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Even Jon Favreau’s space western TV series The Mandolorian, which began as an episodic story focused on wholly new characters to the franchise, inevitably circled back to incorporate Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett in its second season. There is a vocal base of fans who simply want new stories featuring Luke, Leia, and Han Solo, and if not that, then stories that intersect or hew close to the established lore of the Skywalker Saga stories.

While those core tenets are more or less uncontested by the fanbase, the specifics of the stories in which those themes manifest creates contention. As a whole, the series is defined as much by its iconography as it is by its unifying themes of hope, perseverance, familial love, and bravery in the face of temptation and self-doubt. Audiences want more Star Wars stories, but what “more Star Wars” means has never been as clear as, say, the Marvel Studios equation. The struggle is most evident in the troubled productions and scattershot reception of Rogue One and Solo. But since acquiring Lucasfilm in 2012, Disney and the new Lucasfilm regime have struggled to pin down, let alone expand on, the definition of Star Wars. In its 44-year history, Star Wars has spawned more offshoots and spinoffs than clone troopers on Kamino. On top of delivering thrilling action, the resulting nine shorts stand as the most clear interrogation of the soul of Star Wars since 2017’s The Last Jedi.

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Star Wars: Visions makes a tantalizing promise: Round up some of the most exciting talent working in modern anime - including Hiroyuki Imaishi ( Promare), Kenji Kamiyama ( Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex), Eunyoung Choi ( Kaiba, Ping Pong The Animation), and Masahiko Otsuka ( FLCL, Gurren Lagann) - and allow them free rein to tell their own stories in the Star Wars universe, canon be damned. “I don’t think a series of shorts was something that really had a destination prior to Disney Plus,” he says. “We were relaunching a franchise in a really big way, it was feature-driven.” It wasn’t until Disney’s library had a streaming home that a potential Star Wars anime project finally found its footing. “We always thought that the anime vernacular would work well with Star Wars but if you think of Star Wars five or six years ago, we were in a very different place,” Visions executive producer James Waugh tells Polygon. For a series whose origins were so heavily informed by George Lucas’ love of Akira Kurosawa and jidaigeki (“period drama”) films, the idea of a Star Wars anime anthology feels about as natural as the Force itself.

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Star Wars: Visions, the first original anime series on Disney Plus, brings the Star Wars franchise full circle through the medium of Japanese animation.

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