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Is that Master Chief?

With this, it’s undeniable that the power of animes is not to be underestimated. While Halo has always been associated mainly with the western market, it seems that the eastern side is going to bring us a very unusual product: a Halo-based anime.

Recently, Microsoft had announced that they are teaming up with several production houses to produce a particular a series of short films titled Halo Legends. If you’re worrying about the production houses that are doing the films, don’t worry as Microsoft have picked some of the best and well-known production houses in the industry.

Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio4 C, and Toei Animation are the 5 production houses that would be participating in the overall animation of the project.

The project will be headed by Shinji Aramaki, director of Appleseed and Appleseed Ex Machina. Some of you should be rather familar with the series as it is stated as one of the best CG animes out there. Microsoft had also gotten Warner Bros to distribute Halo Legends sometime later when it’s available for release.

Via: Kotaku.

While a Halo anime is certainly welcomed in my books, I really wonder if it would be successful. While Halo is quite a successful game by itself, an anime adaptation (or rather, CG anime… film adaptation) looks kind of weird to me. There’s still quite a number of Halo fans that would completely reject the whole “anime+halo” kind of ideas too…

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