The Ninth Jedi

"The Ninth Jedi" (九人目のジェダイ Kyūninme no Jedai) is an episode of the Disney+ series Star Wars: Visions and is animated by Production I.G.
==Synopsis==
The daughter of a lightsaber-smith is pursued by dark forces while on a dangerous mission.
==Plot==
Above the planet of Hy Izlan, Jedi Ethan, Roden, Niizo, Homen, Hen Jin, Hanbei, and Toguro all arrive after they received a message from Margrave Juro, a man who seeks to restore the Jedi Knights against the Sith. None of them know whether he should be trusted and are visited by a giant droid who waits for them. On the planet below, Lah Kara and her droid Four-Nines meet up with her father Zhima who has been creating new lightsabers after harvesting the kyber crystals. Despite having trained with lightsabers, they only project a dull grayish-green color when Kara holds them, though Zhima tells her that they will have a proper color once she gets better at training.
Two Jedi hunters arrive, and Kara is forced to flee with the lightsabers after Zhima is captured. Kara uses her lightsaber skills to outrun and defeat the hunters before arriving at a ship ferry and forces a very lethargic robot to fly her to the temple above the planet. She arrives to deliver the lightsabers, and the Jedi ask her if she knows Juro. When she confirms, all the Jedi, minus Ethan, are revealed to be for the dark side. The droid is revealed to be Juro in disguise and a fight breaks out.
Toguro, Hen Jin, Hanbei, and Niizo are all killed after getting sliced through while Roden is incinerated after Juro tosses him onto one of the kyber crystals. He further ceases Homen from fighting them after he realizes that he is fighting a lost cause. Juro informs them that he received word that the Jedi that answered were either captured or killed and replaced with Sith, but that more are out there. He tells Kara that she is destined to be the ninth Jedi and help restore balance. With the promise of finding Zhima, Juro, Kara, Four-Nines, Ethan, and Homen then venture out into the unknown.
==Cast==
Character 	English voice 	Japanese voice
Lah Kara 	Kimiko Glenn 	Chinatsu Akasaki
Margrave Juro	Andrew Kishino 	Tetsuo Kanao
Lah Zhima 	Simu Liu 	Shinichirō Miki
Ethan 	Masi Oka 	Hiromu Mineta
Roden 	Greg Chun 	Kazuya Nakai
Niizo 	Eva Kaminsky 	Rina Sato
Homen 	Patrick Seitz 	Hinata Tadokoro
Hen Jin 	Michael Sinterniklaas	Daisuke Hirakawa
Hanbei 	Adam Sietz 	Jin Uruyama
Toguro 	Kyle McCarley 	Ryota Takeuchi
Narrator 	Neil Kaplan 	Akio Ōtsuka
==Trivia==
*This episode is set after the events of The Rise of Skywalker.Star Wars Anime Visions Will Include What Became of the Jedi, a Rock Opera, and More
*This episode was originally intended to be two parts with the first one focusing on Kara delivering the lightsabers and the second one focusing on the gathering of the eight Jedi. They ultimately chose to combine the stories into one so as to "achieve something on a grander scale".ANIME EXPO LITE: 20 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM THE STAR WARS: VISIONS PANEL
==Gallery==
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==References==
==External links==
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Category:Star Wars: Visions episodes
Category:Anime