First Trailer Released for Death Stranding Anime

Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding series brought the Metal Gear Solid creator’s trademark arthouse approach to video games to full fruition. With no plans for Death Stranding 3, besides a concept draft, fans are instead looking forward to the game’s universe expanding into different media, including anime.

Death Stranding Isolations was announced in 2025. This original net anime will be a new story with different protagonists from Death Stranding and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. The first trailer, released on Oct. 30, shows one of the two main characters, a girl with blonde hair. She is tormented by visions of Beached Things, the souls of the dead that are stranded in the world of the living. The anime’s subtitle is “My mom became a crater,” a reference to the voidouts, the massive explosions triggered when a Beached Thing consumes a human.

Death Stranding has many projects in the works

Death Stranding Isolations will be animated by E&H Production, a relatively new animation studio founded by MAPPA veteran Sunghoo Park, whose credits include Ninja Kamui and the upcoming Magic Knight Rayearth remake. Isolations will be directed by Takyuki Sano, an industry veteran making his directorial debut. The screenplay comes from Tow Ubukata, an award-winning novelist and screenwriter famous for Psycho-Pass 2 and 3.

Kojima Productions is developing multiple projects within the Death Stranding universe. Michael Sarnoski (A Quiet Place: Day One) will write and direct a movie for A24 that will act as a prequel to the games. Another animated feature, tentatively titled Death Stranding Mosquito, is in the works, with Aaron Guzikowski attached to write and Hiroshi Miyamoto as director. A first trailer was released in September.

In Death Stranding, the world has been devastated by a cataclysmic event that caused the boundaries between the world of the living and the afterlife to deteriorate. Players take control of Sam Porter Bridges, played by Norman Reedus, a courier who has to deliver supplies to isolated colonies of survivors and try to reconnect the United States by building a wireless network. In the sequel, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Sam and his companions set out on an expedition to Australia.

Death Stranding Isolations is expected to be released in 2027 exclusively on Disney Plus.

Source: Polygon