Review of The Heroic Legend of Arslan

Overall I would have to say this anime is pretty standard in plot and characters, but is done well enough that it makes you enjoy it through to the end. As per usual I try to go into the anime without any prior knowledge of existing manga, novels, or other material, and found myself enjoying the first few episodes. The use of CG is fairly noticeable, but I didn't think detracted from the story, and even though the main group of characters are too OP to be real people I found myself rooting for the main group the entire time. After readingthe wiki I can see that they did have this series plotted as two long OVAs, which I will watch next because the main vibe I get from this story is that this would have made a much better series of movies like Berserk than an anime.
There is one thing that I found utterly unacceptable, and can't for the life of my figure out how the animators thought it would be cool to add in. So minor ----SPOILERS---- but seriously how the fuck does a horse JUMP on top of an elephant, like WTF how does that even happen. If you look at the height of an elephant standing next to the other characters how on godly hell does a horse jump up that high. I'm sure the animators thought it was cool, and then they got the horse up there and it doesn't even DO ANYTHING, it just jumps right off...... like WTF man, why make your horse do that when you could have ridden next to the elephant, climbed up it's side, and then fought on top of the elephant.... Was that really necessary to make your horse jump up on it's head???!! ----
End of minor rant.---- I'm sorry. Anyway, if you have spare time and like the fantasy-shonen themes in this anime watch it, but if you can't deal with the minor weird details that make it unrealistic (ahem the elephant) then I'd suggest stay away.