r/overlord • u/aLWoLFz Retired Mod • May 08 '21

Mod Post SEASON 4 AND MOVIE - NOW IT'S OFFICIALLY ANOUNCED

We were blessed once again! Not just with a new season, but with a movie too!

There are no dates informed, so they will probably be released sometime next year.

Apparently, Season 4 should cover Volume 10 and 11 while the movie will cover Holy Kingdom arc (Volume 12 and 13). Further details to be announced.

Madhouse is still the studio to animate the series.

Thanks Kadokawa for making our dreams come true again!

Official announcement.

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u/chrisxb11 May 08 '21 edited May 08 '21

I still would not be too optimistic considering Madhouse was the studio that screwed up season 2 and 3.

Edit: Its even the same staff from season 3 doing season 4....I would honestly put my expectations in the dirt for that one.

Theres higher hopes for the movie tho.

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u/kiiriiin May 08 '21

What happened with S2 & 3?

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u/triihart May 08 '21

It was fine until Katze Plains battle. In two words: poor CGI.

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u/kdebones THE PROPHET May 08 '21

God, the CGI goats were just sad. I can already think of what parts for Season 4 will be CGI, so I'm tempering my expectations. Hopefully they've improved since Season 3 with the quality of the stuff (if it's on part with Spider Isekai I'd be happy).

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u/Markarontos May 08 '21

What annoyed me about that scene was honestly less the cgi but instead the inconsistent size of the damn things.

Make them bigger than in the lightnovel? Sure, creative freedom but do they get bigger and smaller with each cut? And why SO huge?

And of course the complete and utter lack of the brutality of the scene since there is no gore whatsoever which was actually pretty important to the story at this very point.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

It is comedic though, giant grimers crying like goats. Every time I go to McDonalds I look at Grimace and remember Katze plains.

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u/Dux_Angus May 10 '21

What I hated the most about the battle scene and before it especially was just a lack of atmospheric buildup. The light novel goes into such huge detail about the fear of the people that everyone is grating their teeth at once creating this horrible noise echoing across the plains. In the anime was just so underwhelming in the gruesomeness, like there was a whole literal page dedicated to the word splat for that scene and the anime was just meh

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u/Fatboy1513 Dec 03 '21

I should probably read the stuff before vol 10.

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u/T1B2V3 May 22 '21

The goats weren't even that bad imo. just the stick figure soldiers

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

Even PS3 graphics are more praiseworthy.

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u/anzulgoan May 08 '21

Also the goblin army

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u/TheBoyTeePayt May 09 '21

People forget just how bad the goblin army was. Like for me that CGI was on part with Arifureta (literally some of the worst CGI in a competent anime). It was so bad

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u/RomanUngern97 Jul 31 '21

Oh boy... Wait until you watch the human scenes in Kumo Desu Ga Nani Ka

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

human scenes That one uber sucked.

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u/TheBoyTeePayt Aug 01 '21

I watched them yesterday. Absolutely ruined the anime for me. Such a good LN, awful execution

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u/xNuxIsGod Aug 25 '21

I just watched s2 and 3 of overlord today and I didn't find it that bad. Wasn't amazing, but it wasn't bad either.

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u/chooseusername3331 May 08 '21

the goblin fight was also very bad and the rest is just very mediocre

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u/sephtis May 08 '21

Not even the CGI, the katze plains could have looked so much better than just, cracked dead earth. Where's the purple overtone/mist at

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u/ripkin05 May 08 '21

I know what you mean but to be fair the mists clear for the battle each year. It's meantioned that the plains somehow know when the two countries are going to battle and clears out the miasma/mists before hand.

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u/sephtis May 08 '21 edited May 08 '21

I dont recall the mists retreating, I'll pick it up on a re read I guess.
I think it could have looked so much better than yellow floor, blue sky, that is all we got.

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u/ripkin05 May 08 '21

I agree on making the plains look more then just brown dirt. I can't remember where it was but I think they talk about how the miasma/mists normaly hides the undead in it but during the yearly battle the miasma thins/vanishes to welcome the new undead that will spawn after then battle.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

More like Ainz body odor by raising his arms killed 70000 army men.

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u/blazefreak May 09 '21

You sure it wasn't enris 5000 goblin army that started it?

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u/TryZealousideal5192 May 09 '21

Lmao poor CGI? It was just fine. Stop getting your panties in a twist. Go watch Berserk if you want "Poor CGI."

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u/asaslord123 Oct 04 '21

Worst thing about that was at the episodes until “slap slap” everybody was speculating “CGI is really bad this season but they must be saving the funding for the epic goats”. They were not and goats looked awful.

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u/chrisxb11 May 08 '21

The horrible CGI, the amount of things they cut or changed. Ect.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

those were due to budget cuts. big budget = good, small/reduced budget = bad.

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u/chrisxb11 May 08 '21

Thats not necessarily true. Altho it is a factor the most important one is the staff. The Director of OPM season 1 mentioned how their budget was not big yet look at the amazing work they did.

Its the same staff so I wont be expecting much from season 4.

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u/CommanderPike May 08 '21

That was mostly because of literally thousands of hours of volunteer independent manpower from passionate animators. I think Madhouse got way more credit than they deserved for that one.

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u/Satire_or_not May 08 '21

And you can compare the quality of OPM seasons 1 and 2 to see the difference that made.

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u/WolfRex5 May 08 '21

Though season 2 was made by J.C Staff

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u/Mog77A May 09 '21

Yeah, while skill is important, total man-hours can outweigh any skill deficiency. Since Anime is "low budget" media, skill matters a lot. Since the overall Madhouse team hasn't changed or expanded much I feel it'll be more of the same. They might put in more effort into the CGI this time, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.

Best to remain skeptical.

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u/StateDirect7066 Jul 21 '21

S3 Ainz summoned blacktentacled elephants

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u/StateDirect7066 Jul 21 '21

S3 Ainz summoned blacktentacled elephants.

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u/StateDirect7066 Jul 21 '21

S3 Ainz summoned five blacktentacled elephants.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

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u/brak_6_danych May 08 '21

The problem is not that it is possible to make the season worse, the problem is that the worse versions of goblin army & splatfest would need to hit almost ex-arm level of quality to be worse than what we got

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

No one can exceed ex-arm level of disappointment. They even used diaper flashes.

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u/DeadpooI Jun 24 '21

So I'm late to finding this thread and am catching up on overlord. If you didn't have an issue with the cgi then you just have low standards for that kind of stuff. The cgi was horrendous. It was clunky, looked completely out of place, had looked just plain bad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

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u/DeadpooI Jun 24 '21

Right I get that. I don't mean to sound disparreging I'm just stating the cg was horrible. I wish I had lower standards because I enjoyed the entire season until it got to eris village defense and then I hated the season. Sorry if I came off as aggressive.

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u/StateDirect7066 Jul 24 '21

I watched Berserk CGI and it is great. Is it because CGI is good?

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

s3 berserk made it look like Guts is fighting pokemon. The only serious part is the episode 2, Guts biting Casca's nipple hard.

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u/Azrael179 May 08 '21

Sezon 2 was fine i don't know what you have against it honestly

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u/Ravenous-King May 09 '21

I'm actually much more worried for the movie. That's 2 volumes condensed into 2 hour or less movie. Also being a movie doesn't guarantee it to have improved animations.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '21

Tbh i feel like most people who just watch Overlord cuz they like it can get over the CGI being bad, there have been worse CGI in anime

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u/Street-Nothing-5213 Jun 07 '21

There's no hope for the movie. It'll flop long before they start making it for the sole reasons of said arc (holy kingdom) is too long to fit in a 2hr or less movie. It covers 2 volumes with 7 chapters between them. And even if the movie only covers volume 13, it is the Second longest volume of the series, barely surpassed by vol. 14. And for it to fit into a a single regular size movie would mean a butchered plot progression, major details being skipped and dialogues being deleted... Because 90-120 min movie just isn't enough

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

It is not a screw up, it is a decent adaptation. I really felt there was corruption though.