Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding Anime Looks Impressive in First Official Trailer

Published Oct 30, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT Francesco is an editor with a background in academic research, journalism, and content strategy, specializing in entertainment news and curation. He works across all of Polygon's verticals, specializing in tabletop games, with a focus on D&D and Magic. Death Stranding Isolations will hit Disney Plus in 2027 Image: Kojima Productions/E&H Productions Sign in to your Polygon.com account 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 (BTs), 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 BT consumes a human. Death Stranding has many projects in the works Image: Kojima Productions/E&H Productions 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 (Attack on Titan: The Last Attack, Jujutsu Kaisen 0), 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. This is not the only project in the works for Kojima's 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 (Raised by Wolves, Prisoners) attached to write and Hiroshi Miyamoto (Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero) 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.