Star Wars: Visions

If you have never watched Star Wars, you can watch the anime without any problems, if you know what a Jedi is, that's fine. Another attempt by Disney to do something different with Star Wars, being Japanese we can see samurai jedi and homages to classic manga works like "Vagabond" and "Astro Boy" with good art, but it's a shame that it's a bad anime....

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

-Story: 4/10 (Lack of plot)
Star Wars visions has reasonably good ideas for its episodes but its big problem would be their short screen time, it is hard to build a good story in only fourteen minutes, ... as we can see, in many episodes the flaw is evident, where the anime shows us dramas and fights, without even presenting the characters or a good context. Such factors that make climactic scenes futile and ignorable, unless you're the type to be entertained by anything.

-Art: 8/10 (Beautiful and creative)
The production is the best part of the show, each studio did their best and did their best to make their animations, especially episodes one and three, where it is beautiful in artistic terms and very well directed. impressive.

-Sound: 6/10 (ok...)
The soundtracks vary with the episodes, but there is nothing so remarkable, the sound effects are good, but that's about it

-Characters: 4/10 (disposable...)
Of all the episodes we have at most 3 good characters, little screen time hinders you from generating some empathy for the characters, in its great majority they are nothing but posts without charisma or even without motivations or personality. In a certain episode the anime even tries to make a drama with the death of a character that you didn't even realize was there so useless, it was funny.

-Enjoyment: 4.5/10 (You can stay awake)
Honestly, none of the nine episodes I consider good, what saves the anime from boring you is that it's short. Star Wars Visions is nothing but a show of animation and random fights on your screen.

I grew up a Star Wars fan, and I haven't ever deviated from that. I love Star Wars, and I also love anime. I cannot explain how excited I was for this show to come out, but I am extremely disappointed. I heard Star Wars anime and that peaked my interest.

I'm not complaining about it being episodic either that wasn't my issue, I liked that each episode felt different from the last. Art and animation was different in every episode. This is honestly just a horrible concept. Disney advertised that a bunch of studios in Japan would be making their own ONA's on Star ... Wars and it's clear that some of the studios knew nothing about Star Wars.

Episode 1: I'm not a fan of 3D anime, but I really liked this episode. It was animated really well and didn't try to rush a story in 9 min like some of the other episodes. It just got straight to the point and I was satisfied and hooked on the rest of the show instantly. 8/10

Episode 2: Easily my least favorite in the series. Had absolutely nothing to do with Star Wars, so the studio threw in Boba Fett and Jabba the Hutt just to get the title right. Not much else to say. 1/10

Episode 3: Ok actually what the fuck was this episode. I don't think Studio Trigger did their research on Star Wars at all. Fighting in space with no space suits, a suit powered by kyber crystals, an astronomically long lightsaber. This was the dumbest shit I've ever seen. 2/10

Episode 4: I liked this episode the first time I watched it, but it's just extremely forgettable. I couldn't tell you what happened in this episode and I actually had to go back to Disney+ to see what this episode was. 4/10

Episode 5: I didn't hate this episode either it was just super rushed. They tried to fit an entire story line into one episode and it didn't work. I feel like this episode could've been better with more backstory or a longer runtime. 3/10

Episode 6: I really liked the art style of this episode and animation of this episode. I also really liked the sound design of it. That's all I liked though. It was the most rushed episode in the series and it made the least amount of sense. (spoiler) A droid being a Jedi, being able to use the force, it just made no sense. 2/10

Episode 7: I felt like this was gonna be a really good episode. The writing at the beginning was very strong, and they did a very good job of building up the villain. But they spent too much time doing that so the pay off wasn't satisfying. (spoiler) The villain was built up to be this super strong ex-Sith, but he was beaten very quickly with little resistance at all. 4/10

Episode 8: I absolutely loved this episode. 0 complaints. They fit a very well developed story with great characters into a 20 min runtime without making it feel rushed. Every decision made by the characters was understandable and made sense whether you agree with them or not. All of their motivations were valid. 10/10

Episode 9: Bad, rushed, and forgettable story. I've never heard of Science SARU before, but I really liked both of their episodes' art style and animation. The story of this episode was just awful though. The characters just seemed fake and unrealistic to me. 2/10

So yeah, this exists. Why, you may ask? Cuz it’s an easy way for Disney to make a cash grab and popularize Star Wars in the anime community. And let me just get started: this anime is awful.

First off, gotta explain the concept: 9 episodes, 9 studios making each one of those episodes. Got it? Now this could work, but in the short time each episode has they can only develop so much and the stories do not connect throughout the episodes.

The first episode was… not bad. It felt like Vagabond with lightsabers, the art style was fun and the plot was decent with ... the run time of the episode. Then it all went downhill, with episode 2. The episode was trash, the story was downright awful, the characters were annoying, the art took a major step back. But this wasn’t the worst episode. No, no, no, no. Episode 3 is utter garbage. Not only were the characters uninteresting but the consistency was terrible, I mean they literally fought in space without the effect of gravity or worrying about oxygen. The rest of the episodes kept the same amount of quality, and honestly I might be mentally ill to keep going to watch this terrible anime, but I like to finish things so I did. Characters were bland, bland stories, bland everything. As a huge Star Wars fans this anime dishonors the franchise and it should be burned to the ground so no one has to watch this piece of shit.

So do I recommend this? NO. This is by far the worst Star Wars content I’ve ever watched (yes I’ve watched the Sequels and Star Wars Resistance). Hope this helps :)

No connection between episodes, the story was half-baked and utilised on the most common anime tropes. Trying to set emotional backstories for characters we know for 10 minutes is a joke. No way I get attached to a character that quickly. It felt rushed and didn't capture that Star Wars feeling for me. Trying to do that every single episode was a such a mistake I do not know how it was even approved.
Soundtrack was fairly bland and didn't scream Star Wars to me. Animation was fine but nothing special. It felt super rushed.
Waiting for each episode to end was dreadful. Good job Disney, ... you shat all over Star Wars. Hope you're proud.

I think it's a bit my fault that I gave it such a low rating since I had too much hype at the time of the release of this anime series ( this is a review by a otaku and star wars fan )

STORY (6 fair) : well I can't say much about the story of a single chapter since they are all completely different but I must say that the chapters should have been longer since many of them didn't even manage to build a good idea of ​​the story of the chapter or the world in which this was turned

ART (10 outsanding) ... : Well this is disney and it has gigantic amounts of money so if we put that together with Japanese animation studios, a star wars license and an indefinite budget then this is what you have one of the most beautiful animes I have ever seen or well the most beautiful animes that I have seen, the animation style of all the studios is somewhat noticeable (some more than others, like the ronnin episode) I have little to say about the simply unique and beautiful art

SOUND (10 outsanding) So this is star wars many of the sound effects already had them as well as many of the songs and how do I say the new songs are incredible sincse finite BUDGET

CHARACTERS :(5 mediocre) all the characters are very meh cool but meh but you can't blame him too much since they are only characters from one chapter, I would like disney to see all these mini animes and decide to serialize the most promising ones

OVERALL (4 bad) : this star wars "new show" it´s very strange and in some ways vere mediocre in terms of history but in some moments I got overhypes with the battles
Apart from this, many chapters were a bit difficult to see because of how boring or not very entertaining they became.

There were only two episodes that were worth watching. The other episodes had terrible art and story overall. The second episde felt so bad after watching the first one, which was one of the good episodes, that I spent the whole time wondering what I was watching and if it wasn't some kind of a joke.
As for sound, it was very nice and enjoyable. The art of some of the episodes was good while of others just bad. The story had no connection at all, each episode had a different charecters and situations, and most of them were just like a cartoon for 3 ... year olds.
Overall would NOT reccomend.

I wanted to like this. I really did. Star wars holds a special place in my heart, so when I saw there was an anime based on it, I grew very excited! Finally, someone to do lightsaber duals justice, explore other planets and species. I was expecting something similar to the Clone Wars. I was disappointed.

My first gripe: the episodes were too short. 15 to 20 minutes is not enough time to develop a character, especially when you're put in a new environment every single time. This was especially obvious in the first few episodes. There is no time to establish anything about the characters ... and barely enough time to explore the planet they're on.

Episode 2 was especially horrendous. If you're going to include a character like Jabba the Hutt, you cannot do it as lightly as they did. Throughout all star wars adaptations, Jabba the Hutt is ruthless and only interested in what benefits him. He is not generous or sympathetic to anyone. Just create a new Hutt instead, don't include such an infamous character like Jabba.

Another frustrating episode was episode 3 which features 2 dark side twins. Aside from the fact that the male twin looks and acts incredibly similar to Luke Skywalker, I enjoyed the first 8 minutes or so. And then the twins started to fight. In space. On the outside of a space ship. Without suits on. Both twins appear to be human so how the hell did they survive out in space for nearly half the episode will forever remain a mystery. That's not even mentioning the bizarre kyber crystal use. It was this episode that made me lose hope.

There's also a ridiculous amount of Force sensitive users running about. I think most if not all the stories are set during the Empire, but honestly it isn't clear at all. They also broke the rule of two for the Sith in episode 5, but that's a minor offense.

If you aren't a huge star wars fan and you only wanna see cool fight scenes and pretty animation, you'll probably like this. But if you're a big fan of star wars and expecting something like star wars rebels or the clone wars, you probably won't. They break too many established rules for my liking. All in all, I'm mostly just disappointed. 4/10

Initially I was very hyped, as a big Star Wars fan and a frequent anime enjoyer I had my hopes high, but this was a massive letdown. The whole thing has a big fake feeling about this, like the anime part was forced into the show by people who had no clue what anime is and just wanted to copy all the default tropes. I honestly had to watch the entire thing in 2x speed, because even the 10 minutes of an episode felt like an hour. Honestly, I wouldnt reccomend this to any Star Wars fan, as an anime its ok at best, so ... it's a massive no from me.

Star Wars Visions is one of the worst things I've ever watched, and episode 4 was the only half-decent episode in the entire series. I wasted half a day watching this garbage kills me, and I'll never get that time back.

Story: The stories of each episode were forgettable.

Art: Holy god, was the art horrendous to look at.

Sound: The sound was meh. Nothing innovative to the series.

Character: The characters were the absolute worst part of the series.

... Enjoyment: I hated myself while watching this.

Overall: I hope Star Wars doesn't do something like this again. Must Avoid.