Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight
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. Media. Manga. A manga drawn by Yagi Shinba and Hirafumi. Story is a bit different from the novel and the anime. 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 by Mai Fuchigami and the ending theme is 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.