Creators Of 'The Ninth Jedi' Talk Good And Evil At Anime Convention
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At the Anime Expo in Los Angeles, Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jediproducer Hitoshi Ito, Directing Supervisor Kenji Kamiyama, and Director Shunsuke Tada sat down with StarWars.com to talk about the new series. Kamiyama described his process from the beginning, “When I got offered to make a short at the very beginning, I worked on it as if it were a feature film. I was already building a lot of character and background settings.” Those extra steps paid off as the creators just announced a limited anime series focusing on Kara.
Kamiyama also spoke about the lightsabers changing color in The Ninth Jedi. Apparently, this stemmed from a misconception about how lightsabers work. In The Acolyte, audiences saw the bleeding process. The Jedi have a similar process that can purify the kyber crystals and turn them white. However, in The Ninth Jedi, lightsabers change according to the user’s alignment with the force. This misconception, though, offers many opportunities for creative storytelling.
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Ito explained why Kara’s father Zhima didn’t want her to be a Jedi "because his understanding was that Jedi dispense justice. To succeed in that mission, they might sometimes need to kill someone. For Zhima, that was a challenge. But Kara is a new generation of Jedi, so overcoming that challenge and developing herself is a big theme in the latter part of the series.” Tada added, “We tried not to make Kara look like a Master from the beginning, but she’s gradually growing. In the original story of The Ninth Jedi, Kara’s not trying to win over her father or somebody else. She’s trying to win over herself and grow as a person.” Star Wars fans can see all these ideas come to fruition when The Ninth Jedipremieres on Disney+ on August 5.
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