Overview
- The Ninth Jedi released in full on Disney+ and Hulu on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, with both the original Japanese track and an English dub available.
- The eight-episode limited series builds directly on two earlier Visions shorts and follows Lah Kara as she trains under Margrave Juro and leads a small fellowship on a quest to rescue her sabersmith father.
- Production I.G. reunited the original creative team — Kenji Kamiyama as supervising director, Shunsuke Tada as series director, and Hitoshi Itō producing — and the show features a bilingual cast including Chinatsu Akasaki and Kimiko Glenn.
- Early reviews consistently single out the hand-drawn animation and lightsaber choreography as standout elements, while several critics fault the show for reusing familiar Star Wars beats such as a kyber-powered superweapon plotline.
- As the first title under the new Star Wars: Visions Presents banner, the series tests Lucasfilm’s strategy of expanding select anthology shorts into longer experiments and could influence whether more Visions stories receive similar treatment, though no second season has been announced.