He was just supposed to pass, but Ronin, the former character of Sith Lord who appeared in the first season of animated anthology Star Wars: visionsIn the third season of the Lucasfilm series will come back in the Disney + series on October 29 of this year.
The great revelation arrived at the Star Wars celebration event in Tokyo, in a panel dedicated to the successful program, where Visions Executive producer James Waugh confirmed that three of the most popular scenarios of the first season of the show – “The Duel”, “The Village Bride” and “The Ninth Jedi” – will continue in the third volume of the episodes to come.
Wash also revealed a “daring new direction” for Visions With the introduction of Star Wars: Visions present The banner, which, according to him, would give filmmakers a chance to tell deeper and longer stories without the constraints of the shorter execution of the Visions episodes. The first will be a series of autonomous benefits of “The Ninth Jedi” which will be released in 2026.
“The Duel: Payback” will be directed by Takanobu Mizuno from the anima studio Kamikaze Douga. “The Lost Ones”, a follow -up of the “village bride”, will be led by Hitoshi Haga by Kinema Citrus. And Naoyoshi Shiotani of IG production will direct the follow -up “the ninth Jedi” “Child of Hope”. The trio of filmmakers spoke of their episodes and has shown conceptions for new characters, to the delight of the crowd (an AT-AT on all fours, with a Japanese building on the top, caused oohs and aah).
The character of Ronin of “The Duel” turned out to be very popular with Star Wars Fans around the world, inspiring statues and even a black hasbro standard figure.
Also at the panel, Masaki Tachibana of the anime studio Kinema Citrus predicted a particularly kawaii addition to the Star Wars Universe for his episode, “Yuko’s Treasure”. The young female protagonist of the episode will be accompanied by a large droid in the shape of bears with a microwave integrated into her belly. The character’s revelation in a short clip played in the congress hall has delighted applause.
Hiroyasu Kobayashi of Project Studio Q discussed the darker and more mechanical world of its episode “The Song of Four Wings”, which took the four blades of an X-Wing as a central motif.
“We are a studio specializing in the creation of mechanisms, so we really focused on the essence of the ancient designs of Joe Johnston and presented a lot of droids and mechs,” he explained while showing a motionless with an anime riff on a Walker AT-AT.
“In general, Visions is a concept that has really come from a passion for animated medium, “said Wash about original inspirations behind anthology and its accent on Japanese anime for its first and third volumes.” I think we have always deeply admired the craftsmen who bring such great narration through animation. And so, while we were talking about the way we could celebrate this, we ended up finding a concept really focused on anime and really focused on celebration Star Wars Through the prospect of anime through the idea of really giving Japanese culture a projector inside Star Wars and his influence on Star Wars in general.”
When he made his debut in 2021, Visions was a daring creative choice of Lucasfilm because it was a collection of non -canon animated shorts created by different Japanese animation studios and with different animation styles. The absence of restrictions has led to extremely imaginative interpretations Star Wars Mythos who have proven to be incredibly popular with fans and criticism.
The first volume of Visions made its debut on Disney + in September 2021. The season included 9 episodes with the work of the Japanese animation studios Kamikaze Douga, Cololido studio, Geno Studio, Trigger, Kinema Citrus, IG production and Science Saru. The volume one was acclaimed almost universal on the part of criticism, and it benefits from a score of criticism of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and 81% on Metacritic.
Volume two of Visions Was published on Disney + in May 2023, with episodes featuring works by a more international group of international studios, notably Aardman (UK), El Guiri (Spain), Cartoon Saloon (Ireland), Punkrobot (Chile), Studio Mir (South Korea), Studio La Cachette (France), 88 pictures (US), art Shtajio (Japan) Lucasfilm (US), Shtajio art (Japan) with Lucasfilm (US), and Trignehp (South Africa / Ireland). The volume two was also a huge success with criticism, with it marking a perfect 100% on rotten tomatoes and 88% on Metacritic.
