The fourth season of the isekai series Overlord will premiere this July as part of the Summer 2022 anime season.

Overlord began in 2012 and is an ongoing light novel series from writer-artist duo Kugane Maruyama and so-bin. The series follows a young man who finds himself in a fantasy world after playing his favorite VRMMO.

The game’s servers are set to shut down so he decides to spent his last hours in-game. However at the time the servers were meant to go down, he instead finds himself stuck in the body of his character: a skeletal lich.

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You can read a summary of the series from MyAnimeList below.

The final hour of the popular virtual reality game Yggdrasil has come. However, Momonga, a powerful wizard and master of the dark guild Ainz Ooal Gown, decides to spend his last few moments in the game as the servers begin to shut down. To his surprise, despite the clock having struck midnight, Momonga is still fully conscious as his character and, moreover, the non-player characters appear to have developed personalities of their own!

Confronted with this abnormal situation, Momonga commands his loyal servants to help him investigate and take control of this new world, with the hopes of figuring out what has caused this development and if there may be others in the same predicament.