The season shows 3 more experimental selections

Disney+ fatigue may be offered to many viewers, with a group of Marvel and Star Wars to be dropped in a feverish clip over the past few years. But this did not stop Star Wars: visions From obtaining a warm reception at the NYC Conference at the end of last week, where thousands of fans got a peek at the next season of Anthology Animated.

Star Wars: visions The third season was also shown at the Star Wars celebration this summer, but its appearance in Conime was equally as much as the list of upcoming episodes will produce it again by Japanese animation studios like Trigger Tigger (La Keel killed), Kamikaze Douga (Batman Ninja) And Kinema Citrus (Revue Starlightand The abyss made). The second season took the show more around the world, with episodes of Irish Studio Cartoon Saloon (Kils secretand WolfwalkersAarmman (Wallace and Gromete). CEO James Wu said it is good to have a more international perspective, describing him as a “global tour of all these different methods.” But returning to Japan has always been on the cards. Producers met “many amazing stories narrators” and wanted to re -contact them, in addition to cooperating with new studios that they have not yet worked with.

Everly, this desire to do more Japanese anime does not become more clear than the fact that three of the upcoming episodes are following the stories of the first season: “Fencing: Recovery”, “The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope”, and “The Lost Ones” (continued to “The Village Bride”). “Fencing” will also receive a full series coming in 2026, framed as “Star Wars VISIONS”.

However, none of these were displayed more than short clips. The main attraction of the painting, regardless of a pre -registered question and answer with the director Shinya Ohira, was to display a full episode of the next season. “Lions” had already been presented to a crowd at the French Animation Festival, which should have been a sign that the crowd was about to show something completely different from the prevailing anime.

“Black” is the typical StormTrooper story, but instead of direct photography, this is a distorted view of what is happening on his head as he is heading towards defeat and potential death. Everything is exaggerated in size and percentage, and the art pattern constantly turns from watercolor to gouache to the parts that look like a pencil. There is no dialogue. Only music, which is transmitted from more surrounding sounds of the new type to a high -range swing number. OHira described the episode as a kind of music video, and it is easy to see this because “black” is less than the plot than it is in absolute feelings.

And feelings … not good. When we watch the stars war, we see shots with a wonderful frame of X-Wings and the star of death from the integrity of our comfortable seats at home-but we are a joint soldier on Earth that can be frightening and confusing. “Black” shows us these ships in mostly brief glimpses, which reflects what a person will falter in chaos on the ground. The weakness of our protagonist is more high by designing his personality, as his armor is always shown in a state of harm and chaos, with enough of his helmet that appeared to show his face.

The timeline is mixed, with scenes from the star of death and hot, as well as battles in less well -known sites. Emotions swing back and forth also; The quiet moments are shown while the soldier remembers his life in the homeland, and it is a blatant contrast with the loud and bright battle. It is not explicitly hostile to war, but the short reduces that the experience can really absorb it.

It is an interesting option for Disney/Lukasfity to put this short as a representative of the season, rather than “traditional” anime features like one of his studio, “The Smuggler”. Survival glimpses of all short pants in Sizzle, those in the most popular anime studios were the clips that sparked the largest chants of the crowd. The “black” matter was not praised, but made for a specific type of student who taught a lot in animation.

The good thing in the selection of what is that it should not have a wide attractiveness, and that Work realizes the wild fluctuations that the season requires, saying to look at it “through a mixed strip lens … I really want all the different tones and styles, and I want to have a kind of rhythmic change throughout the science of violations … We really want to show the full threat to the list of the menu.”

Star Wars may pass a strange period at the present time, with a series like Acolyte Obtaining cancellation during other projects such as The darkest swarm It has so far failed to get off the ground. So it may seem a little strange to do something that looks like a big passion project. But animation also means that it is much cheaper for its production, and the coordination of the anthology makes it more experienced. Not everyone is a fans of the episodes like “Black”, but this is good, because there are eight other episodes that must be tried, all of which drop on Disney+ October 29.