Ulysses 31

Ulysses 31 (ユリシーズ31, Yurisiizu 31 ^?) or Ulysses 31. It is a 1981 Franco-Japanese cartoon/anime series that brings the story of Ulysses (Odysseus) from Greek mythology to the 31st century.. The show consists of 26 half-hour episodes each and was produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha (Japan) and DiC Entertainment (France). In Spain the series was broadcast on TVE in the 80s, it was also broadcast on Minimax and on some regional channels in the 90s, in Catalonia it was broadcast on TV3 and in Galicia on TVG.

Plot

Ulysses, commanding the spaceship Odysseus, destroys the great Cyclops and rescues a group of imprisoned children including his own son Telemachus, thus arousing the wrath of the gods. The god Poseidon asks Zeus for help to sentence Odysseus to wander the universe of Olympus and freeze his crew, who remain hibernating on the ship until they can find the kingdom of Hades, after which they will be allowed to return to Earth..

Main characters

• Ulysses - Main character and commander of the Odiseus ship. Use beard and long hair. His wife is called Penelope.
• Telémaco - Son of Ulysses and second aboard for most of the journey. He is a preteen and is a friend and protector of Thais.
• Thais (known as Themis, the Greek goddess of justice, in France and in Latin America) - From the white planet Zotra, she's a blue skin girl, has honey-colored eyes and telepathic powers. His brother Numaios remains hibernated along with the rest of the crew. In the contents of the DVD edited in Spain appears as Yumi.
• No. - Android artificial intelligence, Telémaco's partner, who was given as a gift for his father.
• Shirka - Odiseus' main computer. She has a female voice.

Director of the series

• Nagahama Tadao

Script

• Jean Chalopin, Nina Wolmark

Episode Guide

The chapter guide presented here has been made based on the chronological order of the country of origin of the series, France. The first chapter was issued on October 3, 1981. Unfortunately the order of episodes differs in each country, except for the first and last episode. This is so because the remaining 24 chapters are self-conclusive and the order of their broadcast does not affect the general history of the series at all.

Despite being a French-Japanese co-production, it was not until 1986 that they began to edit the series on video in Japan (at that time the series had not yet been broadcast on TV in that country). Twelve episodes were released on video from May to July 1986 (three volumes with four episodes each). Those twelve episodes were later broadcast on TV Asahi in 1988 on Saturdays from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. But it was not until 1991 that the entire 26 episodes of the series (using a new Japanese dubbing) were broadcast on NHK Satellite 2.

Episode	Title
	France	Japan	Spain	United Kingdom	Italy
01	Le Cyclope ou la malédiction des dieux	CONFIDENCE CONFIDENCE	Cyclops or the curse of the gods	Vengeance of the Gods	Il Ciclope
02	Herates	▪	Heratos	The Black Sphere	Heratos
03	Les Fleurs sauvages	Русский	Wild flowers	Flowers of Fear	I fiori malvagi
04	Chronos	◆	The God of Time	Chronos, Father of Time	Chronos
05	La Planète perdue	أعربية	The lost planet	The Lost Planet	Il pianeta perduto
06	Éole ou le coffret des vents cosmiques	▪	Eolo and the chest of cosmic winds	Guardian of the Cosmic Winds	Eolo o il Cofanetto dei Venti Cosmici
07	Sisyphe ou l'éternel recommencement	⋅	Sisyphus or the eternal	The Eternal Punishment	Sisifo or l'eterno principle
08	La Révolte des Compagnons	أعربية	The Insurrection of the Companions	Mutiny on Board	The rivolta degli amici
09	Le Sphinx	SERVICES	The Sphinx	Secret of the Sphinx	The sfinge
10	Lestrygons	Facilitation for the purpose	The Lethrins	Temple of the Lestrigones	I Lestrigoni
11	Charybde et Scylla	أ م ك م مو من	The opposite planets	Trapped Between Fire and Ice	Scilla e Cariddi
12	Le Fauteuil de l'oubli	laundering	The chair of oblivion	The Seat of Forgetfulness	The poltrone dell'oblio
13	Les Sirènes	CONFIDENCE	The Mermaid Treasure	Songs of Danger	Le Sirene
14	Le Marais des doubles	oriented2	The lagoon of the doubles	Phantoms from the Swamp	Le paludi dei doppi
15	La Deuxième Arche	LINKED	The second ark	Before the Flood	The seconda arca
16	Circé la magicienne	TROUBLE	The Magic Circe	The Magic Spells of Circe	The Magic Circe
17	Nérée ou la verité engloutie		Nereo or the truth swallowed	The Hidden Truth	Nereo or verità nascosta
18	Le Labyrinthe du Minotaure	Link ウ️	The Maze of Minotaur	Lost in the Labyrinth	Il labirinto del Minotauro
19	Atlas	Русский	Atlas	At the Heart of the Universe	Atlantean
20	Le Magicien noir	・relaxing escape	The black magician	The Magician in Black	Il mago nero
21	Les Révoltés de Lemnos	LINKER LINKER	The revolutions of Lemnos	Rebellion on Lemnos	The Rivolta di Lemnos
22	The Cité de Cortex		The city of Cortex	City of Cortex	The città di Cortex
23	Ulysse rencontre Ulysse	أعربية	Ulysses finds Ulysses	Strange Meeting	Ulisse incontra Ulisse
24	Les Lotophages	أعربية	Lotus devourers	The Lotus Eaters	I Lotofagi
25	Calypso	أعربية	Calipso	Calypso	Calipso
26	Le Royaume d'Hadès	branding	The Kingdom of Hades	The Kingdom of Hades	Il regno dell'Ade

In Spain the chronology of the series was quite different. The original broadcast on RTVE began on October 10, 1982 and ended on April 3, 1983. The series was broadcast on Sundays at 3:30 p.m. on the first TVE network. Subsequently, the series was revived on the second channel of TVE from Monday to Thursday at 7:10 p.m., whose broadcast began on July 3, 1984 and ended on August 19, 1984. The DVD edition of the series published in Spain It does not respect the chronology of the Spanish broadcast nor the chronology of the Japanese or French broadcast. The following table shows the list of episodes according to their chronological broadcast order on RTVE.

Episode	Title
01	Cyclops or the curse of the gods
02	Nereo or the truth swallowed
03	The Mermaid Treasure
04	The revolutions of Lemnos
05	The second ark
06	The chair of oblivion
07	The lagoon of the doubles
08	The Insurrection of the Companions
09	Atlas
10	Ulysses finds Ulysses
11	The black magician
12	The city of Cortex
13	Herates
14	The Maze of Minotaur
15	Eolo and the chest of cosmic winds
16	Lotus devourers
17	The lost planet
18	Sisyphus or the eternal
19	Calypso
20	The Magic Circe
21	The Lestrigue
22	The opposite planets
23	The Sphinx
24	The God of Time
25	Wild flowers
26	The Kingdom of Hades