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According to the official Star Wars website, Star Wars: Visions, the animated anthology series at Disney+, will return for a third volume next year.
While the series’ first volume of nine Star Wars-inspired short films hailed from no less than seven separate studios from across Japan, volume two took the international approach with episodes produced in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Chile, France, South Africa, South Korea, India and the United States. Now, it seems this third volume plans to go back to its initial approach with nine separate shorts from nine separate Japanese animation studios, including Kamikaze Douga (in co-production with Anima), Kinema Citrus Co., Production I.G, Trigger, David Production, Polygon Pictures, Project Studio Q and WIT Studio.
© Lucasfilm What other projects have these anime studios worked on, you ask? Well, several are returning from the first volume of Visions itself: Kamikaze Douga, also known for its work on Batman Ninja, developed “The Duel”, while Trigger (who’ve worked on a litany of anime projects, including Promare, Gridman and Dynazenon, Kill La Kill, and more) worked on two of the shorts in the anthology, “The Twins” and “The Elder”. Production I.G., the legendary studio behind Ghost in the Shell worked on “The Ninth Jedi”, while Made in Abyss‘ Kinema Citrus created “The Village Bride”.
Coming to Visions for the first time are David Production–best known for Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and Cells at Work!–Polygon Pictures (who previously worked in the galaxy far, far away on Clone Wars and Resistance), Project Studio Q–the CG house spun out of Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara after their 3DCG work on Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time–and Wit Studio, whose work includes Vinland Saga, Spy x Family, and early seasons of Attack on Titan.
As previous episodes of the series’ included such varied stories as Wedge Antilles’ forming his own flight academy, the members of a rock band being hunted by Boba Fett, and a Star Wars-tinged take on Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo it’ll be exciting to see what these studios come up with. Unfortunately, we may have to wait a bit, as the press release merely states the third volume of Star Wars: Visions will premiere in on Disney+ sometime in 2025 with no date given. However, it sounds like it’ll be worth the wait.
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