Disney and Lucasfilm have revealed that animated anthology sequence Star Wars: Visions is coming again for a 3rd quantity in 2025. The information was introduced on the primary day of Disney’s two-day Content material Showcase occasion in Singapore.
Quantity three of Visions will return to Japan, with 9 new animated shorts from anime studios within the nation. The Japanese studios concerned embody David Manufacturing, Kamikaze Douga+ ANIMA, Kinema Citrus, Polygon Photos, Manufacturing I.G, Undertaking Studio Q, TRIGGER and WIT Studio.
When it debuted in 2021, Visions was a daring inventive alternative by Lucasfilm because it was a set of non-canon animated shorts created by totally different Japanese animation studios and that includes totally different animation types. The dearth of restrictions led to wildly imaginative interpretations of the Star Wars mythos that proved extremely standard with followers and critics alike.
The primary quantity of Visions debuted on Disney+ in September 2021. The season included 9 episodes with work from Japanese animation studios Kamikaze Douga, Studio Colorido, Geno Studio, Set off, Kinema Citrus, Manufacturing I.G. and Science Saru. Quantity one was met with close to common acclaim from critics, and it enjoys a 98 % critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 81 % on Metacritic.
Quantity two of Visions was launched on Disney+ in Might 2023, with episodes that includes work from a extra worldwide group of worldwide studios, together with Aardman (U.Ok.), El Guiri (Spain), Cartoon Saloon (Eire), Punkrobot (Chile), Studio Mir (South Korea), Studio La Cachette (France), 88 Photos (India), D’artwork Shtajio (Japan) together with Lucasfilm (U.S.), and Triggerfish (South Africa/Eire). Quantity two was likewise an enormous hit with critics, with it scoring an ideal one hundred pc on Rotten Tomatoes and 88 % on Metacritic.
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