The Halo Anime You NEED To Watch 

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I will not take this 1337 slander Laper

Fun fact: when Ghost bites the dust in Prototype, his commanding officer listed him as MIA. Ghost was given the Spartan treatment. He was a real one.

Spartan 1337 is a treasure. He must be added to Canon.

I always viewed "the package" as a fanservice thrill ride, given how its just one constant marathon to the objective when you boil it down to its bare essentials. Prototype, Babysitter, The Duel & Homecoming are each bangers though.

I remember watching halo legends for the first time. It was amazing. I like the one where Cortana retells the backstory of the halo history. We are able to see so many different forerunner tech from that

In the short story "Midnight in the Heart of the Midlotian" Ghost from Prototype is mentioned in a throwaway line. Meaning, not only is that story concretely cannon, but Ghost made enough of an impact to be remembered by men he didnt even lead

The Babysitter was easily my favorite. This is exactly what the extended universe is for in my opinion. Telling smaller, suspenseful stories within the greater established universe. Loved the style and dynamic. I always felt bad for the Spartan who was just trying to complete her mission and save people who were unappreciative of her efforts. One of my other favorite short stories from Halo was Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian from Evolutions Volume I. There is an animated comic version on RU-vid, which is great. I agree that a grunt story from the rebellion would be awesome, or even animating the story of Kwassass from Ghosts of Onyx trying to understand and disarm the bomb Also, in the package, I never noticed until watching it again here that they made Halsey look almost exactly like Samus for some reason

I remember Prototype being my favorite when I was younger due to the bad ass action throughout the short Then I got older and understood the themes more and Prototype hit me like a Freight Train

The Prototype was my gateway into Armored Core and Gundam. I can't forgive the impact it's had on my wallet, but I also wouldn't have it any other way.

Fun fact, the creators of origins 2 actually explained that the reason we see the UNSC and the covenant teaming up at the end was because that was supposed to be a hint at what might have come next, before 343 went for the didactic storyline for halo 4 instead

I want an entire halo anime series so badly it's frustrating

As an aspiring artist and avid Sangheili fan, The Duel is absolutely beautiful. The story, style and of course battle scenes are awesome. The fact that this lone arbiter demolishes pretty much an entire covenant army with just energy swords is absolutely epic. It's got it's issues like you mentioned, but maybe it's the nostalgia of being some of the only Elite lore at the time. But I love it. Sidenote and hot take for the early part of the video ... I love the Prometheans and their design 🤷

In regards to Halo Legends 2, I couldn’t have said it better myself, the universe needs to expand again! ODST 2, a classic Rainbow 6/ Ghost Recon style marine squad shooter, and flood horror game would be great too!

One of the biggest highlights for me was the soundtrack for this series. Listen to Halo Legends Epsilon Suite. One of the best renditions.

There's a story about a Flood outbreak on the Spirit of Fire between Halo Wars 1 and 2. Serina, Jerome and others... I'd like to see that stroy told via animation.

For a halo legends 2, I think a couple ideas would be cool: Fleshing out and following the pov of the marine team that followed Keyes in halo CE Following an officer or marines pov on the in amber clad during their operation over 05s library and how the flood took over and the human ppv during that operation. The covenant pov during the great schism and flood invasion of high charity Exploring the covenant politics and society more A court scene or exploration of ethics regarding Dr Halsey spartan program and perhaps a whistle blower and the spartans family (if they're still alive, reaction to it) Another ODST storyline, watching a day at the beach is pure fun, and its always cool to see coordinated squad tactics take out superior armed enemies vs a spartan carrying a battle A space battle, following the pov os a unsc or covenant commander, perhaps the covenant pov of fighting against Cole. A naval battle between covenant and unsc or insurrectionists on the water, perhaps over some underwater forerunner ruins A civilian pov of the fall of new Mombasa, sort of like the h3 odst audio logs, where you feel the desperation of hopelessness of the situation, but a glimmer of hope re emerges when the unsc send reinforcements to the city. 05s penitent tangents descent into rampant and how the flood outbreak occured in installation 05. 343 isn't afraid of making things gory or have mature themes in extended universe, so I would love them to explore ideas that I don't think they are allowed to in any mainline game.

what's also cool is that despite the inaccuracies, most of the shorts here are still canon, especially Duel since it's referenced a lot in a Halo 2 Terminal video

I've always been a person who'd willingly die on the hill that halo deserved a proper animated show rather than live action, and I've always used Halo Legends as a prime example, as it really has so much potential and quality to it.

I personally would love a story focused on a Brute that is a staunch believer in the Great Journey, that refuses to go onto the Banished dreadnought while their planets debris are going to fall onto one of the moons. I think it would be a cool story to tell since you could have a Banished commander that is adamant in saving this Brute, whether because they’re related or they just wish to save every brute.

Already seen it and own it on DVD. still on my shelf. All the episodes are fantastic.

I would love a Halo Legends short that gives us a proper space battle. Not just it as a background event, but as the main focus. Channel some of that Eric Nylund submarine warfare vibe.

This anime deserves more love. Most people shut it down for being anime but halo was born in anime. Its so amazing seeing the halo 3 and halo wars art style be used in this anime aswell before the reach style took over everything. This anime was so ahead of its time and its a shame to see it barley get the love and praise it deserves. We should change that and make people more aware of this. Prototype is such an amazing short from this too. It makes me tear up every time near the end. Thank you Laper Larden. Your helping get the word out there about this cinematic masterpiece. It deserves to be brought up anytime people talk about video game adaptions. cause this has always been a great example of how to do one!

After watching this, you should go over the Halo Evolutions stories!

Man i just want another halo legends, theres no reason why we havent gotten another one when Anime has become so mainstream at this point

Legends has always been my favourite piece of Halo expanded universe. Guess it's time for another rewatch. Gods, I haven't watched this thing through in a years.

Legends is awesome. I know the reception of it at the time was pretty mixed, like I remember seeing a lot of old forum posts from the time saying shit like "Legends is stupid" or "Halo isn't anime", but I think we've long since hit the point where people can actually appreciate it for what it is, and would like to see a sequel. I'd love to see a Legends 2.

I want an oni story or getting to see Harvest for a sgt johnson story.

Homecoming is easily my favorite short in Legends. The art style is also very old school like classic Gundam and Voltron type, which were my favorites growing up

Origins STILL gives me fan shivers. Seeing things we'd only heard whispers of, seeing the Halos fire... So so good

absolutely GOATED buncha shorts, the music alone is some of the best in all of halo

I'd personally love to see a Halo game in the style of Star Trek Online. An MMO with multiple factions, varied races, different storylines for the factions that converge after a certain point (like when the Human Covenant War ends and then they'd be able to play the same mission expansions moving forward) super deep customization of uniforms, squadmates, equipment, crews, ships, fun combat both in space with full 3D movement and on the ground with your personal away team.

Sgt. Johnson as a Halo Legends 2 Story? OORAH!

Something i love about the halo legends stuff is how well it portraits the UNSC soldiers in, the babysitter, prototype and homecoming. the fact we actually get normal soldiers in the marines is something i love. Johnson was hands down one of the best characters in all of halo and deserves every bit of love so to see more characters who like Johnsen were just boots on the ground was fantastic. The best parts of the series is, The Babysitters, prototype, homecoming and odd one out. something i use as head canon just because its funny is the Odd one out is actually a television series in the halo universe to advertise Spartans towards kids. just something that would explain why its so over the top and crazy while being pretty realistic seeing as if the UNSC didn't do crazy propaganda like make their super soldiers look like superheroes they would have failed at doing propaganda. after all as stated in lore and the novels, the spartans became the face of the UNSC's fight against the covenant so it makes sense they used all kinds of crazy propaganda to get people to support them and the spartan program. look back at world war 2 with the loonie toons in bugs bunny and other cartoons used to get people to by war bonds to support the war.

I remember when I got Halo Legends for my birthday when I was a kid. This was in the time between Halo 3 and Reach releasing and I would make my family watch it with me all the time. I hope that 343 will have the common sense to do something like Halo Legends again but seeing as the Paramount series exists I highly doubt they would ever greenlight a Halo Legends 2

The Package, The Babysitter and Origins were always my favourite of the bunch, tho I loved The Duel for its art style too. The soundtrack for all the episodes was top notch too, with Sacred Icon II being the best among them

Prototype is by far my favorite, it's not even a story about Spartans but rather a normal human marine who at one point or another lost his humanity and only ever regained it near the end of his life. Not to mention that the Prototype Mechan Armor that was introduced was cool as hell. In all honesty it makes more sense for the UNSC to want to mass-produce those rather than mass-producing whatever the hell the Mantis (mech introduced in Halo 4) is supposed to be. Sure in universe I imagine it would cost a TON, however considering how awesome it was in the animation I have no doubt in my mind that it would be TOTALLY worth it. Even if they had to water it down for gameplay reasons I still think it would be cool. Imagine Master Chief piloting that thing, a normal human was destroying the Covenant, imagine what Chief could do with it.

Love Halo Legends getting some much need love! I always liked the theory that Origins part 2 is so inaccurate because of Cortana's rampancy. She's misremembering events. Also the ruins in Babysitter aren't actually implied to be Forerunner but rather ancient human.

I always thought that the babysitter eluded to ancient humans that were there before the firing of the rings 👐

odd one out is to this day, my favorite part of halo legends.

There should be a copy of the animatrix and halo legends permanently nailed to the wall in the brand director's office. Microsoft's infinite money and all they can think of for modern halo EU material is books only hiddenxperia will read.

Odd One Out is my favorite because of how ridiculous it is compared to the rest of the stories and Halo as a whole. It has been theorized that the superhuman acrobatic kids are Spartans themselves. The idea of young Spartan 2s or 3s crash landing on a random planet and being raised by an A.I. is very unique and interesting in my opinion. It should be explored in Canon.

A Halo series that actually uses and reimagines the music from the games.

Swords on snowbound is too accurate Lmfaoo

And this is the beginning of modern halo lore

14:50 - I was always under the impression that the ruins were ancient human (pre the first rings firing) and not Forerunner.

While you’re making your way through the non-game Halo releases (Forward Unto Dawn, Nightfall, etc), will you be reviewing The Fall Of Reach and Evolutions (books, animations, or both)? Thanks

I would like to see an 20-30min vid of the halo's 2 Quarantine zone on when the humans discover the library and them fighting the flood while tryin to recover the index/ sacred icon

Lmao I'm glad you called out the social lobbies. Personally The Duel is my favorite because I love Covenant lore. To be honest I love every short in Legends. I'd love some lore focusing on The Banished, how Jega became to be Escharum's most trusted Elite friend would be a cool one. I know he is one of the Silent Shadow members from Headhunters, but what happens after is what I want to know.

Not me struggling to stifle an insurmountable army of chuckles at work

4:27 "And if there WÆRE no *_fish-people,_* there'd be no need to guard the Chest." - Mullroy, Dead Man's Chest (played by Angus Barnett).

1337 looking like he getting S tier Laper Larden, puts him in C tier Betrayed (*halo announcer*)

Literally just animate the books and I’ll be happy, I really just want to see chief punch a banshee out of the sky.

All the ones I liked the most are in S tier, except The Package. Still think that’s a hot take for it being in C. Fun fact, the Package armour was used as inspiration for Blue Team’s GEN3 armour, minus the Kelly heels and breast armour

Interesting fact is Yasuharu Takanashi who made the music in the Arbiter episode also made the whole soundtrack of Naruto, Fairy tail, Kengan Asura and Record of ragnarok while the rest of episodes was again Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori

That's Because Origin Part 2 It's Actually A Retcon Form 343i Or Frank O'Conor To Be Precise. If You Ever Wonder Why MC Said In Halo 4 "I Though We Had A Truce With The Covenant" This Is Why.

Operation Trebutchet doesn't use game assets. as that would cause microsoft to DMCA. But they I do love the shoutout to it, and you are right, it is a mod based on one of the lesser and honestly era's from the halo universe that I kind of wish they explored.

15:15 Yes, And it's glorius

I really appreciate this review’s emphasis on how 343 industries has an opportunity to create new experiences for halo fans, I think there’s a huge opportunity for the studio and fans alike that I’m sure everyone agrees the studio is holding back. You’ve earned my subscription. Keep up the high quality content!

Hey Laper, I highly recommend watching The Mona Lisa animated movie (It came out as episodes back on halo waypoint, I think). It probably has my favourite depiction of the flood in it.

This alone made me remember why i love halo so much

With 343's new leadership, Infinite finally getting the brand back on its feet, and 343 basically confirming new projects are in the works, I really think its time to branch out again. Just take the risk an let some other studios make some spinoff's please. They don't need to be insane huge games, I just really wanna see some new and different stuff akin to ODST. Like maybe a Sword of Sanghelious game, so people who don't read the books or played Halo 5 can see this new faction. Or we already have RTS Halo, so my pipe dream is turn based halo games done in the vein of Xcom. Like commanding a squad of marines or ODST's against the covenant in a small close quarters setting would be amazing. Then Spartan's could make special appearances as essentially hero units. I would literally kill for that game. I just really hope in the next 10 years we see more games then just "Halo 7" cause holy shit ill cry.

i really do need to watch these. nice vid as always!

19:48 - and with that 1 line of dialogue, you've given me more information about "The Endless" than 343i have to me during the Infinite campaign. (if that is true, I legitimately didn't know that they survived the Halo rings firing and that's why the Forerunners were so afraid of them).

The community think quite alike when it comes to wanting the lore to be expanded by different mediums. Hopefully the new leadership will listen but till then it's ALL up to the community to expand what they can. I myself got sick of waiting for new lore and decided to make an audio series helping to expand cities, worlds, ships and characters that have little to no backstory while also introducing new ones. It is called Spartan Stories but only because of the ones telling the story. I hope you'll check it out if you have the time. Always excited to see your videos! Prototype is best type.

I’ve never seen Halo legends, all I know is that the soundtrack absolutely SLAPS

On one hand I would like an animation series that expands the lore and universe of Halo. On the other hand, I knew that Microsoft knew that nostalgia is far less costly and more profitable compared to producing a new spinoff titles/animations/TV show and make banks by selling CE Mark V armor.

Bro this is your best video. I love the style.

The Package should be at least B tier. It shows the courage and what a Spartan is capable of . I would however love to see an ODST story about Reach or Sargeant Johnson on Harvest.

1337 is canon and no one can change my mind XD On a real note, this has the same energy as Tartakovsky's Clone Wars series; crafted from love and a unique viewpoint into the worlds of Halo and Star Wars respectively

“I am SPARTAN…. 1337”

Fun fact obrian dies in halo 2 in the a day at the beach cutscene

I absolutely adore The babysitter, The prototype, and the duel. My bottom of the list would definitely be the package and Spartan 1337. Those 2 always irritated me but I've grown to respect them for what they are (especially for the memes). Great video as always man. Your editing, your humor, and clear passion for the Halo franchise are shown in every video 👍

Glad to see you back m8 :D

2011, Had this on disc, Played this and Halo Reach all the time.

11:38 whenever i see This short, the 1st thing that come to my mind is the awesome Sonic cd intro.

NGL I would love to see spartan 1337 return, probably comedic focus like One punch man.

I need to see the brute rebellion with Thel Vadam as shipmaster hunting down Atriox before being reassigned to Reach, with Thel being the only Elite that Atriox fears can destroy his rebellion, since Thel is the youngest and by far the most successful shipmaster, bolstering tactical knowledge that rivals that of the prophets themselves. Showing that if Thel wasnt reassigned Atrox wouldve fallen. However, because he was replaced in his post for a lesser, since the prophets didnt take Atriox seriously, that lead to Atriox swiftly and ferociously defeating the covenant to the point they didnt stand a chance. Giving us a glimpse at what couldve been if Thel Vadam had stayed to fight him. Maybe they even have a 1v1 which could explain how he lost his arm, by the blade of our future arbiter, forcing Atriox to retreat for the first time. Only for Thel to be commanded back to high charity before he could finish his fight. I would also like to see the story of the Family excaping new mombasa during its attack that was told through ODSTs terminals. Seeing the covenant war from the side of a civillian is something we have never seen before. It can open up gateways for a suspensful thriller or horor, which can capitalize on showing the covenants lack of empathy through seeing their systematic genocides in the city as our civillian tries to excape. Even arming himself with a fallen rifle. A tale so full of danger that even a fight with a single grunt conveys how easily even they can kill a human, leaving our hero/heron battered and beaten. Ending the episode with our vivillian running to an exit, or evac pelican, only to witness his excape blow up in his face, stunned we see him get shot in the back bu a spiker, and this is where we get a frame for frame mirroring of maranda keys death. And the episode fades to black moments after we see their body slump to the floor. Leaving us on the note of brutality and hopelesness. showcasing how thorough the covenant was with eliminating survivors. Seeing the taming of the lekolos would be cool, but there isnt much can be said about that.

Honestly I never seen this movie after looking at it. I noticed something strange about it and looking at the reviews. And it's very fascinating like it's kind of like a what if situation. Maybe I don't know but it looks interesting. I still have no idea. If I'll watch It though. I mean, if you people really want me to watch It. Let me know if it's good like the other halo movies

Love this series

W content as Always that was a great watch... Ok ima watch halo legends 🍿🍿🍿

Damn some good ass editing, scripting on point and super digestable for new viewers. Do the halo music not get copyright claimed if you have it quiet enough or do they not mind as long as it's used in a halo video?

Personally, my favorite was always The Duel and Prototype. Both storywise I've always liked. And while I can understand the gripe with Duel's art style, personally, that's what I really liked about it, aside from the story. Halo Legends overall though I always thought could have had more, and felt way too short for how many stories there could have been (just a few more stories would have been ok I think). But nevertheless even the worst ones are still decent, at least to me. I honestly never knew the reception was as mixed as it was though... Glad to see someone revisiting the DVD though (I don't hear it referenced often).

Just keep in mind Origins 1 and 2 aren’t completely canon. And Odd Man Out is completely not canon but is great for laughs and giggles

Everyone hated this when it came out, i loved it and still enjoy it to this day. Fan servicey, and maybe a bit weird in terms of already established canon. At least it was paramount plus levels of change

Small nitpicky correction: the Yugioh anime that everyone knows was animated by Studio Gallop after Kazuki Takahashi pivoted the manga to feature card games more prominently. Toei did animate yugioh, but it was an adaptation of the original manga run - more colloquially known as season zero. Otherwise, great video man!

This man thinks we’ll take the 1337 slander! Jokes aside, this was a really enjoyable video! And I agree that a lot of these did feel like proof of concepts for a much grater project. Can’t wait to see what else you’ll be cooking!

Nice way to start the morning

i really hope you take a look at the mona lisa motion comic, just a great lil bit of halo horror.

Just sayin', that Prophet's head would 'a been fuckin' *gone* when O'Brian took that shot.

7:05 we will never stop the Sangheili social severs

Prototype is def my favorite piece of Halo media period, even over the games, it's just so good mmm ODST after that, I'd love another ODST game...Just not in 343's current style of doing things. (Edit) I also unironically would put "Odd one out" as my 2nd favorite one it's just good.

2:47 YES!!! Tier list !!! LETS GOOOOOO!!

The funny thing here is that Halo Legends project was so amazing compared to Star Wars Vision

The TV show should been the book harvest imo.. follow the source material of it and bam great halo tv show

13:00 So if they did a halo hero shooter, like they were going to do before Infinite, and you could use the prototype armour set in 100% behind that project

i'd love short humans and ex covenant races trying to give peace a chance post war. i really wanna see the races mingling after the war and the stories that could come from.

Oooh oohh I a story in Halo legend has to be anime-like and anime is often way out of the box and bat shit crazy. So here's my proposal: An ONI whatever (has to be a cute chick that goes nyaa all the time of course) wakes up realizing she's been floodified and is sent on some kind of mission by the gravemind itself cuz why not. It will be a philosophical look at life or something and the futility of whatever and give new light into the mind of the Gravemind through the lens of a victim. Of course by the end she'll be a blood-finger-lickin lackey totally enamoured by her new fate as the gravemind has finally convinced her somehow and we end with a lot of death and her mind being assimilated fully as she fully turns into a flood form or something. Bonus points if the episode spawns a real life cult part of the community that advocates that the Flood are the good guys through obnoxious RU-vid essays. Fund me, Microsoft!

I’d like to see the original cannon revisited, where Humans were the Forerunners and not a separate spices. It would have made the relationship between them and the Covenant much more interesting.

I bet I'm not the o ly 1 that wanted the prototype suit a thing in the Halo games or the cannon lore similar to the cyclops in halo wars but stronger and better or even as a possible new spartan variant like a spartan 0 maybe since we got spartan 1 to 5 variants but why not a number 0, it would make sense as 1 comes after 0 and a proper way to buff marines and give them thst respect or a mega suit for future spartans and halo lore to ride in, Like imagine in game moving it around .😅