Hideo Kojima and director Takayuki Sano have announced their first ever partnership with a global streaming platform—DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS (Working Title) is a brand new animated project based on Kojima Production's Death Stranding series, and will be streaming exclusively on Disney+ in 2027.
This announcement was made in front of a packed auditorium at the Disney+ Originals Preview event at Hong Kong Disneyland Resort. In addition to Hideo Kojima and Takayuki Sano's involvement in the project, Ilya Kuvshinov, character designer for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2045, has also joined the project and released the first concept art for the series.
For more on the project, here is the overview as provided by Kojima Productions.
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Set in the world of DEATH STRANDING, DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS (Working Title) will tell a completely new story, separate from that of the video games. The upcoming series will follow a young man and woman as they set out on an adventure. Told through a traditional, hand-drawn 2D animation style, some of Japan’s top animation talent at E&H production are currently working to bring the series to life.
STORY 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 People who remain are now isolated, withdrawn, and without connections.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 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...
STAFFCREDITS
- Executive Producer: Hideo Kojima
- Director: Takayuki Sano
- Original Character Design: Ilya Kuvshinov
- Animation Production: E&H production
Set to release exclusively on Disney+, stay tuned for more information on DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS (Working Title) coming soon
- DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS (Working Title)
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- Streaming Exclusively on Disney+ in 2027
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