I’m not really interested in the Halo Legends anime project after seeing the Babysitter preview clip, but judging from the amount of comments in the few entries on this topic I think some of you might be interested that Warner Home Entertainment has announced to release Halo Legends on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in the states on February 9, 2010. The DVD version will be available as a singe-disc edition and a two-disc special edition with some more bonus material. The Blu-ray Disc edition will include all the extras of the DVD special edition and an exclusive “Halo: The Story so Far” feature.
[via activeanime.com]

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Last night Spike TV aired a first preview of the Halo anime project Halo Legends and showed five minutes of Studio 4°C’s “The Babysitter” segment…that sadly looks only a tad better than any other cartoon show that runs on saturday mornings. Studio 4°C, quo vadis?

[via Topless Robot]

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Just like promised yesterday, Microsoft screened the first trailer for their Halo Legends project on Comic Con. Can’t say I’m really impressed with the mostly generic scenes they decided to show, especially since most of the scenes are somehow warped as they are “projected” against the Halo logo.
Anime News Network reports that Mamoru Oshii has directed one of the episodes (the first one to be exact) which gives me a bit of hope that this won’t be a complete mess.
Update: According to ANN, Oshii will only be the Creative Director for to episodes and won’t personally direct.

Visit Gametrailers for the HD version of the trailer.
[Danke an merc für den Hinweis]

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The L.A. Times reports that Microsoft will announce its upcoming Halo Legends project during Comic Con.
Halo Legends will be a series of seven short films, set in the universe created by the (in my eyes overrated) Halo video game series by Bungie & Microsoft, that will be animated (Animatrix & Gotham Knight style) by Studio Bones, Production I.G, Studio 4°C, Casio Entertainment and Toei Animation.
Appleseed director will helm the project as the creative director and will also direct his own episode telling the history of the Spartan warriors. Studio 4°C will deliver a double episode called Origins which compresses 100,000 years of Halo history in 30 minutes.

Starting this fall, Microsoft will preview the episodes on Xbox Live with Warner Home Entertainment releasing them on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in early 2010. A first trailer is supposed to be screened during Comic Con.
[via Kotaku & AnimeSuki Forum]

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