Initially, Maruyama’s goal was to reach an ending somewhere around Overlord Volume 20. In the past, he stated that he has “no intention to drag the story on and on” despite having “50 volumes worth” of ideas. He just wants “readers to relax and read” although the author is “writing with an end in mind.” The Overlord Volume 15 release date was originally planned for Spring 2021 but then was delayed for over a year. But it seems that the length of the story was a major factor. It was confirmed that the story arc would be spilt into two volumes in a tweet released by Maruyama on March 12, 2022.

The Karsanas City State Alliance arc as suggested in V14's intermission might be the final arc of Overlord, as they will move towards the center of the continent and fight the demihuman nations existing there. But by May 2016 he tweetedout that he was planning on ending with Overlord Volume 18. Three years later, this plan began to change. In other words, scammers/frauds have tried to make money off of Hitori's translations. And we believe there is a good chance they will try again.

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When the Overlord Season 4 anime TV series was announced, the team also confirmed that the next Overlord sequel would be an Overlord movie that covers the Holy Kingdom story arc. The most important one: Aura and Mare will create a fifth column in the Elf Country, made up of dark elves and maybe even wood elves who see the two twins as their messianic leader. Either they'll take over the Elf Country or move them to the Tob Forest, their old homeland now that they've conquered the area. On March 12, 2022, Maruyama confirmed through a second tweet that this arc will indeed be spilt into two volumes.

Even though ending with Overlord Volume 18 is now the current plan, this ending is still years off in the future since Maruyama has two more novels to complete so the author’s plans could change again in the meantime.

This has left me wondering, Will Aura and Mare gain character development that deviates from their NPC settings? If we consider past situations, such as Cocytus left to conquer the Lizardmen tribes, Shalltear to ̶c̶o̶m̶m̶i̶t̶ ̶g̶e̶n̶o̶c̶i̶d̶e̶ trim down the Quagoa population (and allowed for her to redeem herself), Demiurge to lead the Demihumans against the Holy Kingdom, Albedo to act as an ambassador to the late Re-Estize Kingdom, and Pandora's Actor to gain intel against PDL while in combat, we can see that Ainz has (maybe not purposefully) given the Guardians ways to gain experience in the New World. Because of the Sorcerer Kingdom's annihilation of the Re-Estize Kingdom, every other nation will line up at attention, as per the Candy & Whip strategy. The Slane Theocracy will probably use the new adventurers they acquired before Re-Estize's fall to perform a blitzkrieg-like offensive against the elves. If I had to say how I feel about Volume 15/16 then I'd say that I'm not as impressed as I wanted it to be. It's still good, but the amount of hype put into Concerned about the rapid expansion of the Sorcerer Kingdom, the Leaders of the Slain Theocracy decided to overthrow the Elven Kingdom. On August 5, 2019, German publisher KSM Anime claimedthat Maruyama confirmed at AnimagiC 2019 that ending with Overlord Volume 17 is the final plan. However, other attendees claimedthat Maruyama simply said that he was losing the energy to write and he is very tired. He would first aim for completing 17 books because even finishing 16 volumes is exhausting.

catches up with the progress they made in several development he is shown by Aura around how the inner village they have established within the floor is progressing including several updates on both already If you are going to discuss Volume 15 content that has NOT been translated yet, your comment should be ALWAYS be spoiler tagged, even inside posts with the "Spoiler - Volume 15" flair.If you see other people posting Volume 15 translations as their own and attempting to monetize them, there is a serious possibility that they have stolen Hitori's work and are trying to make a profit out of it. At the time, Maruyama didn’t explain is how this major change to Overlord Volume 15 impacted his plans for the Overlord light novels’ ending. It wasn’t until the end of July 2022 that he confirmed that Overlord Volume 18 will now contain the ending. The announcement also confirmed that the main staff at animation studio Madhouse would be returning to produce Overlord Season 4. The key visual for the Overlord Season 4 anime that was released in December 2021. Pic credit: Studio Madhouse Overlord: Holy Kingdom movie the next sequel