Talk:Overlord Bonus Volume/@comment-39674023-20191004232011/@comment-73.241.157.64-20200207090541

The author himself stated that he intended this to be a more lighthearted spinoff of the main series. If it had the exact same tropes as the main series, why should this exist in the first place? This was just to explore an alternate timeline in which Ainz had a different start. In the spinoff, he still holds the old Ainz ooal gown dear to his heart. Page 342, it states "If only his companions – his friends from Ainz Ooal Gown could see this marvellous sight. Those were memories from roughly 200 years ago, and after each adventure with Keno and the others, they had gradually faded away. But as he remembered the faces of the only friends he had ever had, Suzuki Satoru looked on the mysterious vistas with nostalgia in his heart." It would be a real reach if he were to remember something he paid no mind to for 200 years perfectly, from a realistic standpoint. Sure, the tropes of his lack of wiseness and reliance on his npcs makes Overlord, Overlord, but this spinoff isn't Overlord. It's the spinoff. Wanting an exact copypaste of the original series is just dumb. He starts in a completely different setting, situation, and without his base or npcs, so it's unrealistic for the same tropes to happen either way. However, one thing that keeps true throughout both series' is Suzuki's naivety with the world. He still overthinks, as demonstrated with his fights against the initial lich and the dragon(although the overpreparation for the dragon turned out positively for him), so that although the cast isn't the same, you can still have the same character with the same personality try to adapt to a different setting. That's what makes this spinoff so fun, to see a character we love develop in a different route.