Image source: Star Wars franchise’s YouTube channel — via Anime News Network
The official YouTube channels for the Star Wars franchise and Disney+ began streaming on Monday the final trailer forStar Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi, the limited anime series spinoff from the Star Wars: Visions project. There are versions for the English dub and the Japanese dub withEnglish subtitles.
The Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 event announced in April 2025 that the Star Wars: Visions anthology is expanding with Star Wars: Visions Presents, an opportunity to tell its animated stories in a longer narrative. "The Ninth Jedi" short is the first story to be expanded this way.
KenjiKamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of the East) returns from the previous "The Ninth Jedi" short in the first Star Wars: Visions volume, but as the supervising director and series script supervisor on the new series. Shunsuke Tada (Kuroko's Basketball, STARMYU, Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These – Collision film) is directing the new series. Hitoshi Itō (Star Wars: Visions, Attack on Titan TheFinal Season) is producing, and the executive producers are Lucasfilm's Jacqui Lopez andJosh Rimes.
The Japanese cast includes:
Volume 2 of the Star Wars: Visions project debuted on Disney+ on May 4, 2023 (Star Wars Day). Unlike the first anthology, which consisted of nine shorts from Japanese creators and anime studios, the second volume features nine shorts from animation studios from around the world, including Japan, India, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Chile, France, South Africa, South Korea, and the United States.
Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 debuted on Disney+ in October 2025. The latest anthology continued the storylines of three shorts from the first volume: "The Duel," "Village Bride," and "The Ninth Jedi." Separate from the limited anime series, "The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope" short tells the story of a war that has been going on since before the first short's character Kara was born.