Star Wars Visions The Ninth Jedi Lands August 5
The most beloved short in Star Wars Visions history is becoming a full series. Star Wars: Visions Presents The Ninth Jedi premieres on August 5, with a trailer revealed during Anime Expo 2026. Production I.G, the studio behind the original short, returns to expand the story.
From anthology standout to its own show
When the first Visions anthology arrived, The Ninth Jedi was the near universal pick for best in show. Its story of Kara, a girl carrying a lightsaber in an era when the Jedi are all but extinct, felt like a complete pilot rather than an experiment, and fans have been asking for a continuation ever since.
Getting a full series is a genuinely big deal beyond Star Wars fandom. It means the anime side of this franchise has graduated from curiosity to canonical storytelling engine, with a Japanese studio driving a flagship Star Wars story. That door swinging open matters for every studio watching.
Visions has quietly built a strong track record across its anthology volumes, giving Japanese studios room to reinterpret the galaxy with total stylistic freedom on Disney Plus. The Ninth Jedi becoming its first serialized spinoff sets the template for how anthology experiments graduate into full stories, and if it lands, other fan favorite shorts suddenly have a visible path to the same treatment.
The premiere date and trailer were reported by Anime Corner.
My take: The Ninth Jedi deserved this upgrade. Production I.G doing serialized Star Wars is the crossover experiment I most want to succeed this year.
