What he means is Zanac didn’t want to be king just to have the position. Zanac looked at his brother and sister, and realized he was the only sane one among them, so he would have to be king if the kingdom was to survive. It was a duty, not a prize.

I recommend watching more from Aninews regarding Overlord content. He usually covers it well enough. My recommendation would be; "Overlord's World of Yggdrasil Explained" and "How Strong is Ainz Ooal Gown."

Aninews is so legit, I can finish a volume and when he says otherwise of what I remember, I doublecheck. He is almost 100% right.

Aninews is superb at breaking down overlord lore. Please do more of them.

You just said we're not watching the ad at the beginning of the video and an ad from KZfaq triggered on yours😂.

We need more Reaction from Aninews. Also i recommend a video from ZeronicKiba about Overlord, pretty good explanation too about the world.

I think it's entertaining to see a reaction to this because it's such a deep cut in the overlord fandom.

It’s funny when you said, “We’re not gonna watch the ad.” but I got one from this video 😭

Aninews definitely does amazing work breaking down Overlord. I highly recommend you start the playlist from the beginning and go from season 1 onwards because fleshing out old information absolutely helps inform future decisions.

more aninews for overlord lore! he has the best videos for overlord content

Please do Ani news overlord playlist.

You know that the author Maruyama truly respects Zanac as a character when he’s the only one besides Maruyama himself and audience to realize the true nature of Ainz Ooal Gown. That the Sorcerer King, Leader of the Supreme Beings, Ruler of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, in spite of having seemingly everything: endless riches, limitless power, servants at his beck and call, the world itself practically at his fingertips, is simply just a man.

I recommend watching some videos from Schäärgocks Schächsaß, dont worry, its in english, he goes fairly deep in novel stuff, analysis and theories, he is awesome

Please do more Aninews of Overlord

Every character has a character sheet in LN, it shows their interest and hobbies and Zanac just loved to eat and sleep and enjoy life, he never cared for the throne, but seeing the other candidates he had to jump in, he just wanted to improve the kingdom.

aninews it typically spot on except the idea tha another level 100 can defeat ainz or nazarick which isnt true, nazarick has killed off so many level 100 players with just the npcs it would take many world tier items for sure. but a single level 100 wont do anything really

Overlord, where evil looking (not handsome/beautiful) characters are as bad as they look, yes he wanted his brother out of succession cuz at the time, the brother wanted an all out war with Jirccniv, a task anyone with a brain could see was foolish, but the brother was always, basically big muscle mean big win, the kingdom before Ainz appeared even considered magic as just little tricks and actively discouraged learning it to focus more on learning something "useful" like swinging a sword. So faced with imminent destruction if his bro ascends to the throne, he'd rather take up the task and later find a way to stop the constant conflicts with the Empire, diplomatically or otherwise