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NEWS: Star Wars: Visions Anime Shorts Posts English/Japanese Trailers, Casts

You could also consider the possibility that the Disney Trilogy was astonishingly bad, creating a lot of ill will, while this looks promising, competently made and outsourced to other production companies that do not share that baggage of bad releases. At least that's my opinion and I'm gonna take a wild guess and say there's a chance a lot of people share that feeling.

This looks very, very strange to me because it is SO anime. At points it's easy to forget that this project is supposed to be Star Wars and I'm curious how this will be received by fans. I'm sure many will be pleased with the kinetic lightsaber duels and anime-style displays of Force powers, but I also wonder if others will find it visually off-putting. Either way, definitely one of the most interesting projects to come out of the IP in the Disney era and I look forward to reviews.

I imagine the same disconnect the Genndy Tartatovsky version of Clone Wars suffered will be present here, where it's so over the top and amazing people praise the visuals but feel it's not Star Wars proper.

I don't think these shorts can be expanded as a series though, some of them look very experimental, and I don't know if Trigger, for example, can make an original Star Wars show, their style will clash a lot with Star Wars' sensibilities.

Is that a prevailing sentiment? I usually mostly hear positive things.

2. Star Wars: Visions storytelling didn’t have to fit in the timeline.

In developing the series, Lucasfilm made the decision to let creators tell the stories they wanted to tell — whether they featured established or original characters — without a need to tie into the larger chronology. “We really wanted to give these creators a wide creative berth to explore all the imaginative potential of the Star Wars galaxy through the unique lens of anime,” James Waugh said. “We realized we wanted these to be as authentic as possible to the studios and creators who are making them, made through their unique process, in a medium they’re such experts at. So the idea was, this is their vision riffing off all the elements of the Star Wars galaxy that inspired them — hopefully to make a really incredible anthology series, unlike anything we’ve seen before in the Star Wars galaxy.”


11. Put down your blasters and grab a guitar for Studio Colorido’s Tatooine Rhapsody.

Told through a more Chibi art style, Tatooine Rhapsody is heading into uncharted Star Wars waters. “It’s a Star Wars rock opera,” said Rimes of the story, about a band with a dream to make it big. “We took a chance and they just blew us away with the style and the characters and the tone, and really the heart of what is best in Star Wars about found family and the dream.” It’s also one of the few shorts to feature classic characters, as our heroic band will run into Boba Fett and Jabba the Hutt.

12. Tatooine Rhapsody would influence the entire Star Wars: Visions project.

As Waugh told it, Tatooine Rhapsody was one of the first pitches Lucasfilm received. Though the far-out concept initially caused some trepidation, that feeling soon changed. “It allowed us to go, ‘You know what. That’s what Visions is going to be about,'” Waugh said. “We’re gonna roll the dice, we’re gonna tell stories that we couldn’t tell anywhere else.”