Star Wars: Visions (TV Series) T0-B1 (2021) User Reviews

Not bad. You gotta admit there's some good stuff here

[snakehead-16278 · 7/10 · 23 September 2021]

This episode immediately sticks out like a sore thumb when compared to the others...but once I got over the "childish" animation I got to appreciate this somewhat. The idea of trying to restore life in a barren world is pretty interesting, especially when considering the state of Mandalore post-ROTJ. The idea of a droid being a "Jedi" is also interesting...not that I think it should be canon or anything, but the oppression of droids in Star Wars is a theme that could use some more stories. I also appreciated that this episode wasn't afraid to go dark with the professor's death.

I wouldn't say this is a great or even "good" episode, but it's worth a watch. 6.5/10.

It's Astro Boy

[noah52697 · 7/10 · 23 September 2021]

They did Astro Boy in my Star Wars. It's childish and clearly meant to be something for the tots. I can appreciate it for what it is.

For kids

[luvsspge · 5/10 · 24 September 2021]

Or if you grew up watching Astro Boy then you'll love this, just felt too kid friendly to me but the action was entertaining.

It's a solid 7 from me

[pohlowell · 7/10 · 23 September 2021]

I did not like this episode at all upon first viewing. It felt too cartoony and silly.

This knucklehead robot wants to be a Jedi? C'mon now!

Then I started to listen to what was being said between himself and his possible creator, Professor Mitaka. Who by the way is wearing some of the most aggressive getas I've seen. The lightsaber duel and action in this one surprisingly intrigued me.

They're doing a lot of focus on these kyber crystals and lightsabers in these episodes so far also.

After watching it dawned on me. Oh it's Astro Boy meets Star Wars meets What if...?

After thinking like that, I thought the whole concept of a droid becoming a Jedi due to being connected by the crystals was pretty neat!

So much so, after I watched it in English, I went back and watched it in Japanese and not to take away from all the voice actors involved, I liked it better in Japanese.

We don't serve their kind here.

[southdavid · 6/10 · 8 November 2021]

Episode 6 of Star Wars Visions sees a retelling of another classic Japanese science fiction story, that of Astroboy, filtered through the prism of Star Wars. Though it was a little too cute for my taste the story was eventually OK.

TO-B1 (Jaden Waldman) is a young droid imbued with a human like spirit by his father Mitaka (Kyle Chandler). Mitaka, and his droid family, are on a desert planet, with plans to terraform it into a lush paradise. Whilst searching for a Kyber Crystal to power his own lightsaber, To-B1 discovers Mitaka's ship and inadvertently broadcasts a signal, which is picked up by The Inquisitor (Neil Kaplan) a Sith lord hunting the remaining Jedi.

Again, the art style of this one was a little too cute for my taste. It reminded me a lot of "Megaman" and Mitaka as being like Doctor Light - though I'd assume that's because that series too drew inspiration from "Astroboy". It also took a little too long to get to the plot, for my taste, with too much time spent establishing that TO-B1 wants to be a Jedi, and dreams of fighting against the Empire. When it's established though, and The Inquisitor makes his way to the planet, there's a fun battle with some homages to wider Star Wars tropes.

It's not particularly awful but, unlike some of the other episodes in this run, I wouldn't be interested in seeing where the adventure goes from here.

Astro

[Trey_Trebuchet · 7/10 · 12 December 2022]

I thought it was surprisingly decent.

This is the first episode I felt was rushed. I get that there's only so much time these animators get, so I'm not mad about it or anything, but I actually would have loved more.

The premise is legitimately interesting. I thought the restoration of a planet was a legitimately fascinating idea, and a droid becoming a Jedi is... strange but not first unbelievable I guess? I'm just confused as to how he became such a skilled fighter and lightsaber wielder in the last act. The inquisitor was cool though, and I must admit that the animation is just fabulous.

Decent overall, not one of the best, not one of the worst.

Some people might like this, I didnt

[chasetmcfadden · 4/10 · 23 September 2021]

I think with this episode, some people will like it, some people will hate it. It definitely doesnt feel like a star wars epiosde at all, and the style is kinda hard for me personally to like (too goofy and loonytoonsy) but, to some people that might not be an issue so I will leave that up to taste.

I felt like they tried to cram too much in the story for how little time they had to cover it. It wouldve been nicer to see some more struggle with the Imperial guy, and more emotion from T0-B1... he kind of walks away from it all happy-go-lucky which just seems to clash with the kind of tone they were trying to set.

I wanna give this a 4/10 because... while I didnt enjoy it myself very much, I feel like me not liking the style is clouding my judgement, the story isnt too bad, but its nothing super compelling either in my opinion. So I think 4/10 is a fair number. Though its gonna be higher than that for some and lower than that for others.

i dont get it

[tunesplitter · 4/10 · 22 September 2021]

This have nothing to do with star wars except the lightsabers. By far the weakest Episode of Visions.

An incredibly endearing tribute to Astro Boy

[MEdwardsVA · 8/10 · 23 September 2021]

This short feels the least like Star Wars to me, but it's a wonderful tribute to Astro Boy, and like its lead, is just overall delightful.

The art style is unique and has this very soft color palette that gives it this almost nostalgic feel to it in a way.

I have a story too

[suvechhabose · 3/10 · 4 October 2021]

Its about how a Billion dollar franchise bought a hard-working creative studio who used to produce games,movies & comics Promised to follow footsteps but later on denied it.

Then said Let us add even more garbage on it Cause we lack source material.

Corporate 1 Fandom 0

Beware new fans , just when you ll be saying 'we want more' they ll say , i just gave you more.

'More 16 minutes' Lmao Revenge of the sith's opening airborne battle was more than 16 minutes long!

Be smart

_A message from a heartfelt lucas era fan.

T0-B1 Cannot be, the new j3d1.

[Kitahito · 3/10 · 1 January 2022]

Oh yes, a cutesy one! Just what we all wanted! Don't get me wrong, the art style would look good in a Studio Ghibli movie. It was pretty weird here, yet, that's the best I can say about this episode. Visually satisfying, even if it didn't fit the story the wpisode wanted to tell. The plot is very sketchy, shallow, even without the issues of Astro boy becoming a Jedi, and that's a big issue, one that I leave to the more thorough acquaintances of the lore for analysis. I grumble over less important, but equally annoying problems. Like the choice of name for the protagonist... please don't. Just stop. The OB 1. The Obi-wan! You get it? You get it now ?! For F sake (it stands for Force, don't worry, mr. IMDb!), just let the dead rest in peace, please?

Star Wars feeling? Zero. Non-existent. The fight scene? Ridiculous, weightless, uninteresting. Why do you even bother at this point? We would have been better off with a chill episode that doesn't want to be like four very different things at once (1. Revitalizing the planet plotline, 2. "Finding the crystal because of reasons" wild bantha chase, 3. Robo-kid becoming a Jedi somehow, 4. Very evil red lightsaber badman guy doing bad stuff because the brainded T0-B1 sent out a message). It also starts to get annoying that every fledglings hero uses the lightsaber and the Force on a masterful level, without any training or practice, and defeats opponents much stronger than them. It seems like becoming a Jedi is like using your mom's credit card to buy levels in a pay-to-win game. On the other hand, members of the hostile faction do not even know which direction is upwards. Oh yes. Thanks for that, Rise of Skywalker! Back to T0-B1! What was the deal with the sound effects? They were missing, were flawed or outright annoying, like in some whacky children's cartoons made for 5-year-olds. It fits, tho, since it is very unlikely that the older viewer will enjoy this stupidity. Lightsaber obtained? The legendary weapon of the idolized Jedi knights finally assembled? Happy dance time! (Just kill me...) Still, it was far from the cringe tastelessness of Tatooine Rhapsody, and the number of in-universe rules broken per second was also significantly lower than in The Twins, yet I can't rate it much higher.

Also, the "I have a bad feeling about this"-counter dinged yet again. Joy.

Childish.

[gheataadrian · 3/10 · 22 September 2021]

Since when did Star Wars become a show addressed to 5 years old kids? The story had potential, but it was far from good. That's all.

I think you might be missing the point

[jacobrobertcrabtree · 10/10 · 24 September 2021]

T0-B1 is not a more mature, action-focused episode like The Duel, The Elder, or others. It's about heart. This episode is 100% a tribute to Osamu Tezuka, who is commonly called the Father of Manga (think Walt Disney for Japanese entertainment), specifically his work, Astro Boy. The little footsteps sounds, the abundance of lively robots, finding his true power after hearing his true name, Tobi (Astro Boy's main character Atom also has this same name and unlocks his arm cannon after hearing his name). This episode fully embraces its intent to pay tribute to a legendary work, and just like Astro Boy, its entire atmosphere reflects its charming, loves me protagonist that's full of heart. TL;DR, you might be misunderstanding this episode, and go watch Astro Boy (Don't watch 2003 dub. Heavily Americanized, and butchers the entire tone of the show.)

This have nothing to do with star wars

[tunesplitter · 4/10 · 22 September 2021]

Except the lightsabers lmao I dont ge it, for real.

Most annoying character ever introduced into Star Wars

[timtamtom-26967 · 1/10 · 25 September 2021]

If we're going to make droids into Jedi now, TOB1 certainly is not worthy. Even C-3PO would be a better Jedi than this annoying and dreadful child. This character is so annoying that you won't even take notice of the storyline and you'll be praying that the Sith ends him and puts you out of their misery for the entire episode. If I was you I'd just skip this episode and save 14 minutes of my life, I was very tempted to. Least favourite episode on par with episode 2, apart from that visions is a good show.

Gorgeous and inventive

[tgldude · 8/10 · 6 October 2021]

This short borrows Star Wars' setting and uses it to create a visually-striking and imaginative story. I feel like others are wanting this to be more than it is.

Astro boy

[evoapollo · 4/10 · 3 January 2022]

So I'm going to be a bit harsh on this episode because I have my personal reasons why. A droid can't be a jedi. They just can't. They can't use the force, so they can't be jedi. Grievous would have been using the force otherwise. I understand this is for younger audiences and young kids in Japan are a different demographic than young us audiences just a whole different world basically different culture Vastly different and so I can respect that it's childish and cute and all that. But he kept saying he was gonna be a jedi. If you cannot use the force. Then you are no jedi. I'm being half serious since its not real but yes it bothers me and therefore this episode gets a low rating this is most likely non canon but it hurts the star wars lore way more than any legends story ever could. Good try but this episode was a miss. Probably the worse next to bunny jedi episode.

Not even the lightsaber ignition sound is correct

[leoseimetz · 4/10 · 25 September 2021]

The animation and the story looks like a mixed Nintendo 64 with Star Wars elements. I'm not here to hate or anything, I actually enjoyed almost every other episode of "Visions" series, even the band/pod racing one. But this one just won't do it for me. Looks like the people behind it doesn't even know how Star Wars works.

When the master called the kid his padawan, he moved the lightsaber on the kids shoulders left and right, looking like some modern religion thing. After the kid beat the sith with the help of the little ones he was laying on the floor and gave them a sort of "thumbs up" (don't know how to name that hand signal in english). Seriously?

Looks like anything with lightsaber, jedi and clones can be called "Star Wars" nowadays

I'll give it 4 stars for some cleverness in the dialogues here and there, and for the innovation on the anime Star Wars thing.

Star Wars?

[theempop · 3/10 · 24 September 2021]

Lore? Continuity? Coherency? I mean, this whole thing made me question what was going on. Old armless Jedi Mitaka looked like some chibi God or something, and now we let droids be Jedi (I caught that changing of the line to "the Force exists in *all things*). Apparently "living" is no longer a qualifier. The cutesy animation was weird at first, but then.... no it was weird the whole time. This animation certainly has its place, but the entire time I had to think "Star Wars? Is that you?" I don't know, maybe it will vibe with certain people, though the final sequences of this episode would probably be too scary for the youngsters that this is most likely aimed at (or not. Youngsters can handle anything these days). Maybe this could have been an anime about a robot who wants to explore the galaxy and learn about life, but it really just didn't feel like Star Wars to me. And if you're going to be part of a series called 'Star Wars: Visions', that's kind of a fatal flaw to me.

Simply effective

[sevskirita · 9/10 · 15 October 2021]

This one kinda surprised me.

I loved this story. It was simple and cute, and extremely stylistic. The sound design, art, and characterizations added so much to the story.

The story in itself was simple, but nice. It was also a unique concept to have a droid learn to use the Force.

This is the kind of branching out and trying new things I want from Star Wars.

T0_B1 REVIEW

[Mhmdkadkhoda · 4/10 · 27 September 2021]

I don't like it It's too much fantasy a Droid from no where without any Practice with his master defeated a Lord sith.

And Graphics of this episode It was childish.

Not a retelling as some may say

[noisetanklaw · 10/10 · 19 December 2021]

Although it's heavily inspired by japanese pop-culture figures, it's another of Vision's unique, well... visions about Star Wars universe. Every cybernetic lifeform is imperfect as resourcers are scarce in that universe, but a Jedi genius may as well be capable of something more. I just despise deeply Star Wars fans that will hate any new content because it's different.

T0-B1

[kaden_lewis · 9/10 · 18 January 2022]

I don't watch anime. This happens to be the first anime I have ever watched. It has just never appealed to me, but I love Star Wars, so I decided to give it a try.

This episode was still pretty good, but a step down from the last few. This episode was pretty entertaining, and it was meant to be a more relaxed feel good episode, and it did it's job at doing that. The final battle was actually pretty cool and gave this episode a few more points in my opinion.

Best episode from Visions

[actionfigurepodcastyt · 9/10 · 14 September 2022]

I know I'm late to this review but just watched this episode for the second time and it still holds up. Here's why: T0-B1 perfectly captures multiple common themes of Star Wars. Love, Heroism, Loss, and Revenge. This episode does very well incorporating those elements within the short timeframe. The fight scene was crazy, and was executed beautifully. The animation was really smooth and the colors are vibrant. Obviously a homage to both Star Wars and Astro Boy. I will say that this is one of the more mature episodes from visions. The other episodes feel very rushed and incomplete unlike this entry.