Overlord II - Still Stuck in the MMO

[Dave Baranyi]

“Overlord II” is the continuation of the stuck-in-a-game fantasy anime from a few years ago that was based upon a light novel series and a manga series. Well, the LN and manga are still going so here is the anime again. “Overlord” is a tongue-in-cheek story of a salaryman-gamer who doesn't log out in time from an MMO that is being shut down and so finds himself stuck as his overpowered avatar in a world that is very similar to the world of the game he was playing. But the NPCs are now alive and the Player is not sure what to do so he just continues along as if he is still playing the game.

The new series carries on from the end of the old series except for a couple of brief scenes at the beginning that are apparently from some ways along in the story in the light novels. Those scenes didn't appear yet in the manga either so I was a bit confused at first. I find the series the most interesting when it focusses upon the Player and his somewhat bizarre approach to being in this world. Unfortunately, the upcoming Lizardman arc didn't show a lot of the Player in the manga and so I'm wondering how much I will enjoy the new season if it focusses upon all of the secondary characters.

So I'll give “Overlord II” the benefit of the doubt for now and give it a preliminary rating of B, but I may not follow for long if the anime follows the manga too closely.

Dave Baranyi

[David Johnston]

Post by Dave Baranyi
“Overlord II” is the continuation of the stuck-in-a-game fantasy anime from a few years ago that was based upon a light novel series and a manga series. Well, the LN and manga are still going so here is the anime again. “Overlord” is a tongue-in-cheek story of a salaryman-gamer who doesn't log out in time from an MMO that is being shut down and so finds himself stuck as his overpowered avatar in a world that is very similar to the world of the game he was playing. But the NPCs are now alive and the Player is not sure what to do so he just continues along as if he is still playing the game.
The new series carries on from the end of the old series except for a couple of brief scenes at the beginning that are apparently from some ways along in the story in the light novels. Those scenes didn't appear yet in the manga either so I was a bit confused at first. I find the series the most interesting when it focusses upon the Player and his somewhat bizarre approach to being in this world. Unfortunately, the upcoming Lizardman arc didn't show a lot of the Player in the manga and so I'm wondering how much I will enjoy the new season if it focusses upon all of the secondary characters.
So I'll give “Overlord II” the benefit of the doubt for now and give it a preliminary rating of B, but I may not follow for long if the anime follows the manga too closely.
Dave Baranyi

Are there any stuck in a game anime where the protagonist isn't OP? I
was just watching Death March To the Parallel World Rhapsody. I'll give
it credit for making it a little interesting in that while the
protagonist is absurdly OP he's somewhat restrained by wanting to avoid
the attention of anyone outside his absurdly huge harem.

[Wasabi]

Post by David Johnston

“Overlord II” is the continuation of the stuck-in-a-game fantasy

anime from a few years ago that was based upon a light novel series and a
manga series. Well, the LN and manga are still going so here is the anime
again. “Overlord” is a tongue-in-cheek story of a salaryman-gamer who
doesn't log out in time from an MMO that is being shut down and so finds
himself stuck as his overpowered avatar in a world that is very similar to
the world of the game he was playing. But the NPCs are now alive and the
Player is not sure what to do so he just continues along as if he is still
playing the game.

Post by David Johnston
Are there any stuck in a game anime where the protagonist isn't OP?

.hack//SIGN maybe? That was the first stuck-in-game anime I ever saw, I
don't know if it originated the genre but it raised lots of interesting
questions about how people behave in the online world v. the real world,
using the device of Tsukasa as a victim trapped in a game as a way of
exploring the question of whether we should see the online world as a place
for escapist fantasies or whether we should treat it as an extention of the
real world, with laws and respect for others. E.g. if someone only exists
online and you kill their character, is that murder? A normal person could
just log in again, but not a person who has lost contact with their
physical body. I recall that being the major issue that came up in
.hack//SIGH as Tsukasa was in a game world where there were player killers
on the loose, some characters wanted such players to be banned whilst
others said, "it's not real, so who cares". In the years since then of
course the world has moved on and nowadays people really do get prosecuted
in the real world for attacking people online!