Games and animation collide in a major event for fans of both, as Warner Bros. releases this week the original anime anthology Halo Legends.
The Warner Bros. release ($19.98 DVD, $29.98 special edition DVD, $34.99 Blu-ray) includes eight anime shorts created by many of the top directors and studios in the business. Among them are studios Production I.G., Bones, Toei, Studio 4’C and Casio Entertainment, and directors Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed), Hideki Futamura (The Animatrix), Daisuke Nishio (Dragonball Z), Hiroshi Yamazaki (Karas), Toshiyuki Kanno (Black Lagoon), Koichi Mashimo (Blade of the Immortal) and Koji Sawai (Patlabor); directors/action designers Tomoki Kyoda (Eureka Seven, Evangelion 1.0) and Yasushi Muraki (Macross Plus, Vampire Hunter D); and writer Dai Sato (Cowboy Bebop).
Here’s a couple of new clips from the release, the first from the episode ‘Prototype,’ from co-directors Tomoki Kyoda and Yasushi Muraki, and Studio Bones.
And here’s a clip from ‘The Babysitter,’ from director Toshiuki Kanno and Studio 4’C.
(For more clips, check out our Animag TV video player at www.animationmagazine.net/tv.)
Also out this week is the Canadian comedy series Bob and Margaret: The Complete First Season (Phase 4 Films, $19.99), Scooby-Doo: Abracadabra-Doo (Warner Bros., $19.98), The Spectacular Spider-Man: Vol. 6 and Vol. 7 (Sony, $19.94 each) and Zorro & Scarlet Whip Revealed (Image, $14.98)
For pint-size viewers, this week features the Olympics-themed Wow Wow Wubbzy: Go for Gold! (Anchor Bay, $14.98), Shaun the Sheep: A Woolly Good Time (HIT Entertainment, $14.98) and Sid the Science Kid: Ruler of Thumb (NCircle Entertainment, $12.99).
And for anime fans, there’s Bleach Box Set 4, Part 2 (VIZ, $49.95), Naruto Uncut: Season 2, Vol. 1 (VIZ, $39.97), Case Closed Movie 6: Phantom of Baker Street (FUNimation, $19.98) and Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Box Two (FUNimation, $59.98).
