Ahead of the screening of the first episode of Star Wars Visions Presents: The Ninth Jedi at Anime Expo, it’s been officially revealed that the spin-off series based on the pair of Visions episodes bearing the same name, will be receiving its first full trailer tomorrow.
The announcement was revealed via a short teaser released on the official Star Wars YouTube channel:
Star Wars Visions, the show that The Ninth Jedi is spinning off of, is an anthology anime/animation series depicting standalone stories that are not necessarily canonical to the greater franchise, but exist as an exploration of the creativity of the artists working on the shorts – in this case, the team at Production I.G.
The Ninth Jedi shorts are set in the distant future of the setting where the Jedi and Sith are rare and lightsabers are even rarer. The eponymous first short followed a group of eight Jedi refugees seeking to rearm themselves and root out traitors within their ranks, while a young woman name Lah Kara seeks to become a Jedi herself. The second short, Child of Hope, follows up on Lah Kara’s journey by giving her a side quest in which she befriends a droid servant on a derelict vessel. The limited series continues the narratives of both The Ninth Jedi and Child of Hope with a multi-episode season.
The shorts featured an all-star lineup of talent in the recording booth. Both shorts starred Chinatsu Akasaki as Lah Kara, Shin-ichiro Miki as Lah Zhima, Tetsuo Kanao as Juro, Hiromu Mineta as Ethan, and Hinata Tadokoro as Homen in the original Japanese version, and Kimiko Glenn, Simu Liu, Andrew Kishino, Masi Oka, and Patrick Seitz as the English dub counterparts to the same characters. At this time, it is unclear if the same voice actors from the previous two shorts will reprise their roles in the limited series.
Star Wars Visions Presents: The Ninth Jedi will release exclusively on Disney Plus and Hulu at some point this summer.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.