Will There Be an Overlord Season 5? Hell Yeah, and Here’s Why

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been obsessing over the incredible Overlord anime ever since its first season dropped back in 2015.

With each new season, the story of Ainz Ooal Gown and the Floor Guardians just keeps getting better and better. But I know what you’re really wondering – will we be blessed with an Overlord Season 5?


Let me put your mind at ease right off the bat:

based on all the available evidence, it’s pretty much a given that Overlord will return for a fifth and last glorious season of skeleton supremacy.

Still not convinced? Allow me to lay out the facts.


For starters, the source material isn’t fully adapted yet.

Written by the legendary Kugane Maruyama, the Overlord light novel series is still going strong with a total of 16 volumes published so far. Even after the events adapted in Season 4, there’s still a story left to animate for a fifth and last season.

The light novel series is set to end with the 18th volume and seasons 1 to 4, and the movie covered volumes 1 to 14, leaving four volumes for the last season.

You can check the Overlord light novels in English, if you can’t wait.


Speaking of which, remember how Season 4 ended on a massive cliffhanger?

With Ainz and the Floor Guardians making their move on the Elf Kingdom, it’s obvious the story is building towards an epic climax.

Madhouse and Kadokawa wouldn’t leave us hanging like No Game No Life right? They are planning on giving us a Season 5 to give us the ending of the whole story.


But perhaps the biggest indication of Overlord’s inevitable renewal is its wild popularity and sales.

Just look at the numbers – the Season 4 Blu-ray sold close to 4,000 copies per disk, and the light novels are selling almost 200,000 copies per volume. The Overlord franchise sold more than 12,000,000 copies to this day.

There is also a ton of merchandise and figurines made for this series. Check for yourself: Overlord Figurines.

The series is super profitable and popular, one of the most profitable isekai series, along with Re Zero and KonoSuba. That’s why they are all getting sequels.


Madhouse, the studio behind the anime’s animation, would be downright foolish to abandon such a cash cow franchise.

And they are not, that’s why they are working right now on the Overlord: The Holy Kingdom, which is coming out in 2024.

Season 5 announcement will follow after that, but they are likely waiting for the author to finish the series, before officially announcing it.


As for when we might expect Season 5 to materialize, it’s hard to say for sure.

Anime production schedules are fickle beasts. But if we go by the typical wait times between previous Overlord seasons, a 2025 or early 2026 release window seems plausible.

Realistically though, reinforcements from the happy farm may be needed to get it out that quickly. The author is taking his time with the last two volumes.


No matter when it arrives, you can bet your greedy guts that Season 5 is gonna be one wild ride.

Will Ainz conquer the Elf Kingdom with his typical ruthless efficiency? How will the Slaine Theocracy factor into the escalating war? And perhaps most tantalizingly, will we finally get to see someone stronger than him?

The speculation alone is enough to make any Overlord fanatic foam at the mouth like a Demiurge experiment gone wrong.


So keep those bony fingers crossed and that undead hype alive, fellow masters of death!

All signs point to our skeletal sovereign gracing our screens again sooner rather than later with season 5.

And you’d better believe I’ll be glued to the front rows when he does, cheering him on as he brings his rule to all who defy the indomitable will of Ainz Ooal Gown!

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Hello, I’m Jan Varga, the owner and the only writer for this website. I’m from Slovakia, and the nickname I use is MaskaThor. My journey with anime began in 2003 or 2004 when my brother introduced me to Evangelion.