Cartoon fans today is a very special day for us Star Wars fans because it's May The 4th which is known as Star Wars Day. So to celebrate this day and for one day only i'm resurrecting one of my old series for a special all about the animated shows in the Star Wars universe these shows all range from shows that are no longer canon which is basically everything that was made prior to Disney buying the franchise and shows that are canon which is everything made after Disney bought the franchise, so let's start of at the very beginning with the non canon shows.
Star Wars: Droids / Ewoks
I'm putting these two together because apparently when they aired in America they aired them together as The Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour. To put it simply these shows were made to capitalise on three popular characters R2-D2 , C-3PO and Wicket all three of which were very popular with young kids and so to reflect that the shows were made for kids. For the Ewoks series they also made some changes to the lore of Star Wars with the Ewoks now being able to talk perfect English which is something I believe started with either the first or second Ewok movie.
For Droids they made the show episodic so you don't really need to have watched the first episode to understand the second. What is interesting tho is that the Ewoks series was one of the earliest writing jobs for writer Paul Dini who would later go on to co-create Harley Quinn. According to my research the Ewoks series is also a follow up of sorts to the Ewok movies I can't say if that's true or not since i've not seen those movies and Droids is set inbetween Episodes 3 and 4 of the main film saga.
Star Wars: Clone Wars
Astonishingly it would take around seventeen years before we'd get another Star Wars animated series and when we did get it it wasn't a full series. In 2003 Cartoon Network released the Genndy Tartakovsky directed Star Wars: Clone Wars were each episode was only a few minuets long and was designed to fill in the gaps between the then upcoming episode 3 and episode 2 of the main series. It's also worth noting that the character of Asajj Ventress actually makes her debut in this series.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The previous show ended in 2005 with the final episode directly leading into Episode 3 and so it would be three more years until we got another chance to visit a galaxy far far far away. When we did get that chance tho it was worth it because we got Star Wars: The Clone Wars which would last six seasons with the first five all being made and aired before the Disney purchase and airing on Cartoon Network and season six airing on Netflix. This is a rare show in that it was made before the buy out so you could consider alot of it not canon but then there are episodes made after it heck there's even an upcoming final season that's going to be airing on Disney+.
Canon
Star Wars Rebels
Now we enter the era where the shows are indeed canon starting of with the show that directly followed the insanely popular Clone Wars. Like alot of Star Wars animated shows this one is set inbetween episodes of the main saga this time being episodes 3 and 4 unlike The Clone Wars which from what I can gather was popular since episode 1 this show took a bit of time to get popular if i'm right it took most people until season 2 to fully come around to it. This series also spawned Kanan and the book A New Dawn unlike The Clone Wars tho this one only lasted four seasons.
Star Wars Forces of Destiny
Now since we're covering all of the Star Wars animated shows that means I have to talk about a show which is mostly disliked by every Star Wars fan myself included. This show was first announced on April 12th 2017 and had a special preview of April 14th at Star Wars Celebration Orlando what makes this series stand out from the previous two tho it that it's the first 2D animated show since the 2003 Clone Wars show and it's also the first series to be an exclusive web series.
What was a huge selling point for this show was the fact that pretty much all major actors from several Star Wars projects throughout the years all came back to play there characters. It's just a shame that there talents were wasted on this show which as of this writing is still going on even tho the last episode was on May 25th of last year.
Star Wars: Galaxy Of Adventures
I'm going to be keeping this one very brief because there's so little out there about the series but from what I gathered just by glancing at one of the Star Wars wiki pages it's basically a retelling of certain events from the main saga but done for kids. Again as far as I can tell this is still going on and like Forces Of Destiny is made exclusively for Youtube if i'm right this one was made for Star Wars Kids so yeah that's really all I can find on this show.
Star Wars Resistance
Finally we reach the current Star Wars series which was first announced in 2018 on April 26th with the trademark being done on February 12th. This series is set before The Force Awakens with I believe the last episode of the first series taking place during that movie i'd say that this show uses cell shading for it's main style and unlike The Clone Wars and Rebels this one was influenced by anime and does not have direct involvement from Dave Filoni.