Overview
- Lucasfilm confirmed that Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi will arrive on Disney+ in Summer 2026 and the first episode will receive an early fan screening at Anime Expo.
- Anime Expo will show the premiere episode on July 2 at the JW Marriott Diamond Ballroom in Los Angeles in Japanese with English subtitles and will host a creative-team panel.
- The event panel will include supervising director Kenji Kamiyama, director Shunsuke Tada, producer Hitoshi Ito, and Lucasfilm executive producers Jacqui Lopez and Josh Rimes.
- Production I.G. developed the limited series in collaboration with Lucasfilm, marking the first full Star Wars anime series spun out from the Visions anthology.
- The Ninth Jedi continues the arc of Kara, a Force-sensitive woman searching for her father while working to rebuild the Jedi Order, and the project shows Lucasfilm using fan events to build awareness for its new anime strategy.