Introduction
From the south of the Arabian Peninsula, the great General Abraha and his mighty army trample their way north to the holy city of Mecca. Their demands are ruthless: Mecca's surrender, its people's enslavement, and the Kaaba's destruction. Despite advice to withdraw and save themselves, a few brave Meccan men remain to fight. Among them is Aws Ibn Jubair, a humble potter who abandoned a life of sin to dedicate himself to honor and faith.
As the enemy troops approach in the dead of night, the vastly outnumbered Meccans work to raise morale. The night takes an unexpected shift with the reappearance of an atheist mercenary named Zurara—Aws' old accomplice who never went straight. Although Zurara joins only for food and pay, the intriguing tale of Aws' path to religion convinces him that Mecca is worth protecting. Bracing for the inevitable bloodbath, the two former friends reunite to defend the only land and faith that allow them to truly forgive themselves.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Audience reviews
11 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
ZenoXero
the journey anime which tells the story of the Koran in surah al-fil, the 105th surah which consists of 5 verses which tells about an army of elephants led by a great commander named Abraha who was about to attack the city of Mecca to destroy the Kaaba and was defeated by the will of Allah SWT. This anime also often explains short stories about the greatness of Allah's miracles which I think is good. However, you have to know that the story is limited because this is a story from the Koran. So there are several additional characters in this anime that don't fit in the Koran so don't take them seriously. This anime was created in collaboration between Toei Animation and Manga Productions (a subsidiary company of Mohammed bin Salman "MiSK" Foundation). where the animation is quite good, like…
Read at the source_EnForce_
After long prologing to watch this I am genuinely surpised even if I heard this story many times and I have seen some interpretations, and I really like how Movie came out and how for it’s story source was Qur’an and had an actual story that has happend during the time of Prophet Nuh a.s and Prophet Musa a.s. or to put it simply life before true Islam like we have today came to truth by last Prophet a.s.
Story: Just as true I could of predicted it cause I heard it many times. I’d say if someone asks for something Islam related and wants it to be Movie then if you give this to Non-Muslim you are spreading true info.
Voice Acting : Both Arabic and Japanese Dub were done very good and Japanese side had one of my 2 favourite Seiyuus of Nizar and Zurara (Hiroshi and Yuuichi). Arabic Dub was…
Read at the sourcechYakoub
You distorted a lot of things, for example Abraha's purpose was to destroy the Kaaba yet the Kaaba never showed in the whole movie, the hero was fighting cause he wanted to protect the Kaabah, Abd El Motalib wasn't a coward like the movie showed he didn't "abandon" the Kaaba, women clothing wasn't like that, this story happened when the Arabs were pagans before Islam appeared (Kaaba was a holy site since prophet Abraham was sent, the hero & most of the other characters became afterwards) ...
It would have been better if you chose fictional characters... if you wanted to distort the whole story from the beginning.
I had hight hopes for this movie but it sadly was a huge disappointment.
If you wanna take a story from the Quran then don't distort it, this was too much.
The art was good tho, d…
Read at the sourceCytonicDevil
I will give my honest review, as a Bahraini Sunni Muslim, I am 36 years old. Living in Japan.
Story:
The Journey story is based from the Quran, and once it has been animated, I truly enjoyed seeing the life story that was animated and explained to us in such a simply way. Though, I always questioned, Who is abraha? How did he lose his nose? how did he gain power? How did the war start? and why did the war start? Same with AWS and ZURARA, both their back ground story in details. we should see how life was before Islam, how they worshipped their Gods, Alcohol, Sex. How society was corrupted before religion. I hope a TV Series or Manga can be released. we need to see things in a deeper scale.
I wish Manga Productions a positive success, and for the other people who complain and throw atta…
Read at the sourcecht
for foreigners they did their best even if some of yall didnt like the story representation . it was aight.
i mean they are not muslims so of course they aint gonna be as excited as us when making a quran based anime or catoon . they aint gonna be as emotional or religiously related to us while making these kind of animes so i hope yall cut them some slack LOL
i hope the bad reviews dont discourage them to do more and the fact that zoro voice actor from one piece did the voice acting for this. it made it even more enjoyable
Read at the sourceRenicaRyadi
What an enjoyment of 1,5 hours! Speaking as a Muslim, I am a bit disappointed to read bad reviews from other Muslims about this anime. Come on, Journey was made not totally by Muslims! We should be grateful they made Journey quite representative and realistic about Elephant War in 571 AD!
Maybe I should give my review for each scope of the anime.
Story: 8/10.
Thanks to TOEI animations for filming such a beautiful Arabian movie WITHOUT changing any significant plot of the real event. I was quite surprised to see the ending. As a movie that was planned to be played on Cannes, I didn't think TOEI would end Journey with "that bird scene" *no spoilers here*.
Hmm...speaking as a movie enjoyer (not as Muslim), I would prefer if Journey more focused on the plots and actions, not the moral valu…
Read at the sourceramy22
I watched the movie. The animation is good. As a Muslim, I know the story and watched cartoons about it when I was young and guess what the cartoon was much better in terms of writing, characters, and clarifying the goals of each side. Unfortunately, the writing is poor in the movie. For example, the three stories that were only audio, I see as unnecessary and were killing fun. I mean, I was following a battle and then suddenly it was cut off. And the characters did not delve into them too much, especially from the side of evil.. but since it is a beginning for Saudi Arabia, it is a good start, and I wish them success in the future.
Read at the sourceCanavar-K
The Journey.. this Anime i been waiting for a long time and finally I had Chance to watch it.
The way they telling the story in this anime I didn't like that. I know story it's from Quran but I felt little boring and they telling us the stories like it's a kids animation not adults that what I felt so I give (7/10) for the story.
Thank you Toei Animation for drawing a masterpiece Art Even the art is nothing like New Anime films and series but I really love it.
This Anime got a great Characters and Voice Actors. Every Main Character looks brave and Manly also their voice suit their Characters.
The Most Thing let me enjoyed this Anime film is Fighting Scenes. I really loved fighting Scenes with swords and that made me excited while watching this Anime I give it (9/10) for Enjoyment of th…
Read at the sourceYarub
As of the writing of the review, only two projects are attributed to Manga Productions (including this project) so keep that in mind for the rest of the review. Toei Animations does not need any introduction. I watched the original Arabic version.
The Journey is an ambitious but flawed experience. It is ambitious because it gambles its reception over the audience's acceptance or interest in Arabic culture. There is very little to take from the film if you're already well acquainted with Arabic culture and the Quranic legends. As a person who lived through and heard all those stories multiple times in his life, I'd say I felt conflicted while watching the movie; there is the joy in having a legendary story animated in Japanese style, and the boredom of knowing exactly how the story will pa…
Read at the sourceMadarapalermo
To benefit, read the entire article because it contains very important information in some paragraphs
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 st…
Read at the sourceSalim3ateeji
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 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 thos…
Read at the source