Review of Overlord II

I had high hopes for this anime after watching the first season, but the continuation came to be an utter disappointment. From the start, Momoga seemed like a confused character, who had to play the role of an evil overlord and hold to the expectations of his servants, yet still helping others making it seem as though he did it for his own benefit. Unfortunately, that was just a false impression, and with the events of the 2nd season, we can definitely see that he is actually a villain who tries to create an impression of a fair ruler. He claims to bring prosperity to thosewho submit to his will, but he won't even offer that choice until he slaughters a number of people, like he did with lizardmen; he would summon his minions to a city and allow men, women, and children to be captured for experiments by his servants, just to get more famous as an adventurer. Does this seem like a protagonist? Hardly. He is an antagonist, and a poor one at that: unlike typical antagonists he has no motivation to conquer the world, he wants it just because he wants it; there's not even an "even greater evil" to justify his actions.
Another false impression I had while watching the season 2 is that he is an antagonist who's fate is to be defeated by an antagonist, but there is little to none suggestions that that would ever come true: none of the supporting characters bears any significance or is even hinted to become one.
So in the end we have a poorly written villain whom we are supposed to follow for unclear reasons.

Another downfall of this anime is 0 character developments: neither Momoga, nor any of his servants display any signs of evolution or any sort of change. Just like the NPCs from the game they all come from, they have their pre-written behavior that they firmly follow. The one and only character in his clique that is somewhat likeable, Sebas, is just like all of the other servants ridiculously overpowered, which makes his arc predictable and boring.

There are a few exceptions, of course, like the twisted Golden Princess, who is far more well written and appealing character than Momoga, despite her dark nature, and the desperate Brain Unglaus, who seems like the only one to get character development, but as mentioned above, there are no hints that they will ever gain any more significance further down the story.

One last thing is that everyone, absolutely everyone other than Momoga and his clique are dumb as hell. During the 2 seasons there was only a single character who found out that Momon is Ainz, and that was a pure luck because Momoga's subordinate was stupid to keep her mouth shut. Other than that, there isn't a character who would be a bit suspicious towards an adventurer who rose from the lowest to the highest rank in a matter of days, surpassing any known person. It is especially hilarious when you combine that with Momoga's constant thoughts that somebody starts suspecting him because he did something out of the character as and adventurer, when, in fact, they blindly ignore it.