Overlord: How Much Has Ainz Changed Since Season 1?
If the isekai genre feels like it’s been running rampant in the anime industry for decades, that’s because it has. First rising to international popularity in the mid to late 1990s with classic series like Digimon Adventure and Fushigi Yugi, isekai anime has become very iconic to the anime industry.
In the current anime era, viewers have seen some pretty bizarre isekai entries, including Overlord. What earns Overlord a seat at the isekai table is how the protagonist fully adapts to his new surroundings, becoming a new person in the process. At times viewers are left wondering, just how evil is this guy becoming.
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The answer depends on when you’re asking this question. From the beginning of the series, viewers follow Ainz Ooal Gown as he pursues his goal of strengthening his former guild’s clan base and finding any former guild members who may have been brought to this new fantastical world as he has. When the story begins, the protagonist is a salaryman known as Momonga and he’s one of several guild masters of the guild Ainz Ooal Gown in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game called Yggdrasil.
After all of his clan members leave, he is the only player left playing the game at the very moment that all of the game’s servers shut down. To his surprise, he opens his eyes to find himself in a new world with his old guild’s clan home and all of the guild NPCs who have now come to life, so to speak. Since he is the only guild member left, they all see him as their all-powerful ruler. It doesn’t take long for Momonga to take on the name Ainz Ooal Gown for his own and get to work spreading his influence over this new world.
In Overlord’s first season, Ainz Ooal Gown is still very much a salaryman
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