Star Wars: Visions is an episodic film, and like every episodic film there are ups and downs. It was really fun to watch all these different studios flex their artistic abilities. If there's one thing I loved about this film it's how every studio who took part in making this managed to incorporate Japanese culture into star wars.

Every episode was different and intriguing, some episodes felt darker and mature like episode 7: The Elder while other episodes felt childish like episode 6: T0-B1. The tone wasn't the only thing that was different, the stories, the characters, the art style, and the setting were also different. Because every episode had different stories and characters anyone can watch this film without needing to know the Star Wars lore.

Almost every episode had exceptional fight scenes, the way they were animated and choreographed were remarkable and left me surprised. These fights in my opinion were animated better than majority of the anime fights I have seen this year.

Like I said earlier every studio managed to incorporate some Japanese culture into star wars. The ways they did this was by including Traditional Japanese clothing, music, or even architectures into the film. In episode 1: The Duel, The mysterious main character is wearing what seems like a samurai outfit and on his waist was a katana sheath. His robot friend happened to be wearing a samurai Ronin straw hat as well. This entire episode looked like it took place in the early japan, What time period? I do not know. Episode 1 reminded me a lot of the Netflix anime Yasuke because they were both a historical anime with a splash of fantasy.

The music in every episode included either star wars music or traditional Japanese music except 1 episode. That 1 episode being episode 2: Tatooine Rhapsody, Tatooine Rhapsody was about a rock band in the star wars galaxies just trying to share there music. and of course this rock band played rock music which was unique because I have never heard rock music while watching Star Wars up until now. This entire episode was surprising, going into Star Wars: Visions I expected to only see action-packed episodes but this episode proved me wrong. Now if we ever get a Star Wars anime series do I want it to be this? as much as I love music I'd rather take action-packed Star Wars anime over this so HELL NAW this episode does not deserve its own series. I'll give episode 2 of Star Wars: Visions an A for effort... wait effort doesn't have an A. Well whatever.

Star Wars: Visions doesn't deviate too far from the Star Wars movie franchise. Episode 2 literally has the name Tatooine in the title which is the home plant Anakin is from. I'm pretty sure the place the band performed at, in episode 2 was in the same place Anakin pod raced in, in the movie "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace". Also at the end of episode 3: The Twins, you see one of the twins and his robot chilling on a planet with 2 suns, Anakin's home planet Tatooine also had 2 suns and I believe it's the only planet with 2 suns in the star wars galaxy (I might be wrong though I have only seen 4 star war movies). The location isn't the only similar thing, the lightsabers, the vehicles, the robots, the force, and aliens share similarity as well.

There's only 1 thing left for me to say before I wrap this review up and that being, what episodes deserve its own complete anime series? Well personally I think episode 5: The Ninth Jedi produced by Production I.G is really interesting and intense, the characters caught my attention and the fight scene was definitely my favorite out of all the other fight scenes. Episode 1: The Duel is a strong contender as well, produced by Kamikaze Douga, the only thing I didn't like was the black and white color scheme. The main character is really compelling he seems like a hero but his light saber says otherwise. The fight scene like almost every fight scene in the anime was fucking awesome. Finally episode 3: The Twins produced by studio Trigger had 2 interesting sibling who were born into a dark force family, it sounds fun watching 2 evil sibling trying to destroy the world.

Star Wars: Visions was a very entertaining. Even if you are not a Star Wars fan I would still recommend this to you because of all the beautifully animated and choreographed fight scenes. Thanks to Star Wars: Visions I wanna go and finish all the Star War movies I haven't seen. It's great seeing anime become more and more main stream as the years go on, I still cant believe the fact that Disney really just made their own anime.