Kugane Maruyama
Japanese light novel author best known for the Overlord series, published by Enterbrain with illustrations by so-bin and adapted into a popular anime.
Books
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1. オーバーロード 3 鮮血の戦乙女
鮮血の戦乙女
While cultivating a fearsome reputation as an adventurer in the nearby city, an undead ruler learns that Shalltear Bloodfallen has been seized by a sinister mind-control effect from unknown enemies. Rallying his loyal servants, he meticulously prepares counters to powerful artifacts and challenges the enthralled guardian to a brutal, strategic duel on the Katze Plains. Through exhaustive preparation and calculated sacrifices, he secures victory, restores her to herself, and seals the incident from outsiders—deepening his followers’ devotion while exposing the presence of formidable forces moving against his domain.
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2. Overlord, Vol. 1
The Undead King
After a beloved virtual reality game is supposed to shut down, a veteran guildmaster remains logged in and awakens in a strange world inhabiting his skeletal overlord body, with his guild’s NPC guardians now self-aware and devoted. Determined to uncover whether other players were transported too, he assumes the name of his guild, consolidates control over the Great Tomb, tests the limits of his power, and begins a cautious campaign of information gathering—intervening in a nearby village, gauging the world’s magic and politics, and laying the groundwork for a grand plan that blurs survival, ambition, and dominion.
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3. Overlord, Volume 2
The Dark Warrior
In the frontier city of E-Rantel, a mysterious adventurer known as Momon and his companion join the guild and take an escort mission for a gifted young alchemist, only to become entangled in a necromancer’s plot and a sadistic killer’s games to flood the city with undead. After tragedy strikes their newfound allies, the quiet protector reveals overwhelming might, crushes the villains in the catacombs, rescues the alchemist, and forges a fearsome reputation that advances his hidden ambitions.
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4. Overlord, Volume 7
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5. Overlord, Volume 14
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6. Overlord, Volume 10
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7. Overlord, Volume 4
A primitive lizardman tribe struggles to survive after a series of devastating attacks and disasters, forcing a young warrior to rise as a leader and navigate internal rivalries, desperate battles and shifting alliances; the narrative alternates between their gritty, ground-level perspective and the cold, calculating view of a distant, overwhelmingly powerful being who quietly manipulates events and deploys supernatural assets to shape the outcome, highlighting themes of leadership, sacrifice and the brutal imbalance between mortal agency and godlike power.
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8. Overlord, Volume 5
Having secured his dominion in the Great Tomb of Nazarick, the supreme ruler begins actively probing the human world to acquire resources, information, and influence. Adopting covert personas and dispatching his powerful guardians on delicate missions, he manipulates unfolding political intrigue within the Re-Estize Kingdom, contends with rival adventurers and nobles, and balances ruthless strategy with the need to preserve secrecy — moves that broaden his power while exposing moral ambiguities and setting the stage for larger conflicts.
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9. Overlord, Volume 3
An all-powerful skeletal overlord works to secure and expand his tomb’s influence in a new world, dispatching his devoted guardians on reconnaissance and military missions while carefully staging his rise to power. As he confronts human politics, violent skirmishes, and unexpected threats, he must balance cold strategic calculation with lingering traces of his former personality, testing loyalties and revealing the true nature of his rule.
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12. Overlord, Volume 6
In a tense chapter of political intrigue, nobles, soldiers, and adventurers in the kingdom confront assassination plots, mutinies, and shifting alliances while an unseen and calculating power manipulates events from the shadows to expand its influence. The volume follows the human characters’ moral dilemmas and desperate maneuvers as strategic battles and betrayals unfold, revealing the ruthless pragmatism of those who seek to survive — and the growing threat posed by an uncompromising force reshaping the balance of power.
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15. Overlord, Volume 11
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16. Overlord, Volume 13
In this volume, the ruler of the Great Tomb of Nazarick faces a major military and political crisis in the far north, deploying strategy, overwhelming force, and calculated deception to extend his influence; alongside large-scale battles and covert operations, the narrative follows daring missions by his subordinates, exposes shifting alliances, and explores the costs of conquest and the ruler’s growing isolation.
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18. オーバーロード 2 漆黒の戦士
漆黒の戦士
仮想世界のまま現実化した大迷宮の支配者が外界へと足を伸ばし、人間社会や冒険者との接触を通じて自らの力とナザリックの存在を示していく。圧倒的な力の前で生まれる恐怖と敬意、内部での忠誠や思惑、そしてこの新たな世界に隠された謎が少しずつ明らかになっていく短編的なエピソード群を描く一巻。
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19. オーバーロード 1 不死者の王
不死者の王
A veteran player of a dying MMORPG finds himself trapped in the game's world as his avatar, a powerful skeletal overlord, after the servers shut down. With the game's NPCs inexplicably sentient and fiercely loyal, he inherits command of his guild's tomb fortress and its monstrous guardians; forced to confront this new reality, he adopts his guild's name as his own, tests the extent of his power and the loyalty of his followers, and begins probing the unfamiliar world to learn whether others like him exist and to secure and expand his domain.
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22. オーバーロード 4 蜥蜴人の勇者たち
蜥蜴人の勇者たち
ゲームの世界から現実に残された魔導王が統べる拠点から周辺を観察する中、辺境に生きる蜥蜴人の部族とそのリーダーたちに焦点を当て、彼らが外敵や内部対立に直面しつつ団結と成長を遂げる過程を描く。冷徹な権力の動きと被支配者側の英雄的な奮闘が対照的に描写され、戦略と暴力、文化や価値観の違いが物語の緊張を高める。
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25. オーバーロード 7 大墳墓の侵入者
大墳墓の侵入者
The ruler of an underground tomb confronts a sudden incursion by outsiders, forcing him to marshal his loyal guardians, deploy cunning defenses, and balance ruthless power with strategic restraint; as the confrontation unfolds, alliances, loyalties, and the ruler’s own understanding of the new world are tested, blending tense action with political maneuvering and darkly humorous glimpses of his command over the tomb’s denizens.
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26. オーバーロード 9 破軍の魔法詠唱者
破軍の魔法詠唱者
A supreme overlord consolidates his fledgling realm through a mix of ruthless strategy and careful diplomacy, sending his loyal guardians on covert missions while manipulating neighboring powers to secure resources and influence; as a dangerous and enigmatic practitioner of powerful magic emerges to challenge the regional balance, the ruler must weigh overwhelming force against subtle political maneuvering to protect his domain and further his inscrutable goals.
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28. オーバーロード 11 山小人の工匠
Ainz's growing dominion ripples outward as his agents and allies engage with a reclusive mountain-dwelling craftsperson whose creations carry outsized strategic importance; through shifting viewpoints the volume explores the political maneuvering, local conflicts, and human costs that follow the intrusion of otherworldly power, revealing moral ambiguities and the consequences of one ruler's calculated expansion.
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29. オーバーロード 12 聖王国の聖騎士 上
聖王国の聖騎士 上
異世界に残された強大な存在が、聖王国を舞台に宗教と政治が入り交じる闘争へと介入していく物語。聖騎士や聖職者たちとの対立や陰謀が展開し、信念や野心がぶつかり合う中で緻密な戦術と冷徹な決断が物語を動かす。ダークファンタジーらしい重厚な雰囲気と人間ドラマが描かれる一冊。
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31. オーバーロード14 滅国の魔女
滅国の魔女
In this installment, the ruler of Nazarick expands his reach through calculated diplomacy and overwhelming force while a mysterious witch tied to a devastated nation draws him into a conflict with far-reaching consequences; as rival human states and other powers maneuver, internal tensions, moral compromises, and tests of loyalty among his subordinates force difficult decisions that alter the regional balance and reveal new facets of power and consequence.