So who exactly is Touch Me? A knight in shinning armor or a treacherous villain? Honestly this plot point is much better than anything in the new world.
Overlord
Isaiah Foster
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Aaron Stewart
Sex with Zesshi.
Adam Powell
>Race: Insect
I bet he's a fucking wasp or bedbug
Easton Gonzalez
He's a grasshopper, like Kamen Rider.
Elijah Price
Alexander Sullivan
that's fucking terrifying
Dylan Sullivan
But by that standard, he could also be a Kabuto.
Or two ambiguously gay detectives in one suit.
Ayden Gutierrez
animeonly here, couple of questions:
1) what was the point of spending half of season two with the lizard people? i dont feel like they added anything to the plot...
2) how come ainz hasn't figured out yet that the slane theocracy were the ones that mind controlled shaltear? he knows that they have items from his game and that they are a powerful nation, yet he has never thought of sending a single spy there?
3) how come the npcs never question that they were one day randomly teleported to another world? you'd think someone as smart as demiurge would be the slightest bit interested on learning how that was possible...
4) not counting npcs from nazarick, is there really no one in the new world that can fight ainz 1v1?
5) why does sebas (someone who is clearly good) allow all the evil things that nazarick have done?
Carson Russell
Some of that was that they're the first things Ainz truly conquers, but a lot of it was about seeing whether Cocytus - and by extension the other NPCs, are able to grow beyond their original programmed personalities.
A part of Overlord's storytelling and worldbuilding however is also done in such a way as to give a better understanding of just what it is has been unleashed onto that world: It's meant to give context and perspective of Out of Context problem those being smashed against Nazarick's desires are dealing with.
How effective the author is at this can be debated a bit, but you can probably agree that the far more typical Isekai manga (or worse yet xuanhuan adaptations) two-panel-loss stories of
>"then the MC showed his power and all the girls are now moist aren't you enraptured by how deep this plot is yet? anyways here comes the next YOU DARE, YOU ARE SEEKING DEATH..."
don't really convey fuck-all do they.
Instead we're shown quite a bit of the culture and abilities of those lizards, as well as the fear, despair and confusion the natives suffer when something that can just freeze their whole tribes to keep its feet clean while walking shows up and says "this place is mine".
It's why so much of a horror movie is shown from the point of view of the prey and not the clown.
Ethan Bell
1) the lizard people are very important to the story later on. ainz power levels them all which comes back to bite him in the ass as they secretly plan a revolution after meeting with the guy mentioned in point 4)
2) the slane theocracy had a kill switch for their agents that would make them die if they were questioned on their mission and would curse the person questioning them to slowly and subtly forget about them
3) the npcs were actually the masterminds who brought nazarick to the new world to prevent ainz from leaving them
4) there is one lvl 100 new world resident named gene nebevzinsky and he starts gathering an army of followers to defeat ainz after he received a letter warning him about ainz from remedios before she was assassinated by the doppelganger in the holy kingdom
5) sebas is just biding his time, he is secretly in contact with gene nebevzinsky and is working as a spy for his forces
Owen Rivera
That would give a whole new meaning to "Touch Me".
Samuel Reyes
probably just a morph like Coclytus and Entoma
Isaiah Green
just started watching overlord but learning about the game yggdrasil triggers the fuck out of my autism.
apparently there were items that could change the game itself? does the writer not realize the logistical nightmare that would be?
yggdrasil sounds like an extremely unbalanced game that would be super toxic to new players.
i would have much preferred if ainz came from another magical world called yggdrasil instead of a video game...
Juan Sanchez
>yggdrasil sounds like an extremely unbalanced game that would be super toxic to new players.
Because it was.
It's fantasy EVEOnline on steroids.
Juan Taylor
The game devs addressed the issue about the WCI and told the players to fuck off because they're not changing them.
Nolan Hill
>Yggdrasil was a pay-to-win nightmare and the Nazarick goons were whales who spent thousands of dollars on a dying game
Sounds like a standard korean MMO to me
Jaxon Diaz
I like the lizards because they remind me of argonians but I agree that the lizard arc is too long and a bit too boring.
Zachary Gutierrez
>5) sebas is just biding his time, he is secretly in contact with gene nebevzinsky and is working as a spy for his forces
Shit may go down next volume now that volume 15 revealed the shalltear brainwashing never went away after the revive and now they have full control of her on demand without her knowledge.
John Cruz
1)Lizard sex and nothing else
2)Not enough high level spies that can satisfy Ainz paranoia, their spy network is already stretched thin.
3)Give them some slack, this "sentience" gig is new for them. And Demiurge has more impotrant things to be interested about.
4)True dragon lords. It took 14 light novel volumes for one to show up in front of Nazarick.
5)Loyalty to your faction tramples over you personal alignment or settings.
Ryan Reed
Shit Translation, Chapter 3 Part 2
Again, first pass, last pass. Feel free to do whatever you want with this translation
Important note, Ainz has been abusing the shit out of [Perfect Unknowable] so even if you don't see him he's probably there
Im translating this directly from japanese
Chapter 3 has 4 parts. Parts 3 and 4 are very small, the 2 combined are smaller than part 2.
I'll probably post both at the same time next sunday, maybe
This link has 1 month expiration, if you plan on reading this later, save this stuff somewhere else
Some people should have the part 1, I posted it last sunday
Zachary Miller
>what was the point of spending half of season two with the lizard people? i dont feel like they added anything to the plot...
A lot of Overlord is like that, self-contained events that appear in a well-established setting, rather than a deliberate plot. I suppose you could say the point was to showcase Nazarick's first conquest, and to do so in a way that demonstrates that they are unambiguously the bad guys.
>how come ainz hasn't figured out yet that the slane theocracy were the ones that mind controlled shaltear? he knows that they have items from his game and that they are a powerful nation, yet he has never thought of sending a single spy there?
There are other "powerful" nations, and there's no guarantee the culprit was backed by a nation in the first place. A player wouldn't need to be. To begin with, none of the surrounding countries have shown anything that's impressive by Yggdrasil standards. Besides, Ainz overestimates his enemy; he's not willing to antagonize them until 1.) he knows for sure they're the ones responsible and 2.) he knows for sure he can defeat them.
>how come the npcs never question that they were one day randomly teleported to another world? you'd think someone as smart as demiurge would be the slightest bit interested on learning how that was possible...
Perhaps they feel it's more prudent to focus on issues they can actually do something about.
>not counting npcs from nazarick, is there really no one in the new world that can fight ainz 1v1?
There are a few people who are strong enough, but Ainz will never be in danger of losing 1.) because he's not alone, and 2.) because the strong enemies NW are so rare that they have no experience fighting against equals, whereas players did it all the time in-game.
>why does sebas (someone who is clearly good) allow all the evil things that nazarick have done?
Because the will of god takes precedent over his personal feelings.
Elijah Sanders
>remedios before she was assassinated by the doppelganger in the holy kingdom
What? Didn't she just fake her death to fool Ainz and his goons while traveling in secret to the dragon's country to revive the queen and her sister?
Xavier Cooper
>does the writer not realize the logistical nightmare that would be?
he did but way too late, not like he gave half a fuck about fixing that problem, all he did was an ironic "shit game shit devs amirite?" in-universe
>yggdrasil sounds like an extremely unbalanced game that would be super toxic to new players.
it is, it's literally addressed in-universe in the main story and a couple prequel mini-novels
but again, it's more like acknowledged and then jack shit is done about that than actually addressed