Looks to be some good stuff from Toei and Bones.

Halo, anime. How are you today?

Looks mostly good, I think?

I must see this.

Sigh.
So long as it's not as mindless and insultingly inane as most anime, I can live with it. With as picky as those that guard the integrity of Halo's lore are, it should at least have some good domestic writing. I'm cautiously optimistic.

Hearing the familiar tunes in booming brass was pretty damn cool, though.

So when is the Red vs. Blue toon due out now? Or could that be the one non continuity piece they say is in there

Given that Frankie is overseeing this, I don't think we will have a problem with that.

So... Awesome...

Yeah, I assumed Frankie was involved, being Microsoft's chief janitor guy of the Halo story integrity.
Read about the panel on IGN, and I guess I feel a bit better. I was never opposed to Halo further branching out to other mediums, so long as it's done with the same type of spirit and care that Bungie adheres to.

Wow. I'm glad we got, what, a total of 15 maybe 20 seconds of the actual animation in there, sprinkled in between the 2 minutes of cheap CGI for the series logo....

Not too impressed. It really didn't tell me anything.

gotta check this out

hey did anyone notice the numbers on that spartans chest?
I337
get it

It's a real shame. There are tons of good American animation directors who'd be much better suited to a project like this and would love to work on it, but if Microsoft used them then they wouldn't be able to tack the "ZOMG anime!!1!" label onto it to attract the otaku Japanofile crowd by the boatloads.

So they hand over the animation duties for a game the Japanese don't give a **** about on a system they really don't give a jive about, just for the cheap "it's anime!" marketing ploy.

It's that ****ing Batman anime all over again...

Yes, because it being anime automaticly means it's going to suck.

Did you even read the IGN overview? One of the directors, Aramaki, loves the games. Besides, they have some top-notch studios on this project.

Seriously, we get it. You don't like anime.

I actually liked that batman anime.

I liked the Batman one too give or take one of the episodes.


It's very much in Microsoft's interest to appeal to as wide a crowd as they can. The Japanese might not care too much about it, but maybe after this, they might be interested.

I pretty much put off Halo as just a shooter until I started seeing ads for Reach and started asking questions. My friend told me a lot about the back story and I was sold. So now I'm going through the books and really liking them.

I can't wait for this.

Also, Shinji hugging Aramaki, my absolute favourite action director.

Yes, I'll be buying this.

Huh...Toei's got their name attached to this huh? That's kinda cool.

Ironbite-wonder if this will give us a Spartan-inspired Mech Suit?

It looks like there's one in the Bones's ep.

Though it could be more of a set of armor add-ons, but it sure looked mecha-y to me.

Yeah me too. Be kinda cool if they did throw that in.

Ironbite-wonder if we'll be doing some stuff on the Halos and other things persented in the books.

I'm hoping for a Forerunners fighting the flood film.

Did we ever get to see what the forerunners looked like?

I'm not sure if I'd want this to be what reveals that, given the widely differing styles of the animation, I mean...

Since 343 Guilty Spark called Chief a forerunner, I would assume humans.

Yeah, they are supposed to be Humans, hence why the Covenant needed humans to activate the Halos and the Ark.

Oh, right, that makes sense.

Alright, I have no qualms now.

It has what appears to be a space motorcycle and a long-blond-haired effeminate Spartan

Darn it, Japan. That had better be the non-canon one.

Other than that, cautiously optimistic.

We sure that's not actually a woman? She appeared to have small breasts.

Then we're absolutely sure its not a woman. Anime women have enormous breasts.

Yeah, after watching it again, you're right. So that's one fear put to rest. Still not fond of the space moto-jet, though. Just clashes with the human aesthetic, in my mind. Not the sort of thing I would have imagined in-universe. Still, I loved most of the books, and it'll be great to see some animated action and add some more depth to the universe. With this, Halo: Reach, and the upcoming Forerunner War books, the brand's really getting more support than I thought it would post-Halo 3. Glad to see Microsoft going all out support Halo as more than just a game series (after all, it's practically their mascot).

During conditioning the spartans went through chemical treatment that would downplay their puberty. I.E. smaller boobs, possible lack of a reproductive system entirely.
Its covered in one of the first Halo Books, they were also given treatments to make thier bones nearly unbreakable and their muscle mass higher than normal humans.

Probably due to them not launching a new console for another two years so they are pushing out Halo games to fill the void and generate hype for their system.

I didn't see Gotham Knight, but the first thing I thought of when I heard about this was Animatrix, but I guess that was anime garbage too.


BONES, Production I.G., Studio 4°C, Shinji Aramaki and Mamoru Oshii. Ooh yeah, this will be good.


Lina Inverse, she was Fwiffo's avatar for awhile, flat as a board.

There's also Soi Fong, who's so flat she's almost concave.

(Soi Fong is like an anti-trap; first time I saw her I thought she was a guy.)

THEYTOOKOURJERBS!!!11

I'm not crazy about Master Chief's character design and I'm not as in love with Halo as I was when the first two games came out. But hell yeah, bring it on.

The technical term is "reverse-trap".

That's about where I'm at on this one. Looks cool and all, but I was pretty charged from last years Red vs. Blue animated clips. And those have lead to what exactly...?

wow that looks real good.

So when am I going to get a Metroid Anime?

VGM out....

When Nintendo starts to give a crap about Metroid?

oh i know.. it was more of a rhetorical question... damn you Big N!

VGM out...

(scratches head)

We got 2 games in 2002, 3 in 2004, 1 in 2005 (sure it was only Pinball, but it was fun), 1 in 2007 and getting 1 more in 2010. I can't comment on Hunters, but I love all the others and I'm looking forward to Other M very, very much.

I'd say they give a crap about it.


And a series like Halo Legends would be amazing, I'm sure.

Wort, wort, wort*


*Translation: holy hug that's awesome. Can't wait to watch/buy this. VERY glad that "Halo 3" has not signalled the end of all things Halo--in fact, the franchise seems to be gathering steam with novels, comics and now this.

Also, incoherent fangirl squealing about Elites.

As a game series, not a huge media franchise. Halo's gotten books, Metroid's gotten a few comics in Nintendo Power.

Yeah but who has more hentai? Huh?.....think about that.

This should be the way every arguement is resolved.

Prime 2.0 wins that argument

....must not...mention...the...halo slash...site...lose...mod...privileges...

Yes, but which has made me touch myself more?











inappropriate?

I.G on board im onbored and about the mecha shown in the teaser trailer whos to say what was devloped when and where other science tech teams could have come ip with a diffrant soltion to the Ghost problum

Shoop the Brute!



That's filarious in a sort of... disheartening way. Though Toei's offering is the out of canon piece, so I guess it's not so bad.











A really great event in the Halo universe that I would have loved to see explored in these is the "Grunt Rebellion" referenced by Truth.

"Naked" arbiter(?) looks creepy, I think?

Some short preview clips.