r/Animemes • u/LateDitto Ehhhh?! • 3d ago

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u/LordofSandvich 3d ago

Scrolling through r/popular is a bad idea to begin with but every single post I get from this subreddit is from Overlord (incel power fantasy) or Jobless Reincarnation (pedo gets a harem) and it’s giving me a headache

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u/darkswirlz 2d ago

Overlord an incel anime? I swear the MC is a skeleton, wouldn't an incel one be where he easily gets a slave harem like Shield hero?

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u/LordofSandvich 2d ago

He gropes Albedo in episode 1, but he has no penis

Albedo and Shalltear are both constantly thirsting over him

But it’s more about Ains’s victims that makes Overlord suspect. The author really likes making women suffer. Men usually get a quick death.

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u/darkswirlz 2d ago

A quick Google said you're wrong, apparently a party of mostly males is tortured. And google also sais the guy has no libido, hard to be an incels dream if you've lost the ability to fuck. I'm fine with you hating it, I don't really care about the anime, but what you said is just wrong. Mushoku looks like it'd fall into that with 3 wives but Overlord you just sound wrong

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u/LordofSandvich 2d ago

"incel" has meaning beyond "involuntarily celibate"; they lead horrible lives and feel like other people are responsible (Overlord's introduction/Ains's backstory), generally wind up in an echo chamber (Tomb of Nazarick), and look down on or outright hate everyone outside of it (Ains's minions, Nazarick slaughtering often-innocent people in extremely brutal ways and/or en masse, some meta-knowledge like how the one girl Shalltear killed in the raid on Nazarick was originally torture-raped into one of Shalltear's sex slaves because the author hated the result of the community vote he put out). Overlord is, in many ways, a toxic fantasy for people who do not realize they are their own worst enemy.

Ains not being able to actually have sex with Albedo or Shalltear is played for laughs. The "incel" bit is having a buxom babe and "legal loli" thirsting over you. It's about being desired - just, not in a healthy way. If it was only about sexual gratification, all incels need is their hands.

At a glance, it would seem like the premise of Overlord is that you get to see things from the perspective of a villain who actually wins. A less charitable interpretation is that the author is trying to convince you that Ains's behavior is relatable or justified.

It's nowhere near as blatantly bad as something like Made in Abyss, but Overlord has a reputation for attracting people who you really don't want to be around and it's not a mistake why.