A new teaser visual has been released for the upcoming anime film Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom, set to be released in 2024. The anime film was first announced during a 2021 live special for the anime.
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The first Overlord TV anime series premiered in Japan in 2015, the second series in January 2018, and the third in July 2018. The fourth season of the TV anime premiered in July 2022. All four seasons, each containing 13 episodes, can be streamed on Crunchyroll. The franchise has also released two compilation anime movies, Overlord: Fushisha no Ou (Overlord: The Undead King) in February 2017 and Overlord: Shikkoku no Senshi (Overlord: The Dark Warrior) in March 2017.
The TV anime and films are based on the Overlord light novel by Maruyama Kugane. Maruyama began the original story online in 2010, and Kadokawa’s Enterbrain imprint published the series in print with illustrations by So-bin in 2012. The 16th novel in the series was published in July 2022.
The light novel series also inspired a manga adaptation by Oushio Satoshi and Miyama Hugin in 2014. The manga was serialized in Kadokawa’s Monthly Comp Ace magazine from 2014 to May 2023. The manga’s 19th tankoubon volume was released in December 2023.
The franchise’s story begins in 2138, when virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game, is quietly shut down one day. However, the protagonist, Momonga, decides not to log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as “the most powerful wizard.” The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) beginning to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man, Momonga, then strives to take over the new world the game has become.
