Halo Legends

Halo Legends features seven different stories set in the Halo universe, each made by a different studio.

The Babysitter follows the Helljumpers, Orbital Drop Shock Troopers who are sent behind enemy lines to perform an assassination.

The Duel features the tale of an ancient Arbiter who refused to bow down to the Covenant religion. Branded a heretic, he must now face the consequences of his actions.

The Package depicts a group of Spartans, including the Master Chief, who are deployed to infiltrate a Covenant flagship and retrieve a “package” in a secret operation.

Origins shows Master Chief and Cortana stranded following the events of Halo 3, with Cortana summarizing the fall of the Forerunners, the defeat of the Flood, and the rise of humanity as well as the events of the Human-Covenant War.

Homecoming centers on the Spartan Daisy, who reminisces on her past, and the SPARTAN-II project while evacuating UNSC soldiers pinned down by Covenant forces.

Prototype is viewed from the perspective of Marine Sergeant Ghost, who is determined to fight for all he is worth in order to make up for past grievances.

Odd One Out is a non-canon parody of Halo featuring Spartan 1337, who suffers from extremely bad luck.

Master Chief Main

Genda, Tesshou Japanese

SPARTAN-1337 Main

Hirata, Hiroaki Japanese

Cortana Main

Touma, Yumi Japanese

Ghost Main

Fujiwara, Keiji Japanese

Daisy-023 Main

Kuwashima, Houko Japanese

Fal 'Chavamee Main

Touchi, Hiroki Japanese

CAL-141 Main

Noto, Mamiko Japanese

O'Brien Main

Shigematsu, Tomo Japanese

Big Brother Main

Seki, Tomokazu Japanese

Haka Main

Ootomo, Ryuuzaburou Japanese

Sugiyama, Keiichi Co-Director

Tanaka, Takahiro Co-Director, Animation Director

Minami, Masahiko Producer

Ishikawa, Mitsuhisa Producer, Executive Producer

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Mar 25, 2021

GABRIELGANZAGA6

Recommended

if you have not gotten into the lore of halo or have not played the games at all then you will absolutely not like this show, but if you have it is an amazing watch.


there are so many stories in the halo lore that are in this show which is just amazing, and personally makes me so happy, and how they executed all these stories was just amazing. if you have never heard of halo then everything makes absolutely no sense, I'm pretty sure they don't explain anything about the universe in the show so if you come in blind then you won't have ... a good time.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Apr 19, 2011

Umm_what

Mixed Feelings

Okay, Halo Legends hmm. Hard to rate being a collection or ONA. Seems the ratings and reviews are all over the place and if you don't like halo to begin with, you probably won't like Halo Legends.
I am a fan of the Halo series, I've read some of the books and I own or owned all of the games but one. But I'm not so much a super halo geek fan that I approached this with a biased opinion, ZOMG!! ItZ Haloz!! AHM CHARGIN MAH...you get the picture.
I'm going to give each segment it's own overall rating:

Origins part one and two is first ... up and it's a really good back story to the depth of the halo universe so, if you interested about the expanded universe the covers a lot. It's well animated and the narrator does a fine job as well. Not much more I can say about it I guess. 8/10

The Duel is just like one of those animes that takes itself too seriously. All the elites are now wearing samurai armor and it seems the Elite society is just like pre-modern Japan. Sure, maybe there's some similarities with Elite and Samurai code of honor but yeah...that's about it for similarities. Also I didn't like the ridiculous filter they used over the animation, it's like your watching it through a translucent glass window. 3/10

I feel iffy about the next segment, "Homecoming". It's well animated, great sound and the action scenes are well presented but it was more about two friends or lovers or whatever that were in the spartan program. It's all deep thoughts and memories. The MC goes to her former home to find she's been replaced. It's like when one of the gundam series (00, wing or seed) tries to do a heartfelt self discovery episode and it ends of feeling too manufactured. 6/10

Next is Odd One Out. I know it's suppose to be comic releif but ughhh. The Spartans name is 1337. He fights a t-rex then two super powered teenagers join him to fight a giant ape thing. Yeah, dbz fans, you can have this one. 3/10

Prototype is pretty good if you just want so damn action. Actually it feels like something right out of one of the games. The covenant come to steal some prototype technology and the commanding officer ops to use it in the fight rather than give it up. The visuals are exciting and like I said, good action. 7/10

I'm not sure why but the version I watched on Netflix didn't have the segment called The Package. Oh well, I'm sure it's okay.

Lastly, is my favorite, The babysitter. The baby sitter here is a spartan and the babies are the ODST, not that ODST are babies, more like reliable spec op badasses. It's not like the stories amazing though, it's just about the rivarly between ODST and Spartans. The animation is great and very lucid looking. It gave a very nice atmosphere, like I was reading it in a book. Actually if the writers and production house that made this took it upon themselves to make an animation adaption of the Halo book Ghost of Onyx, well, that would be damn alright with me.

Story - 6/10
Art - 8/10
Sound - 7/10
Character - 6/10
Enjoyment - 5/10
Overall 6/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 2, 2019

BlueEmbers

Not Recommended

The foremost obnoxious element of the series is the sheer overpowered, Steven Spielberg amped action. The story is propped up with Halo Lore which will diddle most Halo fans. The art is acceptable, and the sound is okay.

That aside, dont expect to be met by any sort of cutting edge animation, in unique character exploration, or really anything that makes it more than Halo fan service.

While the different aspects of the series aren't dreadful in particular, the lack of uniqueness makes for a show that you cant wait to move on from,or unless you're a Halo nerd, you'll enjoy the novelty of it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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