Overlord Episode 1: End and Beginning - Bobble Reviews

Is the hero this?

Or this?

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

Get ready for the most metal anime of the season.

YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGHHHHH

Does God Eater star a Skull Servant? I don't think so. Finally, an anime starring my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh card in the position of power that he so sorely deserves.

I think typical ATK is about 1900.

Those legions of skeletons are commanded by Momonga, prestigious member of the guild of the Great Tomb of Nazarick. Actually, he's some dude playing an immersive, virtual reality MMORPG (that still needss menus and emoticons, mind you). Tonight, he's feeling pretty bummed because the Yggdrasil MMO, after upwards of a decade, is shutting down for good. He says goodbye to one last friend, and then he's alone, free to contemplate the team's accomplishments and all the fun they had...

MMO anime has NEVER. BEEN. MORE. REAL.

Forgive me, says Lord Momonga, for before he has to log out at the very, very last minute, he's going to do what he wants in the quiet, massive tomb. He doesn't want much. It is a humble skeleton.

Rise, all silent NPCs.

Come hither, to the throne room. Let me view and edit your lore.

We can't have that!

Easy there, Skeletor! It doesn't matter anyway because the lore will have absolutely no effect on NPC behavior until you accidentally stay for too long in the digital world, causing all of the NPCs to spontaneously come to life and you to lose all menu access and effectively become trapped in a one-man Sword Art Online-slash-Log Horizon-slash-probably most other MMORPG anime out there scenario.

Enter Overlord 2: Electric Boogaloo.

No, but you see, now he has to make sure the NPCs are now really truly acting humanlike! It's not enough that their mouths are moving and he can smell their luscious scents now. He's gotta fondle their breasts too! And for the record, breasts don't move like that, so clearly everything's still fake.

A plot-relevant discovery? You go keep telling yourself that.

So after Brook totally bones that was-a-bitch Albedo*, he goes on a journey to see if any other NPCs are acting weird. Also he can't log out or message anyone, so don't ask about that.

He goes to a big ancient Greek amphitheater, which is where these two twin elf kids live, and they are delightful, and he makes them fight this big fire creature.

* There was no boning, only fondling. Enjoy the skull joke!

Because we needed a fight scene?

He appreciates the elf kids' strength, so he, like the bony father they never knew they wanted, offers them some crisp, cold respite.

THAT'S SO METAL.

Lastly, he summons the whole procession of Tomb of Nazarick NPCs, including, in the second cameo this season after her brief appearance in Rokka no Yuusha, Rachel Alucard.

oh sorry I mean SHALLTEAR BLOODFALLEN >_<;;

And then Jack Skellington does some last-minute philosophizing to close the episode.

Goodbye, whoever I used to know! Didn't even mention you this episode.
Musta plum forgot you even existed! So-rry! Maybe I'll grieve next week?