A new teaser visual for the upcoming Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom anime movie (Seiou Koku Hen/Holy Kingdom Arc) has been released.
Also revealed was a visual that imagines Ainz and Albedo in theme park guide costumes meant to evoke the worldview of KADOKAWA anime. This visual will be featured on some goods that will be sold at the KADOKAWA booth at AnimeJapan 2024, which include can badges, acrylic stand figures, and tapestries. Outside of these items, the booth will sell advance tickets for the movie with two pieces of reproduced artwork included as a set.
Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom, announced in 2021, is set to be released in Japan sometime this year. Naoyuki Itou is once again directing at Madhouse.
Yen Press describes Volume 12 of the Overlord light novels, the first part of “The Paladin of the Holy Kingdom Arc,” as:
The Sacred Kingdom has enjoyed a great many years without war thanks to a colossal wall constructed after a historic tragedy. They understand best how fragile peace can be. When the terrible demon Jaldabaoth takes to the field at the head of a united army of monstrous tribes, the Sacred Kingdom’s leaders know their defenses are not enough. With the very existence of the country at stake, the pious have no choice but to seek help wherever they can get it, even if it means breaking taboo and parlaying with the undead king of the Nation of Darkness!
Overlord was originally a web novel that started publication on Arcadia in 2010, and on Shousetsuka ni Narou in 2012. The light novels began in 2012 and have 16 volumes as of July 2022. The anime adaptation began in 2015 and received its fourth season in 2022.
The books are written by Kugane Maruyama and illustrated by so-bin. Aside from the anime, the light novel series has inspired a manga adaptation and a manga spin-off. There are also some Overlord video games.
The first light novel volume is described as:
For twelve years, the virtual world of Yggdrasil has served as the playground and battlefield for the skeletal lord Momonga and his guild of fellow monsters, Ainz Ooal Gown. But the guild’s glory days are over, and the game is shutting down permanently. When Momonga logs in one last time just to be there when the servers go dark, something happens-and suddenly, fantasy is reality. A rogues’ gallery of fanatically devoted NPCs is ready to obey his every order, but the world Momonga now inhabits is not the one he remembers. The game may be over, but the epic tale of Ainz Ooal Gown is only beginning…
Cast
• Satoshi Hino as Ainz
• Yumi Hara as Albedo
• Masayuki Katou as Demiurge
Source: Press Release
