3/5/10 First Impressions HALO Legends, Toward the Terra
March 5th, 2010 by xXmarkXxSomewhat quiet on the site front, from which I gather that everybody is kind of busy. As per Zach’s suggestion I finally sat down yesterday to watch HALO Legends. Not being a fan of console shooters I didn’t know much going in, except what I had heard on some podcasts and read at anime sites. Overall, I wasn’t blown away by the quality of the animation but it was intriguing to think that this was all an exposition of a mythos that originated from a video game. I guess that’s not too uncommon. One thing that’s nice about the HALO universe, in my opinion, is that it’s not one of these post-apocalyptic Mad Max type settings. I’m seriously getting sick of that. Fallout 3, Borderlands, and then Rage coming out sometime soon. It’s nice to see more a more traditional science fiction space marine type universe. It’s important to note that Halo legends is an anthology, and I know everybody is saying the last chapter is the best but I was so put off by the 3d that I couldn’t watch it. Probably liked ‘odd one out’ and ‘the babysitter’ the most.
Another anime I’ve been watching recently is ‘Toward the Terra’ a full length anime movie which was originally released in 1980. Came across this from the review in the most recent issue of OtakuUSA. At the time I was like, really love the androgynous beauty of the character design until I found out that that picture is in fact a guy. Still think it’s a great design and love how it’s just like, ‘yeah, listening to headphones.’ After I watched the trailer, I thought, if you were really into Interstella 5555 and wanted to scratch that itch you could probably do pretty good cuing up discovery on your mp3 player and watching this movie.
