Overlord II Episode 9 Review: Soaring Sparks of Fire

Best guy Sebas guy is once again kicking ass in this week’s episode of Overlord. Climb, Brain, and Sebas get into some action and beat the sh*t out of everyone in the brothel. I would prefer to have seen Sebas fighting skills more than Brain or Climb, but oh well…

Japanese Original Episode Title: 舞い上がる火の粉

Plot

Sebas, Brain, and Climb arrive at the location of the brothel and according to the assassin that they beat in the previous episode, there are two entrances: one from the front and one at the back. Sebas decides to assault them from the front door while Brain and Climb go sneak from the back. Sebas easily beats everyone in his way, including the disgusting fat perv Steffan Havish. Thanks to the items given to Climb by Gagaran, he and Brain easily find their way through the hidden doors and Brain goes on ahead to beat everyone. While Climb is guarding the exit, Succulent and Cocco Doll come to the brothel to fight the intruders. Succulent and Climb engage in battle and Climb is almost beaten but luckily Brain comes into play and finishes Succulent off. Later on, the royal authorities take care of the matters and Sebas and Brain bid their farewells to Climb. Sebas goes back to the mansion, and to his surprise, Solution tells him that Ainz is waiting for him. Climb returns to Princess Renner to give his report and when he leaves we finally get to see the other side of her that wants to kill the maid who is on duty just because she made fun of her ’precious’ Climb.

Episode Highlights

Sebas bitch slapped the sh*t out of the fat pev: Sebas is the most righteous and honorable character of the show so far. Not only he saved Tuare but he went and destroyed the whole brothel and the man who was behind her suffering. He is truly the best. I was cheering for him so much when he kicked the sh*it out of the fat guy. What a sicko seriously. I am glad though that Madhouse didn’t show us any of his private parts or something because, to be honest, after the lizard sex scene, I am kind of scared as to what would follow in this season.

Solution, Ainz, and Sebas: Boy, oh boy, the next episode is going to be good! When Solution was wearing her maid uniform and said to Sebas: ‘Lord Ainz is waiting for you’, I was like YES, this is going to be legen– wait for it –dary.

Princess Renner is uhm… interesting: We finally got to see a glimpse of her craziness. I am quite curious to see what kind of powers she has, if she has any, or if she is just a plain sadist or just plain crazy.

Themes & Trivia

Princess Renner is yandere: The term ‘yandere’ describes an anime character who is either psychotic or violent or both and is crazily in love with another character. They get so infected by this ‘sickness’ that they are willing to do anything for the person that they love, which is usually killing anyone that tries to harm them or shows any feelings towards them. I am wondering what Renner would do if she heard Gagaran in the previous episode with all that ‘Yo, virgin’ talk. A famous and a good example of a true yandere is Gasai Yuno from Mirai Nikki. Anyone who has watched that show will certainly know what I am talking about.

Steffan Havish is truly despicable: According to the light novels of Overlord, his favorite thing is destroying beautiful women. He likes to make them bruise and leave horrible scars in their bodies and faces before raping them and he likes it even more when they are conscious so he can listen to them scream and beg for mercy.

Succulent’s attack: In his fight with Climb, he uses an attack called ‘Scintillating scotoma’ which is also known as a visual migraine. Basically, it is the most common visual aura preceding migraine. But literally ‘scotoma’ comes from the Greek word σκότος/skótos meaning darkness and is an area of partial alteration in the field of vision.

Comments

Is it only me or Cocco Doll looks really similar to the gay character named Nico from Tokyo Ghoul? What’s the deal with making all the implied homosexual characters in anime have that kind of chin? I don’t get it. Also, the transition at the end of the episode with Renner and her yandere self was sooooo good.

If anyone makes fun of my Climb, I’ll kill them.

I can’t wait to see her in her frenzy mode and to see how Climb will react to it. Sebas is into deep sh*t but honestly I think Ainz will be reasonable enough to hear him through and understand his intentions, then probably Solution will be in deep sh*t, or maybe not. We will find out soon enough!