Akakiri

"Star Wars Visions" saves one of its better episodes for last with an interesting adaptation of a one of the saga's key moments.

Tsubaki (Henry Golding) arrives back on his home planet, looking to reunite with Princess Misa (Jamie Chung). Tsubaki though is plagued by an affliction, that strikes at times of stress and which causes him to fall to the floor wracked in pain. Rescued from assailants by Misa, Kamahachi (Keone Young) and Senshuu (George Takei) the four plan to journey to the Princesses palace and face down Masago (Lorraine Toussaint) a Sith Lady who has infiltrated the palace and taken control.

This was one of the better stories of the series and the artwork matched it. It's not difficult to see where the story might be heading from an early stage though, of course, they might have switched the ending around for a different outcome. There are nods to "Hidden Fortress" with Kamahachi and Senshuu acting like the original inspirations for R2D2 and C-3PO.

This was the only episode of the series to directly tackle an element of the films head on and I'm glad that more of them didn't choose to go down this route. I would also say, that perhaps this is one of the episodes that suffers from coming after other editions with similar types of characters.

Overall, like most anthology series, Visions has been a mixed bag. Some, like "The Ninth Jedi" and "The Duel" I've really enjoyed whilst others, like "Lop and Ocho" and "The Twins" I've felt less positively about. As an experiment though, overall, I think it's been a worthwhile one and I'd be interested in seeing some of these stories expanded to either a feature length or into a series proper.

Much better story of a fallen Jedi than the prequels. Way more believable than the terrible prequels for a Jedi turn Sith.

I don't watch anime. This happens to be the first anime I have ever watched. It has just never appealed to me, but I love Star Wars, so I decided to give it a try.

This was the worst episode of the season and it wasn't even close. As I said earlier, this is my first anime, and I am very glad with how it went, I thought the first eight episodes were great. I loved the stories, animation, characters, and the writing. Unfortunately, my first anime ended on a bad note. I was very disappointed with this episode. The characters were once again great and developed perfectly, and the artwork was very cool, but I didn't really feel a need for this episode. Star Wars: Visions would have been fine with 8 episodes. First off, this episodes final battle was on a whole level lower than all the previous episodes. It was just bad. The other episodes' final battles were super fast paced with crazy action that lasted for a few minutes. This episode's lasted a good 30 seconds, and there wasn't much action. The ending was also very poor. It didn't sit well with me at all.

This episode was decent, it just could have been so much better.

+1 point for tense drums.

+1 point for relaxing drums.

+1 point for confused, discouraged, embarrassed drums.

+1 point for an excellent musical ending. UuuuOoaAa UuuuOoaAa.

Music was terrible for the style and mode of the episode. I couldn't follow it.