Now don't get me wrong I'm as guilty as anyone else for having enjoyed the Genre. (If with a twist of the character being able to return to their world quite regularly). Back in the mid 90s there was El Hazard and you probably make the argument that Inuyasha counts. I call it a renaissance because this isn't the first time that there've been stories like this. Much like the Moeblob boom that occurred in the early to mid 2000s, Insekai seems to be the cash-cow that all the Anime studios are latching onto. (In Light Novels a genre known as Insekai). Part of the reason is because when I think about it we're living in a sort of renaissance of "Transported to another World" anime. I thought I'd seen this sort of anime before and I wasn't in for anything new. Which honestly made me want to see it even less. It'd been all over the Internet and everyone had been recommending it. Now I'm going to be honest with you, I'd been avoiding this Anime for a long time.
What do you do? That is the exact situation and question that the protagonist of Overlord Ainz Oon Gown (formerly Momonga) finds himself dealing with. The various controls that you used to play the game are gone and you find yourself inhabiting the body of your avatar. You're still in your Guildhall surrounded by your trusty NPC bodyguards. As the fateful hour strikes something strange happens. Much the same way that people await till Midnight on New Years Eve for the New Year to begin. You've resigned yourself to this fate, deciding to wait until the servers shut down. Your guild is breaking up and it's unlikely you'll ever play together again, since the sea of the internet is vast. There's just one problem, today's the last day before the game goes offline forever. On top of that you're the top guild in the entire game. Have a Guildhall that is so well defended that another party/guild has never been able to make it past the lower floors. Things are good, you possess an entire treasury full of extremely rare items. Which you can populate with monsters and NPCs (Non-player Characters to the un-initiated) of your own design. Right down to constructing your very own dungeon for other players to try their hand at clearing.
(In D&D we call it the Evil Campaign, while Video Gamers call it the Renegade Path). Imagine that you've been playing an MMORPG, one that allows you to play as the Villains if you so desire.
The Inhabitants of the Great Tomb of Nazarick in all their glory
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