'The Ninth Jedi' Receives Anime Series, Main Staff of 'Star Wars: Visions Volume 3' Announced

by Vindstot
Apr 21, 10:41 PM | 33 Comments

The Star Wars: Visions panel at the Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 event revealed the main staff for the Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 episodes on Sunday. The anthology will debut worldwide on Disney+ on October 29.

The event also announced an anime series for The Ninth Jedi episode from the first installment, scheduled for a 2026 release. Kenji Kamiyama, the director of the original episode, is credited as the chief director for the The Ninth Jedi anime series at Production I.G.

Staff
The Duel Payback
Director: Takanobu Mizuno (Nihon Animator Mihonichi episode director)
Character Design: Takashi Okazaki (Ninja Batman)
Studio: Kamikaze Douga, Anima

The Lost Ones
Director: Hitoshi Haga (Made in Abyss assistant director)
Studio: Kinema Citrus

The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope
Director, Script: Naoyoshi Shiotani (Psycho-Pass)
Studio: Production I.G

Yuko's Treasure
Director: Masaki Tachibana (Barakamon)
Studio: Kinema Citrus

The Smuggler
Director: Masahiko Ootsuka (BNA episode director)
Studio: Trigger

The Bounty Hunters
Director: Junichi Yamamoto (Fuufu Ijou, Koibito Miman.)
Studio: WIT Studio

Song of the Four Wings
Director: Hiroyasu Kobayashi (Nihon Animator Mihonichi episode director)
Music: Towa Tei (Metallic Rouge)
Studio: Project Studio Q

The Bird of Paradise
Director: Tadahiro Yoshihira (Kuutei Dragons)
Studio: Polygon Pictures

Black
Director: Shinya Ohira (Genius Party Beyond)
Co-Producer: Jacob Ayers
Studio: David Production

Star Wars: Visions, produced by seven Japanese animation studios, debuted in nine episodes on Disney+ in September 2021. The second volume also premiered in nine episodes in May 2023, involving ten studios from around the world.

Source: Oricon News

Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi on MAL

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@malvarez1 We have YouTube to thank for that. So many youtube grifters pumped so much propaganda about 'woke disney' into everyone's heads that a lot of people hate Star Wars now who haven't even seen any of it (it must be bad cuz this cool sounding bro on YT says so).
But of course the same grifters also hate the prequels... it's all a bunch of BS.

May 3, 6:22 PM by SuperAdventure

The Japanese Star Wars fanbase seems so much more chill than the American fanbase.

Apr 26, 9:51 AM by malvarez1

Anime and Star Wars come together, this should be interesting.

Apr 23, 6:15 PM by Retro8bit

@Fabris i already mentioned imdb but it lacks the social part

Apr 23, 4:05 PM by deg

@deg Pal, you already have IMDB for that...whats the point of morphing this years long database into just another IMDB?

Apr 23, 4:04 PM by Fabris

Disney be coping hard that their projects keep losing money.
Season 2 was a bust. Nobody cares about worldwide studios. Season 1 had some success because it was anime. Actual anime. Season 2? Pfft, maybe the Chinese and Korean shorts had some attention but even that's minuscule compared to Japan.
Goodbye Disney, and good riddance.

Apr 23, 2:04 PM by TheMechaManiac

omg just pull the plug on starwars no one cares about this shit
also there are people in this thread that seriously with a straight face say Japanese the most culturally conservative people ever don't seperate western animation.
This just reads like retards who are sad that western animation got killed in the past decade and are now begrudgingly watching anime and hoping anime becomes more like western animation to appeal to their sensibilities.

Apr 23, 4:09 AM by zoomerReviewer

@deg I don’t think that’s gonna happen. MAL is too inconsistent when it comes to categorizing stuff like this.

Apr 23, 1:04 AM by Geark77

deg said:
considering volume 2 is missing which triggers my ocd tendencies

LMAO bruh come on man....

if its not what falls into what MOST of the world knows as anime, then thats nothing more than a personal issue 😂😂😂😂

Apr 22, 6:48 PM by EcchiGodMamster

Well, as long as 3 is closer in quality to 1 than 2, it should be fine. And The Ninth Jedi was the best episode for me so I'm actually interested in seeing what thay make out of it.

Apr 22, 3:25 PM by CaptainKenshiro

@EcchiGodMamster its just my personal wish considering to me anime is simply animation like in japan

but im not forcing this change i just happen to say it here considering volume 2 is missing which triggers my ocd tendencies

Apr 22, 1:00 PM by deg

deg said:
ye im sure a lot of japanese knows how western fans uses the word anime but they still gonna use the original meaning in their fandom

Yea, so its fine the way it is...I mean... NO ONE is on this site for "western" animation, so I don't think it matters how the term is used in Japan lol

And come on man, China and Korea have cultures "close enough" to Japan that i don't think many people have a problem calling their work that looks the style, "anime"

Apr 22, 11:18 AM by EcchiGodMamster

@EcchiGodMamster nah japans anime ranking puts hollywood animation as anime too

ye im sure a lot of japanese knows how western fans uses the word anime but they still gonna use the original meaning in their fandom

Apr 22, 10:08 AM by deg

@deg

Are you trolling him lol? Even many Japanese people nowadays know what westerners mean by "anime" lol

Apr 22, 9:37 AM by EcchiGodMamster

RIP Star Wars 1977-2005

Apr 22, 9:08 AM by geppe

My suggestion : Remove Star War Visions entirely from the database

Apr 22, 7:40 AM by GoodBoy0069

I love how MAL has a weird ethno-purist fringe that starts scolding people the minute they suggest a title for the database..

Apr 22, 7:18 AM by this_shit_again

>watching nu-wars

Apr 22, 12:41 AM by ItsXolo

Good studio picks, intriguing titles. I'm positive. I enjoyed the previous parts (volumes) of Star Wars: Visions, so I'm excited for the third one as well.

Apr 22, 12:19 AM by Adnash

@deg

deg said:
what are you dumb? am i being a dictator or you? we are both mal users that can suggest anytime

Looks like I made someone angry. My bad keep suggesting and have a nice day (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

Apr 22, 12:13 AM by ZXEAN

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