Ulysses: Jehanne Darc to Renkin no Kishi

I gonna say this before writing the review You should watch three episode and decide to whether continue or not don't ever search for MAL or any other kind of reviews you get to choose and you decide .

Well where should I start mc is weak from the start weak means he don't have special power and he had 4 female friends none of them have special powers unlike that fate bullshit where everyone got stupid powers fight for some god damn trophy or something . this series in the beginning one of the mc's friend Arthur de Richemont (my favorite character in the entire ... series) was went to the war and captured by Enemy Don't worry she didn't get raped or nothing happen in the anime also even check the LN spoilers nothing happen in the LN also
So after she captured mc was studying alchemy to find a method to save her after 7 years passed he heard his friend was escaped from the enemy he went to search her this on the way he found Jeanne .

I won't say much about the story mc and other female characters also had some development and story was great for me . it's not historically accurate but let's be real this anime is not to learn history this is for enjoyment only also unlike that fate bullshit this happen in France Jeanne time line so although everything is not history accurate but there was some and author did really amazing job to include those fictional tales about at that time and fairies etc . action scenes were stunning also character designs as well voice acting was really good .

If I had only thing I found really not to like is Jeanne author had to make her loli and annoying. she acts really stupid except where she use her powers btw theses powers are not some strong ass power like fate series which for me make it way better than it I telling this since there seem to lot of peoples comparing this for fate series and some whining about this begin historically in accurate but fate series done it way worse than this and it even have rape in there which people don't seems to complain besides this series does not have rape but there is plenty of dark and gore moments in the anime so you would see how dark were those days. Through out the episode 1 to 12 this series had great character development and awesome story progress also great animation I mean fight scenes was really great also on the side note (Oppai was also good ;) )

Screw all the low rating. MAL top anime ranking 1-6 all were garbage for ml and this was solid 10/10 I really enjoyed this

I wish there was more seasons I also look for the LN but there seems to be no English translate version so far since that I'm planning onto buy the raw version and hire some translators to translate this series

Also Richemont was totally wifu material

This is good anime.
if like me you'll be turned off or disgusted by misused of histories personality right off the first episode, i'll still recommend the anime as it was unpredictable until the final episodes. The art and animation too sometimes suddenly drop greatly in quality.
To help you, i have created a false backstory to help explained the misused of history. I'm not trying to plagiarized the creators work, just trying to help those who drop this anime just cause of the first episodes, especially christian.
"In the modern future humanity had faced extinction.
Before humanity could perish they created the ... God Race equip with the knowledge of humanities history so that The God race may create a better world i.e utopia that won't repeat humanity mistakes that led to their extinction.
The God race following their creators wish created the world as similar to the history of humanity but without the wars. Basically the God race controlled the fate of the humans.
The human race with the help of the Venus, Goddess of Love and War, chose to take their fates into their own hand and sealed off the King of God Race.
Without the God Race the humans followed the path of war and death, repeating history".
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Failed harem HURRAY!!!
Shoujo-Ai HURRAY!!!

Few artists have been as brave as the creative staff of Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight as to ask the tough questions, like, what if Joan of Arc was a thirsty loli, and also, you could buy drinks that are supposed to taste like her drool?

I think I'm on a watch list just for typing that, now.

Ulysses, which is all I'm going to call it from now on because that name is entirely too long, is what I personally like to call a "big tiddie anime." You are here to watch this show for, frankly, one reason and one reason only. ... It is full of waifu bait girls, most of them generously endowed as, in fact, the English end credits VA likes to point out. This show is not here to make any illusions about what it is, and what it's for. Sexual elements permeate it. The sloppy and often graphically detailed kissing to pass on "elixir" as power up; the wacky harem shenanigans; the generous jiggling; the outfits; the 'virginity test' episode; numerous threats of rape; I could go on. And to an extent, at this point in my life, it's the kind of thing that I largely find tacky more than titillating, and it's one of the reasons why, frankly, Ulysses is just not a good show.

Now, it can be an enjoyable show. If you want to look at cute waifubait in scandalous situations, having middling-tier action scenes against other waifus or setting up harem shenanigans, hey, you'll have a good time. And while the characters - painfully rendered actors in real French history aside - are pretty by-the-numbs trope fare, they are at least largely charming. Personally I preferred to watch the English dub on this one - I tried both but hte English VAs were actually good and I found some of the Japanese VAs a little too sqeauky for my tastes - and they certainly try their best to make the characters feel fun and alive, in spite of their largely two dimensional nature. And look, while I'm no longer a hormonal teenager who can entirely be satisfied with ecchi waifu action, I'm not going to lie to you: a lot of the character designs in this show are ones that are quite attractive and nice to look at. I use the term "big tiddie anime" derisively, but I'm not going to pretend I don't enjoy it for what it is at times, and La Hire and Charlotte in particular are welcome on my television any time. I love a badass gunslinger with a drinking problem and lesbian overtones, what can I say?

But when you peel away the nice visuals and the sometimes tiresome or outright unseemly goofiness, there's just not a lot here. The plot is about as paint by numbers as it gets, using the trappings of the Joan of Arc legend for a bland fantasy narrative about warring kingdoms and magic rocks. There's a little bit of attempted historical drama, between our main character - confessed child murderer Gilles de Rais turned into bishonen harem lead - having to deal with his affection for his saintly lady in arms, Joan of Arc, while also dealing with a political marriage to his cousin in order to gain military power, but most of these names could frankly be changed around to generic fantasy names and you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference.

You have your energetic loli-esque lead who is naive and chipper and desperately in love with the lead. The childhood friend that he has to rescue. The somewhat temperamental princess. The gun-toting ladette. The sarcastic fairy mentor. A cast of harem characters you could find in a dozen shows, and I'm probably going to forget most everything about all of them within six months of now. And really, once the show moves on from its wacky harem shenanigans and virgin testing and the like in the first half, and turns into its dramatic, war-focused conclusion, it just loses itself in mediocrity and beats that I've seen a dozen times before, and a dozen better.

Like I said, this is not a good show. The writing is mediocre, the character designs are nice but the animation is nothing special, the characters are pretty but forgettable, and a lot of the themes and elements are outright tasteless and uncomfortable, like our main hero professing that he can't be in love with Joan because he's not a pedophile - and then ending up with her in the end game ship anyway, yikes. I realize that, sometimes, in fanservicey anime you just have to accept these things, but really, I shouldn't have to. Be less weird, Japan.

I guess that's the message of Ulysses. Hey, Japan, be less weird. Don't talk at length about how your sexualized lead, who is, again, supposed to be famed historical saint Joan of Arc, looks like a child. Hey, don't turn a child murderer into a pretty boy harem lead. Hey, maybe don't sell drinks that are supposed to taste like anime girl saliva.

Just. Please. Be less weird.