A third season of Star Wars: Visions is coming in 2025!

We got a surprise Star Wars announcement today, but a very welcome one: Visions is coming back for a third season.

Volume 3 will feature nine different shorts from nine different anime studios. Some of them have worked on previous Visions shorts, while some are newcomers. The returning contributors include Kamikaze Douga, Kinema citrus Co., Production I.G., and TRIGGER. Five new studios are also getting involved, including ANIMA (co-production with Kamikaze Douga), David Production, Polygon Pictures, Project Studio Q, and WIT Studio.

This is a return to Japanese animation, just like the first season was. The second season featured more of a global focus, branching out to different animation styles and formats. I’m especially excited about the four returning studios, who all worked on the first season, and actually the four studios that are being brought back made my four favorite episodes from Volume 1: “The Village Bride” (Kinema citrus Co.), “The Twins” (TRIGGER), “The Duel” (Kamikaze Douga), and “The Ninth Jedi” (Production I.G.). In particular, I thought “The Ninth Jedi” was so good that I was hopeful they would use it as a pilot. Though that didn’t happen, I think it would be really cool to see Production I.G.’s short in Volume 3 be a sequel to it.

Visions is designed as a tribute to Japanese animation and an effort to bring the Star Wars franchise together with this anime format. It’s made up of various un-related shorts, and since they are non-canonical there’s a lot of freedom for the studios to bring a variety of stories and animation techniques to the screen. I’m really excited to see it return, and this is especially welcome given that the 2025 slate of Star Wars shows is seeming rather sparse, outside of Andor. We don’t know a release date yet, but I’m looking forward to it.