Star Wars: Visions‘ third “volume” hit Disney+ this week, delivering nine shorts from a bevy of talented Japanese animation studios, each delivering their vision of what Star Wars can be unbeholden to the typical constraints of its contemporary storytelling universe. But only one of those shorts this season took that goal of taking Star Wars somewhere completely and utterly new, and it did so brilliantly.

Although I’ve just slapped a giant “spoiler warning” above, it’s actually…








