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The destruction of the Death Star will be shown from the perspective of a Storm Trooper in a new episode of Star Wars: Visions Season 3 titled “BLACK.” Some Star Wars fans were able to see the episode – written and directed by lauded anime filmmaker Shinya Ohira – in a special preview this weekend at the Anime NYC convention. Clearly, the episode doesn’t shy away from its dark premise. In a pre-recorded Q&A screened at the convention, Ohira explained why he went with an experimental, psychedelic style for this short film.
“We wanted to offer a film that was mainly based on Sakura Fujiawara’s singing voice set against these visuals of intense battles. That was our vision as we made the film,” Ohira said. “As for the interpretation of the story, the viewers, the people watching it, we kind of wanted to leave it up to them… so that’s how we made it. We really got down into some fine details for this film. There’s the Death Star… The setting is really super detailed, and the stormtroopers, drawing out the action in the battle scenes, it was really quite an arduous task for the animators. So that was painful, but it was worth it, and the end result really speaks for itself… It’s really kind of something nobody’s ever seen before.”
