Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima has announced that a new original anime series called Death Stranding Isolations (working title) will premiere on Disney+ in 2027. Based in Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding universe, Isolation will follow a young man and woman as they set out on an adventure.
The story will be told through a traditional hand-drawn 2D animation style and created by “some of Japan’s top animation talent at E&H Production, who are currently working to bring the series to life, according to the announcement page by Kojima Productions. E&H Production is a Japanese animation studio created in 2021 by former MAPPA director and animator Sunghoo Park, and is responsible for series like Ninja Kamui, Red Cat Ramen, Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation, and Bullet/Bullet.
Here’s a look at the key art for Death Stranding Isolations:
“Announced in front of a packed auditorium at the Disney+ Originals Preview at Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, executive producer of the series’ Hideo Kojima, and the series’ director Takayuki Sano, appeared on stage to announce that their first ever partnership with a global streaming platform will be with Disney+ and that the latest expansion of the Death Stranding franchise will be an animated series,” according to the announcement post. “New concept art created by Ilya Kuvshinov, who served as character designer for Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, was also revealed along with the Death Stranding Isolations (working title) announcement.”
Here’s the full synopsis of Death Stranding Isolations:
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 People who remain are now isolated, withdrawn, and without connections.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…
Death Stranding Isolations is the current working title, so the series’ name could change, but when it premieres, it will do so on the Disney+ streaming service in 2027. Isolations is not to be confused with Death Stranding: Mosquito (working title), which is an animated film set in the Death Stranding universe currently in the works, or the live-action Death Stranding movie A24 is creating with A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski.
In the meantime, read Game Informer’s reviews for Death Stranding and Death Stranding 2: On The Beach.
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