Star Wars Visions: Everything You Need To Know About The Anime Studios Behind The Project
A Star Wars fan has created a graphic breaking down the anime studios behind Star Wars Visions ' episodes, displaying each studio alongside the short they created for the anthology, as well as their notable prior works. The anime anthology series was produced by six Japanese animation studios, bringing their unique perspectives to the franchise.
The seven Japanese anime studios that are creating anime short films for Star Wars: Visions have been announced! Disney+ made the announcement with a special look at the series, during Anime Expo Lite.
The seven Japanese anime studios that are creating anime short films for Star Wars: Visions have been announced! Disney+ made the announcement with a special look at the series, during Anime Expo Lite. Star Wars is venturing into the incredible world of anime! A new series of animated short films is coming to Disney+ this […]
The participating animation studios are Kamikaze Douga, Studio Colorido, Geno Studio, Trigger, Kinema Citrus, Production I.G, and Science SARU; the creators at each studio were given free rein to re-envision the ideas of Star Wars as they saw fit, while receiving guidance from Lucasfilm 's executive team.
On “Visions,” Lucasfilm Animation partnered with Kanako Shirasaki and Justin Leach of Qubic Pictures. They approached the anime studios that they wished to collaborate with, and then allowed the directors of each short to select their own stories and designs within the “Star Wars” universe.
seven studiosKamikaze Douga is the newest of the seven studios working on the show, but despite a shorter resume, it's still managed to make a big imprint in the mind of anime fans, having worked on the openings for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure as well as Batman Ninja.
Disney hired five Japanese animation studios to animate one episode each, and two studios to animate two episodes each. Each episode has a distinct animation style but uses the familiar aesthetic of "Star Wars," which leads to some astonishing visuals.
The participating animation studios are Kamikaze Douga, Studio Colorido, Geno Studio, Trigger, Kinema Citrus, Production I.G, and Science SARU; the creators at each studio were given free rein to re-envision the ideas of Star Wars as they saw fit, while receiving guidance from Lucasfilm's executive team.
MAPPA Co., Ltd. Founded in 2011 by Madhouse co-founder and producer Masao Maruyama, it has produced anime works including Kids on the Slope, Terror in Resonance, Yuri!!! on Ice, In This Corner of the World, Zombieland Saga, Dororo, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Attack on Titan: The Final Season.
Kinema CitrusStar Wars: Visions Episode 4, “The Village Bride,” is a look into the culture of a planet and adds to the lore of the Star Wars franchise beautifully. Animated by Kinema Citrus, this episode is directed by Hitoshi Haga and written by Takahito Oonishi and Hitoshi Tani with an ethereal score by Kevin Penkin.
Star Wars: Visions is a collection of animated short films presented "through the lens of the world's best anime creators" that offer "a fresh and diverse cultural perspective to Star Wars ".
Development. On December 10, 2020, it was announced that Star Wars: Visions was an anime anthology series of ten short films by different creators set in the Star Wars universe. It was previewed by producer Kanako Shirasaki and the executive producers at Anime Expo Lite in July 2021.
It is set to release on October 12, 2021.
Kamikaze Douga did the animation for “The Duel” and specializes in 3D anime. The studio is most known for creating the openings for other anime shows such as the first few seasons of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.
Studio Colorido handled the production on “Tatooine Rhapsody,“ a more light-hearted episode in the collection. The studio has worked on a lot of shorts and films. It worked on a recent collection of web Pokemon cartoons, including “Poketoon: A Budding Dream” and “ Poketoon: Wait Here, Magikarp .”
Studio Trigger, or just Trigger, was able to do two animations in this Star Wars collection and both look distinct from one another. The studio did “The Twins” and “The Elder.” Trigger has made a lot of great anime, despite being one of the somewhat newer companies out there.
Kinema Citrus did the production for “The Village Bride” and it is another stunning episode in Star Wars: Visions. It starts off with a beautiful look at a lush planet before diving into action. This studio worked on Made in Abyss, which is one of their more popular shows.
Production IG did the animation for “The Ninth Jedi,” and the studio is too huge to go through its entire catalog. If a video game has animated sequences, chances are it was made by Production IG. One big one was Persona 5.
Science SARU, like Studio Trigger, also did two animations in this Disney+ series. The company made “TO-B1” and ”Akakiri.” Over the years, Science SARU has helped a lot as production assistants to other big studios.
Geno Studio did the animation for “Lap and Ocho.” As mentioned earlier, BNA would be a good recommendation for fans of this production. As for the company itself, Geno Studio is newer and doesn’t have many shows under its belt.
That should hold us over until September 22, 2021, when Star Wars: Visions debuts on Disney +. I appreciate Lucasfilm exploring new ways of telling stories without canon restricting great storytelling. Hopefully, this will lead to more freedom in that respect.
Tezuka was an innovative manga creator, director, and artist who helped define the look of Japanese animation. He is known as the father of manga. Manga is the Japanese version of a comic book, while Anime is the animated equivalent.
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Seven anime studios worked on the anthology series to create their own unique takes on the franchise, and they have all made hugely popular anime series in their own right, like Kill la Kill and Ghost in the Shell.
A number of famous names will be lending their voices to the franchise, including Lucy Liu, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Neil Patrick-Harris.
Lucasfilm announced on August 17 that Star Wars: Visions will be available to stream on Disney+ on September 22, 2021.
Directed by: Takunobo Mizuno Best-known for: Opening credits of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (studio)
Directed by: Taku Kimura Best-known for: Penguin Highway, A Whisker Away, Burn The Witch (studio)
Directed by: Hiroyuki Imaishi, Masahiko Otsuka Best-known for: Kill la Kill, Promare
Where the films frequently take detours into the cultures of less technologically dependent peoples, The Village Bride is fully immersed in this setting, and frames the “Wars” part from the perspective of indigenous peoples, their lands stripped for resources as a result of the cross fire.
Directed by: Kenji Kamiyama Best-known for: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of the East, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Directed by: Abel Góngora, Eunyoung Choi Best-known for: Night is Short, Walk on Girl, Devilman crybaby
Nature and machine have clashed many times in Star Wars —the industrial terror of the Empire famously thwarted by the tribalistic teddy bear Ewoks in Return of the Jedi— and Lop and Ochō is another short in Visions that's interested in that conflict.
Star Wars: Visions is an animated anthology series created for the American streaming service Disney+. Produced by Lucasfilm Animation, the series consists of various original stories set in, or inspired by, the Star Wars universe.
The first volume of nine anime short films were produced by seven Japanese animation studios: Kamikaze Douga, Studio Colorido, Geno Studio, Trigger, Kine…
Star Wars: Visions is a collection of animated short films presented "through the lens of the world's best anime creators" that offers a new, diverse perspective on Star Wars. Created outside of the constraints of the franchise's traditional canon, the films provide creative freedom to each director and production studio, while maintaining fidelity to the themes and emotional identity of the Star Wars saga.
Development of the Star Wars: Visions project began when James Waugh, vice president of franchise content at Lucasfilm, pitched the idea to Kathleen Kennedy at the beginning of 2020. To facilitate the international production, Lucasfilm collaborated with independent producer Justin Leach and his company Qubic Pictures, which helped facilitate the discussions between the US-based executives and Japanese studios; this became particularly important during the COVID-1…
Star Wars: Visions was released on September 22, 2021, on Disney+. From September 21 to 27, Disney screened The Village Bride along with movies playing at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles. By November, the studio had submitted the film for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The second volume of shorts will be released in early 2023.
In March 2021, it was announced that Del Rey Books will publish Ronin: A Visions Novel, an origin…
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 96% approval rating with an average rating of 8.20/10, based on 50 reviews for the first season. The site's critical consensus reads, "Gorgeously animated and wildly creative, Visions is an eclectic, but wholly enjoyable collection of Star Wars stories that breathe new life into the galaxy." Metacritic gave the series a weighted average score of 79 out of 100 based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews", wit…
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