YMMV / Ulysses 31

• Awesome Music:
  • The glorious opening, for starters.
  • "Attack of the Tridents" is used for the space dogfights, and boy are those guitar riffs punchy!
  • "Chase" is also pretty punchy.
  • "The Curse of the Gods" is downright spine-chilling and perfectly conveys the fact that Ulysses and his crew are powerless against the gods, or how menacing the enemy of the week is.
  • "Tales and Legends" is also pretty spine-chilling, and serves to underline how hopeless it can be to defy the gods or suffer their wrath.
  • "Chronos, master of time" is as beautiful and Clock Punk-appropriate as it is dissonant in regards to the sinister motivations of Chronos.
  • "Stranger Worlds", used when Ulysses explores the unknown (and most of the time, dangerous) worlds the Odysseus comes across.
  • The covers of the whole soundtrack by Parallax are worth mentioning. They simply made it even more awesome, "Ulysses slaying the Cyclops" especially.
• Gateway Series: Along with The Mysterious Cities of Gold, this series helped initiate a whole generation of Western viewers to anime, a few years before the Club Dorothée brought a blitz of dubbed anime classics upon France.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The French voice of Chronos, the master of time, is the late Pierre Hatet, who would dub time traveller Doc Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) in Back to the Future a couple years later.
    • Now consider Chronos' Evil Laughs. Pierre Hatet was also the French voice of The Joker in the DC Animated Universe and a few other continuities.
    • One more: one of Chronos' powers is Rapid Aging. Hatet also voiced Mr. DNA in Jurassic Park, who goes from cells in a dinosaur egg to a giant dinosaur in the span of a few seconds.
  • Star Wars had a major influence on this series, especially since many of its stock sound effects are used in it. Évelyne Séléna (the first French voice of super-computer Shyrka) is none other than the French dubbing voice of Leia (Carrie Fisher) in the Original Trilogy.
  • The series also had Star Trek as one of its most important Space Opera influences, so much so that Ulysses would make a perfect Starfleet captain. Claude Giraud (the French voice of Ulysses) later did the French dub of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).
• The Woobie: Virtually every named character who's endlessly tormented by the gods while not really deserving it is this.

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