We learned yesterday that the next Star Wars animated series will be Maul - Shadow Lord. Exploring The Phantom Menace villain's rise to the top of the criminal underworld, it promises to fill in some big gaps in the former Sith apprentice's history after The Clone Wars and before we caught up with him in Star Wars Rebels. 

The first trailer has now leaked online from Japan (via SFFGazette.com) and offers a much better idea of what to expect. For starters, we see that the animation style is very much in line with what Lucasfilm has delivered in recent series like The Bad Batch and the upcoming Tales of the Underworld.

The main focus of the teaser is to show Maul unleashing hell on his enemies. However, the big reveal comes when the iconic villain is revealed to be training a pink/red-skinned Twi'lek as his new apprentice.

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