in anime ulysses what does astaroth have to atone for?
| Overall | 3 |
| Story | 2 |
| Animation | three |
| Sound | 6 |
| Character | 1 |
| Enjoyment | 1 |
History is ever something that nosotros tend to look back to in gild to improve from the mistakes nosotros take fabricated in society and also human action as a precortional tale. of class, history also spawns stories that can be seen influencing media today. Oft times, media likes to bring these classic tales to the modernistic day to accept a new way of telling the story. Sometimes they put their own spin on it to differentiate itself or to spice things things up. That last sentence is where we find ourselves today. A retelling of the story of ane of the virtually empowering females in history with a twist of information technology being in a magical setting.
Sit back, relax and brand sure that you drink some of that sugariness, sweetness elixir as I present to you the anime review for Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight. Lets Brainstorm.
Story: two.v/10
Ready during the 100 years war between France and England, the story follows an aspiring alchemist by the name of Montmorency who wants to protect his closest friends by condign the next Ulysses, a protector of humanity. With the help of the fairy queen, Astaroth, and being the owner of the powerful Philosophers stone, he finds out that he cannot do it for he cannot comprise the power of the stone. Withal, afterwards encountering a young farmgirl past the name of Jeanne who is able to able to contain the Philosophers stone, they determine to get a beacon of hope for all of France to drive back England to their country and become the heroes the land needs.
If it wasn't obvious already, the story is based off the story of Joan of Arc, a woman who was blessed by God to bulldoze back England from their land. But this fourth dimension, its not religion that grants her powers, its magic. It was intriguing for me at least to brainstorm with since magic is more interesting I would say than beingness blessed by God because y'all can make some interesting storylines with that. Well it would be if the story managed to continue sight of what the story is supposed to exist based on. Fifty-fifty though the magic element makes for some skillful explanations, information technology doesn't change the fact that this is a loose adaptation of the Joan of Arc story. Throughout the series, the story goes off track as it likes to have detours to explore other plot threads. If you are going to do that, you've got to make them interesting. Ulysses does not do that. The story'due south characterisation is piss poor. They don't do well at distincting the characters from one another and establishing them in the story. Instead, they but fall into cliched character tropes that merely don't assist make the story more interesting.
It makes the story overall feel uninspired. It doesn't practise well to captivate its audience every bit it but lacks that unique factor despite its setting. It doesn't help the fact that the story just goes off the rail almost the end and feels similar a completely different story overall than what it was supposed to be. The fact that the entire story continuously forgets that this is a fantasy retelling is bad when y'all call up about it. It is like the show just loses interest and wants to do something different. That's just bad storytelling. If yous are going on a set path, stick with it. There is also explanation dumps at the start of almost every episode to tell the story that is going on in the background. Telling your story and not showing doesn't exactly make your story engaging now does it?
Characters: 1/10
The characters in this show are just plain atrocious, cliched and dull.
lets start with out principal protagonist Montmorency. Montomorency is withal another standard, generic protagonist. His motivations are clearly only to protect his all-time friends and Jeanne which isn't exactly an original motivation and his personality isn't endearing either. He is more or less abrasive and a bit dumbo as, like every other generic protagonist, he doesn't ever consider other people'southward feelings and apologises for it. He doesn't practise much either every bit his but relevance to the plot is at the kickoff and near the terminate of the story. That'south bad for the character that's supposed to be the primary protagonist.
And it only gets worse. All of the female characters in this show are best described as "Montomorency harem." The majority take little to no personality whatsoever and basically simply feel lost without Montomorency. They basically can't exercise much without requiring their mmaaaaann to come and relieve them. Information technology kind of ruins their individuality. Richemont especially feels like this. What I thought was going to be a strong female character turned into ane of the parts of the overall harem and what the testify likes to focus on when information technology comes to fan service with some groping and sexual harassment. Yeah, like that's going to build a character. And the fact that she feels lost without Montomorency at her side feels so cliched (once again, the harem).
Simply what I find the worst office of the characters is the show's treatment of Jeanne. Jeanne (or Joan of Arc) is regarded as one of the nigh empowering woman in history. Her motivation and ability to unite France nether one banner to drive back England was inspiring and captivating to brand her an icon in France's history books. So what does the show do? Make her a thirsty loli who has an obsession of having big breasts. That'due south just insulting. And also, she feels like a secondary grapheme despite she should be the principal focus of this evidence and, guess what? Feels lost without Montomorency. The prove goes through Montomrency beginning and he is merely so boring, bromidic and unlikable. So that simply makes all other characters just as bad, if not worse than Montomrency.
Animation: 3/10
Crap is the simplest way to describe it. While the fine art way is arguably alright, the animation itself is just bad. Cutaways, intense, shaky cinematography instead of animating it and some really crappy looking CGI. It makes the fight scenes actually lacklustre. There are times though where the animation looks good, but they are few and far between when the show is dominated with cheap ways to animate a fight scene. The character designs are somewhat relevant to the time menses, but some of the designs lean more to the fanservice side with large, boisterous breasts pretty much everywhere (No wonder Jeanne wants a pair) and showing more pare than, well, armour. Once again, information technology just feels like the characters are just there to deed as nothing more than than office of the harem.
Sound: 6/ten
The music for Ulysess is alright. Nothing spectacular yet not bad at the same time. It certainly sounds kind of like the style of music that would be playing at that time with a sense of French royalty to it. It can add a mood only really, it is played down a little too much and is forgettable or fifty-fifty noticeable at times. It fails to stand out and add together to a scene. The same goes with the opening as well. It is a pretty standard opening with showing the characters and visually foreshadowing of events to come. The song "Liberation" past Mai Fuchigami didn't really make want to "jam out" to this opening because it but meh. That is it, it doesn't practice annihilation proficient, neither does it do annihilation bad. Information technology only exists.
The ending sequence though. Now that'south cute. Information technology's brilliant artwork correlating to the episode is merely and then good to look at. The calming vocal as well adds to it every bit it merely makes it that more cute. It nearly makes information technology worth to watch through an episode. Almost.
Conclusion:
In that location are some anime that I watch considering I enjoy them. There are some anime that I watch considering I am going along with the ride. Then there are some anime that I lookout because when I become to review them, I become to fustigate the southward**t at them. Ulysses is very much the latter. A story that has no thought what it want it wants to do with itself. Uninspiring and uninteresting characters. Crap animation and and meh ost. This show actually doesn't have anything going for it. It doesn't do annihilation well and only does everything else either meh or poorly. I had some hype going into this series and it really didn't do anything to amaze me to match up to that hype. What could accept been an interesting, fantasy retelling of the story of one of the most iconic adult female in history turned into a mess that I don't recommend anyone to watch. Not even to the curious. Your time is best spent elsewhere with this one.
My personal enjoyment: one/10
Overall score: 2.7/10 Recommendation: Don't f***ing bother
Source: https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=297470
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