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Nine anime studios just reimagined the galaxy far, far away.
Lucasfilm and Disney+ dropped the official trailer for Star Wars: Visions on August 17, 2021, confirming the anthology series will premiere globally on September 22. The nine-episode collection hands the Star Wars mythos to seven Japanese animation houses, each free to reinterpret the saga through its own visual language — samurai duels, rock operas, hand-drawn classicism, all of it stitched into a single non-canon anthology.
- The trailer confirms a global Disney+ premiere date of September 22, 2021, with episodes releasing simultaneously in Japanese with English subtitles and as a full English dub.
- Nine standalone shorts come from seven studios — Kamikaze Douga, Geno Studio, Studio Colorido, Trigger, Kinema Citrus, Science SARU, and Production I.G — covering titles including “The Duel,” “Tatooine Rhapsody,” “The Twins,” “The Elder,” “The Village Bride,” “Akakiri,” “T0-B1,” “The Ninth Jedi,” and “Lop and Ochō.”
- The project marks Lucasfilm’s first formal expansion into traditional Japanese anime, building on concepts first previewed at Disney’s 2020 Investor Day and expanded on at Anime Expo Lite in July 2021.
From Investor Day Teaser to Full Trailer
Visions didn’t arrive out of nowhere. Disney first floated the concept at its 2020 Investor Day presentation, and Lucasfilm filled in details at Anime Expo Lite in July 2021 before this trailer made the project concrete. The August 17 drop gave fans their first real look at tone and craft rather than just a concept slide — lightsaber duels, armored warriors, and dogfights rendered in seven distinct visual dialects instead of one house style.
Seven Studios, Nine Stories
What separates Visions from anything Lucasfilm has done before is the anthology structure itself. Kamikaze Douga handles “The Duel,” leaning into ronin-style samurai staging. Studio Colorido brings “Tatooine Rhapsody,” described as a rock opera detour through the desert planet. Trigger contributes both “The Twins” and “The Elder,” while Kinema Citrus takes on “The Village Bride.” Science SARU delivers a pair as well, “Akakiri” and “T0-B1,” Production I.G handles “The Ninth Jedi,” and Geno Studio closes with “Lop and Ochō.” Each studio keeps its own aesthetic fingerprints instead of conforming to a shared Star Wars house style.
Nine standalone shorts, seven studios, one galaxy — all landing on Disney+ the same day.
A Dual-Language Release Strategy
Lucasfilm is releasing every episode twice over — once in Japanese with English subtitles, once fully dubbed in English with a separate voice cast — and both versions go live the same day, September 22. That’s a deliberate bet on reaching anime purists and mainstream Star Wars viewers at once, rather than forcing one audience to wait for a version tailored to them.
For a franchise that has leaned on trailers to build anticipation before — see how Lucasfilm’s own approach to genre trailer drops has evolved across platforms — the Visions rollout treats the anime medium as a genuine creative wing rather than a novelty tie-in. It’s a similar playbook to how other franchise anthologies, like the expanding slate of streaming originals building toward 2022, have used early trailers to stake out tone before full premieres.
All nine episodes hit Disney+ at once on September 22 — no weekly drip, no staggered studio spotlight. Fans get the full anthology, both language tracks, the same day it goes live.
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