Nereus
English title: The Hidden Truth
Foreign title: Nerê (Japanese)
Series title: 宇宙伝説ユリシ
- Studio
- DiC Entertainment, France 3, RTL-TVi, Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Synopsis
The Shark-men board the Odyssey and take the group prisoner. They are taken to Neryopolis where all the inhabitants are forced to wear collars that control their behaviour and force them to do the Duke's bidding. Ulysses has to prevent them from doing the same to him, and free the people of this strange world.
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
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)
Art Department
- Design
- Shingo Araki, Michi Himeno, Manchu (Philippe Bouchet), Noboru Tatsuike, Shinji Ito, Yuki Motonori
- Graphic Research
- François Allot, Philippe Adanov, Bernard Deyries
Editing
- Editor
- Shuichi Kakesu, Hajime Okayasu
Sound
- Sound Effects
- Hidenori Ishida Shinji Kobayash
Production Management
- Production Assistants
- Suzanne Remiot, Kiyoshi Ieno, Shinji Kawauchi, Zazuyuki Homma, Kohshi Saskai, Motoyoshi Tokuna
Crew
- Decorators
- Shinji Itoh, Noboru Tatsuike
- Visuals
- Hajime Hasegawa, Tokyo Movie
- Artistic Advisor
- Rene Borg
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 "