My pals at AnimeVice found one of the chapter of the Halo anime anthology Legends up on YouTube, and I knew I had to share; it's the "Babysitter" chapter we saw a preview of earlier. I also knew I should probably watch it first, but I'm really busy trying to get ready to go home to take care of Pops Robot (knee surgery) and having just come back from a trip to NY. Plus... I kind of don't want to. I've just been so jaded by Batman: Gotham Knight, the Animatrix, that horrible Highlander anime and whatever other American properties given over to Japanese animators that I'm forgetting that I just... I just don't have the strength to sit through all 20 minutes (AnimeVice has the second half, too). Hey, maybe it's awesome. If so, please let me know in the comments and maybe I'll watch it over lunch. If not, at least you'll have the privilege of saving me some time, right? Thanks, guys!
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Care to explain why? Since you are so sure of it...
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FuK u guys if u dint like it i thot it was good :)
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WTF? That was going so well until they took the Spartan's helmet off.
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<i>Nice to see Microsoft isn't as stuck up as Games Workshop about their space marines having girls. Give it a shake.</i> Nerds who want to play with little girls in powered armour have the Sisters of Battle. Give it a rest.
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Will, brutes have the same things as humans(But much stronger). They may grow beards, and only one brute in Halo Wars has a huge beard. I was impressed, but don't like cartoons. For people who are retarded: It's not MC, it's Cal-141
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It wasn't that bad. The animation and human design reminded me of Dead Space Downfall. As for the content, it wasn't that bad either. Nice to see Microsoft isn't as stuck up as Games Workshop about their space marines having girls. Give it a shake.
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I liked it, but I would only recommend it to someone who just wants to see more Halo and doesn't mind anime cliches.
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Well, the story was acceptable, but the characters were horrible. The main character was an unlikeable child for the entire friggin thing. At the end, I was hoping he would sacrifice himself for the spartan because at least she could do her job without complaining every 5 steps.
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Awesome as expected, and the real clincher is that it is canon, along with almost all the rest of the stories.
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siiiiiight the black man dies first
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It's absolutely fucking awful. what did you expect? But of course, it'll instantly hypnotize all of the Halo fanfags into thinking that it IS good, just because of the title and license, alone. But no. Seriously. This is complete fucking garbage. The lowest form of trash. It is an utterly worthless waste of time on every conceivable level. It's utterly, unequivocally, abysmally horrendous. Especially if you hated all those other adaptions, this will most likely make you want to commit suicide with it's gut-wrenchingly putrid awfulness.
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Watched it on Halo Waypoint when it was put up. I liked it well enough that, depending on if the other episodes are at least as good as the first, I'll be getting the DVD. Surprised so many people seem to hate it so much. It wasn't the greatest thing ever, but was much better than I expected a Halo anime to actually be.
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Watched it on Halo Waypoint when it was put up. I liked it well enough that, depending on if the other episodes are at least as good as the first, I'll be getting the DVD. Surprised so many people seem to hate it so much. It wasn't the greatest thing ever, but was much better than I expected a Halo anime to actually be.
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Wow, so many nay-sayers. I enjoyed it. Yeah, it's not mold breaking, but it reminded me of some of the Halo novels, and it was nice to see something telling a story in the Halo universe. It had anime cliches, but I was expecting it to, and you can't avoid it, i guess
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I'm a huge Halo fan, I play all the games, have read the books, and I kinda figured things were going to breakdown a bit once Bungie started to get out of the picture, but wow, I figured this would be crappy, but not this crappy. I'm just going to sit back with my books and my collection of Halo Commercials and pray they get a good director(and story) for a film (if ever) and pretend all of this never happened.
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It's all canon. Well, everyone of these but the one done by Toei, that is. Judging it by anime standards alone, its really not that great, but seeing a Halo story that wasn't just a cut scene was nice for a change.
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I will admit that, in general, I like anime. Now, this does not mean that I like every single piece of anime ever made, but I am willing to give most of it a chance. And, I have noticed that when "the Japanese are hired" to create something that is not of Japanese origin that it tends to blow chunks. It seems that when they create something and cater it to non-Japanese tastes that it inevitably sucks diarrhetic dung. And, from what I saw, this is no exception.
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I liked it well enough, the Spartan's spooky eyes aside. But I'm a) not much of a Halo player (only time I ever really played much was at the Halo 2 launch event here, and I sucked bad at it), and b) it just reminds me of the anime I used to watch back in the day, before it became such a big deal in America.
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Kind of boring. And by the way, animatrix kicked ass, you don't know what you're saying.
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I thought it was pretty good, although they made the Spartan look kinda fat.
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@ Geoff Yes. @ DoctorSmashy It's been a while since I played the first two games, but you're probably right. As for the beards, it's a stylized choice. They probably modeled that Brute after how they appear in Halo Wars. http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/File:Brute_1024.jpg
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Doesn't suck.
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i only played the first game but 6 out of 10
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I threw up alot. You know this will have 10 million hits and when it comes out on dvd will sale almost as much as the 3rd game did only becouse this has Halo in it title. To be honest if they want to make an FPS into an anime make Bioshock into a OVA and have it done by the team who did Escaflowna, that would kick @$$.
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Ugh... I'm hardly a hardcore <I>Halo</i> fan, but this was not very good. But it is mostly likely the fact that whenever they try to do serious and grim military stories in anime, the decidedly non-regulation goofy girl hair and ever-present petulant boy/child-looking hotshot always ruins for it me.
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Didn't watch it, not gonna... I'm not a supporter of the Halo fanchise. But just curious... do you not like anime? or just not like it when they use american properties? Because I thought Gotham Knights was great, and I thought certian parts of Animatrix were good too. And well... I *know* you liked G.I. Joe Resolute... thought that was just drawn anime-ish, and I'm not sure I'd give it a full anime tag.
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@Grenadier: Brutes weren't in Halo 1, and they never had such big beards in their Halo 2 form.
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I thought it was pretty good. The animation was good quality, and the voice acting was about as better than most american anime dubs. A concise story, good action sequences, and it did fit in with the Halo universe with the exception of the hair-dos. If you don't generally like anime, you wont like this, but its not bad at all.
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@Grenadier - not saying they weren't; heck, wasn't a female Spartan a secret character in a DOA game?
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Eh. It's typical Japanime fare. The Helljumpers are all sporting the typical japanime hairdos(spiky long hair for the squad "mouth", etc) rather than the shaved scalps/crewcuts that the UNSC favors. But it's about as canon as the GI Joe movie, so...
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It was pretty good. @ DoctorSmashy Brutes are naturally hairy; in Halo 1 and 2 they were big and fluffy, but in 3 they started to shave themselves in order to "intimidate" their opponents. You can see some shaven Brutes in the crowd awaiting the Prophet. Plus, this wasn't Master Chief. @ Geoff Yeah, the surprise identity of the Spartan wasn't that impressive, but it's not something they entirely pulled out of their ass--female Spartans are a part of the existing canon.
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i enjoyed it. That said, i've never touched the Halo campaign mode so i have no idea if it's cannon or not.
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Decent enough, but nothing you have to go out of the way to watch. Good points - concise in its story, some good background art. Bad points - has that now-common anime problem where the backgrounds are hyper-detailed and the characters moving in front of them aren't, leading to a viewer disconnect; the twist ending is pretty predictable once you realise the Spartan still hasn't spoken; usual flatly acted Anime dubbing (the main reason Gotham Knight was the best of these is that they had the sense to get Conroy). And didn't both sniper rifles go over the waterfall?
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I didn't really like it, it didn't seem like Halo. Grunts getting broken necks, being suffocated, and Master Cheif ramming knives into their heads? I like Grunts! Not cool, Halo Legends. Not cool at all. And why the crap did all the Brutes look like Santa? And if MC was wearing Mk. 4 (or whatever) armour, like he does in Halo 1, why were the Brutes there in the first place? Or ODSTs, for that matter?
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It sucks. Now you owe me one, HAHAHAHA!
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