

This is noticeable in the transition from volume 1 to 2 but not so much from volume 2 to 3. You may recall in my review of The Devil is a Part Timer that when this happens you can often see where one volume ends and another begins. The anime adapts the first 3 volumes of the light novels. It’s present to some degree in the first episode though when he talks about the guild staff. It helps balance out the lack of certain parts in the novel, namely he goes into a lot more inner monologues while nerding out.

This is further emphasized by the difference in how he speaks not just the voice which is something that can’t really be done in the written format. It helps to show the difference in who he was as a person and his new undead overlord form. One of the nice touches the anime does is have a notably different inner voice for Momonga/Ainz. I have now refreshed my watching and am knowledgeable about both so it’s time we look at the first anime season ( might make reference to season 2, but won’t review that till it’s available to purchase over here).įor those who have read my review of the light novel I feel no need to repeat myself and the link up there should get people who haven’t read it up to date.

I did look at the original comparing what I read in the light novel to what I saw in the anime. But how do I look at this, I saw the anime long before I read the first volume. You remember my review of the overlord light novel well it’s time to look at its first anime adaptions ( nicely it proved so popular it got 2 compilation movies and a second season, so you can guess this is good).
