A first promo trailer for the CG anime based on Leiji Matsumoto’s Captain Harlock character screened during the International Animation Film Festival in Annecy (France). According to Catsuka, this film (which kinda reminds me of Final Fantasy and is supposed to open in 2013) may act as a pilot for a TV series telling the adventures of the famous Space Pirate, if it meets the financial expectations of the producers.

[via Catsuka]

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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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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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Das Team des AnimaniA Magazins hat Neuigkeiten zur diesjährigen AnimagiC Convention bekannt gegeben. Die mittlerweile zehnte Ausgabe der Anime, Manga und Nippon Ausstellung wird dieses Jahr vom 1. bis 3. August in der Beethovenhalle in Bonn abgehalten.
Zeitgleich findet im WOKI Filmpalast das Animotion Filmfestival statt, auf dem als Deutschlandpremiere Rebuild of Evangelion: Evangelion 1.0: You Are [Not] Alone präsentiert wird. Außerdem gibt es noch Appleseed: Ex Machina, Sword of the Stranger (Mukoh Hadan), Vexille sowie Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa zu sehen, alle Filme erfreulicherweise im japanischen Originalton mit englischen Untertiteln.
Personaltechnisch wird ebenfalls einiges geboten, als Ehrengäste werden Appleseed (Ex Machina) Regisseur Shinji Aramaki, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Schöpfer Kenji Kamiyama von Production I.G sowie Studio BONES Gründer Masahiko Minami präsentiert. Zudem werden diverse Manga-ka aus Japan und Deutschland die Messe unsicher machen, wobei J-Pop Sternchen Nana Kitade mit einem Konzert am 2. August für passende musikalische Untermalung sorgt.
Mal schauen ob ich dieses Jahr Zeit habe dort aufzukreuzen, der Termin ist leider gefährlich nah am Abschluß meiner Diplomarbeit dran. Aber vielleicht wenn die Presseakkreditierung durchkommt…

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