00:00Star Wars Visions Presents, The Ninth Jedi, is the first, of possibly many, Star Wars anime
00:05spinning off from the Star Wars Visions anthology series.
00:08But does The Ninth Jedi hold up as a series rather than a short? Let's find out.
00:17Right off the bat, the shell sets itself up by explaining that it's set in the far future in the
00:21Star Wars humor
00:22so you don't have to worry about how it fits into canon.
00:24Here, we follow a group of Jedi survivors having to save the galaxy from a lore ward called Nawan,
00:29who's gaining footholds throughout the galaxy, and so it's up to Jedi-in-training Lakara to help save the galaxy.
00:35But what ties does Nawan have to her and her father? Well, watch the show to find out.
00:39I found the setting of the show interesting. As it's far in the future, there's no ties to the previous
00:44films,
00:45or series, and the saga, so we get introduced to a new batch of characters who all draw from previous
00:50Star Wars archetypes so it isn't too unfamiliar. Lakara obviously evokes characters like Rey or Luke Skywalker
00:55as a young Jedi-in-training having to deal with what her relatives have done in the past,
00:59Juro is an obvious Obi-Wan archetype, Nawan is more Kylo Ren than Vader,
01:05and Lajima takes cues from Anakin Skywalker.
01:07These rifts are not just confined to characters, we see a lot of the manic and story points from the
01:12films transferred here,
01:13mostly from the sequel trilogy. A group of people who lived in the aftermath of the Jedi Order,
01:17having to rebuild it, and also a Soho masked villain from using a big galaxy-killing weapon.
01:21But this doesn't feel like a retread though, as it manages to do its own thing which makes it feel
01:25fresh. I do feel like the show was a little bit let down by its episode count. It has eight
01:30episodes
01:31which does manage to let the story play out, but I feel like it doesn't explore this far future setting
01:35as much as it should. And I also think it did leave some supporting cast like Ethan and Holman with
01:40less
01:40development, as I wanted to see their stories and backstories, and I think it would have been
01:45better served with more episodes to feel a bit more richer. On the animation front, I thought the
01:49animation looked good. Production IG handled for animation like it did the previous short,
01:53and they do a consistent job. Fight scenes look good and have a good flow to them. The CGI integration
01:57was good and not distracting. Star Wars Vision Presents The Night of the Jedi is a pretty good
02:02standalone Star Wars story. Managing to redo familiar plot beats in a refreshing way, that doesn't feel
02:07like copying too much from the films. If they do another season of this, I would love to see one
02:12of
02:12the other shorts in the previous volume get a follow-up, but I wouldn't mind to take another trip to
02:15this
02:15far distant era of the galaxy.
02:24The Ninth Jedi Child of Hope
02:27The second sequel, this one, follows up from Studio IG's Ninth Jedi short. Before this volume was
02:32released, it was announced that the Ninth Jedi short is getting its own spin-off series, and with that
02:36in mind, this short feels like a teaser for the series, but I don't mind that because it's pretty
02:40good. It's a bit of a refresher course to remind you of who the characters are and what their
02:44respective deals are. This one deals with Larkara, a Jedi in train helping a droid in a derelict
02:49starship. It's a good story, gives out more details of the setting, and has a fun droid character
02:53called Tito, who is a cool CGI design that mesh as well with the 2D elements.
02:56So it's a good story. That's also a good story. We'll take a look at the other words.
03:01Thank you, guys.
