Audience reviews
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Maiy_
You can't just take any art style and slap it onto Star Wars, it doesnt work like that. About half of the episodes look like Anime made for children. Very questionable voice actor choices in some episodes aswell. Grandpa voice on a 45yo man doesnt fit. One episode isnt enough to tell a very intriguing story or flesh out characters so filling it with 90% dialogue isnt exactly a good way of making it entertaining. Some characters react completely illogical which doesnt help.
Some episodes were very enjoyable while others were unwatchable.
Just goes to show that just because a well known big studio makes something doesnt guarantee it's going to be good.
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Okay, Star Wars: Visions. An interesting experiment for Disney, and one that seems to have paid off. This features shorts from many of anime’s most exciting current studios, including Studio Colorido, Studio Trigger, and Science Saru. They also tapped some lesser, but still interesting studios like Geno Studio and Kamikaze Douga (the people behind the CG Jojo’s OPs and also that abysmal anime Batman movie). Production I.G. and Kinema Citrus also animated one short a piece.
I’m not a big Star Wars guy. I’ve seen the original trilogy twice, the prequels once, and the sequels never. I am a weird nerd, but I’m not the type of weird nerd that’s weird about Star Wars.
I’m writing mostly to give myself a platform to write: The Phantom Menace is an unbelievable piece of dogshit and the people w…
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Star Wars: Visions is an anime anthology series created for the American streaming service Disney+. Produced by Lucasfilm Animation, the series consists of nine short films created by seven Japanese animation studios, each telling their own original stories based on and set within the Star Wars universe. 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.
The anthology was released worldwide on September 22, 2021. Naturally, the critic community acclaimed it, but Rotten Tomatoes’ scoring has more than proven how out of touch critics are fr…
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So yeah, this exists. Why, you may ask? Cuz it’s an easy way for Disney to make a cash grab and popularize Star Wars in the anime community. And let me just get started: this anime is awful.
First off, gotta explain the concept: 9 episodes, 9 studios making each one of those episodes. Got it? Now this could work, but in the short time each episode has they can only develop so much and the stories do not connect throughout the episodes.
The first episode was… not bad. It felt like Vagabond with lightsabers, the art style was fun and the plot was decent with the run time of the episode. Then it all went downhill, with episode 2. The episode was trash, the story was downright awful, the characters were annoying, the art took a major step back. But this wasn’t the worst episode. No, no, no,…
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For the purposes of agility, I'll review each episode separately, since it's from the same world, but entirely different studios for each one.
The Duel (Ep. 1) 9/10
The animation style of this one, my god.
It's a short watch of a small scale little conflict. Of course, breaking rules of the Jedi universe; but that doesn't really matter. You can look at this little bubble and stare in awe as this small animated project pertains an elegant dogfight between two siths. The combat resembles a fight in the amazing game "Furi" as counters fly, strategies pertain a certain flare of elegance while being dirty. The use of intelligence in an unlikely manner and the samurai themes.
It all worked perfectly well, only I didn't care for the characters, sometimes in a short you can't have a goal or an…
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Star Wars Visions is one of the worst things I've ever watched, and episode 4 was the only half-decent episode in the entire series. I wasted half a day watching this garbage kills me, and I'll never get that time back.
Story: The stories of each episode were forgettable.
Art: Holy god, was the art horrendous to look at.
Sound: The sound was meh. Nothing innovative to the series.
Character: The characters were the absolute worst part of the series. Enjoyment: I hated myself while watching this.
Overall: I hope Star Wars doesn't do something like this again. Must Avoid.
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I think it's a bit my fault that I gave it such a low rating since I had too much hype at the time of the release of this anime series ( this is a review by a otaku and star wars fan )
STORY (6 fair) : well I can't say much about the story of a single chapter since they are all completely different but I must say that the chapters should have been longer since many of them didn't even manage to build a good idea of the story of the chapter or the world in which this was turned
ART (10 outsanding) : Well this is disney and it has gigantic amounts of money so if we put that together with Japanese animation studios, a star wars license and an indefinite budget then this is what you have one of the most beautiful animes I have ever seen or well the most beautiful animes that I have seen, t…
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Unfortunately, as a whole, Star Wars: Visions was just...fine. And there's a very clear reason for that.
What this anime really is is a collaboration between animation studios. Meaning that each 23 minutes episodes were produced and written by different people, and I am very sad to say that MOST of the episodes were just terrible as far as their plotlines goes. In fact a lot of them just boils down to "good Jedi meets evil Sith and they fight", and its all rushed. That is pretty much what most of the studios did, and the only real difference being how they animated their own episodes.
BUT then there is two or three episodes of the 9 that are actually pretty well done, and ABSOLUTELY deserved to have their own full length anime series. If you wanna save yourself some time, watch episodes 5…
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There were only two episodes that were worth watching. The other episodes had terrible art and story overall. The second episde felt so bad after watching the first one, which was one of the good episodes, that I spent the whole time wondering what I was watching and if it wasn't some kind of a joke.
As for sound, it was very nice and enjoyable. The art of some of the episodes was good while of others just bad. The story had no connection at all, each episode had a different charecters and situations, and most of them were just like a cartoon for 3 year olds.
Overall would NOT reccomend.
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No connection between episodes, the story was half-baked and utilised on the most common anime tropes. Trying to set emotional backstories for characters we know for 10 minutes is a joke. No way I get attached to a character that quickly. It felt rushed and didn't capture that Star Wars feeling for me. Trying to do that every single episode was a such a mistake I do not know how it was even approved.
Soundtrack was fairly bland and didn't scream Star Wars to me. Animation was fine but nothing special. It felt super rushed.
Waiting for each episode to end was dreadful. Good job Disney, you shat all over Star Wars. Hope you're proud.
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If you have never watched Star Wars, you can watch the anime without any problems, if you know what a Jedi is, that's fine. Another attempt by Disney to do something different with Star Wars, being Japanese we can see samurai jedi and homages to classic manga works like "Vagabond" and "Astro Boy" with good art, but it's a shame that it's a bad anime....
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-Story: 4/10 (Lack of plot)
Star Wars visions has reasonably good ideas for its episodes but its big problem would be their short screen time, it is hard to build a good story in only fourteen minutes, as we can see, in many episodes the flaw is evident, where the anime shows us dramas and fights, without even presenting the characters or a good context. Such factors that make climactic scenes futi…
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Quick review.
What I liked:
The fight scenes were well animated and pretty well stylized.
The character designs are also pretty nice.
Tràkata shows up, I really like that. The band episode was fun.
The katana lightsabers look really cool.
What I disliked:
The anime moments i.e lightsaber jousting through a star destroyer on an X-wing
Almost every short ended in some type of lightsaber duel, I kinda wish they explored more than just Jedi related Star Wars universe stuff.
A lot of the stories setup sequel material and I am pretty sure none of it is getting follow-ups.
Some of the stories just lacked atmosphere if that makes sense. Like you'd think there would be more of a reaction from both Jedi and Sith over a girl with a colorless lightsaber. Or the fact that one of the…
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Star Wars Visions is a set of different stories told by different people and is developed by different staff. I will review each episode on its own, but assign a rating for the entire set at the end.
Some episodes are not even worth watching at all, while others tower above the franchise at a height not seen since the days of Knights of the Old Republic games in 2003 or perhaps Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire (The Thrawn Trilogy) published all the way back in 1991.
At the very top of this pinnacle stands episode 5. The storytelling and directing is on point. From only a few minutes in, I could tell from the color palette, faces, and camera shots that this was from Production IG and specifically director and writer that worked on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Kenji Kamiyama.…
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Darth Vader: Luke, I'm your father...
Luke Skywalker: My father????NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Ok enough of that Empire Strikes Back monologue.
So:
Story: Pros: It was kinda nice that Disney has allowed studios Production I.G, Kinema Citrus, Kamikaze Douga, Trigger, Studio Colorido, Geno Studio and Science SARU,to create each of their version of the iconic Star wars franchise....
Coms: The problem since each of the studios were given their own version of the Star Wars episode, half of it were downright lame but half of it were masterpieces...TBFH, it wouldn't be fair to rate this as a whole since this ONA is a package deal so my ratings for this ONA:
Verdict: 6 over 10.
Art:
Pros: TBFH, there were a lot about the character illustartions that were good, but..
Cons: There were also illustrati…
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I grew up a Star Wars fan, and I haven't ever deviated from that. I love Star Wars, and I also love anime. I cannot explain how excited I was for this show to come out, but I am extremely disappointed. I heard Star Wars anime and that peaked my interest.
I'm not complaining about it being episodic either that wasn't my issue, I liked that each episode felt different from the last. Art and animation was different in every episode. This is honestly just a horrible concept. Disney advertised that a bunch of studios in Japan would be making their own ONA's on Star Wars and it's clear that some of the studios knew nothing about Star Wars.
Episode 1: I'm not a fan of 3D anime, but I really liked this episode. It was animated really well and didn't try to rush a story in 9 min like some of th…
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Star Wars visions, although not perfect, is a beautiful love letter to the Star Wars franchise as a whole. It complements the themes and dances around it magnificently, being able to take pride in being in the Star Wars universe. Each episode of visions has its own unique direction and storytelling method that stands out on its own, from a samurai story to a journey of a band and even a stunningly breathtaking tale about a devastating torn of a family (which is probably my favorite episode). A lot of the characters were able to engage with the audience, getting to know their personality/goal by a “blink and you’ll miss it” show not tell method, or through dialogs between characters, or simply just by letting the action scenes speak for itself. Speaking of the action scenes, the fights were…
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First off, let me state that I'm a huge fan of star wars. When it comes to reviewing the product, I try to be as neutral as possible, but undoubtedly, theres going to be bias there, as there is with anything. With that, lets see how this newest instalment to the cultural phenomenon stacks up.
It's good. Like pretty good actually. Now in my head, I had imagined this to be 9 long form products (movies or series) that would each be marked on their own merit, but I must of missed something somewhere. I was a little upset when I realised it was 9 short stories. But nevertheless, I hoped for the best.
Each short story has its own thing its trying to do, and they all do it to varying degrees of proficiency. The first is mostly an art piece based around the CGI, the 3rd is exactly what you would…
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Disney has been taking over the movie industry step by step, so naturally it wasn't long before they show an interest in anime. What resulted is their first original anime based off a popular franchise that they purchased the rights to about a decade ago, Star Wars: Visions. Deciding to make an anthology about Star Wars was an interesting idea, and they decided to hire seven different anime studios to animate nine short self contained episodes. This resulted in nine episodes of varying quality, but the decision to compile short stories itself had its own strength and flaws.
Let me get this out of the way. I am not a huge Star Wars fan in general, and outside of the three main trilogies, Rogue One, and The Mandalorian, I don't know anything else about the universe. So perhaps there are a b…
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I’ve been so apathetic towards Star Wars for a couple of years now. I didn’t hate the new Disney movies, however the constant yearly releases, and the constant arguing from fans, by the time episode 9 came out I was just done with Star Wars. I didn’t really wanna have anything to do with it anymore.
However, with the announcement of this anthology series, I felt happy about Star Wars again. The trailer really grabbed me. I was still skeptical, of course, but I was more happy about this than other Star Wars media because this was going to be something unique for the series.
And I was right to be happy about this, because this set of mini Star Wars stories were, for the most part, really great. It just feels fun to be happy about Star Wars again.
My ranking of the episodes from best to wo…
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Being both a fan of Star Wars and anime, this collaboration seemed like a gift from the gods. How could I not be excited for this! Even with the score I have given it, it still lived up to my expectations.
※ Story: 5/10 ※
As an episodic series. there was a great variation in the tone for each episode. In some episodes, we viewed a light-hearted and dreamy scene unfold, while in others, we witnessed a more serious tone with more mature scenes.
Each episode did well in differentiating itself from the others in its storytelling. It didn't feel repetitive despite most episodes revolving around 'The Force' and Jedis. The direction that the episodes took was also unexpected and not cliche. I found myself surprised with some of the decisions the story writers made.
That being said, there wa…
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