Death Stranding Anime Series Confirmed for Disney+ in 2027, Concept Art by Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Character Designer Released

An all-new archetypal animated bid based connected Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding bid is coming to Disney+. It has the moving rubric of Death Stranding Isolations.

Announced today, November 13, the bid volition "bring to beingness a caller communicative based connected the award-winning Death Stranding video crippled to beingness for audiences crossed the world" successful 2027. Kojima was joined by bid manager Takayuki Sano to denote the concern with Disney+, and shared conception creation by Ilya Kuvshinov, who served arsenic quality decorator for Ghost successful the Shell: SAC_2045.

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Death Stranding Isolations' communicative volition beryllium told done "a traditional, hand-drawn 2D animation style," with immoderate of Japan’s apical "animation endowment astatine E&H accumulation [...] moving to bring the bid to life."

The Death Stranding anime is successful the works for Disney+. Image credit: Kojima Productions.

We person lone the representation supra to spell connected — there's nary video arsenic yet — but we bash person a communicative synopsis:

Somewhere successful North America, conscionable arsenic Sam Bridges walks done the continent successful bid to prevention America, the someones are besides trying to woody with their isolation successful their ain way. An aged antheral trying to recognize salvation done ways extracurricular of the transportation advocated by Bridges. A pistillate warrior who tries to kickstart a satellite of changeless fighting. A lad with a grudge against Bridges. A miss who embraces loneliness.On the precipice of the extremity of humanity and the world, their fates and hopes converge, arsenic different communicative of Death Stranding begins.

With Death Stranding 2 retired the door, Kojima is inactive engaged moving connected a fig of caller projects, including fearfulness crippled OD for Xbox Game Studios. He revealed the archetypal trailer for it past month, sparking speculation that it is connected to P.T. successful immoderate way. The mysterious crippled volition prima Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' Sophia Lillis, Hunters' Udo Kier, and Euphoria's Hunter Schafer, with the trailer showcasing Lillis' quality successful a spooky house, lighting candles earlier gathering a malevolent figure.

There's a batch going connected with Death Stranding, too. There's a Death Stranding live-action movie successful the works, which Kojima and manager Michael Sarnoski person confirmed volition archer a caller communicative alternatively of retelling the events of the games. In different words, those hoping to spot immoderate of Death Stranding's real-life movie stars reprise their roles for the live-action movie whitethorn beryllium retired of luck. There's besides a seperate Death Stranding animated film, called Death Stranding: Mosquito.

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