For a mission that originally started as a method to discover revolutionary, non-canon, even experimental views on the Star Wars franchise by way of brief vignettes created by a few of Japan’s greatest anime studios, it’s secure to say that the Visions label has grown far past anybody’s expectations. Along with the Japanese anime tales in Quantity 1 and the worldwide animation contributions in Quantity 2, Star Wars: Visions by now additionally contains manga editions, a prose novel from Del Rey, comics from Marvel, and even a Golden E book. Given its origins, Star Wars Celebration Japan was the right venue to announce the newest development in Star Wars: Visions and to permit its creators to talk in their very own phrases of their dwelling nation.
James Waugh, Lucasfilm’s senior vp for Franchise Content material & Technique, as soon as once more took the lead in expressing the corporate’s enthusiasm for its partnerships with different inventive studios in creating the Star Wars: Visions tales. He reminded the viewers of Lucasfilm’s “deep ardour for the animated medium” and defined how Visions permits everybody to “have fun Star Wars by way of anime” and to expertise “distinctive cultures and animation methods” from world wide. Waugh revealed that Visions Quantity 3 will premiere on Disney+ on October 29, 2025, with 9 episodes that can “let followers see their favourite studios inform their Star Wars story” within the type of anime from Japanese studios. Three studios are returning to Visions with an episode persevering with on their acclaimed earlier entries: The Duel, The Village Bride, and The Ninth Jedi, respectively. A fourth returning studio selected to create a completely new story for its second contribution, whereas 5 studios are debuting on this quantity of Visions, bringing their abilities and inventive concepts to Star Wars for the primary time. A consultant from every of the 9 studios in Quantity 3 took to the stage to briefly focus on their episode and share idea artwork and pictures, and even transient video clips.
Notably, Visions was the one main panel on the Celebration Stage performed primarily within the Japanese language with barely delayed real-time English language subtitles on the panel’s giant screens, as an alternative of the reverse. This dynamic gave the panel an actual really feel of authenticity, as every creator spoke with pleasure and emotion in regards to the thrill of telling a Star Wars story and their ardour for the themes and concepts they selected for his or her episode. With out having to talk in small segments adopted by pauses to permit for ongoing simultaneous oral translations, they may categorical large concepts and complex themes with out interruption. Even for the various people within the viewers not fluent in Japanese, their tone, physique language, and facial expressions often made their which means and sentiment loads clear even earlier than the interpretation appeared on the display. Like Quantity 1, these Japanese creators are bringing tropes and themes frequent to anime into their Visions episodes, together with an orphan, a princess, a lady trying to find her lacking father, and a “suspiciously good-looking businessman” with ulterior motives.
Waugh concluded the panel with the announcement of Star Wars Visions Presents, a brand new banner for long-form narratives. The primary multi-episode collection additional expands the world and story of The Ninth Jedi from Manufacturing IG, with Quantity 1 director Kenji Kamiyama reprising his lead inventive function for the Imaginative and prescient Presents collection coming to Disney+ in 2026.
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B.J. has served as editor of FANgirl Weblog from its inception, in addition to contributing opinions and posts on a spread of subjects. He edited Tricia’s novel Wynde, and is collaborating together with her on a number of future tasks set in that authentic universe.
Presently a tenured regulation professor in Florida, B.J. has been a training lawyer in Washington, D.C., a regulation clerk to a federal appeals courtroom decide, and a regulation journal editor-in-chief. He’s additionally a proud geek dad whose son who’s an enormous fan of Star Wars and The Clone Wars.
