"Star Wars: Visions" is one of, if not the best, titles - television, film, or otherwise - to come out of the sci-fi franchise's era under Disney ownership. It's a beautifully animated and smartly written homage to everything that fans love about "Star Wars," as well as the rare kind of installment in a multi-billion dollar IP that doesn't feel like it was created by committee or focus-tested until all the artistry has been stripped away. If you're a "Star Wars" fan who has become apathetic toward lightsabers and the Force in recent years, "Visions" could remind you about what made you love the franchise in the first place.
That's a lot of extremely high praise, but "Visions" earns it over the course of its nine brief episodes. The animated anthology series' episodes hail from seven Japanese anime studios and each installment boasts distinct artistic styles and tones. Almost all of the characters in "Visions" are original creations and, as with all successful anthology series, "Visions" excels at getting viewers emotionally invested in each character they meet despite their limited screen time. That's all the more impressive, given the series' brevity; the episodes are short - ranging from around 13 to 21 minutes each - and though some of them are bound to leave viewers wanting to know what happens next, they all tell satisfying, self-contained stories.
