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We already knew Hideo Kojima was working on an anime movie set in the Death Stranding universe, Death Stranding: Mosquito, and he’d also dropped word that there were other Death Stranding-based adaptions in the works. Well, now we know what at least one of them is going to be: Death Stranding Isolations, an anime TV series created for Disney Plus.
Kojima’s number-one fan, Geoff Keighley, posted the news to his Game Awards account, stating that the seemingly very brightly-colored series would be arriving from Kojima Productions and E&H Productions on Disney’s streamer some time in 2027.
Death Stranding Isolations has been announced, a new anime series coming to Disney+ in 2027, from the mind of Hideo Kojima. pic.twitter.com/gY65pFFWkh
— The Game Awards (@thegameawards) November 13, 2025
Deadline, meanwhile, has a few more details about the project, revealing that the series will be directed by Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods‘ Takayuki Sano, and stresses it will be using traditional hand-drawn 2D animation (which is presumably now how we say, “God, no, it’s not using AI.”) It will star the series’ main character, Sam Bridges, in a spin-off story where Bridges is attempting to save America and help others cope in their isolation. The summary continues,
“An old man is trying to realize salvation through ways outside of the connection advocated by Bridges. A female warrior is trying to kickstart a world of constant fighting. A boy holds a grudge against Bridges, and a girl has embraced her loneliness. On the precipice of the end of humanity and the world, their fates and hopes converge, as another story of Death Stranding begins.”
There’s no word on casting yet, although it would be surely impossible for anyone other than Norman Reedus to voice Bridges. It’s interesting to note that the promotional image doesn’t show him, however, instead presumably focusing on that younger boy and girl mentioned in the blurb. It seems likely that the anime will explore the lives of the individuals Bridges meets on his wobbly journeys, as he helps them reconnect. And hopefully it’ll all be super-fucking weird.
Obviously this is still a long way off—given there’s no specific portion of 2027 mentioned, it could be as much as two years before we get to see any of it. But, unlike Mosquito, at least this seems to be showing some sort of plan for when to actually exist.
