Star Wars: Visions Presents is a collection of American anime anthology television series created for the streaming service Disney+. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, and serves as a spinoff from Star Wars: Visions.
The first eight-episode series, subtitled The Ninth Jedi, premiered at the Anime Expo on July 1, 2026, and was released in its entirety on Disney+ and Hulu on August 5, 2026.
Voice cast The Ninth Jedi
Character name Voice actor English Japanese English Lah Kara Chinatsu Akasaki Kimiko Glenn Juro Tetsuo Kanao Andrew Kishino Ethan Hiromu Mineta Masi Oka Homen Hinata Tadokoro Patrick Seitz Gramps Chō J. P. Karliak Lah Zhima Shin-ichiro Miki Simu Liu Dunbai Hiroshi Naka Brent Mukai Gennoh Ikagi Kenji Nomura Feodor Chin Bhozn Tetsu Inada Neil Kaplan Nawaam Nao Ōmori Young Mazino Tafflah Maaya Sakamoto Chase Sui Wonders Kwana Nobuyuki Hiyama Keone Young Eht Shoya Ishige Zion Jang Bee-Toh Hiroki Takahashi Aleks Le
Episodes The Ninth Jedi (2026)
Production Development James Waugh announced at the April 2025 Star Wars Celebration that Star Wars: Visions would begin a standalone spin-off series to tell longer form stories that began as shorts in the anthology series. The first Star Wars: Visions Presents series is The Ninth Jedi, after the Volume 1 episode "The Ninth Jedi" (2021) and the Volume 3 continuation "The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope" (2025), which was also announced at the Star Wars Celebration.
The Ninth Jedi series was directed by Kenji Kamiyama and written by Mitsuyasu Sakai. Around 200 people at Production I.G worked on the series. Nobuko Toda and Kazuma Jinnouchi composed the music.
Casting In July 2026, the voice cast was revealed for the series, with Chinatsu Akasaki, Tetsuo Kanao, Hiromu Mineta, Hinata Tadokoro, Chō, and Shin-ichiro Miki, Kimiko Glenn, Andrew Kishino, Masi Oka, Patrick Seitz, J. P. Karliak, and Simu Liu reprising their roles from the Japanese and English dubs of Visions, respectively, with Feodor Chin, Young Mazino, Chase Sui Wonders, Keone Young joining as newcomers for the English dub.
Release Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi premiered at the Anime Expo on July 1, 2026, and was released in its entirety on Disney+ and Hulu on August 5, 2026, consisting of eight episodes.
Reception The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 92% for The Ninth Jedi, based on 24 reviews. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 83 out of 100 for The Ninth Jedi, based on 7 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
Jesse Schedeen, writing for IGN, praised The Ninth Jedi for being a blank slate free from the rest of Star Wars continuity and noted the superior quality of Star Wars animation work compared to its live-action work. The animation quality and the composition of 2D characters in 3D environments were praised by Rendy Jones in his review for RogerEbert.com; Jones also compared the animation quality to that of Star Wars: Clone Wars. Chase Hutchinson praised the "enrapturing animation" and how compelling the characters were in his review for The A.V. Club. Richard Eisenbeis praised the score and the use of changing lightsaber colors as a plot device in his review for Anime News Network, but felt that the supporting characters were underdeveloped and that the show was thematically shallow.
References
External links
Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi at StarWars.com