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==Star Wars: Visions== Basically, the prayers of every Anime fan with even a passing interest in Star Wars were finally answered. And even if you ''aren't'' an Anime obsessive, Star Wars: Visions is still [[Awesome]]. A series of shorts, all of which are decent to great, they managed to do well with both critics and audiences, proving that it is still possible for Star Wars products that don't have Baby Yoda in them to do that. In the second season however the series branches out, calling in animation studios from all over the world. The Shorts are: '''Season 1''' * '''The Duel''': Where most of the shorts are meant to be neither clearly canon or non-canon, first one, The Duel, is the exception. It explicitly takes place in a kind of "Elseworlds" Star Wars universe that is basically if Kurosawa (one of George Lucas' main inspirations) had done Star Wars himself. This short in particular borrows heavily from Yojimbo (morally gray ronin anti-hero fights a bunch of thugs in a suffering town). One of the characters has a lightsaber umbrella (trust us, its much less stupid than it sounds). * '''Tatooine Rhapsody''': About a Jedi survivor of Order 66 who finds a new life as the singer in a band that also includes a young Hutt who is on the outs with Jabba. Temura Morrison guest-stars voicing Boba Fett. Despite that, this is still the one short where you almost definitely want to watch it in Japanese, unless you want to suffer some horrible bad singing. * '''The Twins''': Takes place some time after Episode IX, and deals with a couple of super powerful, Force-Sensitive twins who ''aren't'' Luke and Leia. Takes full advantage of its being Anime to have some truly crazy, over-the-top action (as in, the title characters ''fighting on top of a Star Destroyer in outer space without space-suits'' and somehow being able to breath), and not-Luke ''slicing through a Star Destroyer with a fucking giant lightsaber''. Villain's design is like a [[Awesome|blend of Darth Vader, General Grievous and Satsuki Kiryuin from Kill la Kill]]. * '''The Village Bride''': A more slow-paced, low-energy short focusing on a low-tech village under the heel of some local dickheads that a mysterious masked Jedi fends off at the end. Has a "beauty of nature" type feel. * '''The Ninth Jedi''': Takes place an undetermined amount of time after Episode IX. It's an era where lightsaber construction has become a lost art...which is why what Jedi and Sith are left all want a piece of one of the few folks left who can make them. Notably, the lightsabers in this short change color to match the alignment of whoever is wielding them...leading to one heck of a plot twist towards the end. One of the most popular and beloved of the shorts. * '''T0-B1''': A droid living with his master in isolation with dreams of becoming a Jedi. Basically Astro Boy meets Star Wars, going for a very similar art-style and protagonist to the former. * '''The Elder''': Set before Episode I, it centers on a Jedi Master/Apprentice duo who cross paths with an elderly Dark Sider who isn't a Sith (though might have been once). Moody and slow-paced and one cannot really even tell that it is from the same studio as The Twins. * '''Lop and Ocho''': Centers on a rabbit girl alien who gets taken in by a father and daughter pair. The latter joins the Empire later, forcing Lop to combat her. Believe it or not, not the first time Star Wars has had rabbit people. * '''Akakiri''': Short loosely based off of the Kurosawa movie "The Hidden Fortress" (a ''major'' inspiration for Star Wars). Ends on a notably downer note compared to the rest of the shorts. '''Season 2''' *'''Sith''': Animated by Spain's El Guiri. Deals with a Sith Apprentice who tries to pursue a more peaceful life as a solitary artist, only for her old master to hunt her down. Notably, the main character has a double-bladed lightsaber where each blade is a different color, presumably symbolizing that she's more of a Gray Force-User who has both the Light and Dark Side in her. *'''Screecher's Reach''': Animated by Ireland's Cartoon Saloon. A group of children escape an oppressive workhouse into order to investigate a ghost story. Plays as a horror story (complete with what is basically a Banshee), and having a twist ending. Managed to get Anjelica Houston for one of the roles. *'''In the Stars''': Animated by Chile's Punkrobot. Focuses on siblings stuck on a world absolutely devastated by the Empire and struggling to survive. A bit akin to Grave of the Fireflies, but with a ''much'' happier ending...seemingly. The addition of two more stars in the sky (after the episode earlier established this is what happens to the planet's inhabitants when they die), suggests the protagonists may have died at the end...in which case it's even more like Grave of the Fireflies. *'''I Am Your Mother''': Animated by Aardman Animations. Yes, the folks who did ''Wallace and Gromit'', ''Shaun the Sheep'', ''Chicken Run'', and ''Flushed Away'' get to do a Star Wars (the robot from the first Wallace and Gromit short even shows up in the background). A young Twi'lek girl wants to participate in a family race, but is highly embarrassed by her mother and their space-tug home/ship. Accordingly, it's got a more comedic and light-hearted tone, complete with things like a welder mask looking like the front of a Mandalorian helmet and the bully's ship having ''a mini Death Star for its laser cannon''. Dennis Lawson also gets to reprise his role/ham it up as Wedge Antilles. *'''Journey to the Dark Head''': Animated by South Korea's Studio Mir. Set in an earlier time period before the Skywalker Saga. *'''The Spy Dancer''': Animated by France's Studio La Cachette. Plot centers on a dancer who is secretly a spy for the Rebellion, and the setting and accents make it clear this is Star Wars' take on Vichy France, particularly the Moulin Rouge. *'''The Bandits of Golak''': Animated by India's 88 Pictures. Interestingly, its animation and art style bear a resemblance to the type used in many of the mainline Star Wars shows (Clone Wars, Bad Batch, and Rebels). Focuses on a youth trying to get his force-sensitive little sister to safety before the Empire finds her. *'''The Pit''': Animated by Japan's D'art Shtajio, making it the only Season 2 episode to be of Japanese origin. Also going to be the only one that Lucasfilm Ltd. took part in animating. A group of people are forced to mine Khyber crystals for the Empire, then left to die in a deep hole. One of them risks it all to get help. *'''Aau's Song''': Animated by South Africa's Triggerfish. Features aliens who look a bit like green panda bears.
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