Talk:Ainz Ooal Gown/@comment-71.230.202.127-20151116062932/@comment-24.44.99.170-20151119035506

And that's one of the major reasons why the anime is a poor adaptation of the light novels. Removing 90% of Ainz's internal monologues leaves a "badass", OP MC with little to no personality besides cold and powerful. It's funny how the anime basically showed Ainz how the New World humans see him (aka an scheming, genius, evil undead king). It's also why I found the anime quite boring while I was absolute engrossed while reading the LNs. The whole dichotomy between his preceived cold actions vs. his thoughts is one of the reasons that makes Overlord so interesting and good to read.

And Ainz does know what he wants. Safety of NPCs and Nazarick (first and foremost) while looking for possible teammates.