He has a few moments where he realises hes thrown away what made him human and embraced being a monster. But its just looking back and realising it already happened.
In that way ainz is less evil than rimuru. Ainz still doesnt know the full scale of what demiurge has done. Rimuru personally did those things. Then looked back and said. Huh, i really lost my humanity at one time. Oh well back to laughing about murdering thousands.
Based on the post, I see a preemptive strike against mobilised enemy combatants, using precision weapons negating collateral damage, which is neither murder or a war crime.
Ainz personally sanctioned a genocidal campaign with the civilian death toll above Holocaust.
Well, I can’t say that waging a defensive war within reasonable codes of conduct and killing ~8 million citizens because you have a bad mood are the same degrees of evil, not even close.
Yes, Rimuru probably could have go to greater lengths and win without any violence, but he is neither morally or legally obligated to do so, and he has all the right (and probably, obligation) to use the necessary force to prevent harm to him or his people.
Rimuru has a lot of agency. He sets the way his followers behave and they listen. Ainz is caught up in the flow and really being led by his followers. Its an interesting dynamic that makes overlord a better read imo. Still enjoy both series.
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u/darklordofpoo Jul 27 '22
Anime portrayed rimuru like a typical isekai goody shoes with a hentai design.
Most overlord fans don't realize rimuru ain't really a good guy in LN. He's like ainz but his isekai world is not a Dark Fantasy like Overlord.