Well, same in our world and it's not like we have almost 6 billions people living on the planet... no wait
Interactions were fun tough, somehow a challenge.
So we are to think the menace came from Ains minions ?
Well, same in our world and it's not like we have almost 6 billions people living on the planet... no wait
Interactions were fun tough, somehow a challenge.
So we are to think the menace came from Ains minions ?
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Their only major food source being fishing wild fish from a single lake is why they have those troubles. They didn't try to farm fish, or anything, before the wanderer is now trying it. You don't need an overly large population before a lake can't sustain it naturally. Who knows, they probably aren't even the only creatures depending on the lake's limited fish population. Furthermore, if they have lived there for a long time and experienced famines, it means they have already had a negative impact on the composition of edible fish populations and the lake's ecosystem. That is, their most desired fish species would have likely regressed in number and quality.Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
What an unfathomably terrible episode. The beginning of a truly awful arc.
If this goes on for longer than and episode or two more, there will never be an Overlord III.
I don't give a fuck about the lizard people. I don't care about the lizard people. They're not interesting characters, they're not the reason I watch this series. The hints at the goings-on human empires the previous episode were more interesting. The back-biting within Nazarick is more interesting. The maids are more interesting.
I found the lizard people in Isekai Shokudou more engaging with their goal of eating omelet rice every so often.
This episode made me immediately want to drop the series.
Your reaction is a bit extreme, but yeah I share some of the sentiment.
Truth to be told, I wouldn't have minded terribly much if this arc had been skipped in the anime. It has its place in the bigger picture, but since I've read the novels, it's not like skipping this would have affected me personally since I know what happens in it and the consequences. So, the eps could have been used to animate something more interesting (which is everything else in the novel series since this is possibly the weakest arc). But then again, if they do want to stay as faithful as possible to the source, naturally this is the best way. Still, I'm sure someone in Japan could have written a script to only show the consequences in a more compact manner, let's say in 1.5 episodes.
The next arc is really good, Ryll, so don't drop the show. Even this arc has some funny parts, should they sagely animate them.
Personally I don't mind the arc per se (not that I know what it is), but I think the Lizard interactions should've been kept at a minimum. We don't need long interaction scenes between them. At worst, they could've spliced scenes from other events going on in between (kinda like the exposition they did in the first episode a bit), and of course... give us at least SOMETHING on our main characters. As it stands, just feels like tedious episode to get through for characters we have no care for at the moment.
The novels have a tendency to spend a lot of time describing what characters other than the Nazarick folks are doing. A lot of time indeed. I suppose it's a way to make the new world more meaningful and less static. In that sense the whole novel series isn't like the first arcs shown in the first anime season, which concentrated on Ainz admirably. Of course the degree varies from arc to arc.
Perhaps the anime producers were afraid of the reception of this arc among anime only watcher, but did nothing to help it.
I guess, for me personally, it's not as much of time spent on them, but how much if it is within an episode. Guess I'd want more balance within each of them, and having long scenes doesn't help on that regard particularly on a 20 minute episode.
I'll quietly enjoy watching lizards court then.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
It's not that I dislike the reptiles, it's just that the way they do things is extremely boring right now, I really hope they won't take 1 episode for each tribe or something....
I'm more interested in the human factions, but I'm also interested in what is going on and what Ainz is trying to do... unless he already told us and I missed it somehow.
Ainz is trying to keep up with the Guardians and come up with ways to make them think everything is going according to his masterful plans (which don't exist).
That's a... terrible plan.
Peace.
I don't have a problem with execution in particular. The tail thumps indicating the two were attracted to each other was very well done and pretty funny.
It's the bait-and-switch aspect of it all. Like Munsu said, balance. There's no reason we couldn't have gotten a few minutes of background for a Nazarick-focused arc cut into the lizards. And the lizard scenes were slow and needed some editing.
This episode felt like you were in the middle of a quest, pass through a doorway, and are forced to click page by page through all the volumes of The Lusty Argonian Maid before you can continue with what you were actively engaged in.
Sorry to disappoint you all, but I read ahead unfortunately a couple years back. This shitty lizard arc will go on probably for another month or two.
No spoilers
Last edited by Munsu; Mon, 01-22-2018 at 08:46 AM.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I did.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
How was guessing that it's about 2 episodes left for this arc a spoiler?
Because if I tell you that this next arc will be over in 1 episode, you know that nothing much will happen.
Likewise if I tell you this arc will last the entire 13 episodes, you know things will get complicated.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Then shouldn't Mizuchi with the post above mine be removed? I mean he specifically states that he has read ahead and says how long it's gonna be. Where as I am just guessing because I doubt it will go on for that long. Doesn't seem really fair ya know?
Episode 3
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Quite a nondescript episode in the middle of the arc. The highlight of the arc is what we saw here: For Ainz these lizards aren't of any interest (just like they aren't for the audience), but he wants his underlings to learn something from this whole event. I guess this proves wrong what I said earlier about Ainz only trying to keep up with the Guardians, even if it's the major source of the humour. But then again, Cocytus isn't exactly any brainiac compared to the likes of Demiurge.
It's quite sad the lizardmen needed to go so all out to defeat the Elder Lich, which is merely something Ainz created. Just like in the beginning of the whole story the single Death Knight created using a random corpse was unstoppable among the humans soldiers. That's some asymmetry of power.
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