Visions Will Return Subsequent 12 months

In accordance with the official Star Wars website, Star Wars: Visions, the animated anthology collection at Disney+, will return for a 3rd quantity subsequent yr.

Whereas the series’ first volume of 9 Star Wars-inspired quick movies hailed from a minimum of seven separate studios from throughout Japan, quantity two took the international approach with episodes produced in the UK, Eire, Spain, Chile, France, South Africa, South Korea, India and the US. Now, it appears this third quantity plans to return to its preliminary strategy with 9 separate shorts from 9 separate Japanese animation studios, together with Kamikaze Douga (in co-production with Anima), Kinema Citrus Co., Manufacturing I.G, Set off, David Manufacturing, Polygon Footage, Challenge Studio Q and WIT Studio.

What other projects have these anime studios labored on, you ask? Effectively, a number of are coming back from the primary quantity of Visions itself: Kamikaze Douga, additionally recognized for its work on Batman Ninja, developed “The Duel”, whereas Set off (who’ve labored on a litany of anime tasks, together with Promare, Gridman and Dynazenon, Kill La Kill, and extra) labored on two of the shorts within the anthology, “The Twins” and “The Elder”. Manufacturing I.G., the legendary studio behind Ghost within the Shell labored on “The Ninth Jedi”, whereas Made in Abyss‘ Kinema Citrus created “The Village Bride”.

Coming to Visions for the primary time are David Manufacturing–greatest recognized for Jojo’s Weird Journey and Cells at Work!–Polygon Footage (who beforehand labored within the galaxy far, distant on Clone Wars and Resistance), Challenge Studio Q–the CG home 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 contains Vinland Saga, Spy x Household, and early seasons of Assault on Titan.

As earlier episodes of the collection’ included such different tales as Wedge Antilles’ forming his personal flight academy, the members of a rock band being hunted by Boba Fett, and a Star Wars-tinged tackle Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo it’ll be thrilling to see what these studios provide you with. Sadly, we might have to attend a bit, because the press launch merely states the third quantity of Star Wars: Visions will premiere in on Disney+ someday in 2025 with no date given. Nonetheless, it sounds prefer it’ll be definitely worth the wait. 

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