The forthcoming Disney Plus series Star Wars: Visions — The Ninth Jedi, premiering on 5 August, expands the standout short from the original Visions anime anthology into a full eight-episode arc, marking the first entry from the series to receive such an expansion. Director Kenji Kamiyama, known for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, explains that his approach deliberately favoured a grounded, live-action sensibility over the bolder, more exaggerated animation styles used elsewhere in the anthology, aiming to recreate the sense of nostalgic familiarity he felt watching the original 1977 film.

Kamiyama says his inspiration stemmed from A New Hope, which struck him as strangely familiar despite depicting an alien galaxy, and he sought to replicate that feeling throughout the new series. The story continues from the events of "Child of Hope", following Kara as she trains as a Jedi apprentice under Margrave Juro while trying to save her sabersmith father, set in a distant future where the Jedi Order has largely been forgotten. Kamiyama instructed his animators to keep the action physically grounded, including in the lightsaber duels, while director Shunsuke Tada worked to bring realism to the combat choreography, reportedly drawing on kendo expertise.