Samuel Peterson’s Reviews > Overlord Manga, Vol. 1 > Status Update

The next page breaks down why Ainz is able to use high-tier spells compared to everyone else. He's the equivalent of a level-100 player who has access to hundreds of spells and is capable of casting them. Meanwhile, everyone in this world most commonly reaches 3rd-tier spells, with heroes using the 5th tier. Anything higher requires more people to be ritually cast.

They didn't show the fate of all the clerics at the end of the episode like they did here. This is how Ainz, a being of evil with the mind of a Japanese office worker, gathers intelligence: through torture.

He barely took any damage from that attack, and it set Albedo off. This morbid humor is so funny.

I love how the head cleric is boasting about his newly summoned angel, whose power is unequal in this world. Thing is, Ainz Ooal Gown and all of Nazarick are not from this world, and the angel is still too low for him to take seriously. He's just cringing that he can't take this fight seriously every time someone shows that they are too weak for him to care.

Now that he's taken care of their main summons, the clerics are full-blown panicking with casting every spell that they have in their répertoire to no effect. Ainz meant it when he said that this was going to be a massacre.

In the anime, Ainz didn't reveal that he was a lich to the clerics, which I think was a smarter choice. He didn't want to reveal his identity to anyone watching the battle through magical means.

"My name is Ainz Ooal Gown. There is one thing I must day up front, and that is...YOU CANNOT WIN AGAINST ME."
Nothing like a magic caster stating the state of things before the battle has even begun.

I like how in the anime there were some scenes that helped to establish Momonga's (now Ainz Ooal Gown) relationship with the village he saved as well as learning about the world and how he can explain his sudden appearance and power. And then the kingdom's champion appears to find Ainz.

Being made to be so utterly loyal, the servants of Nazarick can't help but take everything Momonga says literally and understand it in ways that their evil, demented minds can grasp.

I like how there are end-chapter informational pages.