6. Star Wars: Visions

When it was announced back in 2021 I was very excited for Star Wars: Visions, an anime anthology of original stories from iconic animation studios. The two seasons we’ve gotten so far have more than lived up to expectations, offering up beautifully realized, endlessly creative, and fantastically hopeful Star Wars stories across its 18 episodes. Visions is proof of the creative potential of opening up major IPs like Star Wars as a sandbox for more people to play in, and not setting restrictions on what those new visitors create.

From “Screecher’s Reach,” a beautiful retelling of Irish folklore in which the banshee is instead a Sith Mother, to “The Village Bride,” a fascinating, Kurosawa-esque tale of a Jedi on the run who is pulled into the bizarre but beautiful ways of a remote village’s wedding preparations, Visions is, well, visionary. Disney and Lucasfilm should aim for more Star Wars media to be like this, not less. — AM