Well, for the first manga production, this is a good start
The film talks about a story from one of the Abrahamic religions (Islam), and the story is quoted from their heavenly book (the Qur’an), so it was a good idea, as we do not usually receive works related to a religion other than Buddhism or Christianity (religions spread in Japan), and it was a good initiative
1 The story:
The film talks about the Year of the Elephant with its Arabic name, which means 1,500 years ago
According to my later research on the characters, they omitted very important characters, and if they added those characters, they would not need to extend the story, such as adding events within events such as the story of Moses (the prophet of the Jewish religion), who Muslims also believe in his existence, and the story is explicitly short to be a full movie and the old Arab animation Unfortunately, the story was better explained, and I wish they would add the story of the father of the Prophet Muhammad instead of the other stories because Muhammad's father died in the midst of the events
2 Drawing and animation
The drawing and animation were very good in the movie but they screwed it up in the fights and also.... Elephants drawn in CG while you've been working on the movie for two years? Surely the staff was joking, wasn't it?
And the powerpoint slides were really bad
The vocal performance:
The vocal performance was strong in both versions of the film and the performance was realistic and good
4 Characters
I will tell you something: Did you know that if they had brought the story about the villain (Abraha Al-Habashi), the movie would have been better than it was with the character Aws.
Because the depth of the character of Abraha al-Habashi gives depth to the rest of the characters and gives them a better role than it is, especially his dirty tricks in obtaining power and exploiting the people he knows and Aws in those events was just a secondary character in the origin, and this gave us a bad depth of the characters in the film
But I'll accept it since it's the first toei animation studio work for Arab culture
5 - Enjoyment
I prefer to avoid talking about it because the story as a novel gave me more fun
In the end, I give the film a 6 out of 10 rating for this work
