Star Wars: Visions Presents The Ninth Jedi — Trailer & Date
Star Wars: Visions Presents The Ninth Jedi has a first trailer and an August 5, 2026 Disney+ date. Kara's story becomes a full anime series.
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Kara Returns — The Ninth Jedi Becomes a Full Series
Lucasfilm just dropped the first trailer for Star Wars: Visions Presents The Ninth Jedi, and it lands with a date: August 5, 2026, on Disney+. If you rate the animated corner of Star Wars above most of the live-action era — and around here, we very much do — this is the most exciting Star Wars announcement of the summer.
✨ This one is for the animated faithful — see where it fits in our Star Wars: Visions review and the wider animated Star Wars hub.
The original The Ninth Jedi short, from the first Visions season, is widely held up as one of the whole anthology’s high points, and its Season 3 follow-up Child of Hope deepened it. Now it graduates to a full series — with Kara back at the centre, still hunting for her missing father and finally facing a real antagonist.
What the Trailer Shows
The threat is Nawaam — a name first dropped back in Child of Hope — a figure out to force his own idea of “order” onto the galaxy, backed by a planet-cracking superweapon fed by kyber crystals. The twist the trailer teases: for all his menace, Nawaam appears to be a Jedi himself. Kara’s father Lah Zhima and his hand-forged lightsabers stay central, too — the blades that shift colour with the strength of whoever holds them.
There is real pedigree here. Kenji Kamiyama wrote and directed the first short and returns as supervising director, with Production I.G — the studio behind Ghost in the Shell, Psycho-Pass and Kaiju No. 8 — on animation.
Why It Matters for Dads
“Star Wars: Visions Presents” is a brand-new label, and this is its opening release, which tells you Lucasfilm sees room for more shorts to grow into series. For a time-strapped dad, Visions has always been the easiest Star Wars to share: standalone, gorgeous, no ten-hour homework pile before it makes sense. A longer-form Ninth Jedi is the rare Star Wars you can start cold with an older kid who loves animation. And if you want a shelf piece to mark the occasion, a Jedi built around his own blade fits the theme nicely.
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A buildable 18+ display bust of Jedi Grand Master Yoda holding his lightsaber — a fitting shelf piece for a story built around the blades.
The Dadnology Take
The Ninth Jedi was already one of the best things Visions ever made; giving it room to breathe as a series is exactly the right call. Anime Star Wars keeps proving it is where the franchise takes its biggest, most confident swings — and we will be watching this one on day one.
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