Star Wars: Visions |OT| Star Wars is my favourite anime

[SJUG]

I want to see more from the Ninth Jedi and the Village Bride, really enjoyed them.

Really let down by the Twins though, even though Trigger being involved with Visions is what made me interested lol. Not that interesting and the animation/action was underwhelming. Just gonna watch Space Patrol Luluco.

 

[maximumzero]

I can't take "Angry Alison Brie" seriously after Community.

 

[Crossing Eden]

The thing is, most of these could exist in the same cohesive world. I think we're so used to everything revolving around the Skywalkers and the "center" of the Galaxy that we don't realize you could tell these decidedly more scaled back stories in the outer edges of the Galaxy and they'd fit just fine.

Most could easily feature either the Empire and hiding Jedis in the PT -> OT time period, or involve Empire remnants post OT trying to fill in the power gaps

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I don't think you could fit things like people doing things AS over the top into the current canon. Palpatine would've said "Anakin who?" If those twins existed.

 

[808s & Villainy]

I don't think you could fit things like people doing things AS over the top into the current canon. Palpatine would've said "Anakin who?" If those twins existed.

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Well Twins is the sole exception, hence why I said "most". I think all the others could easily fit in

 

[TheHunter]

I don't think you could fit things like people doing things AS over the top into the current canon. Palpatine would've said "Anakin who?" If those twins existed.

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Curious how many lost their minds at going at lightspeed to cut a star destroyer in half with a lightsaber the size of an xwing.

 

[Crossing Eden]

Well Twins is the sole exception, hence why I said "most". I think all the others could easily fit in

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Genuinely can't imagine any of these being set during the Skywalker saga. Not that that's inherently a bad thing. But it's quite clear that these shorts were very deliberately not made to "fit" into the Star Wars universe. Instead, most of them simply take place in it.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

I 100% want more Village Bride and 9th Jedi(with some alterations) maybe even in canon.
The Dual also works pretty well.

 

[808s & Villainy]

Genuinely can't imagine any of these being set during the Skywalker saga. Not that that's inherently a bad thing. But it's quite clear that these shorts were very deliberately not made to "fit" into the Star Wars universe. Instead, most of them simply take place in it.

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What would make the others impossible to be set in the existing canon universe? The fact that other Jedi existed aside from Obi Wan, Luke, and Ahsoka?

 

[TheHunter]

Genuinely can't imagine any of these being set during the Skywalker saga. Not that that's inherently a bad thing. But it's quite clear that these shorts were very deliberately not made to "fit" into the Star Wars universe. Instead, most of them simply take place in it.

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A few of them could fit with minimal tweaks.

Lop and Ocho, Village Bride could easily do so.

 

[Crossing Eden]

What would make the others impossible to be set in the existing canon universe? The fact that other Jedi existed aside from Obi Wan, Luke, and Ahsoka?

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No. It's just that aesthetically, thematically, the technology, fashion, etc. all the animisms make it feel very alien from what star wars currently is. It's not "oh hey force sensitives other than the main characters exist." It's "ok so this definitely is wet dream fanfiction of the highest caliber." Like that was the whole point of Disney not overseeing the project. To let the creatives do what they want without wandering at all how it all fits into the larger picture or even the smaller pictures.

 

[Ocarina_117]

How do I get normal English subtitles on Disney plus?

Without the closed captions and stuff

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

A few of them could fit with minimal tweaks.

Lop and Ocho, Village Bride could easily do so.

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The Elder could easily be High Republic, 9th as well being far flung into the future.

 

[808s & Villainy]

No. It's just that aesthetically, thematically, the technology, fashion, etc. all the animisms make it feel very alien from what star wars currently is. It's not "oh hey force sensitives other than the main characters exist." It's "ok so this definitely is wet dream fanfiction of the highest caliber." Like that was the whole point of Disney not overseeing the project. To let the creatives do what they want without wandering at all how it all fits into the larger picture or even the smaller pictures.

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Well agree to disagree I guess. Aside from The Twins all of these could fit in IMO. None of the tech seems super out there and the SW movies have covered, what, maybe 2 dozen planets primarily centered around the same small part of the galaxy, so the idea that random planets elsewhere are different isn't too outlandish imo

 

[Ocarina_117]

Just watched the Duel and loved it.

Very glad these seem to be distinct from major star wars cannon. Ive grown to have close to 0 interest in anything related around the prequel/original/sequel trilogy era - including the Disney + shows

 

[Ocarina_117]

This book sounds so lit, and I don't even read SW books like that.

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Damn, I'd much rather a fuller animated series instead

 

[Crossing Eden]

Well agree to disagree I guess. Aside from The Twins all of these could fit in IMO. None of the tech seems super out there and the SW movies have covered, what, maybe 2 dozen planets primarily centered around the same small part of the galaxy, so the idea that random planets elsewhere are different isn't too outlandish imo

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I think the more you would try to fit these into the existing SW universe the more you'd find them losing their identity in order to do that.

 

[sphagnum]

Finally finished all 9.

GREAT
The Duel
The Twins
The Village Bride
The Ninth Jedi
Lop and Ocho

GOOD
Akakiri

OK
The Elder

DO NOT WANT
Tatooine Rhapsody
T0-B1

A very worthwhile project and I'm excited for a potential season 2. I would love for a continuation of The Village Bride, in particular. We need more variety though in terms of subject matter. Hopefully any future shorts branch out from Jedi/Sith stories and give us some more stuff like bounty hunters, Chiss, troops on the ground, weird non-Jedi/Sith Force cults, EU inspired material, etc.

 

[TheHunter]

I think the more you would try to fit these into the existing SW universe the more you'd find them losing their identity in order to do that.

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You don't think the aesthetics will work?

 

[Buckle]

I never knew I wanted Star Wars with a Nier soundtrack but I am so here for it.

They feel like mini pilots than true shorts though with how many questions they leave flying around. I'm guessing the idea is there are going to be multiple seasons with followup stories?

 

[Quinton]

Finally finished all 9.

GREAT
The Duel
The Twins
The Village Bride
The Ninth Jedi
Lop and Ocho

GOOD
Akakiri

OK
The Elder

DO NOT WANT
Tatooine Rhapsody
T0-B1

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Stealing this

GREAT
The Ninth Jedi

GOOD
Akakiri
The Duel
The Twins
The Village Bride

OK
The Elder
Lop and Ocho

DO NOT WANT
Tatooine Rhapsody
T0-B1

 

[Idiot Doom Spiral]

having only seen the first two shorts, I'm not a fan so far. The Duel is the most generic Star Wars story ever (cool animation tho) but Tatooine Rhapsody is weaponized cock and ball torture

hopefully I enjoy the rest more

 

[Tavernade]

I did not expect any of them to be better than The Duel but then The Ninth Jedi came around and holy crap. Give the team behind that a film budget and make a movie. It's set so far in the future they can basically do whatever they want with it. Can you imagine if this was a film, seeing that on opening night? People would have been shook.

 

[Divvy]

Finished the whole thing finally and it was definitely frontloaded in quality. Aside from Akakiri, the last half after Ninth Jedi was mostly a miss. The Elder especially was pretty awful. Lop And Ocho was pretty boring but at least it was nice looking. Akakiri was great though, fantastic visual design, and it left me wanting more.

 

[Surakian]

I want more of The Duel, The Ninth Jedi, and The Village Bride. The Ninth Jedi especially felt like a pilot pitch, same with The Village Bride.

I am sad that The Twins was not one of my favs. The visuals were great but they spent too much time explaining things and the ending was waaaay too Skywalker Saga for me even though the whole thing was a homage to the Skywalkers…Can you tell that I'm soured on that one scene?

Astro Bo—To B1 was beautifully animated but the whole thing rubbed me the wrong way. The only thing I liked was To-B1's resolution.

The Elder suffers the same issue as The Twins. Too much talking and explaining. I think it works well as a short, but it isn't something I want to see more of.

 

[Crossing Eden]

You don't think the aesthetics will work?

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We probably wouldn't get a

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high heel wearing jedi who moves at super speed

no. Also, soooo many katana sabers that you'd think that was the standard look of a saber not to mention the samurai themselves look way more samurai than usual and that's sorta saying something considering the default jedi look.

The 9Th Jedi, super generic MC aside, is the one that matches the SW aesthetic the most. Especially the look of the droids, outfits, vehicles, and sabers.

 

[TheHunter]

We probably wouldn't get a

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high heel wearing jedi who moves at super speed

no. Also, soooo many katana sabers that you'd think that was the standard look of a saber not to mention the samurai themselves look way more samurai than usual and that's sorta saying something considering the default jedi look.

The 9Th Jedi, super generic MC aside, is the one that matches the SW aesthetic the most. Especially the look of the droids, outfits, vehicles, and sabers.

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I feel like Lop and Ocho fits too.

That felt like an episode of the Bad Batch or Rebels tbh. Japanese aesthetics aside.

 

[808s & Villainy]

We probably wouldn't get a

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high heel wearing jedi who moves at super speed

no. Also, soooo many katana sabers that you'd think that was the standard look of a saber not to mention the samurai themselves look way more samurai than usual and that's sorta saying something considering the default jedi look.

The 9Th Jedi, super generic MC aside, is the one that matches the SW aesthetic the most. Especially the look of the droids, outfits, vehicles, and sabers.

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Rebels had helicopter lightstabers and crab Darth Maul and both are canon!

 

[Tavernade]

We got a heavily Japan inspired episode of Mando already, it's not out of the live action aesthetic entirely. Plus it's kinda going back to the roots of the series.

I'm really curious what Lucas thinks about The Duel and it's Kurosawa references (assuming he's seen it, I feel like he loves animation enough that he would). Not only was Star Wars heavily inspired by Kurosawa to begin with but Lucas helped him fund some of his later movies, there's even a making of documentary for Dreams where Lucas comes by to visit and say hi.

 

[lvl 99 Pixel]

The trigger episode was ridiculous as expected. Im used to Star Wars having sound in space, but not people just casually talking to each other in the cold vacuum of space.

 

[Crossing Eden]

Rebels had helicopter lightstabers and crab Darth Maul and both are canon!

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Clone Wars had crab maul and you'll notice I said nothing about the helisaber.

 

[808s & Villainy]

The trigger episode was ridiculous as expected. Im used to Star Wars having sound in space, but not people just casually talking to each other in the cold vacuum of space.

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I bet Leia could talk in space

 

[Feep]

The Ninth Jedi was the second best episode, but why in the WORLD did they

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Drop the whole "the lightsaber can change length!" and then never use it?! Ugh, I hate when a Chekhov's gun never fires, even if the color change stuff was really cool.

 

[Veldin]

I've been skipping around through these and have a couple remaining to watch, but so far Lop & Ocho and The Ninth Jedi have gotten the most emotional responses from me. Both feel very well developed from narrative and thematic perspectives and feel like 1st episodes for full series. May never happen, but what we got was fantastic.

 

[Cess007]

The trigger episode was ridiculous as expected. Im used to Star Wars having sound in space, but not people just casually talking to each other in the cold vacuum of space.

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It cracked me up that by the end, only the android was wearing a helmet in space lol

 

[lvl 99 Pixel]

It cracked me up that by the end, only the android was wearing a helmet in space lol

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gotta protect the internal circuitry

 

[Deleted member 17388]

T0-B1 was a fun one! A full-length animation for this character would be amazing :D

 

[Juraash]

The more I marinate on them, the more I think T0-B1 suffered from the format, perhaps more than any of the others. The pacing felt off and there some very odd cuts/edits. It almost felt like it was originally twice the length of what we saw.

The art was really beautiful though and I did like the armless Dr. Light training astro-B1 to stawhp docta wiwy.

 

[m_shortpants]

Just watched the Duel.

That was sick.

 

[Azerare]

Been enjoying them all so far but the ones I'd like to see more of would be The Village Bride, lop & coho, the elder, and the duel.

Definitely cool to see all the different spins on Star Wars though

 

[BringBackSonics]

Loved the first episode!

 

[DrScruffleton]

Started watching it and am 3 episodes in. The first episode was pretty amazing, the second one was fun, and the third I absolutely hated. I am not an anime fan and it reminded me of every anime that I have tried to watch and hated. So over the top and terrible dialogue with people yelling at each other during a fight.

 

[AgentOtaku]

I've watched Tatooine Rhapsody twice now

I ain't being hyperbolic. I've been with this franchise for almost 40 years and that Episode is some of the best Star Wars content ever produced.

Fucking period.

 

[lvl 99 Pixel]

t0-b1 is a bizarre episode. The team has talent but the storyboarding is uncomfortably disjointed
Basically reminded me of this

 

[808s & Villainy]

I've watched Tatooine Rhapsody twice now

I ain't being hyperbolic. I've been with this franchise for almost 40 years and that Episode is some of the best Star Wars content ever produced.

Fucking period.

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Maybe not my favorite, but it saddens me when people rank it so low. Maybe I just love shows about bands like Beck and Carole & Tuesday and "band"/performance episodes of shows

 

[dark_prinny]

this is next after What if...

Looks fantastic.

 

[mugurumakensei]

Only one I didn't care for was tattoine rhapsody. Otherwise, these were great with ninth Jedi and the elder being my favorites.

I actually liked what T0-B1 was doing.

 

[Lifejumper]

Ngl looking at the creativity on display here and the live action slate for the next year is kinda depressing (in terms of new ideas):

Obi Wan
Andor
Boba Fett
Lando

haha

 

[Kharnete]

For those who are loving the "artists doing whatever they want with Star Wars" of this, take a look at the old Star Wars Tales comic series (1999-2005). It's essentially the same premise, multiple authors (hell, they even got Sergio Aragonés on it) and 4-16 pages to do whatever they want, and while it has some dull or stupid stories just as any anthology, it also produced some amazing content. And some hilarious, too.

 

[808s & Villainy]

Ngl looking at the creativity on display here and the live action slate for the next year is kinda depressing (in terms of new ideas):

Obi Wan
Andor
Boba Fett
Lando

haha

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Disney is so incredibly creatively bankrupt when it comes to Star Wars and these shorts show it. Whether you like them or not, they show, like the old LucasArts games and less crazy EU stuff, that Star Wars has room to tell sooo many VASTLY more interesting stories than they care to. But no, let's keep rehashing the same characters, themes, and planets over and over

 

[StreetsAhead]

I can't take "Angry Alison Brie" seriously after Community.

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Oh my god, I had no idea it was her but now in retrospect the sister sounded just like yelling Annie.