OVERLORD S4 E8 - An Unexpected Move Reaction 

Just an FYI: An entire volume of the LN is being made into a movie. That LN plot takes place between S4E7 and S4E8. Just know that there are some translation errors in this part. When they refer to assisting the Theocracy, they are supposed to say Roble Holy Kingdom (where the upcoming movie's plot has already occurred in terms of the timeline)

In regards to the end scene with the king offering to take the punishment of the stupid noble Philip, it is echoing the earlier scene where Ainz deflects the blame from Hilma Cygnaues first to Abedo for not properly managing her to ultimately himself for allowing the chain of events to happen. In both cases the King and Ainz are going with the authority principle that the buck stops here. This means ultimately that the top person in charge is responsible for the actions of the entire chain of subordinates beneath them. Thus the King and Ainz have similar management styles.

Quick reminder: if Hilma Cygnaeus has been so obediant since the beginning of the season, it's because after Mare broke her leg and brought her to Nazarick in season 2 ep11, she was sent to Kyouhukou (the cockroach guy). He tortured her, completely traumatizing her to the point that she couldn't eat solid food because the torture involved having her organs eaten from the inside by his carnivorous roaches (Hilma makes several references such as the things sliding down her throat when she remembers the torture). That's why she seems so frightened in that scene, she doesn't wanna be punished because she knows of horrible torture in Nazarick is.

Surprising fact: Prince Zanic is a total chad/bro (yes, the short, fat, blonde guy). I'm not going to spoil, but he's surprisingly one of my favorite "side characters" in the whole series

The 'Pushing Glasses up' thing you noticed is a MASSIVE shtick in anime! It's become one of the classic homestays of 'smart' characters, you'll see it in anime dating back decades to the point where modern shows often make hella jokes about the cliche lol

Hello friend, ¿how are you doing? As I mentioned before, this chapter actually takes place two years later, after the events of what will be the movie, so I'll have to be very careful not to spoil. The Holy Oak Kingdom had a terrible crisis related to Jaldabaoth and at that time they were desperately seeking help. But since the Re-Estize Kingdom was still suffering from the last battle against Ainz and was starting to have food problems from all the men who died and couldn't till the fields, Zanac decided that they couldn't help them and didn't even meet those emissaries. Therefore, with no other choice, the Holy Oak Kingdom asks the undead king Ainz Own Goal for help and thanks to this he manages to survive. Now the Holy Oak Kingdom has formed an Alliance with Nazarick and is slowly recovering. Zanac then tries to forge relationships with them to build a united front of humanity, but this time it's the Holy Oak Kingdom that doesn't want to talk to those who didn't help them. The situation is worse because the Re-Estize Kingdom is suffering from food shortages. Instead, thanks to their alliance, the Holy Oak Kingdom receives daily carts of food sent from Nazarick, which pass directly through the kingdom's roads. Nazarick has plenty of food because it has fields worked by undead who never tire. So now the Re-Estize Kingdom is like a starving beggar who sees a food cart go by every day that he can't eat. Then we go back to idiot Phillip. When we left him two years ago, he was very happy with the Sorcerous Kingdom, but things have changed. He has finally realized that in his faction of incompetent nobles he really has no more power than Hilma. Also, none of his ideas to improve his territory have improved and as always (it's a reflection of him conditioning him) Phillip assumes that it's everyone else's fault but him. So, when a couple of nobles, who are only slightly less stupid, tell him about the Sorcerous Kingdom wagons full of grain on their way to the Holy Oak Kingdom... he decides to steal them. The worst mistake ever made. To achieve this, Phillip recruits a very poor group of his farmers armed with sticks and he puts them together with those brought by the two nobles. Meanwhile, the grain wagons are escorted by groups of mercenaries working for the 8 Fingers, more than enough to fend off Phillip's rabble, but the leader recognizes Phillip because the fool hadn't even closed his helmet visor. For this reason, the leader is scared, because he knows that Phillip is the "puppet" of Hilma, who is one of his employers. Killing Phillip could ruin the plans of the 8 Fingers, so the leader decides to give him the cart with wheat and escapes to report and ask for instructions. Phillip is very happy about this and imagines himself as a great general who has defeated the Sorcerous Kingdom. So, in his madness, he rips the flag of Ainz Own Goal from his chariot and stomps on it in a humiliating manner. All this is seen by Nazarick's spies, who immediately report it. “A noble from the Re-Estize Kingdom dared to raid a diplomatic convoy with humanitarian aid for the Holy Oak Kingdom and trampled the Flag of the Sorcerous Kingdom!” That is the message that Renner and Zanac read and that surprised them so much, because no one could imagine that someone could be so stupid as to gift such an obvious Casus Belli to the Sorcerous Kingdom. And one would think that in Nazarick they would celebrate having such a good excuse for war, but it is not so. Because Phillip's stupidity has been so great, that neither Albedo nor Demiurge can believe it's true and assume that it is a conspiracy from another country or an unknown enemy to cause war for reasons they cannot understand. The confusion is so great, that the NPCs decide to resort to the wisdom of Ainz, who for once is correct in assuming that perhaps Phillip was simply stupid enough to do it. This unleashes a lot of emotions among the guardians. But the most disturbed by this is Albedo, because she was the one who approved this plan and the one who approved the stupid noble that they would use as a puppet. Now Demiurge's carefully calculated strategy, which involved provoking a civil war is ruined, so we see her trying to accuse Hilma and punish her, it's an unconscious gesture by Albedo to ease her own humiliation. I don't have to tell you that if before Albedo planned to make Phillip suffer for touching her before, now he has earned all of her wrath. It has made it very personal. What I'll pause to tell you is that Shalltear has been given authority over the Frost Dragons and is using them to create an air transportation service for the Sorcerous Kingdom. That's why we see Hejinmal flying with a backpack for a second. Anyway, back at the meeting, Ainz forgives Hilma because the way Albedo berates her reminds him of his experiences in the company and unknowingly sparks a fanatical adoration from her. He then makes a careless comment and inadvertently causes the NPCs to go into "Final Solution" mode and decide to escalate Demiurge's plan for the Kingdom, but applied to the entire world. The idea is that if a country joins Nazarick everything will be fine, but if it defies it in the slightest... When the declaration of war arrives, we see that Demiurge has started the battle on the diplomatic field, because he not only sent a copy of the document to the Holy Oak Kingdom, the Dwarf Kingdom and the Baharut Empire, which are his allies, but also to the known country such as Argland Council State and the Draconic Kingdom, with whom they have common borders and could have been convinced to send aid to the Re-Estize Kingdom, but by putting their seals on the document they are acknowledging that the Nazarick war is a "Rightful War "and they can no longer intervene militarily. In the Declaration of War also appears the seal of someone known as "Faceless Preacher" who is the leader of a cult or group that is becoming powerful in the Holy Oak Kingdom, to the point of displacing the original religion of the people. This character will be important in the movie to come. Zanac thinks throughout the meeting that his father is already becoming incapable and that he cannot see reality, but when he sees him offer his head like that, he suffers a terrible shock and realizes that he is not as good a king as his father. The prince wanted to sacrifice a nobleman without fair trial to save the kingdom, but his father by sacrificing himself offers an apologetic gesture to Nazarick that is impossible to underestimate and at the same time preserves the honor and justice of his nation, just as a true king would do. (I confess that part really touched me) Well friend, that's all for now. I hope you have found the information interesting and also that you have understood some things that perhaps did not seem to make sense. That Phillip is amazing! He managed to surprise Renner, Albedo, Demiurge and Hilma with his stupidity! Nobody imagined that someone would be that stupid! But that's the great thing about Overlord, when he introduces us to so many interesting character types in one story that one I couldn't stop following. So far there are 16 books but two more should come out next year. But I always keep hope that the author decides to continue more. And as always, I recommend the Overlord Lore videos on AniNews.

That scepter Albedo is holding is called Ginnungagap which can be used to destroy large areas. It is the most powerful World Item against physical objects, but it is not very useful against individual targets. This World Item is capable of changing forms and Tabula Smaragdina (Albedo's creator) gave it to Albedo without permission from the rest of the guild members. Ainz noticed only just before the game was about to end, so he let it slip by.

The White Dragon is called "Platinum Dragon Lord" and was befriended with the players, who wiped out the evil gods (other players) that came before them. If i remember correctly, he is the Son of the Dragon Lord, who drew the first players from Yggdrasil into the new world. He feels both guilty and responsible for the actions, his father did. He also kinda knows about the Player and NPC relationship, but can't understand it completely

that time when you did not wanted to let others discover how little you understood of things, so you decided to make a hostile takeover of the kingdom instead

Hello from Brazil! I've been following your reaction since the first season and I'm loving every episode, how good it is to see your enthusiasm, about the sacred kingdom his story will be told in a movie that will be released in the future, you won't regret it when you watch the next episodes.

this chapters are talking about the principle of being loyal and taking the acts from the subdits as own because he is the ruler and Albedo saw some of that on the king. Albedo evolved a lot since the kiss and this act and the acts that will began will change everything. NOW the plot of this las 3 seasons will converge (seasons 2, 3 and 4) and you will enjoy it a ton

Faceless is basically pope of church devoted to Ainz.

I like how Demiurge pointed out that they cant predict moves of dumb person. xD Also dumb person will most likely ally with someone smarter who will secrifice him if plan fails. Smart person can secretely make strong allys and be problem later.

Wonder what would've happened if Phillip had asked Albedo how much it would cost to rent a team of skeletons capable of doing a grown man's work 24/7 and see how long it would take to raise those "cash crops" he claimed so much about.

The other leaders of the Eight Fingers thought Hilma had been sent back to the roach room for punishment, the room that they had all been tortured in. The thought of that punishment is what is motivating them to redouble their efforts to Serve Nazarick, very effective stick. Philip is single handed bringing down the Kingdom by his stupidity and becoming one of the biggest villains, beware the fool who thinks he's smart.

Shalltear is doing her best to keep up with the smarter members of Nazarick lol

Hey man, I’m really happy that you’re enjoying overlord, Also The two Other Nobles who were with Phillip were planning to help him steal the goods from the carts but they just bailed and it saved them

I love this series, the fact people realize we're the bad guys in season 3 says how good the author was at creating this story.

0:22 I like how us RU-vid watcher now apart from looking forward to GAZ reaction to Overlord, now we can also look forward to being mentioned in one of his videos. Personal thoughts: I feel like I'm in bingo as GAZ goes true the comments cause there is that slight chance to be mentioned in the next comment.

The King pulled a reverse Uno at the end.

Wonder if anyone has told him all of 8 fingers executives were eaten from the inside by the cockroaches, then healed, then repeated, and that's why she grabbed her throat when phillip suggested marriage and why shes so skinny. They still cant eat properly because of the feeling sometimes gives them ptsd flashbacks of that.

Regarding the glasses. It's actually an anime trope for all glasses wearers to do that at least once.

It's not really being shown at this point, but E-Rantel is indeed doing very well, even though it's surrounded by death knights marching atop the giant walls for the kingdom's security 24/7. Within it's walls, all sorts of races are already living in peace and it is having prosperous times and good trades with both the Empire and the Dwarven Kingdom. The domestic affairs of E-rantel and the Sorcerous Kingdom isn't being really touched on since it's part of the two volumes of the novel that were skipped (which as someone else stated is being made into a movie, last we heard of any news of that was last year, it's still in development). But yeah, the carrot is already being shown in full effect to the world around, though there's still doubts on it because Ainz is an undead and the common sense of the world assumes he must be evil and plotting. And yes, we are about to see one big stick.

I love how Albedo couldnt fathom that someone could be as stupid as Baron Montserrat

Quagoa are among the demi-humans that nearly brought humans and demi-humans to extinction by eating them.

Let's take a second to appreciate the sheer stupidity that is Phillip. Ains single-handedly eliminated entire generations of the Re-Estize Kingdom's knights and soldiers. He then gets the neighboring Empire to submit out of fear alone during a three day trip. This is the guy who Phillip thinks to rob in a mad get rich scheme and he fully expects to come out of it unscathed. I'm with Albedo. I am also dumbstruck and wondering if someone so stupid could possibly be real. Now it has escalated into a full-scale declaration of war signed and backed by almost all of the neighboring governments. The king of the Re-Estize Kingdom himself is offering his life if it means saving his people from this war. All of this because of one man's stupidity. Albedo said it best. "But...to be that stupid! Is it even possible!?"

Let us welcome Cygnaeus to the Ainz cul-I mean fan club.

8:39 : What the hell?! I'm in the story! Well, I'm pretty sure this is a transcription problem, since the barons are called Igor Rokerlen and Wayne Delvin in the wiki (maybe a wrong pronunciation of Wayne?)

Not to spoil anything but keep a close eye on Princess Rener over the next few episodes. When the time comes we'll elaborate on some stuff that you don't see directly.

Just wait for Cocytus' next fight and Renner's finale! ♥

the holy kingdom arc got skipped for the show because they are making a movie about it

You gotta watch The Fire Hunter opening and ending. Its astonishing.

Well well Hilma, first Human from New World probably after being Tortured, eaten inside out by cockroaches now... became vow pledge to Sorcery Kingdom even more because of Ainz Judgement, followed by her mates later. For New World standards Undead very known has No Mercy to any kind of creatures. But yeah they don't know about Yggdrasil things where actually Ainz is Human too 😅 Only Bunch of People knew about Yggdrasil tho.

Ainz : *EEEEEH WTF* Also Ainz : _"Hopefully tomorrow of me can solve it"_ 🤣🤣 Always has been

for the algorythm, because It's already been said .. but there's a time/content- skip between ep7 and ep8 .. the whole Jalbadaoth incident in the Holy Kingdom they keep mentioning will be shown in a movie .. /edit .. and I like how Ainz condems a kingdom to death by asking "has the plan truly failed?"

Another Overlord vid! Let’s goooooo!

First, I need to point out that a movie will be taking place between this ep 7 and 8. They also cut so so so soooo much from the books in this episode. I didn't read the subs in the vid you used, but I think that the subs may still be misleading. Let me list out some shorthand of the nation of note: Kingdom, Theocracy, Empire, Nazarick/Dark Kingdom/Sorcerer Kingdom, and Holy Kingdom. In the movie I mentioned above, there will be (for the watcher, has been to those in the Overlord world) a war in the Holy Kingdom. The subs say it's the Theocracy in the older subs, and may still say it know.

oversimplified international level carrot and stick plan: carrot: Baharuth empire prosperity stick: Re-Estize Kingdom ruin so other nation will know what they dealing with

The Anime skips an entire arc that is why some things don't make sense. Like how Ains nation defeated Jaldabaoth and rescued another country and how the prince did not want to meet with their diplomats (dicussion between prince and pincess in the beginning in the episode). I won't spoil anything but here is what you should know going into this arc: The nation of darkness has an new ally which is in need of help so the nation of darkness is sending provisions. These provisions have to go through the Re-Estize Kingdome where Albedo and Demiurge where planning to use Phillip for an civil war so that the nation of darkness could invade and "save" the citicens. Also the "Holy Kingdom" in need of aid is not the Theocracy with their scriptures. It is a completely new country which we did not see before. It is called the Holy Oak Kingdom or the Roble Holy Kingdom depending on which translation is used. Also I believe next episode they will discuss a symbol on the declaration they got which belongs to the "Faceless Preacher". This also has to do with the skipped arc so you can ignore that for now.

Season 4 shows a lot more of Ainz internal dialogue, of course the books have 10 times more, but this season somehow humanizes Ainz more than season 1, when he was technically closer to his old self.

As much as I love Overlord, I’m sure you are aware, it goes by very fast. That is because the anime skips A LOT, to the point where you think you’ve missed something. So things like ‘demiurge’s farm’ is not full of ‘Bi-pedal sheep’ but humans from previous raids. Demiurge jokes in calling them Bi-pedal sheep’. The only people who know the joke are demiurge and albedo; ainz should known but didn’t understand the joke but albedo does.

Now Ainz has two chubby chariots

The king is generally a pretty nice guy, but because he is too nice... his kingdom sort of fell apart. He lets his nobles do whatever they want so half of them are fighting for power against him, while the other half of corrupted. You have underground organizations running things from behind the scenes and overall the people are suffering pretty badly. Many of which pay to much in taxes are considering there is a food shortage... it doesn't look good. The Re-Estize kingdom fell very far behind, so much so that the Empire which is younger surpassed it in strength, magical knowledge, wealth, and so on.

Loved the last comment

the kingdom is F'ed

That episode was over way too soon. Even after watching this multiple times i get sucked in.

Can you make a reaction of “ao no exorcist aka blue exorcist” openings and closings.

As I said before the anime paints the king as far too good. He is as corrupt as the other nobles. He would rather sacrifice another ten or hundred thousand civilians like they do in war than accept the corrupt face of the nobles. To begin with the royal family was involved with the 8 fingers and before Renner the nobles and royalty were involved in human trafficking, drugs and all other sorts of ungood deeds. That is the reason why the theocracy decided to ploy the assassination of Gazef, without him the kingdom would have fallen to the empire fast and Nix could have quickly reworked the nations systems. The theocracy has one goal and that is to prevent humanity from going extinct which nearly happened more than once in the past. That is why they scheme behind the backs of the kingdoms. And despite them not having anything against Gazef himself, the kingdom was too far gone to be redeemed.

Can someone tell me what does that mean when he says "referee" ? Cause he said it several times and google trad gives me something that doesn't make sense in the situation where he use it. (don't know if that's exactly what he says but the subtitles show me that too)

Trying to get an honest unvarnished opinion out of this pack of yes men in Nazarick would be like pulling teeth except with them they would happily yank them out with pliers themselves..... Hilma Definitely gets definitely from Ainz-sama'sutopian ideals on labor relations. He absolutely does go out of his way to look out for those he considers "his people" The level of OOF that Philip has just entered into is that rarified strata only seen by folks Jar Jar Binks....

if you think ains is running this show and using his ideas let me quickly relieve you of that notion, ains only goes along with the flow, the plans do not come from him and unfortunately for the kingdom the people with the plan are very evil and even ains cant fight the plan now

nOICe

20 seconds ago, nice

This has to be one of my least favourite episodes. It doesn't convey the passing of time (Where an entire two volumes are skipped) and it then summarises 120+ pages in one episode. It completely skips over the further dialogue between the three barons, the isolated discussion of the other two barons, the formulation and completion of the plan, and the dialogue and backstory of the mercenary & co who were protecting the caravan and how, through a series of misunderstandings, managed to fumble the bag and let a group of nobodies rob the grain.