Overlord Season 4 Episode 10 Review: Destruction Guaranteed

Will Overlord Season 4 Episode 10 finally be the one that breaks the rut this show has fallen in and moves forward with the plot? Let’s find out in this review!

Overlord Season 4 Episode 10 Overview

The original, actually good MMO-based isekai show is back for its fourth season with Overlord Season 4. The series is again being produced by Studio Madhouse, which has produced all of the previous seasons of the show alongside other highly popular shows such as Death Note, One Punch Man, and Sonny Boy. This new season is also referred to as Overlord 4 and Overlord IV.

Naoyuki Itou is directing the show again. He is known for also being behind all of the original seasons alongside several other well-known shows such as Chihayafuru and Kanon. Overlord is based on a Light Novel written by Kugane Maruyama and illustrated by “so-bin”. This episode is also known as Overlord 4 Episode 10 and Overlord IV Episode 10. Click here to read the review of the previous episode of this season!

– Overlord 4 Episode 10 Review does not contain spoilers –

Overlord Season 4 Episode 10 Review- Pain and Suffering

After being extremely negative towards this show in the past few reviews, I suppose it is now time to give it its flowers and discuss something positive that happened in the latest episode. However, to do that, we must add a caveat- just because something good happened in this episode, it doesn’t reflect onto the episode as a whole, which I found to be quite slow and weirdly paced again. However, we are here to talk about the positives for once, so let’s get right ahead and do that.

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The characters of the Kingdom’s royalty, Zanac and his sister, were introduced in this series quite a while back now and exceeded expectations every time they were on screen. The princess was astonishingly cunning and had a darker side to her that only her brother seemed to realise. Her brother, Zanac, despite looking like your average NEET, had quite the head on his shoulders and was quite skilled in running a country, which was a refreshing take on a royal in a fantasy show. For once, the royals weren’t all selfish dummies who cared about nobody but themselves.

They were somewhat unused for a while before Ainz started his newest campaign, which directly took the Kingdom in its crosshairs and aimed to raze it to the ground. It was cruel, it was unnecessary, and it wasn’t something that anyone would expect from Ainz, who has been portrayed as quite kind up until now. Thus, the past few episodes seemed a little off when we didn’t know what Ainz’s intentions were in killing so many people and breaking the promise made to his own subordinates. We now know more than we did, although if they make sense is up to personal interpretation.

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This episode featured a great conversation between Zanac and Ainz, which said a lot about both of their characters. It is impossible to come out of watching this conversation without having gained respect for at least one, if not both, of them. What happened after that was the most shocking and effective thing the show has done in quite a while and managed to end this episode with a positive impression, something the show had been struggling with for quite a while now.

Now that we are done with positivity, let’s discuss some of the details that were not so good about this episode. For one, the entire plotline with the adamantite adventurers meeting up and going about teaming up feels pointless, as their defeat is practically written in stone at the hands of Ainz and his army. What is the point of learning about these new characters if they are all going to be dead soon anyway? There was also quite a lot of info dumping in this episode, which ruined the pacing of the episode. Still, at least it was more good than bad this time.

Verdict

Overlord Season 4 Episode 10 was a huge improvement for a show that desperately needed it. Things aren’t back to normal just yet, but we are getting there, and at this pace, the ending might just be a great one.