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1* ActingForTwo: In the Japanese version, Creator/KeiShindou not only voices Entoma, but she also does the voice of Arche. Entoma obtained Arche's voice halfway through Season 3.
2* ArtistDisillusionment: According to some sources, Maruyama disliked letting fans vote on if Arche would survive the Workers exploration of the Tomb of Nazarick in the original Web Novel. As a result, when adapting the series into a Light Novel, Arche was flat out killed instead.
3* CrossDressingVoices: Played straight in the English dub where Nphirea Balear is voiced by Creator/MorganBerry, but averted in the original Japanese version where he is voiced by Creator/AyumuMurase.
4* PlayingAgainstType: Quite a few in the Japanese version:
5** Creator/AoiYuuki as the AxCrazy Clementine.
6** However, the one instance that really takes the cake is Creator/ShigeruChiba as the quiet, yet calm and kindhearted Sebas Tian. [[LargeHam Need we even explain why this is ironic?]]
7* TheOtherDarrin: In the English dub:
8** Due to Ed Blaylock succumbing to cancer on April 19, 2017, Sebas is voiced by Creator/BillJenkins from Season 2 onwards.
9** Entoma Vasilissa Zeta switches voice actresses halfway through Season 3, from Creator/TiaBallard to Corinne Sudberg, due to Entoma getting a new voice box from the remains of an adventurer named Arche. This is something unique to the English dub, as the original Japanese averted this by having both Entoma and Arche be portrayed by the same voice actress as a way to avoid having to change VA mid-season.
10* TheOriginalDarrin: In relation to the above, Tia Ballard reprised her role as Entoma in Season 4, presumably to not cause confusion for viewers.
11* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Not to be confused with that '''other''' ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' with a VillainProtagonist, or ''Film/Overlord2018'', a horror movie set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, or ''Film/Overlord1975'', a drama also set in WWII.
12* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Arche was originally supposed to die at the hands of Shalltear during the Workers exploration of the Tomb of Nazarick in the Web Novel. However, Maruyama was concerned that killing off a [[DevelopingDoomedCharacters developed and heroic]] character like Arche, who was also rather young, would be controversial and so instead posed the question via a poll about her fate. Arche ended up being voted to survive, something Maruyama hated but stuck to. This is why in all other adaptations, Arche is just killed by Shalltear instead; Maruyama ''hated'' letting her live.
13* WordOfGay: Maruyama cited in a tweet that Brain secretly had feelings for Gazef and disliked working alongside women.

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