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Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 Unveils New Visual
posted on by Alex Mateo
Lucasfilm unveiled during its panel at Anime NYC on Friday a new visual for the Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 anthology project:
The Star Wars: Visions anthology is expanding with Star Wars: Visions Presents, an opportunity to tell its animated stories in a longer narrative. In particular, Kenji Kamiyama will be telling the story from "The Ninth Jedi" as a limited series next year. He will serve as the series script supervisor and general director for Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi.
The Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 anthology will debut on Disney+ on October 29. The third volume will feature nine animated shorts from nine animation studios in Japan. Returning studios from the first volume include Kamikaze Douga, Kinema Citrus, Production I.G and Trigger. New studios for Volume 3 are ANIMA (in co-production with Kamikaze Douga), david production, Polygon Pictures, Project Studio Q, and Wit Studio. It will continue the storylines of three shorts from the first volume: "The Duel," "Village Bride," and "The Ninth Jedi."
The "Black" short" (pictured below) got an advance screening at the panel. Shinya Ōhira wrote, directed, designed, and key-animated the "Black" short at david production. He spent three years on the project.
"The Duel" director Takanobu Mizuno confirmed that the Ronin is returning from the first short for the new short "The Duel: Payback." This time, the Ronin faces a Jedi named Grand Master, and he may form an alliance with a Sith. Takashi Okazaki returns to design the characters, including a Wookiee and the insectoid Huk. Other designs previewed include an "AK-BK" walker design with a Japanese building on top of it.
Director Hitoshi Haga teased the storyline of "The Village Bride" continues in "The Lost Ones" ("Samayō-mono-tachi"), and follows the mysterious F after Order 66 that all but eliminated the Jedi.
Separate from the 2026 limited anime series, "The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope" short teases the story of a war that has been going on since before the first short's character Kara was born. Naoyoshi Shiotani is directing the new short. Kamiyama directed the original short.
Masaki Tachibana is directing "Yuko's Treasure," which centers around the girl Yuko and Billy, her giant bear-like caretaker droid (with a microwave oven in his belly), at the familiar Mos Eisley spaceport on the planet Tatooine.
In "The Smuggler" from Studio Trigger, "The Elder" director Masahiko Otsuka tells a standalone story about young female thief loosely inspired by Han Solo on a new planet created for the story,
Ken Yamamoto directs "The Bounty Hunters" at Wit Studio about two such bounty hunters, Sevn and the droid IV-AH4 ("Ivaho"), who are hired by a mysterious handsome business person.
Hiroyasu Kobayashi helms "The Song of Four Wings" at Project Studio Q. It follows a princess with an R2-type droid. The sizzle reel presented at Star Wars Celebration Japan teases that the droid transforms into a mechanized powered suit for the princess.
Tadahiro Yoshihira directs "Bird of Paradise" at Polygon Pictures. The theme of the short explores the Star Wars connection with mythology, and features the motif of sacred trees. Yoshihira described some of the concept art as the "real world" setting, which led the event's host Sascha Boeckle to note that this implies there is also another world (isekai) setting.
Volume 2 of the Star Wars: Visions project debuted on Disney+ on May 4, 2023 (Star Wars Day). Unlike the first anthology, which consisted of nine shorts from Japanese creators and anime studios, the second volume features nine shorts from animation studios from around the world, including Japan, India, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Chile, France, South Africa, South Korea, and the United States.
"Zen - Grogu and Dust Bunnies," a hand-drawn animated short by Studio Ghibli for the Star Wars franchise, started streaming on Disney+ in November 2023.
Sources: Star Wars: Visions panel at Anime NYC (Lynzee Loveridge), Star Wars franchise's website (Lucas Seastrom)
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