Star Wars the world of Star Wars has taken over pretty much every single form of entertainment and well now it can add anime to that list as well. Since there is now a Star Wars anime anthology TV series out and on Disney+ and well with me being both an anime fan and a Star Wars fan you just knew that I had to check out at the very least the first episode of this show and so join me as I review the very first episode of Star Wars: Visions with the episode in question being called simply just "The Duel" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is a stranger rolls into a small village on an unknown planet and the stranger then has to defend the village when it comes under attack from a group of bandits. Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the plot of this episode in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the plot of this episode as simple as it was was really freaking well told in my opinion anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode Brian Tee as Ronin , Lucy Liu as Bandit Leader and Jaden Waldman as Child Village Chief. Also starring in this episode is Joe Ochman as Teahouse Shopkeeper and Trooper E , Adam Sietz as Dug and Trooper C , Neil Kaplan as Gran , Michael Sinterniklaas as RA-7, Tusken Raider and Villager D , JP Karliak as Trandoshan and an Alien Guard , Greg Chun as Trooper D and Villager A , Keone Young as Trooper F , Kyle McCarley as Trooper B , Patrick Seitz as Trooper A , Eva Kaminsky as Villager C and Stephanie Sheh as Villager B.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very episode in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really freaking good. This isn't something that's hard to archive tho since the script for this film is so good and so of course all of the actors and actresses that are appearing in / starring in in this very episode are going to turn in some really good performances in my opinion anyways / at least.
Doing the animation for this episode is Kamikaze Douga who really haven't worked on anything of note when it comes to actually producing animation for either an anime series or an anime movie in my opinion anyways / at least. Now then tho in terms what I thought about the animation that's featured / presented to us in this very episode in all honesty I in all honesty thought that the animation that's featured / presented to us in this very episode was really freaking good with the animation looking like it was done via rotoscoping in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then as alot of you Star Wars fans will indeed know Star Wars was at the very least very freaking partially inspired by the works of Akira Kurosawa and as such it seemed oddly fitting that this very first episode of Star Wars: Visions be presented to us. Almost like it was an Akira Kurosawa film complete with the episode being in black and white and the Ronin character being presented to us almost like he was meant to be a samurai which honestly just makes the whole connection from Akira Kurosawa to Star Wars come full freaking circle in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then I will very freaking admit that I actually forgot that this show was even coming out and when I did come out I was away on my holidays. Hence why this review is coming to you a few days after the premier of this series and I will very freaking admit that this was a very good episode to start out on because it almost doesn't feel like your watching a Star Wars product since it instead feels like your watching an old Japanese movie which is something that I personally felt worked really freaking well in this episodes favour in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then I will very freaking admit that this episode isn't perfect since there are some things about this episode that I didn't like for example we don't really get a good idea of what the Ronin's personality nor do we really find out why the bandits are repeatedly attacking this one village. Both of which are things that could have been explained with one or even perhaps even two lines of dialog but given how short the episodes are in this series I can kind of see why somethings had to get dropped from the respective episodes storylines tho which is a shame because two things that I mentioned could have been some really cool things tho in my opinion anyways / at least.
So now then this particular episode of Star Wars: Visions had / has a grand total running time of exactly thirteen minuets and one seconds and well if i'm being really truly very freaking honest here people this episode really could and more importantly should have been alot longer then that. Heck you could have very easily have gotten either a full length feature film are a standerd twenty two minuets or even s special forty minuet episode just from this one storyline alone but simply just due to how short this episodes running time is in my opinion anyways / at least it means that this episode does feel a bit rushed in places especially during it's third act / climax in my opinion anyways / at least.
So now then this episode is at the very least according to IMDB at lest an action episode and so that means that this I have to actually talked about the action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode and well in all honesty I in all honesty really did like the action that's featured / presented to to us in this very episode. Since this episode gave us something that we haven't really seen in Star Wars before now and that's something that I very sadly cannot say without giving away a major spoil but lets just say that this little plot twist makes the action all the more both exciting and intense as all heck at the exact same time in my opinion anyways / at least.
Overall like I said in this very review this very episode was a very good episode to start this out with for all of the reasons that I listed and then some but at the same time this episode isn't really a perfect but it's damn sight better then alot of the more recent Star Wars films and media in my opinion anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this vey episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 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 well 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 and Google Images. With my personally favourite website to use to get images from this arc being the official Star Wars fandom wiki page this is simply because the official Star Wars fandom wiki page actually has alot of images from this episode and plus all of the of the images that are currently up and featured and on the official Star Wars fandom wiki page are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being fairly high definition.
