Star Wars: Visions

Star Wars: Visions is an animated anthology television series of non-canonical short films. Its initial release comprised nine anime-inspired original short films from various Japanese animation studios that present a different cultural perspective of Star Wars. The series premiered on the video streaming service Disney+ on September 22, 2021. The novel Ronin ties into the short "The Duel." Each short film of Visions has a corresponding featurette called Star Wars: Visions Filmmaker Focus that details its making and goes behind the scenes. On May 29, 2022, a second volume of Star Wars: Visions was announced, shifting focus for a showcase of animation studios from around the world. It debuted on May 4, 2023. On November 19, 2024, a third volume of Star Wars: Visions was announced, returning to it's original focus on the anime genre with four returning animation studios along with three new ones, and a returning studio that has done Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Resistance, as it set to be release in 2025.
==Official description==
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.
==Canonicity==
So as to ensure the storytellers had the most freedom possible in developing their Visions shorts, Lucasfilm allowed the shorts to break from the pre-existing Star Wars timeline. Matt Martin of the Lucasfilm Story Group clarified this means all shorts are non-canon. While shorts like "Tatooine Rhapsody" could theoretically fit within canon, no source at this time has brought a Visions story into the canonical Star Wars timeline.
==Volumes==
Volume	Logo	Episodes	First airdate 	Last airdate
1 	 	9 	September 22, 2021	September 22, 2021
2 	 	9 	May 4, 2023 	May 4, 2023
3 	 	9 	2025 	2025
==Other media==
The episodes "The Elder", "Lop & Ochō", "The Ninth Jedi" and "THE TWINS" were adapted as a manga series published by Square Enix in Japan in the Big Gangan magazine from May 25, 2022 to August 25, 2022. The episode "T0-B1" was adapted in the young readers book Visions: T0-B1: The Droid Who Became a Jedi published on September 20, 2022 by Golden Books and "I Am Your Mother" and "Aau's Song" in the young readers graphic novel I Am Your Mother/Aau's Song published in the Screen Comix series on April 2, 2024.
The world and story of "The Duel" and The Ronin have been expanded in multiple pieces of media. Ronin: A Visions Novel (Japanese:『浪人』), written by Emma Mieko Candon, was published by Del Rey on October 12, 2021 and two prequel one-shot comic books, written and illustrated by the episode's writer Takashi Okazaki, Visions 1 and Visions – Takashi Okazaki 1, were published by Marvel Comics on October 12, 2022 and March 20, 2024 respectively.
Visions – Peach Momoko 1, an original one-shot comic book written and illustrated by Peach Momoko was published by Marvel Comics in November 15, 2023.
Another original manga, simply titled Star Wars: Visions Original Manga, written by Eiichi Shimizu, illustrated by Tomohiro Shimoguchi, and published by Viz Media was also announced during the New York Comic Con on October 9, 2022.
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*Star Wars: Visions (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Category:Animated television series
Category:Disney+ Originals