This makes Overlord into a sort of extended origin story, or even the reverse of a horror story, albeit one set from the deathless killer's perspective. This, combined with the slow pace, creates the image of a slow transition from a bewildered ex-gamer to a fearsome god of this world. His extreme power makes him terrifying against whoever dares to face him, but it's kept from becoming farcical due to his own personal mission - as well as questioning what he should do in the new world he's stuck in. The premise of Overlord has an inverted nature, with Momonga being something of an anti-hero/anti-villain. Even the smallest details of how the world works are explained, ensuring a sense of internal consistency and keeping anything from seeming too random. The series' slower pace is afforded by extremely high fidelity to its light novel source material - and less of a focus on pure action. There's also the Overlord anime's incredible world-building.
RELATED: Castlevania: Killing Off the Big Bad Early Was a Risk That Paid Off Overlord could thus be seen as a precursor to this trend of oddball heroes. The genre now, more than ever before, actually embraces protagonists with weird forms as part of their second lives, with another series even having a skeleton protagonist. The main character Momonga being a massive skeleton monster instead of a having a more conventional appearance also spruces things up, setting Overlord apart from the norm of isekai protagonists. With its medieval MMORPG setting, it's perhaps even more of an archetypal isekai than the well-known Sword Art Online. Given when the Overlord franchise, namely its anime, became popular, it was likely one of the first isekai that many modern anime fans encountered. This could actually be one of its biggest selling points, however. On paper, Overlord is the quintessential isekai series, making it fairly dime-a-dozen as far as current anime, manga and light novels go.
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