CATDOLL: Sales of the original novel of "OVERLORD" exceeded 1 million copies

Among the new anime in July this year, Overlord, adapted from a light novel, has attracted a large number of anime fans with its fantastic setting and vast world view. So far, 10 volumes of the book have been released. Recently, the official announcement: the sales of the original work have quickly increased from 600,000 copies to 1 million copies.

The official Twitter account said: To be honest, I have never seen such a phenomenon!

Faced with the current rise of online game time-travel novel adaptations, the sales surge driven by the animation was something the official did not expect. The official Twitter account expressed disbelief: "To be honest, I have never seen anything like this!" The original series will also be reprinted on a large scale. It seems that for this animation, even if the sales of the discs in the future cannot reach a level that can be called hegemony, the effect of driving the original work alone is enough to be called a success.

The work mainly tells the story of a day when a popular VRMMORPG game "YGGDRASIL" will stop all services, but even after the end time, players will not exit the game, and NPCs have their own thoughts. While waiting for the system to force log out, the protagonist Suzuki Satoru, who loves video games in the real world, accidentally travels to a different world with the members of the "Ainz Ooal Gown" guild, and he also becomes the strongest magician with a skeleton appearance - "Flying Squirrel". In this way, the real fantasy legend officially begins.

Once "OVERLORD" was broadcast, it attracted the attention of a large number of anime fans.