Review of Overlord II

Just hear me out for those that hate reading reviews with differing opinions from me, and of those that truly enjoy this series, but mainly the novel. I actually find it to be quite hilarious that the top reviewer, aka RebelPanda, wrote one of the most ridiculous thing ever written, and probably one of the most invalid, fallacious, illogical, and even the dumbest arguments that I’d seen in the long time, manages to get so many supporters despite how stupid his arguments are lmao. And all of that came from someone whose sense of taste in anime is so disparate from those who actually watchisekai animes, and other fucked up shit dealing with human morality, and philosophy dealing with dark subject matter: human depravity, rape, slaves, corruption, nobility, ideals etc. I’m pretty sure he had only actually watched a few of these sort of series, since most of his favorite animes are more consisted of Yuri, and girly animes (like that one called Princess Tutu on his top 10), but with the only exception to “Monster” (a pretty good horror anime), and Higurashi.

And everybody also knows that it’s not virtually possible to turn the light novel’s character designs, or art, into animation given the amount of work and the differences in the overall art that was meant to be drawn as a still image, rather than a moving piece of art; and he bitched about that… lmao. He also said that, “Momonga is Kirito”, than later lead a bunch of premises that has nothing to do with that. I could say, Y is X. Then proceeds to say some other shit that doesn’t support why Y is X, then all of the sudden segue to something else entirely while not talking about the first conclusive premise. He also uses examples that has less than 5 points that made sense, while leaving aside all of the 50+ differences that the MC has in comparison to Kirito.

However, here’s the thing. How is this anime anything like SAO, or the MC being anything similar to Kirito? His only line to support that was the MC is op, and that he’s a harem protagonist ; although he gives no fuck about romance as his skeleton form kept his overall emotions in check, and literally everything about the anime’s setting; the MC’s personality; the MC controlling his army; the MC being an undead; the MC living in a world where he coexists with characters that he and many of his guild members had created; the MC being the leader of the guild but is not considered to be the strongest amongst all of the members; the MC being a spell master; the MC almost died by Shalltear; the MC being fine with killing a bunch of people indiscriminately (kids, male, and females) in ep 13, although with mercy just so he could keep his sanity while not breaking his character as an Undead King in front of his generals, basically, the MC kills both the innocents and the enemies, unlike Kirito; the MC borrowing the power of his comrades to help aid to defeat someone, unlike that Kirito dude who can solo everybody; the MC looking up to one of his savior, Touch Me, who is considered to be the strongest player in YGGDRASIL (the game’s name) unlike Kirito; and I could go on and on here, so had he not seen the anime?

So why was his review taken seriously when there was no insight as to why the anime was trash when all he did there was summarized the plot, and made a pretentious lines mimicking sophistry, pretending to make his overall points sound reasonable by using the unreasonable, then later call them bad and acted as if all of that made sense. Anybody could do that shit. I could summarized the plot of Made In Abyss, then call that anime a piece of garbage by finding one of the most dumbest anime to compare it to, with barely any connections to the anime but only like one or two, then all of the sudden you get likes for it. Are all people of this generation that naive and oblivious?

And the common pattern that most of these illogical reviewers carry along with them is usually accompanied by the most unreasonable need to downgrade their artistic sense, musical sense, and appreciation for the externalities that had been incorporated into the anime (music, voice acting, art, and cinematography) for a special case just so they could make their overall “low-rating” of that anime looked seemly reasonable. Or rather, the more radical the review is, the more people would be interested in their reviews.

Putting that aside, the anime has one of the worst exposition to starts off a second season to any series that I had seen. It felt like the creator was implying that we should read the light novel if we wanted to know how we hop from the last thing that we saw in season 1 to season 2. Like the fuck man? I watch animu because I dont have that much time to read a light novel lmao. Plus, the introductions to many of the new characters/groups seem to just appear out of nowhere, while lacking in great details and explanations in brevity, and without any decent transition to segue from one scene to their first appearances. And tbh, they all just died off really quickly. I mean, if they have some world item or something, or some sort of an enigma to them, it would’ve made this eight finger, or whatever it was called, alot more interesting. Additionally, this season really do lack alot of challenges for Momonga. That’s actually one of the many things that im kinda disappointed. The lizard Arc was a little bit boring imo, I mean, sure, it’s their way to remind us that Momonga, the man seeking to take over the world, isn’t all that nice. Generally, anyone with that sort of goal are never nice to begin with. The idea there looks nice, but it could’ve done it in a more interesting way, with settings, characters, some third party involvement, etc. And not with the trite archetype. Even though im naming all of these cons that one of the top comment dude didn’t even tackle upon, the animation, and art was actually pretty good, objectively speaking. I'm actually a bit surprised by the animation quality tbh lol, especially during the fight scene. The ost wasn’t all that impressive for sure, and the voice acting is pretty good in and of itself, it’s just that there aren’t many unique characters with a weird manner of talking that would showcase some of the voice actors’ talent in the anime. I mean take that one crazy girl who got hug to death by Momonga for instance.

Overall, this season appear to just be another introductory exposition to a much greater story in the future, coming in season 3. They maybe lack the budget to completely cover other groups who may served as the main antagonist, or at least an adversary that kinda rivals Momonga himself that exists in the story, but they sorta doing this in this episode. Although, they only did introduce like a couple of groups, but not the one that was introduced in season 1, and they’re the more interesting ones too sadly, so it was sorta disappointing. But that being said, seeing sebas being a gentleman and being affected by his creator’s ideal of justice, seeing the maids in action, seeing Evileye, some capable of at least fight and actually beats one of Momonga’s maids, Momonga causing character growth to his own generals to think on their own as well and not just by obeying him like a puppet all the time (which incidentally led demiur to act on his own in ep 12 and 13, that benefitted Momonga greatly). All of which is pretty entertaining and fun to watch.