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Synonyms: Over Lord
Japanese: オーバーロード
English: Overlord
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Type: Light Novel
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Jul 30, 2012 to ?
Genres: Action Action, Fantasy Fantasy
Theme: Isekai Isekai
Serialization: None
Authors: Maruyama, Kugane (Story), so-bin (Art)

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Score: 8.611 (scored by 2383323,833 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #992
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #262
Members: 68,671
Favorites: 4,044

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Yggdrasil is a virtual reality game renowned for the freedom it offers its players. After a simple tutorial, players are left to explore the world and can customize anything and everything, from their classes to their weapons. However, in the year 2138, the game sees its final hours as its servers shut down at midnight.

Momonga, a devoted player of Yggdrasil, decides to spend the game's last hours inside his guild, Ainz Ooal Gown. Strangely, at the stroke of midnight, the game does not log him out. Instead, Momonga finds himself transported to another world, one that is seemingly identical to that of Yggdrasil. Facing an already abnormal situation, he discovers that the NPCs have gained sentience.

Trapped in his avatar's skeletal body and desperate to uncover the cause of his predicament and find other players like him, Momonga sets out to take control of the new world with the help of his loyal subjects.

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BackgroundOverlord has been published in English by Yen Press under the Yen On imprint in hardcover format since May 24, 2016. It has also been released in Polish by Kotori since October 17, 2016; in French by Ofelbe since May 11, 2017; in Spanish by Panini Comics since December 2018; and in Brazilian Portuguese by JBC since June 10, 2022.
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9 Recommended
1 Mixed Feelings
3 Not Recommended
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Jan 8, 2026
Zomoko11222
Recommended
Preliminary (1/? eps)
Overlord is not for the faint of heart.
It's a masterpiece. It's controversial. Don't read or watch it if you can't handle dark themes. Overlord is one of the darkest pieces of fiction. It's darker than Berserk because there is no hope. Noboby is going to save the world from Ainz. There is no Guts to fight for the weak. Overlord deals with touchy subjects but is never positive about it. The author's stance is always neutral.

Overlord is just a realistic work. It's also a tragedy. Ainz is looking for family but he is such sociopath that he can't form the bonds he wants ...
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Mar 31, 2024
DimiamOmega
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (16/? eps)
Overlord: Um Agridoce talvez muito doce quando precisaria ser intenso.

(For English readers, I've included the translation at the end of the review.)

Introdução:

Overlord é uma light novel que me causou sentimentos mistos. Por um lado, a obra me proporcionou um refrescante contraste com os protagonistas perfeitos (perfeitos gênios, perfeitamente poderosos, perfeitamente confiantes) que proliferam no gênero, ao apresentar Ainz Ooal Gown, um personagem mais idiota e sortudo. Ao mesmo tempo, a repetição do humor e a falta de desenvolvimento de certos aspectos do mundo me deixaram com ressalvas.

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* Protagonista Refrescante: Ainz Ooal Gown é um protagonista que nós entrega essa faceta a Percy Jackson. Em ...
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Dec 10, 2025
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Not Recommended
Preliminary (100/? eps)
[More info about my review style can be found on my profile]

▶Summary and recommendation: -----------------------------------------------------------------
This one hurts the most.

[Overlord] was my introduction to the isekai genre, and it engrossed me with its detailed and well developed world building and systems.
But then

⚠️This series contains paedophilies portrayed positive or in a neutral light⚠️
⚠️This series contains paedophilic imagery of underage characters⚠️
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