Review of Overlord II

Season 2 is a general improvement over season1, primary because Overlord works best when the focus is off Ains. The beginning of this season focuses entirely on new characters in a race against the clock to unite with their former enemies to ward off a coming apocalypse. Side characters from season 1 are given more time to be developed and fleshed out, must to the show's benefit. Seeing characters struggle with the looming danger they all have in common is engaging, portraying Anis as this larger-than-life vague entity in which there is little but still existent hope of triumphing against. Unfortunately, Ains manages to destroymost of this progress as soon as he appears, acting as the significant detriment to his own show that he always was.