 Microsoft announced at Comic @-@ Con 2009 that it was overseeing production of a series of seven short anime films , together called Halo Legends . Financed by 343 Industries , the animation was created by five Japanese production houses : Bones , Casio Entertainment , Production I.G. , Studio 4 ° C , and Toei Animation . Shinji Aramaki , creator and director of Appleseed and Appleseed Ex Machina , served as the project 's creative director . Warner Bros. distributed Legends on DVD and Blu @-@ ray in February 2010 . Six of the stories are officially part of the Halo canon , with the seventh , made by Toei , intended to be a parody of the universe . In mid @-@ July 2015 , 343 Industries announced that a new animated series of Halo will be included in the Halo 5 : Guardians Limited Edition and Collector 's Edition called Halo : The Fall of Reach , and will be based on the book Halo : The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund . 
