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Halo Legends to be Animated by 5 Japanese Studios (Updated)

posted on by Egan Loo
Bones, Casio, Spike TV today

The Bones, Joseph Chou (Appleseed) is producing.

Aramaki's short will cover the history of the Spartan warrior class from the games. Studio 4°C will animate two 30-minute shorts about "the entire 100,000 year history of the Halo universe." Toei's short "is outside of the official canon and pokes fun at some of the game's characters."

Spike TV channel's GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley.

Not coincidentally, Studio 4°C also worked on Batman: Gotham Knight, two other Japanese-animated Warner Brothers anthologies based on American entertainment franchises.

Source: Los Angeles Times' blog via IGN

Update: Additional information from press release


This article has a follow-up: Mamoru Oshii Confirmed to Direct 1 Part of Halo Legends (2009-07-23 20:23)
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