Overview
- The Ninth Jedi premiered in full on Wednesday on Disney+ and Hulu as the first release under the new Star Wars: Visions Presents banner.
- Production I.G. led the eight-episode project with Kenji Kamiyama as supervising director and Shunsuke Tada as director, and the show is available in Japanese with an English dub starring Chinatsu Akasaki and Kimiko Glenn.
- The story follows Lah Kara training under Margrave Juro and traveling with a small fellowship of Jedi-in-training on a quest to save her father while exploring a distant, post-Jedi era of the galaxy.
- Early reviews are broadly positive about the series’ hand-drawn visuals, emotional beats, and lightsaber choreography but several critics fault its reuse of familiar Star Wars elements such as a kyber-related superweapon and a derivative masked villain.
- Lucasfilm framed Visions Presents as a way to expand standout animated shorts without changing mainline canon, and creators have signaled interest in future seasons though no official renewal has been announced.