Highlights
- Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom movie brings a thrilling new chapter to the anime, set in the once-prosperous Roebel Sacred Kingdom, premiering this Fall.
- The movie revolves around a desperate kingdom facing ruin after an attack, seeking help from the infamous Lich Lord Ainz Ooal Gown against powerful foes.
- Producer staff, including director Naoyuki Ito and composer Shūji Katayama, return for the film adaptation, set to debut this Fall alongside new cast members.
A brand-new trailer and key visual were released on Friday to announce the upcoming continuation of the Overlord anime project, which aired its fourth and most recent season back in Summer 2022. The anime continues with Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom, an anime movie set to debut this Fall, and in addition to new cast members, the main staff working on the film's production were also announced in the trailer, which can be seen below.
The upcoming Overlord film is set against the backdrop of the once-prosperous Roebel Sacred Kingdom as it faces collapse after an attack from the Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth. OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom premieres this Fall.
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What's Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom About?
A Request From a Desperate Kingdom
By far the most eye-catching moment of the trailer for the upcoming Overlord movie is the proclamation by Jaldaboath, who shouts victoriously, "The Sorcerer King is dead!". The film's second teaser visual, released together with the above trailer, depicts a limp Ainz Ooal Gown falling from a reddened sky. Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom is centred on the Roebel Sacred Kingdom, led by Sacred Queen Calca Bessarez, neighboring what was once known as Re-Estize.
Roebel enjoyed a period of peace before the onslaught of the Demon Emperor Jaldaboath, as well as an attack by the Demi-Human Alliance. These incidents have driven the once prosperous Sacred Kingdom to the brink of ruin, and despite their efforts to retaliate, there was simply too great a difference in power between them and Jaldaboath's forces. Desperate to save their kingdom, the grandmaster of Roebel Sacred Kingdom's Sacred Paladin Order, Remedios, travels together with her subordinate, Neia, to the Sorcerer Kingdom, led by the notorious Lich Lord known as Ainz Ooal Gown. As we already know, the Sacred Kingdom despises the Sorcerer Kingdom; however, they travel to the nation of the undead with hopes of obtaining a power capable of taking on Jaldaboath.
The Overlord anime series is based on light novels by Kugane Maruyama, initially released online in 2010 before being published by Kadokawa in their Enterbrain imprint with illustrations from so-bin in 2012. The series is licensed for publishing in North America by Yen Press. A manga adaptation of Overlord by Hugin Miyama and Satoshi Ōshio began publishing in November 2014, while the first season of the anime ran for 13 episodes from July to September 2015. The second season ran for a further 13 episodes from January to April 2018, with the third season coming later that year in July. The fourth season premiered in July 2022.
Who's Behind The Film's Production?
Familiar Names Return
The upcoming Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom film was first announced in 2021, with more information only being revealed through a television special hosted on New Year's Day this year by cast members Satoshi Hino, Yumi Hara and Masayuki Katō, who play Ainz Ooal Gown; Albedo and Demiurge respectively. Staff include series director Naoyuki Ito, who returns to direct the film at Studio Madhouse (One Punch Man season 1), and is also responsible for the film's composition and scripts, together with the Overlord television series composer Yukie Sugawara.
Satoshi Tasaki returns as character designer and also chief animation director, while Fumiyuki Go returns as sound director at Bit Grooove Promotion, with the music composer from the anime series, Shūji Katayama taking care of the music. Kadokawa Animation will be responsible for the film's distribution. The aforementioned cast from the anime series return to their roles, joined by Saori Hayami (Yor Forger, Spy X Family) as Calca Bessarez; Yoshino Aoyama (Hitori Gotō, Bocchi The Rock!) as Neia Baraja; Hitomi Nabatame (Kei Kishimoto, Gantz) and Haruka Tomatsu (Asuna, Sword Art Online) as Kelart Custodio. Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom movie debuts this Fall.
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