STAR WARS ANIME SERIES

STAR WARS ANIME SERIES

Created outside of the constraints of the franchise’s traditional canon, the films provide creative freedom to each director and production studio, while maintaining fidelity to the themes and emotional identity of the Star Wars saga. Star Wars: Visions is an anthology anime releasing sometime this year on Disney Plus.The announcement was made in December 2020 during Disney’s Investor Day. The first Star Wars anime show, an anthology series from studios Kamikaze Douga, Geno Studio (Twin Engine), Studio Colorido (Twin Engine), Trigger, Kinema Citrus, Science Saru, and Production IG. As a first formal venture into anime, each Star Wars: Visions short bears a unique Japanese sensibility, which in many ways aligns with the tone and spirit of Star Wars storytelling. Star Wars has always done a great job at merchandising and this is another vehicle and avenue to showcase Star Wars. The new Star Wars anime project Star Wars: Visions has revealed new details about the storylines and settings for the multi-episode anthology series. If they can refine a good Japanese Anime team, there is vast potential and, let’s be honest, this is a GREAT move to add to Star Wars. Star Wars: Visions volume 1 is a collection of animated short films presented “through the lens of the world’s best anime creators” that offers a new, diverse perspective on Star Wars. I enjoyed Ahsoka in Clone Wars and I enjoyed REBELS a bunch using that Pixar tech. Star Wars: Droids was the franchise’s early foray into animation and the show is definitely much rougher than. Last Exile can be looked at as a steampunk version of Star Wars as anime that focuses on X-Wing pilots. Spring next year is currently where we’re targeting and I think it’s an absolutely beautiful anthology.” Waugh RELATED: 9 Best Animated Star Wars Characters Ever, Ranked. The trailer gives a sneak peek into a rock operastyle. We have studios from Africa, Chile, England, Ireland, France, India… and the guiding light there was that we wanted their storytelling to be a reflection of what Star Wars meant in their culture, but also a reflection of the myths and stories that could only come out of their cultural context. Star Wars: Visions consists of nine new stories set in the Star Wars universe, rendered by seven different Japanese animation studios. And so Visions volume two is sort of a global tour of some of the most interesting animation studios on a global level.

And we really wanted it to be, in a way, a “sub-brand” that allowed for different creators to come celebrate Star Wars from their own unique cultural perspective. “There’s so many interesting voices in all sorts of other mediums that are really focused on animation right now. Anime and the Star Wars galaxy are (finally) coming together.Star Wars: Visions, a new anthology of animated shorts celebrating Star Wars through the lens of some of the world’s best anime creators, is coming to Disney+.

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