I'm sorry, I tried to get into Overlord, but everything about this anime is so jarringly at odds with itself that I eventually dropped it out of sheer frustration. It tries so hard to do so many things at once too that it fails to excel at any one thing. Tries to be super edgy yet at the same time attempts to provide moments of levity while clearly not being a dark humor anime. Whole show foments this thematically dissonant mess that never quite immersed me with its narrative nor captivated me with its borderline schizophrenic protagonist. Where do I even begin?

For all and intents and purposes, it starts off pretty generically and innocuously. Some dude gets trapped in a virtual MMO world. Sounds fine. Seems copacetic. Is it going to be one of those isekais in which the protagonist spends more time having fun and not worrying about trying to return to his world? Or is it going to be more about investigating what got him trapped inside to begin with while eking out a way to survive? The show made me think it was going to a bit of both. Hell, the guy clearly has a "normal person" voice and a voice that he only uses in front of the NPCs. But 90% of the time he uses his scary character voice. And it's like he forgets that this is just an MMO 90% of the time as well. The show seemingly wants me to forget all of this. Because the overarching story is really non existent. There's really nothing tying all of these sub plots altogether. Many of these arcs just involve the protagonist being an unlikeable edgelord and playing god (more like Satan) and being a murderous little shit to the NPCs around him. Imagine CLU from Tron Legacy, only you're supposed to cheer for him as the protagonist.

I genuinely don't understand how I am supposed to feel about Ainzmongold Am I supposed to be rooting for him to get untrapped from the MMO? To get it on with the succubus? Am I supposed to be laughing heartily as he tortures and murders would-be plunderers to his domain?