Star Wars: Visions Needs A Season 2 (But Will It Happen?)

UPDATE: We spoke with Executive Producer James Waugh who says audience reaction will dictate whether Star Wars: Visions season 2 will happen.

It remains to be seen if Star Wars: Visions season 2 will happen, but based on the first nine episodes it certainly deserves to. Visions is something of an experiment for Star Wars and Disney, with the Mouse House dipping its toe into anime waters. Season 1 has episodes produced by a number of Japan’s best anime studios, all of which deliver episodes that take the core of Star Wars and expand it in new, exciting, and weird directions.

On the surface, Star Wars: Visions is perhaps not too dissimilar to Marvel’s What If…?, telling non-canon stories that exist in some alternate universe or timeline. But where Visions differs is in focusing on new characters and different corners of the Star Wars galaxy. It may be anime, but the show proves just how broad a term that is, with episodes covering a range of genres, styles, and stories.

What Star Wars: Vision‘s episodes do have in common, though, is that they’re a worthy addition to the wealth of tales set in a galaxy far, far away. The installments unsurprisingly fluctuate in quality and mileage will vary according to personal taste, but there’s something that feels very fresh and daring about what the show is doing. Its very much Star Wars at its heart – battles of good vs. evil, the influences of Akira Kurosawa clearly on display, the idea of anyone being able to rise up as a hero, the nature of the Force – but it also twists such concepts, whether that’s with wild lightsaber designs, Force twins, or making you question just who wields a red lightsaber and why. There’s almost no limit to the directions it could go in, which is why Star Wars: Visions season 2 seems necessary, because it’s the kind of show the franchise needs right now in order to keep moving forward in different directions.

A hypothetical Star Wars: Visions season 2 could also continue certain character arcs and storylines from the first batch of episodes, many of which leave room for more. Ronin, from Visions episode 1, “The Duel,” will return in a novel, but he’s the kind of compelling character who could certainly carry further stories. Similarly, episodes like “The Twins” and “The Ninth Jedi” leave character fates uncertain or ready to be followed-up on, and while the way they close out is fitting, it would be easily to return to those Star Wars timelines and journeys and see what happens next, meaning Star Wars: Visions season 2 could comfortably mix returning faces with all new stories.

Whether or not Star Wars: Visions season 2 will happen is another matter. Speaking to Inverse, executive producer James Waugh said the approach is “let’s see what the audience thinks and let’s react from there.” Any such renewal would likely depend not only on the response – with initial reactions to the show largely positive – but if it can build a large enough audience for Disney to renew it. This is a more niche product than a lot of Star Wars movies and shows, but with Lucasfilm already developing further stories based on the show, then it is already part of the future. That means there’s at least a chance of Star Wars: Visions season 2 happening, and it has plenty of stories to tell.

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