Overload fans finally get a glimpse of what the new movie, The Holy Kingdom, has in store with the release of the first key teaser visual.
The first teaser image for Overlord: The Sacred Realm finally fell.
The visual features protagonist Ainz Ooal Gown menacingly in the background. The new film was announced in May last year, but many details about the project, including the creative team, character voice actors, and release date, have yet to be confirmed. Based on the title, many have speculated that The Holy Kingdom will adapt the light novel series’ “The Paladin of the Holy Kingdom” story arc, which sees the Roble Holy Kingdom being invaded by a group of demi-humans.
Series creator Kugane Maruyama was first released Suzerain independently online before the story was acquired by publisher Enterbrain, a subdivision of Kadokawa. A total of 16 light novels have been published since July 2012, and the series has achieved substantial financial success with over seven million copies of the books circulating worldwide. To celebrate Suzerainof the tenth anniversary, Maruyama shared on social media his feelings about the story’s popularity and thanked his avid fans and readers, writing, “I will continue to do my best to deliver even better things in the future. !”
Suzerain, an isekai series set in a dark fantasy world, tells the story of a video game veteran named Momonga, who is an avid gamer of YGGDRASIL, an in-depth multiplayer online role-playing game. When he stubbornly refuses to log out when the game must be stopped for good, Momonga finds himself trapped in YGGDRASIL alongside his NPCs, who begin to develop real sentience. Unable to return to his life in the real world, the player decides to assume the identity of his character, Ainz Ooal Gown and sets out to see if other players are trapped as well.
The first season of the animated adaptation from the Madhouse studio (The vampire dies in no time) debuted in July 2015 and the fourth season of Suzerain is currently part of Crunchyroll’s summer lineup. Satoshi Hino (fire force) stars as Ainz alongside Emiri Kato (black butler) like Aura Bella Fiora and Masayuki Katou (Log Horizon) as Demiurge. While Hino will likely voice Ainz again in the new film, no official announcement regarding the role has been made.
For those who want to get a glimpse of what might happen in Overlord: The Sacred Realm prior to the film’s premiere, Maruyama’s light novels are distributed in North America by Yen Press.
Source: Twitter, via Crunchyroll