Right now Star Wars might be faltering when it comes to it's live action out put but the one place where it is still thriving is in the world of animation. Yet even so there is a new Star Wars animated show out there that not alot of people are talking about with even Lucasfilm and Disney themselves not mentioning the show at all this is despite the fact it's a spin off show featuring a character from popular Star Wars Visions TV series and so then join me as I give you my SPIOILER FILLED review of the show that is alot more better then The Mandalorian And Grogu with the show is question being called simply just "Star Wars Visions Presents: The Ninth Jedi" enjoy.
The plot of this show is Lah Kara and her friends continue the search for her father but also have to deal with the villainous threat of Nawaam and his scheme to use Kyber Crystals to power a new and deadly weapon to the galaxy. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. The shows plot is a really solid plot as it make it feel like the next step up from the shorts that we got in Volumes 1 and 3 of Star Wars: Visions with the show taking full advantage of the fact that it's not a TV series and can afford to tell a much more bigger plot with these characters something which for obvious reasons they weren't able to do in Star Wars Visions. This is not to say the plot of the show is without fault as there are things wrong with this shows plot like the fact that the plot of the show is rather weak with it being hard to make out just what the main plot of the show is meant to be alot of time and the other thing being the fact that the shows plot is oddly more smaller in scale this is something that would have been fine if this was an episode of Vision as there it would oddly make sense but here it's it's own show and therefor the plot of the show should have been alot more bigger and been about as epic as it could have have been for a TV show as now you have he room to tell that much more bigger plot with the plot of this show being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this show is Kimiko Glenn as Lah Kara , Andrew Kishino as Margrave Juro and Brent Mukai as Dunbai. Also starring in this show is Bodies Bodies Bodies star Chase Sui Wonders as Tafflah , Feodor Chin as Gennoh Ikari , The Brady Bunch Movie star Keone Young as Kwana , Heroes star Masi Oka as Ethan , Patrick Seitz as Homen , Simu Liu as Lah Zhima , Young Mazino as Nawaam and Aleks Le as Bee-Toh.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. The fact that we get some really good acting in this show us something that does make alot of sense as alot of this shows are not only a bunch of really good actors actors in there own right but also alot of them are reprising their roles from the Visions shorts with the same thing also being true for the Japanese dub of the show as well and this is something that does help with the shows acting as alot of those returning actors will have a good grip on there characters will know how best to perform them in any given scene. With the best actor in this show is Kimiko Glenn as Lah Kara as not only is she one of the many actors that has played the character in the shots as well as in this show but she also makes the character alot of fun to watch her performance being energetic when it needs to be and very sad and down beat when the story demands it this is something that does make her performance in this show alot of fun to watch as you do get the feeling that she knows what kind of a show this is and is willing to go all out with the performance with this being something that does shine through in her performance. With the acting that's in this very show really being helped by the fact that this shows scripts are just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's n this very show.
Doing the animation for this show is the legends and the really greats that are currently over at Production I.G. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. The fact that we have this high level of animation in a streaming show isn't all that surprising as when you think of Production I.G. you do usually think of high quality work be it in there films or in there TV shows. With the fact that they had around 200 members of there own staff working on the animation for this show it does tell you just how much work that they put into doing the animation as they could have done the bare minimum but they didn't they went the extra mile and filled every single scene with animation as usually you can tell when an episode is the cheap episode of a show as the characters will cover there moves to hide there lips not moving or it will just be the top half of there bodies that are moving yet none of that does seem to be the case in these eight episodes I could be wrong tho but based off of what I saw it does appear as if everything was fully animation. With the show even making great use of 3D CGI animation alot of the time with the CGI being blended into the 2D animation rally well well and while there are times where you can tell that they are using CGI it's done to animate things that would have been really hard to do in 2D, with the characters having some really nice fluid movements to them and the shows backgrounds especially in the city scenes looking very highly detailed and like there was alot of love and care put into them.
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Usually when there is a new Star Wars show you don't need to have seen what's come before it in order to fully understand the new show. This is not one of those shows as you do need to have to seen both of the shorts in order to fully understand the plot of this show and it's main characters however in this case this isn't that big of task as the short films aren't that long you could very easily watch both shorts an hour before diving into this show but this is something that you should be made fully aware off as the show just expects you to know what's going with Kara and what her deal is and that is something that you' only know if you saw both of the shorts the best way to think of this show is to think of it as like the original Powerpuff Girls as like with this show that show started out as a series of short films as well with elements from the shorts crossing over into the show much like they do here. This show is a really good spin off of the shorts as they carry over the things that we loved about the shorts like Kara and her crew being this rag tag bunch of heroes just trying to do there best in the far flung future of Star Wars but it does also add in things that we didn't know that we wanted like the fact that they reveal that Kara's beloved father killed his Jedi master in cold blood and started to become a Sith only to realise that what he was doing was wrong this is something that does bring him into conflict with the shows main villain Nawaam who was her fathers apprentice at the time he killed his master and actually does go to become a sith lord believing that Kara's father was right in his actions this is such a good twist as it does make not only Kara but also us the audience wonder if we can actually trust her father again with it also forcing to Kara to question her own goal as her goal since the first short short film was all about getting her father back but now that she knows that he killed someone she has to think does she really want him back.
If you thought that the heroes were going to be getting out of this series alive and well then you were wrong. Due to the fact that Margrave Juro does die at the end of episode four "Nawaam Attacks" which was a pretty cool way to add shock value to the show as now it says to us the audience that if he can die that maybe one of the other main characters can now die as well and the episode does almost kill off another main character with them hinting that Lah Zhima gets killed by Nawaam during the shows truly epic final episode and while they don't go all the way with it the fact that they even hinted at that gut punch does show you that the makers of this show were more then willing to take La Kara to those dark places in the first place. With just the death of Margrave Juro being more then enough to set her on the path to becoming a sith as when he does get killed of we see her acting more out of rage and anger with her lightsaber going from green to silver to reflect her new emotions with this being something that does make her a morally complex character with her willing to go to those dark places when she is push beyond that point herself and yet it you look at someone like Luke for example even tho he had plenty of reasons to go to those dark places in just the first Star Wars film alone they never went to those places with him as a character and yet in this show it's on of the first things that they do with Kara and it works as it not only makes her a morally complex character but it also makes her a better written character because of it as now we know that she is willing to go those places herself granted she would need to be pushed there but the very fact that they toyed with her turning into a sith in the first place is shocking in all of the best ways possible.
This might seem like such a cliche to hate on Rey but Kara is a better written character out of the two of them. As we get to see Kara struggle to balance between doing what is right when she finds out that her father killed someone with it being something that does cause her to doubt herself all throughout the show something which we never saw Rey do as she was written to be this perfect character but with Kara we got a flawed character someone who could make mistakes and who could slip up alot of the time and due to that she is is the more interesting of the two characters whereas with Rey due to the fact that she is written to be this picture perfect character who can do no wrong then there's truly nowhere for her character to go but down. Unlike with Rey we do actually see Kara training to grow her Jedi powers this is something that does make it more believable when she does go up against a more experienced Jedi user like Nawaam whereas when Rey went up against Kylo Ren at the end of The Force Awakens it wasn't believable that she would not only survive being attacked by him but also hold her own again him as up until that point she hadn't help a lightsaber in combat before whereas due to the other shorts we know that Kara has with even one of the episodes in this show showing Juro training her using a couple of training balls and that is something that does go along way into making her a stronger character as now we the audience would have seen what the character has gone through in her training and what she can do in fights with those things making her the more stronger female character because of it and yet due to the fact that she isn't in any of the live action movies or live action show she'll never be recognized as being a stronger character then Rey is.
Now then this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly no longer then twenty nine minuets. With all of the episode having running time that range from twenty minuets to to twenty eight minuets with all of the episodes having the perfect amount of running times to them with the thing that does let the show in this regard being the fact that the show is about four episodes two long as you very easily could have told this shows entire plot in bout four maybe five episodes at a stretch as the plot for the show isn't one that demands it be ten episodes and while there are no filler episodes to be found there are alot of filler scenes in the later episodes that do feel like they where there to fully justify the shows ten episode count with the show not really having more then enough plot there to cover that amount of episodes in the first place. With the show not really using its running time all that wisely in one regard as the show doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot as the show does puck and to drop off it's plot alot of the time with the show not really adding anything to the main plot as even the fact that Kara finds out her dad might be evil isn't something that effects the plot of the show at all when something as big as that should have had a more lasting impact on the shows plot with the makers of this show being more focused on giving us the backstory of Kara's father then they are about giving us a plot development. The same thing however cannot be said for the episodes character development as while not alot of the characters get character development in this show there really was only one character that needed to get that being Kara herself and she does get character development as she does go from someone who is doing her best for her father to openly questioning if she is doing the right thing to someone who knows that her father did something wrong in the past but still loves him because of who he is now and that is something that she only could have learnt in this show but I really will admit that this show really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With the shows animation in this case really helping with the shows action as the animation does help to make the action come off the screen and really feel alive with the best example of this being in the fourth episode when we see our heroes are attacked by Nawaam's army with every hit in that scene looking like it hurts with us even getting some good character animation on Kara as we get to see her go from this rage less Jedi in training to this rage filled person who could be come a sith. With the best action in the whole entire show being the third act in episode 8 "The Ninth Jedi" as we do get to see out nine jedi heroes and there allies hold off Nawaam's men whilst Kara and helps her father fight Nawaam himself with there being lots of just cool things happening in this episodes action which is what you want to see in an action show and the fact that alot of this episodes running time is just one big action scene does show us that the makers of this show where more then willing to give us all of the things that we want to see in a Star Wars show with even the fight between Kara and Nawaam having a good dose of storytelling thrown as we do get to see Kara realize that Nawaam's way of thinking of just being this emotionless robot basically is just as destructive as being this hate filled sith with that being what causes her lightsaber to go back to green and gives her he strength to win the fight and have Nawaam arrested with the rest of the shows action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall if you've loved Star Wars Visions then your going to love this show as it is a perfectly good spin off show that more people should be talking about and yet next to one is even tho this show really does prove the point that there really is still love and there still creativity to be found in Star Wars you just have to look in different places other then the movies in order to find it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all oft he good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very sow in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review ell then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Star Wars fandom wiki page . IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.





























