History Anime / HaloLegends

''Halo Legends'' is an anime-styled series of [[ArcNumber seven]] short stores set in the ''{{Halo}}'' universe. What ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'' did for the ''Film/TheMatrix'' films and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'' did for ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'', ''Halo Legends'' does for the ''Halo'' ExpandedUniverse. It was produced by Microsoft's internal Halo entertainment team, 343 Industries. It is under six production houses, namely BeeTrain, {{Studio Bones}}, Casio Entertainment, [[ProductionIG Production I.G]], [[Studio4C Studio4°C]], and ToeiAnimation.

** [[{{Appleseed}} Shinji Aramaki]]

* EyesOfGold: Cal-141

''Halo Legends'' is an anime-styled series of seven short stores set in the ''{{Halo}}'' universe. What ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'' did for the ''Film/TheMatrix'' films and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'' did for ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'', ''Halo Legends'' does for the ''Halo'' ExpandedUniverse. It was produced by Microsoft's internal Halo entertainment team, 343 Industries. It is under six production houses, namely BeeTrain, {{Studio Bones}}, Casio Entertainment, [[ProductionIG Production I.G]], [[Studio4C Studio4°C]], and ToeiAnimation.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: The Duel is ''full'' of this.
** Not to mention ''Origins'', which shows the Flood attacking more than one world other than Earth (which they didn't) and the Arbiter taking orders from a Flood-infected Prophet (which he didn't), the Forerunners living on just one world (they were a galaxy-spanning empire) and the humans and Covenant working together to stop the Flood from the start (they only started it ''after'' the Flood began attacking, which was after Truth and the Loyalists went through the Ark Portal, therefore nullifying the presence of Grunts, Drones, Jackals, and Brutes.) Partially justified in that the story was being told by a [[spoiler:rampant]] Cortana who had far exceeded the lifespan of a "smart" AI, so she may have simply been getting details wrong.

''Halo Legends'' is an anime-styled series of seven short stores set in the ''{{Halo}}'' universe. What ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'' did for the ''Film/TheMatrix'' films and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'' did for ''TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', ''Halo Legends'' does for the ''Halo'' ExpandedUniverse. It was produced by Microsoft's internal Halo entertainment team, 343 Industries. It is under six production houses, namely BeeTrain, {{Studio Bones}}, Casio Entertainment, [[ProductionIG Production I.G]], [[Studio4C Studio4°C]], and ToeiAnimation.

* BroadStrokes: The shorts take many liberties with the previous canon and storyline. [[RuinedFOREVER This quickly became contested among the fans]].

-->'''SPARTAN-1337''': No one else would say it, so I will: the fact that I never give up is one of my good points!

* ThisIsSparta: Spartan 1337 In the Odd One Out "I am Spartan!"

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]:

** The Red Elite in the Package...''tossing MC an Energy Sword'', when MC's out of bullets.

* OutOfCharacter: While Dr. Halsey has previously been depicted as a cold, stoic character who the Spartans see as a motherly figure of sorts, in ''The Package'', she was put in a role of a typical ActionGirl and was close to flirting with John.

* FridgeBrilliance: The collection is titled Halo Legends, and particularly in the case of ''The Duel,'' they mean it. Just as the legends of King Arthur are based (loosely) on real events and people with plenty of exaggeration and anachronism, so too would the story of the first Arbiter be conflated to an epic tale of betrayal that perhaps kind of resembles historical events if you look at it funny--but screw it, it's an entertaining way to tell the tale, no?
* {{Foreshadowing}} : The "alien" ruins in the Heian planet. When you see it, you can clearly see the elements of ancient human architecture in them. It seems the producers were lazy, right?
** [[spoiler:Wrong!! HaloCryptum revealed that those ruins could be the last remnants of the prehistoric human civilization once rival the Forerunners. And the final story of HaloEvolutions]].

* AnimeHair: Not surprising, considering this is an anime. In the commentary track of "The Babysitter" it's noted that real life Marines would pretty much all have buzz cuts and look like each other, but AnimeHair and different body types were used to distinguish them, and in the ODST universe they're an SAS/Special forces analog, who can and do have long hair, such as Buck in ODST (given that Buck is NathanFillion AND a [[{{Firefly}} Mal]] {{Expy}}, you don't tell him what to do).

** Not to mention ''Origins'', which shows the Flood attacking more than one world other than Earth (which they didn't) and the Arbiter taking orders from a Flood-infected Prophet (which he didn't), the Forerunners living on just one world (they were a galaxy-spanning empire) and the humans and Covenant working together to stop the Flood from the start (they only started it ''after'' the Flood began attacking, which was after Truth and the Loyalists went through the Ark Portal, therefore nullifying the presence of Grunts, Drones, Jackals, and Brutes.)
*** Partially justified in that the story was being told by a [[spoiler:rampant]] Cortana who had far exceeded the lifespan of a "smart" AI.
*** It never actually states that the Forerunners only lived on one planet it merely shows the invasion of one of their planets or possibly several of them. Halo Cryptum gives the impression that a lot of them look pretty similar.

** Cal is sent to a squad of normal human beings and is a SuperSoldier badass who is believe to be male. She is an amazing shot and her gender is only discovered after being injured. She also dies. [[RedVsBlue Who else could we be talking about?]]

** Averted when [[spoiler: Frederic-104 remains behind to hold off seeming overwhelming numbers of covenant while armed only with two knives...[[OneManArmy And survives]] ]].
*** To be fair [[spoiler: Fred is practically Mr. Knives in the novels. Anyone who read the books first ''knew'' what was gonna happen when Fred busted out the knives. [[IncrediblyLamePun Knife to see you, indeed.]] ]]

* SamusIsAGirl ([[spoiler: The SPARTAN in the first episode of ''Halo Legends'' is female. She never speaks except when her helmet is torn off, and as she seemed to have been mortally wounded, the trope seems played more so the bigoted squad member realizes that there are actual humans underneath the armor than any particular importance on femininity.]]))

** MamikoNoto: the Japanese voice of the Spartan in the Babysitter. Yes, [[{{Clannad}} Kotomi Ichinose]] is CAL. And it wasn't good enough, Ichinose's English VA Emily Neves voices Cal as well.

''Halo Legends'' is an anime-styled series of seven short stores set in the ''{{Halo}}'' universe. What ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'' did for the ''Film/TheMatrix'' films and ''BatmanGothamKnight'' did for ''TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', ''Halo Legends'' does for the ''Halo'' ExpandedUniverse. It was produced by Microsoft's internal Halo entertainment team, 343 Industries. It is under six production houses, namely BeeTrain, {{Studio Bones}}, Casio Entertainment, [[ProductionIG Production I.G]], [[Studio4C Studio4°C]], and ToeiAnimation.

** [[TheAnimatrix Hideki Futumura]]

''Halo Legends'' is an anime-styled series of seven short stores set in the ''{{Halo}}'' universe. What ''TheAnimatrix'' did for the ''TheMatrix'' films and ''BatmanGothamKnight'' did for ''TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', ''Halo Legends'' does for the ''Halo'' ExpandedUniverse. It was produced by Microsoft's internal Halo entertainment team, 343 Industries. It is under six production houses, namely BeeTrain, {{Studio Bones}}, Casio Entertainment, [[ProductionIG Production I.G]], [[Studio4C Studio4°C]], and ToeiAnimation.

* ( NotADeconstruction: Which is all brought up often in the other EU.

* ThisIsSparta: Spartan 1113 In the Odd One Out "I am Spartan!"

The fan reaction is [[YourMileageMayVary pretty split]] on how good these stories are.

* OrIsIt: The Flood spore that [[spoiler: (somehow) survives the Halo Effect in Origins II]].