Halo helped Microsoft build its Xbox brand into legend with the Bungie-created series. At this week's Comic-Con, Microsoft and its newly created 343 Industries unveiled its plans to oversee a series of anime shorts that will come to DVD and Xbox Live, called Halo Legends.

With the help of Shinji Aramaki, director of the stellar anime classics Appleseed and Appleseed Ex Machina, Halo fans who were initially weary about Master Chief's leap to the Japanese world of animation, might start to come around. Today, Microsoft released a short trailer of the new anime so you can judge for yourself.