this shit sucks ass + balls + i hate it

- Fundamental problem: Ainz and everyone in his faction are not only invincible, but essentially impervious to damage. The only time I can recall anyone Nazarick-aligned even taking a hit was bug girl in the goddamn 24th episode, and even that was probably just part of Demiurge's plan (oh and Shalltear getting the tip of her nail broken lol)
- Going back to the hooks at the end of S1:
- Setup: a scene at a shadowy council of the Slane Theocracy with cool knight dude. Payoff: knight dude shows up in the first brief scene of S2 with new le crazy man-obsessed girl (more on these types in a bit), then both ghost for the remainder of the season
- Setup: Gazef meets Brain in a rainy alley. Payoff: Gazef sits in a room for a few eps and Brain gets to be a bit character beneath Sebas in S2's second arc (Brain was alright in that arc tbf)
- Setup: Ainz gets an urgent message (I hate so much how they do the "fingers to ear" thing for the message spell) and storms out of the adventurer's guild. He orders "Gargantua" to activate, summons "Victim", and says "Once Cocytus returns, let's take this chance and have all the guardians join in!" Payoff: I don't know what the hell this means. Gargantua appears for two seconds in S2EP4 to toss a chunk of stone into a field. Victim does nothing all season.
- Setup: Albedo suggests destroying a village of lizard men so Ainz can raise their higher level corpses for his undead army. Payoff: this is the subject of S2's first 5 episodes, and is akin to an arc where Superman seeks to acquire studded gloves to increase his punching power. It literally does not matter. Ainz is invincible. His undead army is shown, within this same arc, to be overwhelmingly more powerful than the lizard men (S2E4; the only reason they lost in the prior episode was because Ainz hamstrung them for ??? reason). After the arc concludes, the lizard men are not heard from again all season (because it literally did not matter).

INCOMING EDICT FROM THE COUNCIL OF WRITERS: Kugane Maruyama is now legally barred from writing female characters, ever

 - Maybe I'm being a hypocrite here considering how hard I simp for Nagatoro, who is 100% a wish-fulfillment character, but oh my god dude I can't stand how every woman in this show seems to exist solely to cream their pants over a man, usually Ainz, or otherwise is just total puerile shit
- Albedo: positioned as the main girl, subject of both EDs, seems to be the most popular by far, fucking SUCKS. She does nothing, and I mean NOTHING but cream herself over Ainz. That's it! She has no agency (and is, in fact, programmed to love the protag), takes no action, has no cool moments, does not grow or develop one bit, has no arc, and essentially is a prop to be proximal to Ainz and make o-faces, and get mad when Shalltear is also proximal to Ainz and making o-faces. I hate her so, so much.
- Shalltear: not literally programmed to love the protag, yet behaves almost exactly the same as Albedo (I don't remember Albedo actually having an extreme goodfeel (pastebin is crying about the o-word) from Ainz's presence, but Shalltear sure does!)
- Narberal: sees Ainz as a god and wants to kill anyone who disrespects him
- Clementine: hyper-sexual psychopath whose death scene is totally out of step with the rest of the show and clearly made to titillate people who get off to violence against women
- Solution: hyper-sexual boobmaid who simps for Sebas and gets pissed when he takes in another girl
- Tuare: cute, pure suffering sponge who gets beaten and gently loved (pastebin is crying about the r-word) and fricked up (pastebin is crying about the f-word) and battered and gets her ass gently loved to tatters and gets GENTLY LOVED because of course a writer like this was going to have a girl get gently loved, Sebas saves her and she instantly starts simping for him, still simps for him after he tries to kill her a few eps later
- Evileye: does a hands-to-cheeks gigglesquee over Ainz moments after two of her comrades are killed, basically just starts simping for him immediately because he's Ainz, of course!
- Renner: secretly a psychopath with an extreme infatuation for Climb and wants to possess him forever
- Crusch: instantly simps for Zaryusu, purpose of existence is to constantly blush in his presence and get knocked up
- le crazy man-obsessed girl (Zesshi): seems very sexually excited at the prospect of a strong man (Ainz, natch) defeating her and impregnating her. According to her MyAnimeList page, she hasn't yet reappeared in the anime? Over two additional seasons? Jesus christ.
- Hilma, because why not: hot boobmonster who the protagonists torture by having her insides eaten out by a giant cockroach, then heal before she dies. This makes her, and I quote, "more submissive". Man frick all this, honestly. Put Maruyama on a watchlist.

The last arc is so r-tarded (pastebin is crying about this r-word, too) it melts my brain and I don't even feel like going into it much. Demiurge explains the four merits of the grand plan:
- /They are claiming resources from the storehouses to bolster their funds./ This is the most powerful faction in the world. Get the fudge out of here.
- /It covers up their strike against the Eight Fingers./ This is the most powerful faction in the world. The need for Nazarick to work covertly has been nonsense since early in season 1. Why do they care about the Eight Fingers, anyways? Just because Momon got hired to help? Are we really still on this Momon shit?
- /Capture humans so they can be brought to Nazarick and killed./ Why. Fucking why.
- /Establish Jaldabaoth (which is just Demiurge in a mask lool) as a notorious demon, so that Momon's reputation increases by "defeating" him./ THIS IS THE MOST POWERFUL FACTION IN THE WORLD. AINZ IS INVINCIBLE. WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT THE RISING REPUTATION OF HIS ADVENTURER ALTER-EGO.
- Additionally, they recover an item housing tenth-tier magic (apparently it was just sitting in a storehouse? When tenth-tier magic is MaxxGod-tier for everyone outside of Nazarick?). We already know Ainz is capable of casting magic beyond tier ten. We knew this 13 episodes ago. When presented with this item, he instantly asspulls a near-equivalent one and tells Demiurge to use it instead.
I'M OUT. I CAN'T BE DOING WITH THIS SORT OF THING ANY MORE. I'M AT MY BREAKING POINT.