The Second Ark

The Second Ark

February 13, 1982 TV Episode Uchu Densetsu Ulysses 31

English title: At The Heart Of The Universe

Foreign title: Dai Ni No Hakobune (Japanese)

Series title: 宇宙伝説ユリ&#12471

Studio
DiC Entertainment, France 3, RTL-TVi, Tokyo Movie Shinsha

Synopsis

Mercurius offers Ulysses a deal. He will show him the route home if Ulysses brings him the stone embedded within the face of the giant Atlas. However this stone is the source of Atlas' strength, and without it he cannot support the weight of the Universe.

Characters

Ulysses, Telemicus, Yumi, Noumaros, Numinor, Shirka, NoNo, Nestor, Penelope

Credits

Producing

Producer
Jean Chalopin, Yutaka Fujioka
Production Directors
Maz Saldinger, Tatsuo Ikeuchi, Thierry P. Lurin

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

Animation

Animator
Shingo Araki, Toyoo Ashida, Junsabaro Takamata (Animation Directors)

Editing

Editor
Shuichi Kakesu, Hajime Okayasu

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 "