HALO Legends Anime OVA Announced at SDCC 2009

How About a HALO Anime?

UPDATED! During San Diego Comic Con 2009, it was announced that HALO would be getting an anime adaptation similar to Batman: Gotham Knight, and released in early 2010. Animation studios involved include Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio4 C and Toei Animation. Shinji Aramaki will be directing one segment, according to LA Times:

Aramaki is directing his own short that tells the history of the Spartans, a warrior class in the game’s fictional universe that main character Master Chief is part of.

The article also mentions a few other details of the story and design:

Studio4 C’s project, tentatively called “Origins,” is a two-parter that’s about 30 minutes long in total and tells the entire 100,000 year history of the Halo universe. Another, from Toei, is the only one outside of the official canon and pokes fun at some of the game’s characters.

Within the general anime style, the visual look of the projects differs widely.

“It’s a wildly varied genre, but anime creators do things with weapons and vehicles and technology nobody else does, and that marries very well with Halo,” he explained. “It’s amazing to see some of the new stuff they’re introducing and how neatly it maps to the visual aesthetics in the Halo universe.”

Does that have you intrested? Well here’s a video teaser to get a taste of the Halo Legends anime look. There are some great previews of each studio’s segment, along with a quickly cut sequence at the end that shows a bunch of cool elements:

Special thanks to Topless Robot for the initial tip-off to the news!