Death Stranding Isolations Anime Announced

The Death Stranding universe is getting a new animated series under the DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS working title. E&H production is in charge of the animation. Hideo Kojima will be the executive producer on the work.

The staff includes Takayuki Sano as the director and Ilya Kuvshinov as the character designer. The series will be a Disney+ exclusive, and it will premiere in 2027. The official synopsis is as follows:

Once, there was an explosion...
Lonesome souls of the dead manifest in the physical world, reaching in search of the living. However, the connection they create triggers a massive explosion that eradicates anything of this world—a phenomenon referred to as the Death Stranding. These events wipe out nations as well as civilization itself. People who remain are now isolated, withdrawn, and without connections. As humanity stands at the brink a legendary porter set out to transport both cargo and wishes of its senders, reconnecting people in the hope that they might still be saved.

Based on the video game born out of the mind of legendary game creator, Hideo Kojima, comes a new animation series headed by Japan’s up-and-coming animation studio E&H production. Helmed by E&H’s Takayuki Sano, it follows in the footsteps of the original in spirit and ideas and depict the world of Death Stranding through a bold and yet subtle touch and top-class hand-drawn animation.

Somewhere in North America, just as Sam Bridges walks through the continent in order to save America, the someones are also trying to deal with their isolation in their own way. An old man trying to realize salvation through ways outside of the connection advocated by Bridges. A female warrior who tries to kickstart a world of constant fighting. A boy with a grudge against Bridges. A girl who embraces loneliness.

On the precipice of the end of humanity and the world, their fates and hopes converge, as another story of Death Stranding begins.

And now, comes another explosion...

This is the second animated project for the Death Stranding franchise: the first is an upcoming animated movie titled DEATH STRANDING MOSQUITO. That project was announced earlier this year, during the Beyond the Strand event.

Death Stranding is a game directed by Hideo Kojima at Kojima Productions and published in 2019.

Source: Press Release, Official Website
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