 Lucasfilm revealed seven studios and several main staff members involved in the Star Wars: Visions anthology anime series during its Anime Expo Lite sneak preview stream on Saturday. Nine of the purported ten episodes were teased, and an introduction video for the project was also released on the official Star Wars YouTube channel and Twitter account. Star Wars: Visions will stream on Disney+ beginning September 22. Anthology Summary Presenting all-new, creative takes on the galaxy far, far away, Star Wars: Visions will be a series of animated short films celebrating Star Wars through the lens of the world's best anime creators. The anthology collection will bring 10 fantastic visions from several of the leading Japanese anime studios, offering a fresh and diverse cultural perspective to Star Wars. (Source: Disney+) "The Duel" Director: Takanobu Mizuno (Nihon Animator Mihonichi episode 16 director) Character Design: Takashi Okazaki (Afro Samurai) Studio: Kamikaze Douga "Lop & Ochou" Director: Yuuki Igarashi (Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! animation director) Studio: Geno Studio "Tatooine Rhapsody" Director: Taku Kimura Studio: Studio Colorido "The Twins" Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi (Promare) Studio: Trigger "The Elder" Director: Masahiko Ootsuka (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann assistant director) Studio: Trigger "The Village Bride" Director: Hitoshi Haga (Made in Abyss assistant director) Music: Kevin Penkin (Kami no Tou) Studio: Kinema Citrus "Akakiri" Director: Eun-Young Choi (Ping Pong the Animation assistant director) Studio: Science SARU "T0-B1" Director: Abel Góngora (Super Shiro animation director) Studio: Science SARU "The Ninth Jedi" Director: Kenji Kamiyama (Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex) Music: Nobuko Toda (Koukaku Kidoutai: SAC_2045) Executive Producer: Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (Psycho-Pass) Studio: Production I.G Special Look Source: Variety, Anime Expo Lite 2021 Star Wars: Visions on MAL |
ImperfectBlueJul 6, 2021 11:06 PM
| this looks like AniMatrix with a bunch of short story video of each anime studio |
| definitely interested in the episode made by Trigger |
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| I'm really interested, ambition and budget are definitely there! And if Disney wants to fund more high quality anime projects after that I'm all in! |
| I'll definitely want to check out the Production I.G and Trigger ones. I hope we get some cool anime light saber fights. That would be fucking awesome. Britannian13 said: Hopefully the katana lightsabers are just a concept art thing because they look really out of place in the Star Wars Universe I'm pretty sure its not. I think the Mandalorian Dark Saber is very much like a katana in shape. Also get over yourself, katana shaped light sabers are not going to break the Star Wars Universe. |
TitanInsaneJul 3, 2021 8:04 PM
| Looks like Disney/Lucasfilms realized the potential of anime's popularity and decided to dip their toes into cashing on weebs themselves. Either way you look at it, this is definitely @imdoneone's dream come true lol |
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| Can't wait to not watch this. |
 Life is a despicable endurance race |
| Interesting. Been obsessing over Star Wars lately, so I'd definitely be down to check it out. |
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| Star Wars fucking sucks but as a Trigger fan im pretty excited for this |
| This is something that they should have been done a long time ago but better late than never |
| Ew. SW even at its best was at the level of a mediocre shounen series. Now it's a just a cesspool of ideas. Would rather have the hive of scum and villainy that Disney conglomerate is nowadays stay away from my chinese cartoons. There's plenty garbage anime without US import. |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
| well i neither know nor care about about star wars , but they have got some real big names on there . would be a shame to miss it . i am more surprised something actually happened in anime expo lite...... |
| As a dedicated SW fan since childhood, it’s more and more painful for me to see the franchise become under the control of Disney. Hopefully there won't be any Stones in this anime at least. |
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| Whether or not these turn out to be any good is irrelevant to me, I am very excited for this. |
 "They escaped the weight of darkness, to forge a path into the marrow of the spirit. They chose to drown in a deeper vacancy, an emptiness that quells the null, a pool for the forgotten..." |
| Cannot wait to see these episodes. Especially the episode studio Trigger is working on. |
| Didn't expect that kind of staff, now I'm kinda hyped (Kevin Penkin working on a Star Wars story ? And doing Star Wars music ? Oh my, that's gonna be amazing) |
| This just sounds like its gonna be halo legends all over again where its weighed down being tied to a sci fi property with a stupid amount of lore for the shorts to work as a standalone story, where as the original fans will get pissy cause its gonna end up not looking like their beloved sci fi propety. |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
JizzyHitler said: This just sounds like its gonna be halo legends all over again where its weighed down being tied to a sci fi property with a stupid amount of lore for the shorts to work as a standalone story, where as the original fans will get pissy cause its gonna end up not looking like their beloved sci fi propety. Quote from the starwars.com page about this series: Star Wars: Visions storytelling didn’t have to fit in the timeline. In developing the series, Lucasfilm made the decision to let creators tell the stories they wanted to tell — whether they featured established or original characters — without a need to tie into the larger chronology. “We really wanted to give these creators a wide creative berth to explore all the imaginative potential of the Star Wars galaxy through the unique lens of anime,” James Waugh said. “We realized we wanted these to be as authentic as possible to the studios and creators who are making them, made through their unique process, in a medium they’re such experts at. So the idea was, this is their vision riffing off all the elements of the Star Wars galaxy that inspired them — hopefully to make a really incredible anthology series, unlike anything we’ve seen before in the Star Wars galaxy.” |
| Its about damn time. Star Wars anime is something Ive needed in my life ever since that famous TIE Fighter fan animation |
| A Star Wars anime are you fucking kidding me! That is going to be awesome |
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| This looks pretty cool, hopefully this can revitalize my interest in Star Wars after the atrocious Last Jedi and the wtf Rise of Skywalker |
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| that looks amazing |
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| I don't even like Star Wars but this looks pretty good honestly. Stacked staff members and because it is an anthology each episode will clearly have a pretty high budget. Seems like it will be super interesting. We always get experimental styles with these kind of series. |
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| Star Wars Anime? This might actually be decent |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| An animw version or anything will make it better which is why I'm interested |
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| This is what Imaishi and Ootsuka have been wasting their time on? Ugh. To think, they, or even anyone on that list of staff, could have been focusing on all sorts of new, interesting shows, and instead they ended up on this transparently capitalist, passionless garbage. |
| Well I for one already loved Lain. |
Thigh_Tide said: This is what Imaishi and Ootsuka have been wasting their time on? Ugh. To think, they, or even anyone on that list of staff, could have been focusing on all sorts of new, interesting shows, and instead they ended up on this transparently capitalist, passionless garbage. Wow,just wow.You DO know you don't have the right to tell them what to do right?And instead congratulating or wishing them good luck you blindly hate them.This is one of the reasons why people hate the anime community so much. Josephisamazing said: This Star Wars anime is going to be a fluke. Where are the studios that made death note, rent a gf, snafu, your name, and maquia. This is going to be a disaster 😐. Rent a gf isn't even good and I forgot about Your name.What do you even mean?? |
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Scordolo said: Thigh_Tide said: This is what Imaishi and Ootsuka have been wasting their time on? Ugh. To think, they, or even anyone on that list of staff, could have been focusing on all sorts of new, interesting shows, and instead they ended up on this transparently capitalist, passionless garbage. Wow,just wow.You DO know you don't have the right to tell them what to do right?And instead congratulating or wishing them good luck you blindly hate them.This is one of the reasons why people hate the anime community so much. I do not have the right to tell them what to do, of course not. But I have the right to point out that what they have chosen to do is a terrible idea. Nor do I "blindly hate" them, on the contrary, I like many of the staff listed. The hate is at the squandering of their talents for this junk. |
| Well I for one already loved Lain. |
Thigh_Tide said: Scordolo said: Wow,just wow.You DO know you don't have the right to tell them what to do right?And instead congratulating or wishing them good luck you blindly hate them.This is one of the reasons why people hate the anime community so much. I do not have the right to tell them what to do, of course not. But I have the right to point out that what they have chosen to do is a terrible idea. Nor do I "blindly hate" them, on the contrary, I like many of the staff listed. The hate is at the squandering of their talents for this junk. We can clearly tell they were so happy when the project was brought out to them.You should've at least pointed that out. |
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Scordolo said: Thigh_Tide said: I do not have the right to tell them what to do, of course not. But I have the right to point out that what they have chosen to do is a terrible idea. Nor do I "blindly hate" them, on the contrary, I like many of the staff listed. The hate is at the squandering of their talents for this junk. We can clearly tell they were so happy when the project was brought out to them.You should've at least pointed that out. Clearly tell from what? The above says nothing of their individual opinions on the production. |
| Well I for one already loved Lain. |
| That kind of projects are always interesting to see. I like Star Wars, so I'm really intrigued about this anime - short episodes made by many talented creators from the anime industry. If it will be successful, then who knows? Perhaps Disney might decide one day to make one- or two-cour long regular anime set in Star Wars universe? |
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| Finally, hype Star Wars news. |
Bum Bum Dum Dum |
| Im soo excited for that show. hope it's like what we've seen in the trailer ! Fingers crossed. |
Thigh_Tide said: It's amazing how you're calling something junk that hasn't even been released yet lolScordolo said: Wow,just wow.You DO know you don't have the right to tell them what to do right?And instead congratulating or wishing them good luck you blindly hate them.This is one of the reasons why people hate the anime community so much. I do not have the right to tell them what to do, of course not. But I have the right to point out that what they have chosen to do is a terrible idea. Nor do I "blindly hate" them, on the contrary, I like many of the staff listed. The hate is at the squandering of their talents for this junk. Just say you hate Star Wars and move on.....This is blind hate and you know it |
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