Lucasfilm has released the English dub trailer for Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi, the first longer-form anime series under the new Star Wars: Visions Presents banner.
The story continues the world first introduced in Star Wars: Visions Volume 1’s fan-favourite short “The Ninth Jedi,” and later expanded in “The Ninth Jedi – Child of Hope” from Volume 3. This time, Lah Kara’s journey becomes a full 8-episode limited series, giving the story more room to explore its Jedi mythology, anime identity and emotional stakes.
Kara continues training in the ways of the Jedi under Margrave Juro, but her path is far from peaceful. Alongside Juro’s small fellowship of Jedi-in-training, she sets out on a dangerous mission to save her father, Lah Zhima, while the galaxy faces new threats and an increasingly powerful warlord.
That is what makes The Ninth Jedi such an exciting branch of Visions. It feels recognisably Star Wars — lightsabers, lost Jedi, dangerous missions, destiny and legacy — but it is not locked into the main Skywalker timeline in the usual way. The anime format lets it treat the Force with a different visual and emotional language, making the galaxy feel strange again.
The Disney+ listing describes the series around Kara and her ragtag Jedi crew seeking worthy Jedi to fight against a growing warlord threat. That gives the show a classic adventure structure, but with the more stylised, mythic energy that made Visions stand out from other animated Star Wars projects.
The series is directed by Shunsuke Tada and written by Mitsuyasu Sakai, with Kenji Kamiyama serving as supervising director. That creative connection matters, because Kamiyama directed the original “The Ninth Jedi” short, helping shape the story’s distinct anime-meets-Star-Wars identity from the beginning.
For fans of animated series, Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi looks like one of the most promising expansions of the Visions experiment so far. It takes a short that already felt like it could support a larger saga and finally lets it breathe.
Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi streams August 5 on Disney+ and Hulu.
