Star Wars: Visions is returning in October — and getting a spinoff series

Though the larger Star Wars franchise has seen better days, Disney Plus’ Visions animated series has been consistently excellent for the past two seasons, and the creative teams behind its next chapter make it sound like it’s going to be another knockout. The anthology series will see three storylines from previous episodes continue in this third volume — not only that, but Visions Volume 1 episode “The Ninth Jedi” is getting its own spinoff series, under a new Star Wars: Visions Presents label.

Star Wars: Visions Volume Three is set to premiere on October 29th, 2025, Disney and Lucasfilm announced as part of Star Wars Celebration in Japan. Visions executive producer James Waugh said during a panel at the event that the show’s third season will have nine episodes, three of which will continue the storylines from popular Volume 1 episodes “The Duel,” “The Village Bride,” and “The Ninth Jedi,” reports The Hollywood Reporter.

The third volume will be followed up in 2026 with Star Wars: Visions Presents — The Ninth Jedi. “The Ninth Jedi” story showed lightsabers that derive their color from the wielder’s alignment with the Force — red is bad; blue is good. Kenji Kaniyama, who wrote and directed “The Ninth Jedi” will serve as supervising director for the spinoff. According to THR, that’s just the start; more Visions Presents spinoffs are planned, giving storytellers a chance to tell longer, deeper stories than the anthology approach has allowed, so far.

Like the first season, Volume 3’s stories are produced by different Japanese creative teams. Studios Kamikaze Douga, Kinema Citrus Co., Production IG, and Trigger are all returning to Visions. But we can also expect to see fresh takes on the Star Wars universe from newcomers Anima, David Production, Polygon Pictures, Project Studio Q, and WIT Studio.

Waugh and filmmakers working on Volume 3 episodes talked about what’s coming and showed off character designs and artwork. THR described, for instance, an AT-AT — the gigantic, four-legged walkers armed with lasers that first showed up in The Empire Strikes Back — with a Japanese building on top.

Masaki Tachibana from the anime studio Kinema Citrus previewed an “especially kawaii” episode called “Yuko’s Treasure,” according to THR, while Hiroyasu Kobayashi of Project Studio Q discussed an X-Wing-focused episode called “The Song of Four Wings.” ”We’re a studio that specializes in the creation of mechanisms,“ Kobayashi said, ”so we really focussed on the essence of the old Joe Johnston designs and featured a lot of droids and mechs.“