Since 2018, Disney has been going full anime with its Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures shorts, which take inspiration from the shonen genre to introduce Star Wars to a new generation.
Over the past 3 months, ForeverRed has released 4 anime style intro sequences for Star Wars, each using footage from Galaxy of Adventures.
This adds to the “Star Wars as serialized television” feeling, and cements ForeverRed’s clear expertise in both anime and Star Wars.
While reimagining Western media as anime isn’t an entirely new phenomenon on YouTube, Star Wars’ anime style intros take on a more genuine reimagining than, say, SpongeBob’s, which lean more into parody.
As Star Wars was one of the first films to bring Kurosawa’s ideas to the West, Western fans…weebs…re-interpreting it using the language of modern Japanese media not only continues, but celebrates Star Wars’ global roots.