However, other attendees claimed that Maruyama simply said that he was losing the energy to write and he is very tired. On August 5, 2019, German publisher KSM Anime claimed that Maruyama confirmed at AnimagiC 2019 that ending with Overlord Volume 17 is the final plan. He claimed it would be difficult to conclude with Volume 16, so he decided to take things at a moderate pace and target Overlord Volume 17 for the ending.
Maruyama also stated that he was planning on cutting down the amount of story content in order to finish the light novel series. He even suggested that he might go back to being a company employee after finishing Overlord! In response, Maruyama said that his motivation to write Overlord had been going down the drain. He asked if there was any way the author could take legal measures against this copyright violation. The novel is a side story focused on an alternate timeline for Ainz/Momonga’s story.Ī month later, a Twitter user named Rain圜loud pointed out to Maruyama that an English translation had been uploaded to an overseas website.
Three years later, this plan began to change.įast forward to April 2019 when Maruyama released a bonus Overlord book called The Vampire Princess of the Lost Country (Bokoku no Kyuketsu-hime). He just wants “readers to relax and read” although the author is “writing with an end in mind.”īut by May 2016 he tweeted out that he was planning on ending with Overlord Volume 18. In the past, he stated that he has “no intention to drag the story on and on” despite having “50 volumes worth” of ideas. Initially, Maruyama’s goal was to reach an ending somewhere around Overlord Volume 20. Japanese publisher Enterbrain released Overlord Volume 14: The Witch of the Falling Kingdom on March 12, 2020. The story first started life as a web novel back in 2010, but starting in 2012 Kugane teamed up with illustrator so-bin to adapt the story into the light novel format.