History Anime / Ulysses31

* ResetButton: Invoked, without a cop-out. The giant clock in "Chronos, Father of Time" can turn back time if manipulated properly.

The ''Odysseus'' was originally planned to be animated by computer, but the single wireframe model generated was still too complex to render for the machines of the times. So, the only computer animation left is the opening credits.

* YearOutsideHourInside: "Chronos, Father of Time" has this when Ulysses meets the titular Olympian god. It's strongly implied that time is moving at a normal rate within Chronos' palace. When Ulysses escapes from bondage as a hostage, and tries to find Telemachus and Yumi, Shirka notifies him that the passage of time in Chronos' domain outside of the palace is causing his companions on the ship to age to the point where she can no longer sustain them.

* ResetButton: The giant clock in "Chronos, Father of Time" can turn back time.

''Ulysses 31'' (French: ''Ulysse 31''; Japanese: 宇宙伝説ユリシーズ31, ''Space Legend Ulysses 31'') is a [[TheEighties 1981]] French-Japanese anime series conceptualized and written by Jean Chalopin (who went on to create ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'' and ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' in the following years) and Nina Wolmark, and co-produced by [[Creator/TMSEntertainment Tokyo Movie Shinsha]] studios and Creator/DiCEntertainment[[note]]with further animation work outsourced to Creator/NakamuraProductions, Creator/WangFilmProductions, Creator/StudioLive and Creator/ArakiProductions, with backgrounds by Creator/StudioJack, all uncredited[[/note]] under the supervision of Bernard Deyriès. As the name implies, it is based on Creator/{{Homer}}'s ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' and heavily borrows plot elements from it as well as various plot elements and characters from other famous [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek myths]].

* TimeTravel: At one point Ulysses travels back in time to ancient Greece and actually meets the original Ulysses.

* BalefulPolymorph: Circe turns Ulysses' crew, Yumi/Themis and Telemachus into [[PigMan zombified humanoid pig slaves]].

* PantyShot: In "Calypso", one of the subordinates of the episode's title character has her white undies exhibited from behind, as she runs off in a mini skirt.

* AllMythsAreTrue: And they're happening again, ''[[RecycledInSpace in space]]''!

** Think of the trope but RecycledInSpace, with Latin names such as Ulysses and the Parcae being used alongside Greek ones such as ''Odysseus'' (Ulysses and his ship thus have the same name).

* RecycledInSpace: The show is literally ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' [-IN SPACE-]!

* AllMythsAreTrue: And they're happening again, ''[[{{Recycled IN SPACE}} in space]]''!

* OminousOperaCape: [[spoiler:The personifications of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades during Ulysses' final trial in the last episode]].

* OrpheanRescue: In the last episode, Ulysses meets the 31st century Orpheus, who wants to find his wife in Hades' kingdom. Ulysses' entrance into Hades' kingdom can be considered as one too, as Hades wants to turn his crew into his own citizens.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Upon finally reaching [[spoiler:the Kingdom of Hades, Hades]] allows Ulysses to return to Earth... [[SadisticChoice provided he leaves all his companions behind]]. [[GoingDownWithTheShip Ulysses refuses]]. Just as it seems that all is lost, it turns out this was [[spoiler:the final trial of the gods and [[EarnYourHappyEnding he is now free to return to Earth with all his revived crew]].]]

* {{Unicorn}}: With Pegasus-like wings and a freezing ray, in the episode "The lost Planet".

* WickedWitch: In the episode "The lost Planet". [[spoiler:[[RousseauWasRight She is actually a nice person]], [[FriendToAllChildren especially towards children]]. It turns out she just became crazy when the Zotrians evacuated their children from the moon once it started to move away from the orbit of Zotra, and turned them to stone because she thought they hated her]].

* ALoadOfBull: The Minotaur appears in "Lost in the Labyrinth".

* EnthrallingSiren: Ulysses encounters them in the episode "Song of Danger".

Ulysses will now have to wander throughout unknown worlds in the galaxy of Olympus and face various threats and dangerous traps set by the gods until he finds the Kingdom of Hades, at which point his crew will be revived and he will be allowed to travel back to Earth. He is accompanied in his journey by the only two persons who were not put in suspended animation, his teenage son Telemachus and Yumi, a blue-skinned alien little girl with [[PsychicPowers telepathic powers]]. Nono, the small red toy robot Ulysses offered to Telemachus, also accompanies them.

''Ulysses 31'' (French: ''Ulysse 31''; Japanese: 宇宙伝説ユリシーズ31, ''Space Legend Ulysses 31'') is a [[TheEighties 1981]] French-Japanese anime series conceptualized and written by Jean Chalopin (who went on to create ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'' and ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' in the following years) and Nina Wolmark, and co-produced by [[Creator/TMSEntertainment Tokyo Movie Shinsha]] studios and Creator/DiCEntertainment[[note]]with further animation work outsourced to Creator/NakamuraProductions, Creator/WangFilmProductions and Creator/ArakiProductions, with backgrounds by Creator/StudioJack, all uncredited[[/note]] under the supervision of Bernard Deyriès. As the name implies, it is based on Creator/{{Homer}}'s ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' and heavily borrows plot elements from it as well as various plot elements and characters from other famous [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek myths]].

* GodhoodSeeker: Circe wants to achieve godhood through omniscience. She's not the only one, as Mercurius does too in "At the Heart of the Universe".

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* MookMobile: The Tridents. They exist solely to harass the Odysseus and to be shot down by Ulysses.

* PerplexingPearlProduction: "Temple of the Lestrigones" has [[CoolStarship the Odysseus]] shrunk by the baddie du jour. Ulysses sets out in a small spherical scout ship, which is caught in an oyster and covered in nacre within hours.

%%* EnthrallingSiren

* GodhoodSeeker: Circe wants to achieve godhood through omniscience.

* MookMobile: The Tridents. They exist solely to harrass the Odysseus and to be shot down by Ulysses.

* CrystalSpiresAndTogas

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* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:By the last episode, Ulysses' crew really do get to come back to life.]]

* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Upon finally reaching the Kingdom of Hades, Hades allows Ulysses to return to Earth... [[SadisticChoice provided he leaves all his companions behind]]. [[GoingDownWithTheShip Ulysses refuses]]. Just as it seems that all is lost, it turns out this was the final trial of the gods and [[EarnYourHappyEnding he is now free to return to Earth with all his revived crew]].]]

* AGodAmI: Circe wants to achieve godhood through omniscience.