During the Overlord live stream on Nico Nico, Kadokawa announced that Overlord will be receiving a fourth season and a new animated film.
Along with the announcement was a teaser visual for the fourth season and the news that the original voice cast will be returning for both the anime series and film. It was stated that the Overlord film will cover the Kingdom Arc and the new season will be a continuation of the third season. Madhouse has also been confirmed along with the original production team to be returning to work on the series. There has been no information about the released date, but we’ll keep you updated.
The returning crew consists of:
- Director: Naoyuki Itou
- Series Scripts: Yukie Sugawara
- Original Character Design: So-Bin
- Character Design: Satoshi Tasaki
- Animation Studio: Madhouse
The returning cast consists of:
- Satoshi Hino as Ains
- Yumi Hara as Albedo
- Sumire Uesaka as Shalltear
- Emiri Kato as Aura
- Yumi Uchiyama as Mare
- Masayuki Katou as Demiurge
- Kenta Miyake as Cocytus
Here’s the Overlord season 4 teaser visual:
Here is So-Bin’s illustration in celebration of the series’ fourth season announcement:
Kugane Maruyama’s popular light novel series Overlord has been acclaimed by many fans as one of their favorite isekai series to read and watch. Overlord initially began as an online light novel series back in 2010 and received publication by Kadokawa’s Enterbrain with illustrations by So-Bin in 2012. The series has compiled 14 volumes to date and Maruyama has confirmed that the light novel series will end with volume 17. Yen Press is currently publishing the light novel series in English, and the manga is being adapted by Hugin Miyama and Satoshi Oshio.
The Overlord franchise has received three anime seasons and two compilation films. The first season released in July 2015, then the second season released in January 2018, and finally the third season released in July 2018. Both the first and second Overlord compilation films were released in the same year, the first in February 2017 and the second in March 2017.
The series is currently available to watch on Crunchyroll and Funimation in both English dub or subtitle.
Crunchyroll describes the series as:
When a popular MMORPG is scheduled to be shut down permanently, veteran player Momonga refuses to log out. As NPCs begin to develop personalities and minds of their own he decides to put his skills to use as the game’s new overlord.
Source: Overlord live stream event on NicoNico, Twitter
