His experiences with his subordinates who are overpowered creatures in their own right reminds me of the humorous scene in “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”, where the protagonist yells at the crowd in exasperation at their blind faith in him, only for them to repeat his words as gospel. Yet on the inside, he still remembers his original human personality and his lack of confidence, especially when dealing with his followers who obey him zealously. On the surface, he plays a coldly calculating and dispassionate immortal being that sees everything else as inferior. The main character himself is a dichotomy, two personalities that seemingly opposing to each other. As it also started off as a VRMMORPG, one can consider Overlord to be one of the first to showcase darker aspects instead of the noble-hearted characters like in Sword Art Online or Accel World (. There haven’t been many LNs and their anime adaptations that describe brutality and disregard for life at the forefront like this, which evokes the images of Light Yagami from Death Note. The memorable thing about this novel for me after the passage of time is the MC’s callous behavior. Yeah now that I'm at volume 12 I might drop this series as a whole if it continues to disappoint me. It gets repetitive really quickly and you'll just want to skip through them. Overlord cycles through minor characters so quickly because they're all dying at a fast pace. Why are you spending that much time introducing characters that are just going into the meat grinder? Why should we even bother knowing all their stories if they're just going to die a miserable death 30 minutes later? I don't think anyone would care enough to know the background story of a minor character that's made to die quickly or fade into irrelevance. Second, the amount of time spent on background-building of minor characters which survive less than one or two volumes is mind-numbingly long.
The MC is constantly in a conflict between his cruel, overlord personality and his inner working class man personality, even after 12 whole volumes. However, there are two things that brought my rating to three stars.
It is one of the best light novels I had ever read on those three aspects. This light novel has some novel-level world building, characters and story. Its both really good and really bad at the same time. Its pretty hard to give a verdict on overlord.
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