Star Wars: Visions The Ninth Jedi Trailer Sets August 5 Disney+ Premiere

What was announced

Disney+ and Hulu have released the first trailer for Star Wars: Visions Presents The Ninth Jedi, a new anime series from Lucasfilm and Production I.G, and confirmed that it will begin streaming on August 5, 2026. Disney+ Japan unveiled the trailer alongside a teaser poster on July 3, timed to a special panel at Anime Expo 2026 where the creative team introduced the series and screened its first episode for attendees.

A Visions short becomes a full series

The Ninth Jedi expands one of the most acclaimed entries from the original Star Wars: Visions anthology into a standalone story. According to StarWars.com, it is the first Visions short to be developed into a full series, and it launches a new Star Wars: Visions Presents banner created to tell longer form stories drawn from the anthology.

The series picks up after the events of the shorts The Ninth Jedi and The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope, following Lah Kara, a girl sensitive to the Force, as she continues her training under Margrave Juro. It is set long after the Skywalker saga, in a galaxy where the Jedi have faded into myth and lightsabers are almost impossible to find. The trailer introduces a masked figure named Nawaam, who vows to bring order to the chaos, hinting at a clash of ideals at the heart of the story.

The team behind it

Production I.G handles the animation, the studio behind Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and the recent hit Kaiju No. 8. Kenji Kamiyama, who directed the original The Ninth Jedi short, returns as supervising director and script supervisor. Shunsuke Tada serves as director and Mitsuyasu Sakai writes the series. The two directors previously worked together on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

The series will stream in both a Japanese language version and an English dub. StarWars.com and multiple outlets report that the English cast includes Kimiko Glenn returning as Lah Kara, with Young Mazino joining as the masked Nawaam.

What we know

The limited series, reported by Anime News Network to run eight episodes, arrives August 5 on Disney+ and Hulu. Disney+ Japan confirmed a simultaneous Japan and United States release with all episodes streaming at once. As a spin off of the Visions anthology, the series explores its own corner of the galaxy and sits apart from the main Star Wars canon.