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News Credits: 1452 · Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:14 am

Dude.............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A6lojxv ... r_embedded

News Credits: 2 · Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:30 am

This looks pretty cool. I'm not a Halo player so I only know the basic premise of the series of games. I'm a bit iffy on the style of character design, though. Something like the style used in Jin-Roh, The Wolf Brigade, could work well for Halo.

News Credits: 1452 · Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:38 am

Oddly enough, I'm actually a huge fan of the novels, more than I am of the game. This anime really conveys the Halo novels, rather than the Halo gameplay, which I find pretty impressive. Like if the anime followed game.. would get pretty boring seeing Sparatans mow down Covenent with their assault rifles.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:43 am

Okay, that was awesome. Are they going to do full series with this? Because I am on board 100%.

News Credits: 767 · Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:45 am

Shadowman wrote:Okay, that was awesome. Are they going to do full series with this? Because I am on board 100%.

From what I gather about it online it's something along the lines of Animatrix and Batman Gotham knight, so it's a feature comprised of shorts by different animation companies.

I like this, I'm not interested in the games, or their story but I do like what I just saw, I'll be watching this.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:03 am

[quote="Dead Metal"]From what I gather about it online it's something along the lines of Animatrix and Batman Gotham knight, so it's a feature comprised of shorts by different animation companies./quote]

Very cool. I like this approach to projects based on existing fictional characters. A sort of potluck approach is nice for variety and seeing how different creators put their own twist on the same fictional backdrop.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:05 am

Dead Metal wrote:
Shadowman wrote:Okay, that was awesome. Are they going to do full series with this? Because I am on board 100%.

From what I gather about it online it's something along the lines of Animatrix and Batman Gotham knight, so it's a feature comprised of shorts by different animation companies.

I like this, I'm not interested in the games, or their story but I do like what I just saw, I'll be watching this.

I actually prefer the story over the games. It's actually a really good story, despite what Halo 2 may have you believe. Which reminds me, I still have to finish Fall of Reach.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:20 pm

Dead Metal wrote:
Shadowman wrote:Okay, that was awesome. Are they going to do full series with this? Because I am on board 100%.

From what I gather about it online it's something along the lines of Animatrix and Batman Gotham knight, so it's a feature comprised of shorts by different animation companies.

Yup. From Wiki: Microsoft announced at Comic-Con 2009 that it was overseeing production of a series of seven short anime films, together called Halo Legends. Financed by 343 Industries, the animation was created by five Japanese production houses: Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio 4°C, and Toei Animation. Shinji Aramaki, creator and director of Appleseed and Appleseed Ex Machina, serves as the project's creative director. Warner Bros. will distribute Legends on DVD and Blu-ray in early 2010, Six of the stories are officially part of the Halo canon, with the seventh, made by Toei, is intended to be a parody of the universe.

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