Star Wars: Visions

Star Wars: Visions is a multinationally-produced animated shorts collection created by Lucasfilm that aired on Disney+ on September 22, 2021. It is a series of original animated short films with a new and distinct cultural perspective to Star Wars, created by various leading animation studios around the globe. Volume 1 was produced by 7 Japanese anime studios. The initial release of this anthology series was announced to have ten episodes, but this was changed to nine, as the fifth episode, "The Ninth Jedi", was originally envisioned as two episodes.
A second season named Volume 2 was released on May 4, 2023, and featured animation from Spain, Ireland, Chile, United Kingdom, South Korea, France, India, Japan, and South Africa. A third season named Volume 3 will be released in 2025.
==Official Description==
===Volume One===
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 fantastic visions from several of the leading Japanese anime studios, offering a fresh and diverse cultural perspective to Star Wars.
===Volume Two===
Star Wars: Visions stretches beyond any one form of animation and serves as a broader framework for celebratory expressions of Star Wars storytelling. Volume 2 will showcase that potential as the shorts go on a global tour, celebrating the incredible animation happening across countries and cultures, through the mythos of Star Wars.
==Trivia==
*It was not required by the filmmakers to set their episodes anywhere in the Star Wars canon timeline. This was so they could have free creativity over how to tell their stories. Nevertheless, some of them are given actual places in the timeline, such as "Lop & Ochō" and "The Twins" while some take place in alternate universes, such as "The Duel".
*For the first season, the majority of the voice cast is composed of Asian-American actors. This was done most likely, out of respect, for the series' Japanese roots. Despite this, not all of the voice actors are directly of Japanese descent.
**Brian Tee, Karen Fukuhara, Nichole Sakura, Christopher Sean, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Andrew Kishino, Kimiko Glenn, Masi Oka, Hiromi Dames, Paul Nakauchi, George Takei, and Keone Young are the only cast members of Japanese descent. However, Sakura, Glenn, Dames, Kishino, and Sean are half Japanese with the other half mostly being white ethnicities while Tee and Young are half Korean and Chinese, respectively.
**Lucy Liu, Simu Liu, James Hong, Anna Cathcart (half-Irish), and Keone Young (half-Japanese) are of Chinese descent, Greg Chun, Brian Tee (half-Japanese), and Jamie Chung are of Korean descent, Stephanie Sheh is of Taiwanese descent, and Henry Golding is half-Malaysian/half-English descent.
**Temuera Morrison is of Māori, Scottish, and Irish descent, Lorraine Toussaint is of Trinidadian-English descent, and Jordan Fisher has an incredibly diverse background consisting of Nigerian, Cambodian, English, Polynesian (Tahitian), Italian, Greek, and Scandinavian descent.
**The rest of the cast is mostly white.
*For the second season, the voice cast is intended to once again pay respect to the cultural background of each respective studio.
**El Guiri is from Spain (Sith).
**Cartoon Saloon is from Ireland (Screecher's Reach).
**Punkrobot is from Chile (In the Stars).
**Aardman is from the United Kingdom (I Am Your Mother).
**Studio Mir is from South Korea and is the only one to feature two separate dubs, considering the studio was based in Seoul but only focused on American animated series (Journey to the Dark Head).
**Studio La Cachette is from France (The Spy Dancer).
**88 Pictures is from India (The Bandits of Golak).
**Triggerfish is from South Africa (The Pit).
**While D'art Shtajio is from Japan, the voice cast is confirmed to be American, most likely due to the studio founder also being American rather than Japanese (Aau's Song).
*Season 1 is the first Disney anime series/special not to be produced by Madhouse.
**Also, this is the first Production I.G. anime project to be exclusively released by Disney+ in all/certain markets, followed by Aoashi (Asian markets) and Heavenly Delusion (Global).
*This is the first Star Wars TV show since Star Wars: Forces of Destiny not to receive LEGO sets.
==Videos==
STAR WARS- VISIONS - SPECIAL LOOK - DISNEY+-2
Star Wars- Visions - Original Trailer - Disney+-2
Star Wars- Visions - English Dub Trailer - Disney+-2
Star Wars- Visions Volume 2 - Official Trailer - Disney+
==Gallery==
Star Wars Visions Official Japanese Poster.jpg|Official Japanese Poster
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Tatooine Rhapsody poster.jpg
The Twins poster.jpg
The Village Bride poster.jpg
The Ninth Jedi poster.jpg
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The Elder poster.jpg
Lop & Ocho poster.jpg
Akakiri poster.jpg
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Star Wars Visions - 2x01 - Sith - Poster.jpg
Star Wars Visions - 2x02 - Screecher's Reach - Poster.jpg
Star Wars Visions - 2x03 - In The Stars - Poster.jpg
Star Wars Visions - 2x04 - I Am Your Mother - Poster.jpg
Star Wars Visions - 2x05 - Journey to the Dark Head - Poster.jpg
Star Wars Visions - 2x06 - The Spy Dancer - Poster.jpg
Star Wars Visions - 2x07 - The Bandits of Golak - Poster.jpg
Star Wars Visions - 2x08 - The Pit - Poster.jpg
Star Wars Visions - 2x09 - Aau's Song - Poster.jpg
==References==
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