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Overlord: Is Ainz Actually the Strongest in the New World? Japan's Answer

「アインズは最強なのか？」オーバーロード解説動画への日本のファンの反応

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Overlord: Is Ainz Actually the Strongest in the New World? Japan's Answer
“[Recurring fixture] The uploader who, just by sticking around, makes you understand exactly how the Floor Guardians feel about the Ainz who stayed.”

【定期】残ってくれたアインズに対する守護者の気持ちを分からせてくる投稿者

— @cacao_uni

A long-dormant Japanese Overlord lore channel resurfaced with a video asking the eternal question — is Ainz Ooal Gown actually the strongest being in the New World? — and the comment section did something English-speaking fans almost never get to watch happen: it turned into Nazarick. Japanese viewers spontaneously slipped into Floor-Guardian roleplay, addressing the creator as "the merciful Supreme Being who never abandoned us" and "the one who stayed," because he kept uploading after countless other Overlord channels went dark — a fandom in-joke that mirrors the show's own premise, since Momonga is the one guildmate who didn't abandon the guild. Underneath the devotion, the recurring debate is genuinely sharp: the most-liked lore takes argue Ainz is "strongest" the way the US President is the world's strongest man (it's the position, not the muscles), explain his absurd spell count with a Dragon Quest skill-tree analogy, and point out — with a touch of unease — that his guildmates seemingly built their NPCs to serve him on purpose. The thread keeps circling back to one quietly devastating fact about what Momonga actually wants, and it lands on the kind of warm, in-character send-off only this corner of the fandom would write.

The source video: a Japanese Overlord lore channel asks whether Ainz Ooal Gown is truly the strongest being in the New World. The reactions below are from its comment section. （YouTube · B.T.鬚）

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 545)

  • Now I finally understand how the people of Nazarick feel.

    ナザリックの面々の気持ちが分かったわ

    — @kei-p4j112 likes

  • So many lore channels have gone into hiding, yet you have remained with us to the very end. Every viewer on all of YouTube is grateful.

    お隠れになっている解説者の御方が多い中、最後までここにいて下さっている事にyoutube全ての視聴者が感謝しております

    — @sayukibi918 likes

  • The merciful Overlord uploader, who to the very end never forsook us and chose to remain.

    最後まで我らを見捨てず残って下さった慈悲深きオバロ投稿者

    — @ゆ抹茶239 likes

  • Aah, O Supreme One… so you have returned to us…!

    嗚呼、至高の御方…戻ってきてくれたのですね…！

    — @ゐどりん135 likes

  • The return of the GOAT Overlord lore channel.

    神オバロ動画配信者の帰還

    — @鬼殺の流157 likes

  • Been a while. For reasons, my eyesight is genuinely terrible right now. I probably won't catch any typos or editing slips, so if you spot one, please just chalk it up to charm. m(= =)m

    お久しぶりです。ワケあって目が尋常じゃなく悪いです。 多分、誤字脱字、編集ミスがあっても気づけないので、もし見つけてもご愛嬌ということでお願いします。m(= =)m

    — @b.t.910657 likes

  • You're good. I'm just dumb for no particular reason, so I won't notice a thing.

    大丈夫や ワイは訳もなく頭が悪いから気付かん

    — @sy-bp3dw145 likes

  • No matter what, he always comes back. There's this sense of security to it…

    いつだって戻ってきてくれる。そんな安心感がある・・・

    — @ツルハシ28 likes

  • It's like asking "who is the strongest person in the world?" and instead of naming some martial-arts world champion, the answer is "the President of the United States — the boss of the world's strongest military." That's Kugane-sensei's answer in a nutshell.

    Q：世界最強の人物は誰か？ って質問に対して、格闘技とかの世界チャンピオンではなくて A：世界最強の米軍のボスであるアメリカ合衆国大統領 って答えて頂いた感じですよね。くがね先生の回答。

    — @全日本ライフル協会147 likes

  • The reason Lord Ainz knows so many spells: think of it like Dragon Quest, where to learn Omniheal or Kafrizz you also have to know the lower-tier Heal and Frizz along the way. He just kept every rung of the ladder.

    アインズ様の魔法数が多いのは、ドラクエでいう｢ベホマズンやメラガイアーを覚えているが、覚える為に前提のホイミやメラも覚えている｣という認識

    — @糖度50115 likes

  • To unlock status-immunity you'd grind: cure-poison, cure-paralysis, cure-silence, cure-petrify → single-target cure-all → (…) → party-wide immunity to every status. Something like that. Although, let's be real, you normally just handle status with gear.

    状態異常免疫を習得するために 毒状態の解除魔法、麻痺状態の解除魔法、沈黙状態の解除魔法、石化状態の解除魔法 →単体全状態異常解除魔法 （…） →全状態異常の全体免疫魔法 みたいな感じやろな。 なお、装備で状態異常対策が基本な模様

    — @おじいちゃん-n2q8 likes

  • I mean, tiered magic goes all the way up to ten ranks to begin with, so the real question is how many of those spells are even practical.

    そもそも位階魔法自体が10段階あるんだからそん中で実用性のある魔法がどんだけあるかって話よね

    — @ヘガサス2 likes

  • Hoarding knowledge of spells from classes you'd never even play yourself — that's a strength in its own right.

    自分が使わない他業種の魔法とかもできるだけ知識として持っているってのも強みのひとつ

    — @うえむよし7 likes

  • Peroroncino and Bukubukuchagama — the brother-and-sister pair — both built NPCs that conveniently happen to favor Lord Ainz. You can't help but feel like that was on purpose.

    ペロロンチーノとぶくぶく茶釜姉弟揃ってアインズ様を狙ったかのような有利なNPC作ってんの何かを感じる

    — @大気中に漂うコンデンサー169 likes

  • For a hardcore-roleplay support main, Momonga is way too strong.

    ロールプレイガチ勢のサポーターにしては強過ぎるモモンガ

    — @irori932920 likes

  • 6:29 — flip it around: paired with Shalltear, he spams undead to keep her HP topped up, has her tank for him while he buffs and nukes from the back, and if he's ever truly cornered he can fire off The Goal of All Life Is Death and wipe Shalltear too — she just rezzes off her ring for zero damage. Absolutely vile combo.

    6:29 逆にシャルティアと組むのであればアンデットを召喚しまくってシャルティアのHP回復をさせて自分を守ってもらいつつ後方で支援や魔法攻撃、万一にでも追い詰められた時はTGOALISでシャルティア諸共薙ぎ払ってもシャルティアは指輪で蘇生してノーダメという最悪コンボが出来る

    — @LYOU226 likes

  • What Momonga actually wants is for his old guildmates to come back to him. And some of them have already passed away in the real world — and he has no idea.

    モモンガが欲してるのは当時の仲間が再度自分の元に来てくれる事 そして何人かは既に亡くなってるがその事はモモンガは知ってない

    — @桜桜-r1z42 likes

  • Thank you for a breakdown that's pure catnip for Overlord fans!! Yes, exactly — THIS is why we love Momon (Ainz) as a player. Thanks for a video that makes it click.

    オバロ好きには堪らない解説ありがとうございます！！ そうそう、だからモモン（アインズ）というプレイヤーが好きなんだよ。と分からせてくれる動画をありがとうございます！！

    — @ふな-z6w1 likes

  • 4:24 — a non-stop parade of phrases Touch Me would absolutely never say. Lost it.

    4:24　たっち・みーが絶対に言わないフレーズのオンパレードで笑ってしまった

    — @翁弁当7 likes

  • For Overlord breakdowns, this guy's are the most actually-explanatory, the most convincing, and the most fun to watch. Hands down.

    オーバーロードの解説はこの人のが一番解説なってるし、一番見てて納得出し楽しい

    — @どーも-f6m0 likes

  • You kept telling us in your videos to go buy and read the novels, so I bought every single volume and read them. If I'd never found this channel I'd never have fallen this deep into Overlord…!! Thank you for blessing us with another breakdown…!

    書籍を買って読んでと動画で言われ続け、全巻買って読みました。このチャンネルに出会わなかったらここまでオバロにハマらなかったです…！！また解説していただきありがとうございます…！

    — @FIRE-wv6jc2 likes

  • YOU'RE ALIVE?! (overjoyed)

    生きとったんかワレぇ！（歓喜）

    — @upper_downer28 likes

  • The first "WASSHOI!!" in a whole year. This is what I was waiting for.

    1年ぶりの「ワッショーイ‼︎」 これを待ってた

    — @竹の子64263 likes

  • Vanished for ages and the reason was "I was bored" lol. Thanks for coming back. Man, I just want the next volume already.

    失踪してたのに暇だったとはｗ 戻って気くれて感謝 はやく最新刊読みたいですねー

    — @refridia0 likes
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