This review covers only the third season of Overlord.

Overlord had an interesting start. It proposed us with a tale of a guy slowing becoming an evil overlord in a strange world where no one could challenge his supreme power. There was a background of a videogame, yes, but that really never mattered for the bigger purpose. The first season was a decent introduction, albeit it proved to have the pace of a turtle when it comes to being a villain’s story. The second season started as a massive shameful experience bordering the ridiculous, yet it got around by its finale, delivering some more introduction to the setting where kings, nobles, and evil organizations fought among themselves as Momonga watched them from the Tomb of Nazarick.

Now we come to the third season and we are all demanding the damn plot to progress. Perhaps we could see some of Momonga’s friends making an appearance? Maybe watch him conquer kingdoms with his army? I would be happy simply seeing more evil behavior.

Well, there is not where it starts

Remember Carne Village? Yeah, that very first village where a peasant girl became a leader with her army of golins. Overlord goes there, giving us a “glimpse” of the situation. Yeah, this “glimpse” lasts for about four episodes in a very similar way to what we saw in the early episodes of the second season. Love-dovey story between villagers, random goblins playing heroes, Momonga making some kind of test by sending bad guys against them, etc. Yup, that same shit all over again. I give you there is not the same amount of nonsense as the lizard tribes, but it gets close and it is completely meaningless for as long as the show presents us. Basically we have four episodes with no evil act, no villain, no Ains Aal Gown. This could be called “Goblin Hero” instead of Overlord.

Can they be villains, please?

Ok. Finally. After two seasons of watching Momonga play “Momon” the righteous hero and saving the day it seems time finally has come to see the Tomb of Nazarick play its role as the evil lair it is. After the Carne Village arc we get some group of adventurers exploring to tomb and facing the evil that lurks in it. We finally get to see some dumb guys getting butchered, innocent heroes being killed, and all the stuff we expected from a show that calls itself “Overlord” and has a archmage lich as a protagonist.

Yet Momonga…

Well, the previous season gave us some insight as Momonga was apparently becoming the evil king instead of a typical japanese player of an MMO. It seemed as if the time spent in his new body was making him behave like the evil he was supposed to be in the game. Well, it seems the authors forgot that in this season, as we get a bunch of scenes with Momonga acting as more of a stupid videogame player than ever before. Well, he does challenge the humans like before, but when dealing with his minions he seems just a teenage boy without any kind of initiative. It is sad, especially because the idea of having his mind turning evil is one of the major differentials the show has in comparison to others around.

Not much for the plot still

Yup. Although funny to see the adventurers being slaughtered at the tomb, the fact is that two thirds of this new season means nothing to the plot, if not just plain fillers. Only the four to five later episodes move on to the kingdoms and the whole “conquer the world” thing, and the way it happens make obvious that everything happening until now is useless if not for some random entertaining (aka filler). There is also a severe lack of new interesting elements and players this time around and we get little new information about the Tomb of Nazaricks members as it happened in the previous season where they got the spot-light.

Sad. Overlord seems to go around and around without a clear objective. This second season is basically a repeat of the previous one, except it give us less information about the important things of the world in exchange to some evil behavior as we expected since the very first episodes of this show.

There is still an entertaining value in all this, but it is hard to keep going when nothing important kicks in the plot, especially since this is being delivered by seasons, where we can get some randoms massive intervals such as what happened bewteen season one and two. When you do that, you got make every episode count, otherwise just shower us with random useless episodes like One Piece, Naruto, and other long-running shounens.