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EP. REVIEW: Overlord II

Sebas needs to learna bit of showmanship from his peers. I mean Naberal Gamma let the one guy honestly believe he could win for a little while, and then used a teleport just to "show off" before killing him, and she straight up hates humans. Also, while the Entoma v Blue Rose fight was pretty cool, I'm a little disappointed that the trio v Entoma was "off screen". But definitely looking forward to the bit of theater that comes next.

not to mention they had to speed things along to fit in all the scenes in one ep.

In the rose vs entoma fight if they had shown the rest of it, it would have just been like 5 minutes of them spamming the same attacks, drinking potions and spamming more attacks until Entoma finally collapsed. Not really all that exciting. They would have had to divert from the novels if they wanted to have it end up in some exciting finish.

To be clear, these action scenes are hardly animation masterpieces; in terms of visual quality, Overlord remains decidedly middle of the pack. Overlord's fights have always been more about dramatic imagery, shot selections, and staging than actual animation, and that remains the stylistic approach here. This may even work to the series' advantage concerning Sebas, as his fighting style involves brutally swift punches that take the heads off three of four Eight Fingers elites before they even know what hit them.

In the rose vs entoma fight if they had shown the rest of it, it would have just been like 5 minutes of them spamming the same attacks, drinking potions and spamming more attacks until Entoma finally collapsed. Not really all that exciting. They would have had to divert from the novels if they wanted to have it end up in some exciting finish.

I love how the reviewer keeps on overestimating Ainz, just like all the characters in the series do heh.

Oh, and for the reviewer it's blue rose, not black rose (was there a translation error maybe?)

#844391 wrote:

I love how the reviewer keeps on overestimating Ainz, just like all the characters in the series do heh.

In what way have I ever overestimated him? Most of what you say is pretty obvious.

Key wrote:

#844391 wrote: I love how the reviewer keeps on overestimating Ainz, just like all the characters in the series do heh. In what way have I ever overestimated him? Most of what you say is pretty obvious.

so I have to think that the “Gehenna” plan that Demiurge mentioned earlier was a mock battle between him and Ains that will get this Overlord into the good graces of the most powerful adventurers of the land. (This would also mean that the person Demiurge told the others that they weren't allowed to attack was Ains in his adventurer form.)

Don't want to spoil it for you, but relating to the part where you assume Ainz has any knowledge of the Gehenna plan. At least that's what is sounded like, I might have misunderstood.

Oh, you only wanted to spoil broadly. That was thoughtful.

As a general rule, already knowing something makes it impossible for you to judge what is or isn't obvious to those who don't. You're able to use backwards reasoning to identify clues and hints whose full significance will only be clear in retrospect. And the fact that you already know means you'll never speculate incorrectly, which every one else knows. That means that, if you're familiar with the source, you can not contribute to a discussion of what's coming up in any way without it being a spoiler. Sorry. Maybe use spoiler tags if you want to have that discussion?