Ulysses: Jehanne Darc to Renkin no Kishi (Cursed Helmet AP TF)
 

In the opening of one of the new anime series this season called "Ulysses:

Jehanne Darc to Renkin no Kishi", there is this one scene that's been

grabbing my attention. It's where this unknown girl wears a helmet of some

kind, and by doing so her hair grows and her breasts seem to expand.


In this week's episode(episode 5), that character was revealed to be

one of the main cast's young female character named "Philip". In the last

part of the episode, she puts on the same helmet, which seems to be cursed

of some sort, and then she suddenly becomes engulfed in dark power and

trembles in pain. It is pretty much confirmed from this and the opening that

the helmet ages her into an older alter ego that will be fighting the main

characters.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20180929070726


The episode sadly cuts off right there(although the very last part seems to

at least show her neck expanding), implying that she goes through the

transformation off-screen. However, since it seems likely from the opening

that she will put on and take off the helmet a few times while hiding the

transformed alter ego's identity, if we are lucky, there will be an event in the

later episode where it will be a shocking reveal to the main characters, and

she will have a proper transformation sequence while admitting it.

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Woah, good time seeing you after so long!
I've been after this one as well, just waiting for the reveal later to report

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Yeah.. Been kinda busy. Sorry about that.

Anyways, this character concept seems the most promising from what can be found lately. And the fact that they went through the trouble of actually briefly showing the AP TF sequence in the opening.. It seems worth having hopes for.

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It's pretty much a certainty she will have an AP TF.
Only thing is. Will it be offscreen? Will it have good process? Those are the important questions.

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No TF sequence was shown in this episode, but they mentioned that if one makes a philosopher's stone reach its limit, one can conquer one of the most beautiful women that exist (they way they said it, made us imply that it is the bearer of the stone the one who will transform into that woman... so maybe there will be more than one posible transformee in this series)

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I hope so.

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The protagonist seems to be against it, but I can certainly see such transformation happening as a climax of the series. Two potential AP TF sequences.. Can't wait to see what happens.

Anyways, this week's episode did reveal the buxomness of Philip's transformed alter ego(called "Dark Ulysses"), so here's a before/after comparison:

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Is that from episode 7?

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Nope, that's from last week's episode and her first appearance.
In regards to what Chris said, my suspicions got lit up because the male protagonist is falling in love with Jeanne, but has serious moral issues due to her being a child... And since in these animes the world turns around the harem lord, maybe it will be the way to grant his wishes. I agree that maybe we'll get something like this for the climax, though ^^

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Interesting... The opening for the series seems to have been slightly remastered for the second half of the season, starting from this week's episode 7. Therefore, they also improved Philip's AP transformation scene in it. While improving a couple of visual details, they now added extra frames focusing on her butt expanding as well.

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The man himself.

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I think there is a pretty good chance something is gonna happen now.

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Hopefully in the next episode when she is defeated. They will show her transforming back to her young self.

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The ideal scenario would be her appearing before the main characters as her original loli self to deceive them, and then reveal shortly after that she is the Dark Ulysses by going through the AP TF sequence in front of them.

But, from the looks of things so far, it does seem likely that she's going to keep the helmet on until she gets defeated, and the reveal will probably be done through an AR sequence instead. Though, even with this scenario, if the AR process is decent, we can always reverse it and appreciate it as AP as well. Also, if she survives and retains the TF ability, then there is a chance we will see her springing back into action in a later episode with potential AP TF process too.

http://dash.shueisha.co.jp/imagesBoo...31233-2-01.jpg

We will just have to wait and see the next week's episode.

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Episode 8 didn't really seem to have anything of note unless I missed something, and episode 9 got delayed until next week so we'll just have to wait and see if anything comes of that.

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They apparently broke Noire's Helment, and she fell into the sea before she could return to normal... and since there is a new villain coming up I hope Noire won't get stranded to the side... I wish they pulled some sort of Deus Ex Machina on Noire so she can have her process.

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I really wanted to see the AR process on screen.

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Well. Considering how they bothered to show that little segment of her resolve about death this episode, I think she is a character significant enough that they wouldn't just let her go like that without having her identity revealed to the protagonists.

And while the helmet was partially broken, it might not have been enough for the transformation to wear off. After all, her initial transformation scene in episode 5 seemed to imply that it wasn't just the act of putting the helmet on that caused the transformation to occur, but some kind of a spike underneath the helmet stabbing her head and having power inserted through it did.

Not to mention that there's this illustration from the light novel as well:
http://dash.shueisha.co.jp/imagesBoo...31233-2-01.jpg

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This really does give me hope! Thanks Kim, as always.

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Sure thing~

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Only two episodes left. I hope they do something soon.

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Well there's a transformation in the newest episode, too bad it's not a transformation anyone cares about

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https://drive.google.com/open?id=1W9...Enr-aH1nin5FO3
GOD EXISTS

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Made a gif out of the scene

https://orig00.deviantart.net/eb53/f...23-dcv5z6t.gif

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Thank you for the gif ^^

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Given how it's known for animators to go back and reanimate scenes or episodes for DVD releases of certain anime, is there a possibility that this scene could actually look better if it gets a DVD release?

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Glorious!

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I certainly hope so, while I am glad we finally got process, it looks like balloons getting inflated than anything else

I would've loved slower more detailed changes, including that of the hair and face

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I totally agree with you, you always get the feeling that in most of these series the Transformation sequences are next to a desert for the plot/animators lol

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AMEN. I can't remember the last time when our hopes and waiting has been properly rewarded like this. While I wouldn't call it quality process, it's still pretty decent, and the choice of sound effect certainly makes up for it a good bit. And not to mention that we actually got an Age Progression sequence instead of an Age Regression one. Since they already featured an AP scene in the opening, they could've totally slacked off and gone with a vague Age Regression sequence instead while she was sinking deep into the water or just off-screen tactic. Gotta give props to the anime team on this one.


It's a 50:50 chance. But seeing how some of the episodes did have somewhat vividly unstable-looking animations and they remastered the opening midway through, it could imply that they know their animation could look better, and they are willing to improve them. So yeah. While it's going to be a long wait until the BD/DVD release, I say it's worth looking forward to.

I will try to look into the first BD/DVD volume upon its release and try to compare the animation with the TV version to see if there's any implication of improved animation to begin with.


And don't forget guys. We probably still have another episode remaining, and her true identity still hasn't been directly revealed to the protagonists yet. So if we are very lucky, we might even get an Age Regression sequence next episode.

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I totally agree with you on everything Chris, let's hope that both the blurray and the AR come out. Also, perhaps we could see a more nsfw version of her first AP in the church if the team decides to go wild about it.

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The last episode features a bit of AR RN, around the first half of the episode. Mostly, it shows her hair shortening

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RN happens about 7:15 in, not much process, mostly just the hair and a slight decrease of bust seen for a split second or two.

Episode 12

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So that's it? It's over then?

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Yeah. I guess it would've been too good to be true if we got a proper AR sequence as well.

But on the bright side, it seems we won't have to wait as long as other anime series for the Blu-ray episodes.
I just found out that, regarding the Blu-ray release for this series, each of the volume will include every 4 episodes instead of 2.

This means,

while common anime series take around 6 months releasing a BD volume with 2 episodes each month,
(all 12 Blu-ray episodes released = 2 episodes X 6 BD volumes/months)

Ulysses: Jehanne Darc to Renkin no Kishi will take only about 3~4 months instead,
(all 12 Blu-ray episodes released = 4 episodes X 3 BD volumes/months)

The first volume including episodes 1-4 has already been released on the 21st this month, and the 2nd one covering episodes 5-8 will follow next month in January. So as soon as the files emerge online, we will be able to see if anything's different from the TV version, especially regarding the 5th episode like The AP Ninja mentioned:
The 3rd BD volume, which will have episodes 9-12 featuring the recent AP sequence, is unfortunately skipping a month and is scheduled to be released in March instead of Feburary. But hey. It's certainly better than waiting more than 6 months;)

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Is there any confirmation on if the animation in the physical release looks improved from the tv version?

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Not yet. The 2nd BD/DVD volume should've been released recently, but the files don't seem to have been released online yet.

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Man, it took a while, since nobody had uploaded the BD files even when the 2nd volume came out.
But with the recent release of the last volume, people finally started releasing the files all together on the torrent sites.

As for her transformation sequence in the opening, the process seems unchanged.

As for her initial off-screen transformation event in episode 5, there were unfortunately no extra scenes added for it.

As for her actual on-screen transformation sequence in episode 11, the scenes did get remastered, but mostly in terms of looking more polished with lighting rather than significantly improving the process. The butt expansion received a couple more frames to make the process look smoother, and the breast expansion process looks pretty much the same.

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Woah Chris, amazing find as always ^^
Thank you for your dedication to this community

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Sure thing~

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Say, are you gonna put up a gif of this scene from the blu ray release?

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I am probably not the best person to ask for a good quality gif,
but here you go:

https://im3.ezgif.com/tmp/ezgif-3-0e2561420157.gif

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The gif isn't working and I can't find a site that currently has the blu-ray episode

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Google Drive it is, then:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IL...yxpVBntVGQPODI

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Thanks for the google drive link.

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Ur welcome.