Ulysses: Jeanne d’Arc and the Alchemist Knight (ユリシーズ ジャンヌ・ダルクと錬金の騎士, Yurishīzu Jan’nu Daruku to Renkin no Kishi) is a Japanese light novel series written by Mikage Kasuga and illustrated by Tomari Meron. Seven volumes and one prequel volume have been published by Shueisha since August 2015 under their Dash X Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Yagi Shinba and Hirafumi titled Ulysses: Jeanne d’Arc to Hyakunen Sensō no Himitsu (ユリシーズ ジャンヌ・ダルクと百年戦争のひみつ) was serialized in Shueisha’s Dash X Comic website from February to November 2018. An anime television series adaptation by AXsiZ aired from October to December 2018.

Plot

Montmorency is a young knight whose dreams is to become an alchemist and find out the secret of the Philosopher’s Stone.

When the English army occupy northern France during the Hundred Years War, most of the young students of the Knights School are sent in battle, and the same occurs for Montmorency’s secret love, who is apparently killed during the Battle of Azincourt; after this, everyone’s routes take different ways, at the point of finding themselves as enemies when some of their households choose to betray France for England. In search of a way to stop every war, Montmorency performs a secret alchemic ritual that allows him to evoke the Queen of the Fairies Astaroth, which promises to teach him how to use the stone to become a Ulysses, an immortal alchemist with infinite power.

In the following seven years, Montmorency keeps on learning from Astaroth how to become a Ulysses while traveling along France, but due to unexpected events, he ends up performing the ritual on a young dying girl named Jeanne, who becomes the Ulysses in his place. In this way, Jeanne will gain the power to turn the tides of the war and be known from now on as Jeanne d’Arc.

A manga drawn by Yagi Shinba and Hirafumi. Story is a bit different from the novel and the anime.

An anime television series adaptation by AXsiZ aired from October 7 to December 30, 2018, on Tokyo MX and other channels. The series is directed by Shin Itagaki, with Ryunosuke Kingetsu handled the series composition, Jouji Sawada designed the characters, and Taku Iwasaki composed the music. The opening theme is “Libération” (リベラシオン) by Mai Fuchigami and the ending theme is “Hundred years’ melammu” (百年のメラム) by rionos. The series was simulcast by Crunchyroll, with Funimation producing an English dub as it aired. Following Sony‘s acquisition of Crunchyroll, the dub was moved to Crunchyroll. The series ran for 12 episodes. On November 27, 2018, due to unrevealed reasons, AXsiZ announced that episode 9 of the show was delayed for a week.

Ulysses: Jeanne d’Arc and the Alchemist Knight
First light novel volume cover
ユリシーズ ジャンヌ・ダルクと錬金の騎士 (Yurishīzu Jan’nu Daruku to Renkin no Kishi)
Genre	Historical fantasy
Light novel
Written by	Mikage Kasuga
Illustrated by	Tomari Meron
Published by	Shueisha
Imprint	Dash X Bunko
Demographic	Male
Original run	August 25, 2015 – November 22, 2018
Volumes	7 + 1 prequel
Manga
Ulysses: Jeanne d’Arc to Hyakunen Sensō no Himitsu
Illustrated by	Yagi Shinba Hirafumi
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Dash X Comic
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	February 28, 2018 – November 14, 2018
Volumes	1
Anime television series
Directed by	Shin Itagaki
Produced by	Yoshihiro Iwasaki Terushige Yoshie Hideyuki Saida Natsuko Kawasaki Nobuhiko Kurosu Tatsurō Hayashi Toshiaki Aoshika
Written by	Ryunosuke Kingetsu
Music by	Taku Iwasaki
Studio	AXsiZ
Licensed by	NA Crunchyroll
Original network	Tokyo MX, Sun TV, BS Fuji, AT-X
Original run	October 7, 2018 – December 30, 2018
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)