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Halo Legends Debut Trailer

Here's that Halo anime project everyone's talking about!

Jul. 25 2009

Posted by: Brad

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@GoodKn1ght: I don't... I don't know if anything you said even qualifies as an intelligible argument. COD4? Why the fuck are we talking about COD4? Xbox Live? First place, second place...? Listen, if you can't be bothered to articulate your points, don't fucking bother. Jesus.

@HAMMERCLAW: Sorry, I don't think I made myself clear; anime always has a Japanese audience, in the same way I watch anything with 19th century literary characters attached to it even though I know it's going to be shit.  I'm saying that the only appeal it would have for an audience that has a lot more, better, more interesting anime to watch than your average Western (air quotes) viewer is a huge production budget and some big-name studio names attached to it. There's a lot more to anime than powered exoskeletons and girls in skintight flight suits, but from what I'm seeing, that's all we're going to get here, rather than some actual content.
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-Cue Halo fanboys crying. Haha

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@ZmillA said:
"The spartans look like gundams now :P "
Yes, they do.
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@HaHarr said:
"@HAMMERCLAW: 360's games focus on multiplayer heavy, action-oriented stuff, while the Japanese market, for the most part, absorbs either RPG or story-driven gaming. I suppose this could be an attempt to turn them onto the 360's flagship title, but they tried that, and Halo 3 lasted like a week before it disappeared; there was only a brief flash of interest before they went back to what they normally play.

I think this is aimed at American audiences. All I hope is that the parody Toei's planning on making is good. The other seven, I suspect, will be mediocre at best, a writhing pile of dog doodoo at worst.
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I disagree. This has never been done before. This is the first time a Japanese Anime company has attempted to translate the Halo STORY into a medium the Japanese can appreciate and enjoy. It's the equivalent of turning Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai" into "The Magnificent Seven". or his "Yojimbo" into "A Fist Full of Dollars". They will be rendering Halo in cultural symbols Japanese fans will understand and relate to.It should be interesting to see how it all plays out.
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Oh hell no... I love Halo, a lot... but no...

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@HAMMERCLAW: It's a guy in a power suit with a holographic hot chick fighting aliens who blink around with glowing swords. There's no cultural barrier here, it's pretty straightforward. If you want to expand the story into new mediums, do more of those ads with the old guys talking about their veteran days. That was good. But Bungie tried the game in Japan and it didn't garner interest, why would an anime suddenly make it interesting? Because they have anime eyes and more slow-motion? I can't believe this is meant as a second attempt at opening the Japanese market to the Halo franchise; if it works, and who knows, it might, I'll be very disappointed. It's such a see-through bit of cultural marketing.
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Looks awesome. Like the Animatrix for Halo. :D

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@TheClap:I love you.
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@HaHarr said:
"@HAMMERCLAW: It's a guy in a power suit with a holographic hot chick fighting aliens who blink around with glowing swords. There's no cultural barrier here, it's pretty straightforward. If you want to expand the story into new mediums, do more of those ads with the old guys talking about their veteran days. That was good. But Bungie tried the game in Japan and it didn't garner interest, why would an anime suddenly make it interesting? Because they have anime eyes and more slow-motion? I can't believe this is meant as a second attempt at opening the Japanese market to the Halo franchise; if it works, and who knows, it might, I'll be very disappointed. It's such a see-through bit of cultural marketing."

Your ""dissapproval" of the whole enterprise has been evident in all your posts, and frankly, I probably won't care for the finished product, either.  It is, however, a done deal, and win-win for Microsoft, whether successful in Japan or not. The younger games in the West, weened from their mother's milk on Japanese-style anime, will eat it up, and they are Microsoft's newly targeted demographic. To address your other point; the inability of westerners to understand and accept the cultural differences between themselves and the Japanese, is precisely the reason Microsoft has done so poorly with the Xbox in Japan. 
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Is this video a little juttery for anyone else?   Encoding problem?

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Halo: Awesome. Bones: Awesome. Yep, I'll be watching this.

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Well, since this is anime that means the majority of the west will not like/watch it and the majority of the east will watch it. I have a feeling that's the point though.

I personally think if they were to make an animated Halo show it would be best like this.

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@Lydian_Sel: Agreed.
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I guess I'll watch it...but I'll probably not like it just like how I hated the Animatrix and that Batman thing, for the most part.

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Meh.

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The words halo and anime still don't click with me but this looks like it could be quite cool

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@Dethfish77 said:
" Well, since this is anime that means the majority of the west will not like/watch it and the majority of the east will watch it. I have a feeling that's the point though.I personally think if they were to make an animated Halo show it would be best like this. "
Yeah good point. Bungie already has america in the palm of their hand. Now they need halo to be that popular in the east. I think they need to sell some xboxes over there first :P
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That just made me sad :(

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Oh dear....

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No thanks.  Looks very cheaply made.

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The thought of Halo as an anime makes it that much more unappealing.

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looks slightly ridiculous but w/e

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to quote jeff, "anime is for jerks"

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I hate anime...so im not really looking forward to this.

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Meh

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I do not think I understood what I saw. iv`e played wierd stuff,  but it seems to me cirtain things don`t mix. Even killer 7, a  japanes trojan horse to the west, only did one anime chapter.. And I`m  just lukewarm about halo. Last game was pretty good.

But anime..it better be damned origonal. This just looks like the plain ol`e generic anime.
 
Just seems so crossways.

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That was a terrible trailer. I have hope for this series though, soley based off the amazing anime episode that was made by redvsblue last year. Shows that Halo could actually work as an anime!

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Looks pretty good

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Non-plussed.

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I am vomiting uncontrollably...

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That trailer was god awful.  Bones and IG are decent companies so maybe the anime itself will be good.  But that trailer did NOT convince me.

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Looks like fucking shit for the most part.

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@Zabant said:
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The Toei piece is a parody.

Hence Spartan-1137 and the Brute that looks like one of the monkeys from Dragonball Z.
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Why can't the Samurai Champloo guys do this?

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that looked really, really bad. bad job 4c.