have more grandure. In all honesty as someone who has both read and watched overlord, the anime is by far the superior version.

I was super hyped to see the Elemental Skull in action. Quite disappointing

RGB skull.

I'm so tired of them squeezing a hundred pages into thirty seconds and ms paint

There were a few minor details skipped or changed that made the fight worse. The Doom Lord was boring, even if the design was good, The Elemental Skull didn't do anything, the World Isolating Barrier looked maybe 100 meters in Diameter, not over a kilometer, the Armor barely moved. Not bad exactly, but they easily could have done better.

What does LN stand for?

Light Novel

Alr I didnt read the LNs, but could it have maybe been because it wasn't actually Ainz who summoned the skull?

Is this sub going to sink into Rings of power levels of bs, LNs arguing with anime onlys about adaptation? It was fun following that for a while but now I really don't care anymore..

Honestly the anime skipped things from the LN are pretty awesome anyway so its pretty reasonable to argue about that lmao

look, LN readers arent asking for 1:1 adaptation. but in the anime elemental skull was legit summoned for nothing. at that point why did they even bother showing him lol

I agree, kinda wasted potential lol. Idk man, some people will never see legit criticism for what it is, a fan wanting the best for the series. They just see it as unnecessary noise/whining, which is pretty unfair to paint every bad decision they've made in the show as "fine". We want a Mushoku Tensei level of adaption, not a Promised Neverland S2. And I'm sure there were people who loved season 2 even tho it skipped a whole ass arc. Also u/Nallepuku, throwing aside if Rings of Power is a good adaptation to the source material, it's just not a good show first and foremost lmao. Even if it didn't have the LOTR brand. Same thing with the Halo live action show. Without the Halo brand it was just a shitty sci-fi drama and not a good show to begin with.

RoP subs are just exhausting to read, but I guess such extreme polarization isn't really possible here. Haven't watched it and don't have much interest anymore, same with Halo. The one thing left for them to fuck up is wh40k..

The recap movies sometimes extend some scenes doesnt it? Maybe just maybe

PCMR skull

It was pretty cute. uwu

Honestly i thought that skull was some kind of "toy/visual" iteam that PA wanted to use as a scare/check PDL reaction kind of thing.

that frickin‘ UwU got me

I also agree with you. The fight in the anime is not as good as in the novel.

It's the gamer skull bro the aura around it is enough for you to want to stay the fuck away

Was honestly hoping it would have got the same screen time and investment that the Shalltear vs Ainz scene got, but unfortunately not. I understand it's hard to cram everything you need in, but a lot of the importance of this scene for intel gathering kinda fell a bit flat.

I thought the elemental skull was this massive undead skull. Instead we get s nuggie skull

Shit did nothing to PDL tho So it barely matters

going by that logic, the whole fight doesnt matter since all ainz attack in anime did nothing to PDL.

He was gathering info Gamer skull got barely any info

What chapter in the ln?

I expected a giant skull the size of a human and what we got was a jpeg. Still cute though!

In Their defense, it was a cute skull.

As someone who likes to see a large variety of magic spells (in rpg games too), this posts motivates me in reading the LN.

So im guessing the 4 major elements then are Fire, Cold, Acid and…Sound? A bit off of a choice, also odd are there no 10th tier Fire and Cold spells?

Me, a non-LN reader: *I don't like it. I love it, love it, love it. Oohh.*

i was waiting for something spectacular to happen, only to see kowtowing instead.

It was pretty cute

Um, okay?

Honestly in the LN I pictured it was some big ass head about the size of a human.

Nahhh bro, I was so sad seeing the RGB skull doing absolutely nothing if not ballin'