A manga series based on the light novels were also provided to Overlord.
Typically, they’re either manga, light novels, or mobile games.įor Overlord, the light novel is the source material. There are several original anime series, but in 2020, most series will only use current source material. With more than $500,000 in sales worldwide in March 2020 alone the game is doing good.Ī 3. Game Sales: For Overlord, there is a mobile game named Mass For The Dead that is playable in Japan and the USA.The first season had about 50 percent more numbers and merchandise than the second and third seasons. It sounds amazing to be one of the highest-selling series per volume, but it is only one volume per year. Volume 13 sold more than 235,000 copies, and more than 195,000 copies were sold for the new volume 14 before vanishing from the top 10 rankings. More than 200,000 copies are sold for each volume. Light Novel Sales: You might be shocked by the light novel sales, but Overlord, just behind Sword Art Online, is the second best selling light novel per volume.The second season fell to just about 7,000 copies, and the third season fell to about 6,500 copies per volume. Blue-Ray Sales: A whopping 12,500 copies per volume were sold in the first season of Overlord.In terms of benefit, it’s perfectly fair for a sequel to drop about 15-25 percent in every season that comes. The problem is that each sequel, as opposed to the previous one, contributes to less benefit. Owing to its high success in the world, Overlord has received a lot of money from all over the world. New T-shirts and keychains for Overlord are now available for pre-order in 2020. And there have recently been three new figures released. Merchandise: Generally, new merchandise is a perfect predictor of how well the series performs.
Light novels are still very popular, even if the speed of release is a bit sluggish. Only a few months ago, the new volume of Overlord 14 was published. Light Novels: As of 12/2018, Overlord had 8.000.000 copies in print.The success of sequels usually decreases, so this is great to see. Like the first season that aired in 2015, it had twice as many searches. Google Trends: Unexpectedly and fortunately, Overlord’s third season has been the most successful so far, according to Google trends.This was tweeted in April about Overlord anime retransmission by the official Twitter account for this franchise with 103,000 followers. Social Media: Official website of Overlord was last updated with details regarding the 14th light novel volume of Overlord in 2019.In general, sequels are less popular than Season 1: it says so, but in the case of Overlord, sequels are twice as popular as the first season.
That means looking at the official website, social media, trends in Google, print copies of the series, and if new merchandise is available. We are interested in how the Overlord franchise’s popularity after the third season is preserved. To examine the matter, let us look at each of these factors: 1. So will the Overlord come back? There are numerous factors to understand whether or not a series would be renewed, such as popularity, sales, and materials to be used as the source. For many of the users, reading novels is not feasible and the concern of the release of Overlord Season 4 is therefore high. The cause for the delay might just be the Covid-19 pandemic, but there should be an official announcement that is not happening and thus creating doubts among the viewers. Since fans are eagerly waiting for Season 4 to arrive, a lot of other stuff is lacking. Whether or not Ainz conquers the entire world of Yggdrasil remains to be known. There is a lot of stuff caught in the mind of Season 3 Overlord fans. Well, the ending of the third season is the chief reason behind this. The question that is most asked on the internet after the three seasons of Overlord is already there: Is Season 4 coming from the series? The music composer of the series is Shūji Katayama. Yukie Sugawara wrote the script for the series. The series was created by Madhouse under the direction of Naoyuki Itō. Overlord is a Japanese anime television show based on the light book series of the same name authored by Kugane Maruyama and depicted by so-bin.