Kojima Productions announced an anime series based on Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding video game at the Disney+ Originals Preview event at the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort on Thursday, revealing the main staff and a concept art (pictured above). The anime series, tentatively titled Death Stranding Isolation, will debut exclusively on Disney+ in 2027.

Set in the same world as the video game, the anime series will tell an original story, featuring a traditional, 2D animation style.

Staff
Executive Producer: Hideo Kojima (Death Stranding director)
Director: Takayuki Sano (Ninja Kamui episode director)
Original Character Design: Ilya Kuvshinov (Koukaku Kidoutai: SAC_2045)
Studio: E&H Production

Developed by Kojima Productions, with publishing by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation consoles and 505 Games for other platforms, Death Stranding released on PlayStation 4 in November 2019, followed by Windows in July 2020, PlayStation 5 in September 2021, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS in January 2024, and Amazon Luna and Xbox Series X/S in November 2024. Death Stranding sold a cumulative 5 million copies worldwide by July 2021 and reached over 20 million players worldwide by April 2025.

The video game is also being adapted into an anime movie tentatively titled Death Stranding Mosquito at ABC Animation Studio.

Synopsis
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 People who remain are now isolated, withdrawn, and without connections.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 sets out to transport both cargo and wishes of its senders, reconnecting people in the hope that they might still be saved.

Somewhere in North America, just as Sam Bridges walks through the continent in order to save America, the others 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... (Source: Kojima Productions, edited)

Source: Oricon News, Dtimes

Death Stranding Isolation on MAL