Overlord
English Title: Overlord
Japanese Title: オーバーロード — “Overlord”
Author: Kugane Maruyama — 丸山くがね
Illustrator: so-bin
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Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Sci-fi
Original Run: 2012 – ongoing
Note: Japanese web novel began serialization in 2010.
English Run: 2016 – ongoing
Japanese Publisher: Enterbrain (Kadokawa Corporation)
English Publisher: Yen On (Yen Press)
Volumes in Japanese: 10 (In Progress)
Volumes in English: 1 (In Progress)
Average Price Per Volume: Hardcover $14 — Kindle $7 — Nook $10
Synopsis: For twelve years, the virtual world of Yggdrasil has served as the playground and battlefield for the skeletal lord Momonga and his guild of fellow monsters, Ainz Ooal Gown. But the guild’s glory days are over, and the game is shutting down permanently. When Momonga logs in one last time just to be there when the servers go dark, something happens–and suddenly, fantasy is reality. A rogues’ gallery of fanatically devoted NPCs is ready to obey his every order, but the world Momonga now inhabits is not the one he remembers. The game may be over, but the epic tale of Ainz Ooal Gown is only beginning…
Volume 1 — The Undead King
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Released May 24, 2016 — ISBN-13: 978-0316272247
Upcoming Releases
- Volume 2 (September 20, 2016)
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Reviews of Overlord
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Illustrations Sampler
Anime Adaptation
MAL Entry — 13 episodes — Aired July 2015 – September 2015
Funimation (streaming)
Note: Adapted volumes 1 to 3 of the light novel series
Manga Adaptation
MAL Entry — Published November 2014 – ongoing (English releases by Yen Press)
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- Log Horizon — trapped in a fantasy video game world
- Sword Art Online — trapped in a fantasy video game world
- Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody — trapped in a fantasy video game world (upcoming release)
- The Devil is a Part-Timer! — protagonist is an “evil overlord”
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