Reactions: First Halo Legends trailer

No, your eyes don’t deceive you. That’s a trailer for not a Halo game, but a Halo anime. The series of seven short animated films will be known as Halo Legends and should be coming directly to DVD sometime in 2010. But if you can’t wait that long, the all new Halo Waypoint will give us a sneak peak of a few episodes this fall.

As a fan of both anime and Halo, I’m oddly not excited for this. I don’t know, Halo just doesn’t seem like an anime thing to me. I’d rather see a fully CGI movie like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. But if it’s any comfort to all ye hopeful and optimistic Halo fans out there, Microsoft is bringing in some of the most respected production houses in the anime industry. Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio4 C, and Toei Animation will all be contributing to this project. The creative director overseeing Halo Legends is Shinji Aramaki, director of Appleseed and Appleseed Ex Machina.

Author: Cody