Sphinx
English title: The Eternal Punishment
Foreign title: Sufinkusu (Japanese)
Series title: 宇宙伝説ユリシ
- Studio
- DiC Entertainment, France 3, RTL-TVi, Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Synopsis
Sisyphus is a man who, condemned by the Gods, has to push boulders up a slope and destroy them, only to have them reformed and rolled down. The Gods tell him that Ulysses will pass by soon, and suggest that he should take over the eternal punishment. When the group take pity on Sisyphus, his plan very nearly succeeds.
Characters
Ulysses, Telemicus, Yumi, Noumaros, Numinor, Shirka, NoNo, Nestor, Penelope
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Bernard Deyriès, Kyôsuke Mikuriya, Tadao Nagahama, Kazuo Terada, Seiji Okuda
Producing
- Producer
- Jean Chalopin, Yutaka Fujioka
- Production Directors
- Maz Saldinger, Tatsuo Ikeuchi, Thierry P. Lurin
Writing
- Writer
- Nina Wolmark, Jean Chalopin, Ryohei Suzuki
- Based on a Concept by
- Nina Wolmark, Jean Chalopin, Yohshitaka Suzuki
Animation
- Animator
- Shingo Araki, Toyoo Ashida, Junsabaro Takamata (Animation Directors)
Voices
- Voice
- Fabrice Josso (Telemicus), Thierry Bourdon (Noumanos), Gilles Laurent (Noumanos, some episodes), Jean Topart (Zeus), Denis Savignat
- Voice Cast, Japan
- Osamu Kobayashi (Ulysses), Yuu Mizushima (Telemachus), Sumi Shimamoto (Yumi), Mayumi Tanaka (Nono), Shouzou Hirabayashi (Zeus)
- Voice Cast, Japan 1992
- Masane Tsukayama (Ulysses), Nobuo Tobita (Telemachus), Akiko Yajima (Yumi), Miki Narahashi (Nono), Shouzou Hirabayashi (Zeus)
Music
- Music
- Kei Wakakusa
Editing
- Editor
- Shuichi Kakesu, Hajime Okayasu
Crew
- Design
- Shingo Araki, Michi Himeno, Manchu (Philippe Bouchet), Noboru Tatsuike, Shinji Ito, Yuki Motonori
- Graphic Research
- François Allot, Philippe Adanov, Bernard Deyries
- Decorators
- Shinji Itoh, Noboru Tatsuike
- Visuals
- Hajime Hasegawa, Tokyo Movie
- Artistic Advisor
- Rene Borg
- Sound Effects
- Hidenori Ishida Shinji Kobayash
- Production Assistants
- Suzanne Remiot, Kiyoshi Ieno, Shinji Kawauchi, Zazuyuki Homma, Kohshi Saskai, Motoyoshi Tokuna
Companies and other credits
- Design: Studio Nue
- Graphic Research: Studio Nue
Production notes
This series was the first animated French-Japanese co-production.
This was the last anime diercted by Tadao Nagahama, who died during production.
Produced in France in 1981, it did not air on US Television until it's inclusion in Kideo TV in 1986. However, only 13 of the 26 episodes where shown; it was replaced by "
This was the last anime diercted by Tadao Nagahama, who died during production.
Produced in France in 1981, it did not air on US Television until it's inclusion in Kideo TV in 1986. However, only 13 of the 26 episodes where shown; it was replaced by "