“Momonga, trapped in his game avatar, explores a real Yggdrasil world where NPCs are sentient after servers shut down.”
Overlord
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Synopsis
Momonga, trapped in his game avatar, explores a real Yggdrasil world where NPCs are sentient after servers shut down.
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.
What people say
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Derived from 13 sampled reviews
What 13 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.84 · split reception
6.4 pts
Recommenders 9.1 · others 2.7
↓ 1.38
Running avg · Aug 2015 → Dec 2025
- 10 “It was a pleasure to read this series as a whole. The books look fantastic and the story is great, because of how much details the author, Maruyama Kugane, provides. With the help from the...”
- 8 “[ I've read polish version of the book so my review may contain some diffrences] In the year of 2138, DMMORPG was a very popular word. It states for Dive Masively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing...”
- 10 “In the author's own words: "The main character of the book is a skeletal mage, leading a large evil organization like the last boss of a game. I don't believe the main characters in novels and...”
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A Light novel Publication
- Published Jul 2012 – ongoing
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M30946 catalog