Halo Legends Anime Trailer
While the jury is still out on whether or not we’ll ever see a live action Halo feature film, it looks like the popular video game will be making is about to make the transition to yet another medium: 2-D animation. In the vein of The Animatrix and Batman: Gotham Knight, Microsoft and Bungie have announced Halo Legends, a series of short anime films to be available via Xbox Live sometime in 2010 (and also, eventually, DVD and Blu-ray).
Studios involved in the project include Production I.G., Studio 4C, Bones, Casio Entertainment, and Toei Animation, while the creative director of the whole thing is Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed, Appleseed Ex Machina). For more info on the project, check out an article over at the L.A. Times where they also reveal that Ubisoft is working on some live-action films based on Assassin’s Creed. The first teaser trailer for Halo Legends is embedded after the jump.
Comments (6)
This is the best shot yet that Microsoft has to make the Japanese like Halo.
Posted by Matt on July 24th, 2009Looks awesome. It has the studio which made Appleseed, which was one of the few Japanese cartoons which I saw and liked.
Posted by stevie_boy on July 25th, 2009i hate the anime art style
Posted by Niklas on July 25th, 2009really? this looks boring….
Posted by Big Hungry on July 25th, 2009maybe the next video will be better and keep me awake.
Anime is like the lifeblood of all cartoons…
Posted by Shadey_Lurker on August 1st, 2009Although everything these days are trying anime
eg Batman, Riddick, Van Hellsing etc…
Hopefully with Mamoru Oshii & Shinji Aramaki will be able to pull this off as i believe all halo/anime fans will have high expectaions…
I think this could be something really cool. Being the guys that did make Appleseed. Which is on of the anime of all time. Bungie should feel honored that these guys wanted to do it. None the less I still want a live action movie and not the ODST type.
Posted by Douglas Alford on September 28th, 2009Leave a Reply