
This is the first Disney anime series/special not to be produced by Madhouse.LEGO® Star Wars™ LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga. Temuera Morrison is of Māori, Scottish, and Irish descent, Lorraine Toussaint is of Trinidadian-English descent and Jordan Fisher has an incredibly diverse background consisting of Nigerian, Cambodian, English, Polynesian (Tahitian), Italian, Greek, and Scandinavian descent. Lucy Liu, Simu Liu, James Hong, Anna Cathcart (half-Irish), Keone Young (half-Japanese) are of Chinese descent, Greg Chun, Brian Tee (half-Japanese) and Jamie Chung are of Korean descent, Stephanie Sheh is of Taiwanese descent and Henry Golding is half-Malaysian/half-English descent. However, Sakura, Glenn, Dames, Kishino and Sean are half Japanese with the other half mostly being white ethnicities while Tee and Young are half Korean and Chinese, respectively. Brian Tee, Karen Fukuhara, Nichole Sakura, Christopher Sean, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Andrew Kishino, Kimiko Glenn, Masi Oka, Hiromi Dames, Paul Nakauchi, George Takei and Keone Young are the only cast members of Japanese descent. Despite this, not all of the voice actors are of Japanese descent. This was done most likely, out of respect, for the series' Japanese roots. The majority of the voice cast is composed of Asian-American actors. Nevertheless, some of them are given actual places in the timeline such as " Lop & Ochō" and " The Twins" while some take place in alternate universes such as " The Duel". This was so they could have free creativity over how to tell their stories. It was not required by the filmmakers to set their episodes anywhere in the Star Wars canon timeline. The anthology collection will bring fantastic visions from several of the leading Japanese anime studios, offering a fresh and diverse cultural perspective to Star Wars.
Presenting all-new, creative takes on the galaxy far, far away, Star Wars: Visions will be a series of animated short films celebrating Star Wars through the lens of the world’s best anime creators.