The Ninth Jedi Cast and Character Guide: English and Japanese Voice Actors

The Ninth Jedi cast reunites several English and Japanese performers from the two Star Wars: Visions shorts that introduced Lah Kara, while adding new voices for the eight-episode continuation. Kimiko Glenn returns as Kara in the English dub, with Chinatsu Akasaki returning in Japanese. Andrew Kishino and Tetsuo Kanao voice Margrave Juro, while Simu Liu and Shinichiro Miki return as Kara's father, Lah Zhima.

Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi premieres on August 5, 2026, on Disney+ and Hulu, with all eight episodes available at launch. The Production I.G series picks up after The Ninth Jedi from Visions Volume 1 and The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope from Volume 3. Kara continues training under Juro as their small group searches for her captured father and confronts forces trying to prevent the Jedi Order from returning.

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Kimiko Glenn and Chinatsu Akasaki as Lah Kara

Lah Kara is a teenage Force user and the central hero of The Ninth Jedi. She grew up with her father, sabersmith Lah Zhima, on the frozen world Hy Izlan. Kara has trained with a lightsaber since she was young, but her journey is as much about trusting herself as learning technique. When she first holds one of her father's colorless blades, it turns green and reveals her connection to the Force.

Kimiko Glenn returns for the English dub. Her previous voice work includes Peni Parker in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and characters in animated series such as Centaurworld. Chinatsu Akasaki reprises Kara in Japanese. Both performances have to carry Kara from uncertainty toward leadership without losing the impulsiveness and empathy that define her.

The limited series gives Kara much more space than a short film. The official story describes an epic journey of self-discovery, a mission to save her father and a growing responsibility to the fragile group of Jedi-in-training around her. That combination makes her both a personal and symbolic protagonist.

Andrew Kishino and Tetsuo Kanao as Margrave Juro

Margrave Juro is a former Jedi Knight and the leader of Hy Izlan. He secretly calls Force users to the Aerial Temple in the hope of rebuilding the Jedi Order, only to discover that several respondents are Sith. Juro becomes Kara's teacher and the most experienced warrior in the new fellowship.

Andrew Kishino voices Juro in English, while Tetsuo Kanao performs the role in Japanese. Juro is not simply a mentor who delivers answers. His attempt to restore an institution that has vanished raises questions about what the Jedi should become in this distant era, and whether the mistakes of the past will return with it.

Masi Oka and Hiromu Mineta as Ethan

Ethan is an earnest young Force user who responds to Juro's summons without having a formal master. His blue lightsaber and willingness to stand against the revealed Sith establish his courage early. He joins Juro, Kara and Homen in the effort to find Lah Zhima and revive the Jedi.

Masi Oka returns to the English role, with Hiromu Mineta returning in Japanese. Ethan can serve as a useful contrast to Kara: both are young, but he arrived already searching for a larger purpose while she was pulled into the conflict through her father's capture. Their different paths can show that the renewed Jedi will not have a single kind of student.

Patrick Seitz and Hinata Tadokoro as Homen

Homen is the imposing, fur-covered warrior first seen holding a red lightsaber among the apparent Sith. The blade later changes to a pale purple when he breaks free from their influence, revealing that darkness had distorted rather than fully defined him. Homen then joins the emerging Jedi group.

Patrick Seitz voices Homen in English and Hinata Tadokoro in Japanese. His story makes lightsaber color an active part of the series' visual language. More importantly, Homen represents the possibility of recovery and choice, a theme that could become crucial as Kara encounters enemies whose relationship to the Force is more complicated than a red-versus-blue divide.

JP Karliak and Cho as Gramps

Gramps is an old pilot droid with a cantankerous personality and a preference for comfort over danger. Despite the complaints, he helps Kara reach the station above Hy Izlan and later travels with the Jedi fellowship. JP Karliak performs the English voice, while veteran actor Cho returns in Japanese.

Gramps provides humor, but he also gives the young characters practical mobility and a connection to older eras. In a story set long after the familiar Jedi and Sith have disappeared, an aging droid can literally carry fragments of history from one generation to the next.

Simu Liu and Shinichiro Miki as Lah Zhima

Lah Zhima is Kara's father, a former Jedi Knight and exceptional sabersmith. He knows how to temper kyber crystals so that a blade reflects the wielder's connection to the Force. After creating eight lightsabers for Juro, Zhima is captured by Jedi Hunters and taken to General Nawaam's fortress.

Simu Liu returns in the English dub, with Shinichiro Miki returning in Japanese. Although the rescue of Zhima drives the plot, the character is more than a captive objective. His craft gives the series one of its defining ideas: a lightsaber does not simply announce a fixed identity; it can reveal the state and intention of the person holding it.

Young Mazino as General Nawaam

Young Mazino joins the English cast as General Nawaam. The official character guide describes Nawaam as a black-armored leader assembling a fleet to impose order on a galaxy fractured by war. He commands Jedi Hunters and seeks the extermination of potential Jedi, yet his lightsaber burns blue rather than Sith red.

That contradiction is one of the limited series' most interesting mysteries. A blue blade could suggest a former Jedi, a stolen weapon, a belief that Nawaam's cause is righteous or a more complicated rule for kyber color in this continuity. The series can explore authoritarian control without reducing its antagonist to familiar Sith imagery.

Feodor Chin as Gennoh

Feodor Chin voices Gennoh, a Sith warrior who pursues the Jedi under Nawaam's orders. Gennoh wears a metal mask, commands an enormous vessel and is described as highly confident in his dark-side power. He appears positioned as a direct physical and Force-based threat while Nawaam operates at the strategic level.

Gennoh also complicates the hierarchy. Nawaam is not visually coded as a conventional Sith, while Gennoh explicitly is. Their alliance may reveal whether the general is using the Sith, serving them or constructing a new order that treats both Jedi and Sith traditions as tools.

Chase Sui Wonders as Tafflah and Keone Young as Kwana

Chase Sui Wonders voices Tafflah and Keone Young voices Kwana in the English version. Lucasfilm announced the performers and characters but did not provide full biographies for them in the initial trailer cast release. Their exact loyalties and functions should therefore be left for the episodes rather than guessed from brief trailer shots.

This is a useful reminder that not every named voice actor is necessarily a permanent member of Kara's fellowship. The series spans a galaxy-wide journey, so some characters may lead a particular world, faction or episode. The official character guide will likely expand as the series releases.

How the story fits into Star Wars: Visions

The Ninth Jedi began as an anthology short, which allowed Production I.G to imagine a far-future galaxy with no active Jedi Order and a different visual relationship between lightsabers and identity. Child of Hope continued Kara's travels, and the new Visions Presents label now allows that storyline to expand into long-form television.

The series is directed by Shunsuke Tada, written by Mitsuyasu Sakai and supervised by original director Kenji Kamiyama. Because Visions stories are creative interpretations rather than main-canon obligations, the filmmakers can use familiar ideas such as kyber crystals, Jedi training and Sith temptation in new ways. Readers interested in speculative screen design can also see our feature on Netflix cyberpunk worldbuilding and our list of the best sci-fi movies on Netflix.

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