The isekai anime adventure of OVERLORD is coming to the big screen! Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment have announced that OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom will officially release in theaters in North America on November 8, 2024, just over a month after its Japanese release!
The film, which marks a new theatrical outing from the fan-favorite series, will be released in theaters in both Japanese with English subtitles and dubbed in English. OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom picks up from the end of OVERLORD Season 4, continuing the journey of Momonga, the salaryman now trapped in his favorite video game.
Directed by Naoyuki Ito at studio MADHOUSE, OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom features character design and chief animation direction by Satoshi Tasaki, illustration by so-bin and music by Shuji Katayama (Team-MAX). The film debuts in Japan on September 20.
Crunchyroll streams all four seasons of the OVERLORD anime, based on the light novels by Kugane Maruyama. It describes OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom as:
After twelve years of playing his favorite MMORPG game, Momonga logs in for the last time only to find himself transported into its world playing it indefinitely. Throughout his adventures, his avatar ascends to the title of Sorcerer King Ains Ooal Gown.
Once prosperous but now on the brink of ruin, The Sacred Kingdom enjoyed years of peace after construction of an enormous wall protecting them from neighboring invasions. But, one day this comes to an end when the Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth arrives with an army of villainous demi-humans.
Fearing invasion of their own lands, the neighboring territory of the Slane Theocracy is forced to beg their enemies at the Sorcerer Kingdom for help. Heeding the call, Momonga, now known as the Sorcerer King Ains Ooal Gown, rallies the Sorcerer Kingdom and its undead army to join the fight alongside the Sacred Kingdom and the Slane Theocracy in hopes to defeat the Demon Emperor.
