Ainz Ooal Gown

Ainz Ooal Gown is the main protagonist of the Overlord isekai web novel and light novel series created by Kugane Maruyama with illustrations by so-bin. He is a player of the Dive MMORPG YGGDRASSIL who uses the eponymous Overlord class, high-level undead skeletons with powerful spell-casting abilities. Formerly known as Momonga, the player joined a guild called "Nine's Own Goal" and later becomes its leader, with the guild's name changing to "Ainz Ooal Gown" (an anagram) from which his current name originates.

The story begins with YGGDRASIL's servers about to shut down. As many of the guild's members have left the game due to real-life reasons, Momonga chooses to stay in the headquarters alone with the non-player characters until the very end, but when the shutdown time arrives, he realizes that he is trapped inside the game in his avatar, and sees the NPCs gain sentience with many swearing loyalty to him. Taking on the name of his guild, Ainz sets out to uncover the mysteries surrounding this "new world", and find any other remaining players still logged inside the game.

The series is one of the most popular and best-selling isekai novels, and having a powerful undead evil skeleton overlord as the main protagonist helps, because skeletons are fucking cool.

Outside the Game  Outside of the game lies the real-life player of Ainz: a young Japanese salaryman named Satoru Suzuki, who is shown wearing a device called "Neural Nano-Interface" that is used to play "Dive MMORPGs". His unnamed mother, a perpetually overworked woman, died while making his favorite meal. The real world, which takes place in 2138, is extremely shitty, dystopian, and dominated by conglomerates; thus, the game serves as his means of escape.

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History
Ainz is a regular competitor in the International Saimoe League. He debuted in ISML 2016, where he was eliminated at the second round-robin / last 32 stage, finishing with 2 wins and 4 losses.

The skeleton's greatest result happened in ISML 2018, the year where Overlord season 3 was released. Their fans rose from their laurels and sent their characters near the top of nominations. Ainz got the 2nd-most votes of the male roster, pulling his servants Sebas Tian and Demiurge along with him. While all of his subjects (including females Albedo and Shalltear) eventually died early in the competition, the overlord remained as an upper-tier competitor, and even managed to appear in three middle pendant rounds. Ainz survived until the Diamond period (last 24), but his quest for a playoff appearance failed at the final wildcard round as he placed 6th out of a maximum of 4 qualifiers. He ultimately finished at 20-somethingth.

Main Tournament
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Other tournaments
Ainz was one of three non-Fate characters to have reached the Elite Eight in the 2018 edition of China's Bilibili Moe contest.

Contest Wins (1)
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