21:15:10 INFO SEARCHQUEUE-MANUAL-294002 :: Finished processing 2697 scene exceptions. 21:15:10 INFO SEARCHQUEUE-MANUAL-294002 :: Updating exception_cache and exception_season_cache 21:15:10 INFO SEARCHQUEUE-MANUAL-294002 :: Beginning manual search for: Overlord - S02E09 - 022 - Soaring Sparks of Fire Or if you prefer, here’s the most moe lizardwoman you’ll ever lay your eyes on.21:15:10 DEBUG SEARCHQUEUE-MANUAL-294002 :: 294002: Formatting pattern: %SN - S%0SE09 - 022 - %EN -> Overlord - S02E09 - 022 - Soaring Sparks of Fire Entails, hah! ‘Cause they have tails… ah, don’t mind me. Hey, don’t make fun! Those things can bring down goliaths, man. Ah yes, the mighty skilled hunters and their skilled slingshots. You’d think something like this would sound a little scarier in person, huh? Instead, it sounds kinda dorky. Call me “specieist” against lizards if you want. Again, I don’t think they’re going to get wiped out - just decimated, I’m sure - but honestly, I wouldn’t really care if they were wiped out. On paper, this is better than watching Ainz take on generic MMO quests with his sexy maid in order to rank up… but man, I really don’t give a shit about the lizardmen. I honestly don’t know how to feel about that. But yeah, this episode is all about the lizardmen, and next week’s episode is probably going to be all about the lizardmen too. We also see a brief scene between Demiurge and some dandy penguin. We only get to see Cocytus prepare for the upcoming battle. I don’t think Ainz appears for even a single second in this entire episode. Apparently, those guys like to fight, so we’ll probably see a duel between Zaryusu and some lizard dude I don’t remotely care enough about to learn his name. She then cosplays as a bush, and sets off with the guy to go meet the Dragon Tusk Tribe. Instead, they’ll fight with Zaryusu’s tribe. In the end, Lulu convinces her people to abandon their original plan to evacuate. There’s also some revelation about how the Red Eye Tribe resorted to cannibalism, but I’m just like ehhhh… I’ll just say that this mix of serious war planning and goofy romance leaves behind a strange aftertaste. Meanwhile, he’s dropping sweet nothings into her ears like how beautiful she is. Lulu’s tail is thumping away like mad because she’s just so excited by this encounter. At the same time, however, these two are flirting with each other, giving each other those come hither eyes, so on and so forth. If they refuse, well, he and his buddies are just going to have to kill her and her buddies. After all, Zaryusu wants Lulu’s tribe to form an alliance with his tribe. The two of them proceed to discuss highly important matters. I now know what an anime lizardman’s mating call sounds like. And by fall in love, I mean emit a high pitch squeal and immediately offer a marriage proposal. Apparently, she’s super pretty for a lizard, so Zaryusu falls in love with her at first sight. The acting leader of the Red Eye Tribe is Crusch Lulu, a rare albino lizard. So Zaryusu meets up with the Red Eye Tribe, and this is where the episode gets really silly. There’s going to be plenty of food for the remaining survivors! Sheesh, being a lizardman is tough. This resistance against the undead army is thus not such a bad thing after all. So even as Zaryusu prepares to rally the rest of the tribes against the undead army, he and his brother acknowledge that a food shortage would’ve eventually led the remaining five tribes to another war between themselves anyway. You’d think these guys would be sick of killing their own kind by now, but our own human history shows how untrue that assumption is. Apparently, there used to be seven lizard tribes, but due to a shortage of food - and probably other reasons I didn’t pick up - a bunch of them went to war. I never thought I wanted to learn about the history of the lizardmen, but here we are. Ah well, it’s not like the lizardmen are all that endearing anyway. And for what? Just for Ainz to subjugate them? Sheesh. Having said that, I don’t think he’s going to wipe the lizardmen out, but a lot of these scaly dudes are going to die. As I said in last week’s post about Overlord, I never felt as though he was as villainous as advertised in the first season. I guess this is the first time where I truly feel as though our spooky skeleton boy is acting like a villain. So the Great One is obviously Ainz, and sitting at the front of that army is none other than Cocytus. That evil ball of faces warns the lizardmen that the Great One will send an undead army to slay them in eight days. Rather, the story picks up exactly where it last left off. And by that, I mean heavy characterization or symbolism. After all, it’s not exactly heavy on the stuff that really gets me going. So I’ve been sitting here for the past hour trying to figure out how I’m supposed to cover this week’s episode of Overlord II.
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