Jun 25, 2021
The Journey is an animation set around the story of the Elephant from the Quran, knowing that I entered to watch the movie with conflicted thoughts as going the religious route for a first anime by Manga Productions was a bold move.
Story-
It's a story from the Quran so there wasn't much of a surprise of what I expected. Unfortunately with that in mind the animation was bound to very severe constraints on what they could do.
Art-
The art was amazing in my opinion, nothing too wacky that deserves a 10 but it was decent. The major downfall in this anime was the pathetic powerpoint slides for
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memory sequences... the whole point of an anime is to well... animate, so watching powerpoint slides to explain something unrelated to the main plot was unnecessary. If the entire movie excluded those PP slides I think the movie would've been much better.
Sound-
Interesting sound choices, very Arabic. Nothing much to say.
Character-
This movie completely failed in anything character related, I disliked every character as they fail to make you care about anyone and 99% of the characters just shouldn't have existed as they literally added nothing. The anti-hero or whatever you call the "bad guy that turns good" was so out of place, I get that it's an anime but he didn't fit the scene at all with the white hair and blue clothes and his backstory was super lame [SPOILER] He saved the protagonist and made him escape from imprisonment, then he gets made that he actually escaped... what? The only cool character was the war general wearing a red scarf and guess what, he's the only character which they said nothing about, and that's what made him the most fun.
Enjoyment-
Like I said the story was limited because it's a story from the Quran. This shouldn't have been their first choice for an anime because you lose all the freedom with the possibilities. Watching the movie didn't get me excited.
Summary-
I wouldn't recommend watching this specific movie but I would keep an eye on their future works. I hope they would expand past religious stories because I do believe they can do much better if they let their creativity flow wild. ALSO NO MORE PP SLIDES please...
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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