Wednesday 22 September 2021

Star Wars Visions

Star Wars Visions is a series of shorts from various writers and directors animated by a number of Japanese studios.

I can see why the put The Duel first, as a Kurosawa homage is the most obvious idea for this medium doing Star Wars.

Much less obviously, Tatooine Rhapsody is a cute sorta-grunge band comedy with the voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Which is a genre I like but not really my Star Wars thing. Bonus for non-evil Hutt.

The Twins has the first Star Destroyer opening, and the most anime series of the time of Star Wars look.

Overall, the series has Jedi and Force stuff in every episode (including the band comedy for no particular reason) with three featuring surprise lightsaber colour reveals, as well as a couple of plots revolving around Kyber crystals, and also features several medieval-ish village planets too. Maybe getting the studios to call dibs would have resulted in more variety. Maybe a space battle for one, something that I think Star Wars should have as well as lightsaber fights. The closest we get is a great speeder chase.

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