Kojima’s Growing Animation Slate: ‘Isolations,’ Death Stranding’s Third Spinoff, Heads To Disney+

Disney+ is expanding its animation slate with a high-profile adaptation of Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding universe. Announced during the Disney+ Originals Preview event at Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, the in-development series, currently titled Death Stranding Isolations (working title), marks Kojima Productions’ first collaboration with a global streaming platform. The project is slated to debut in 2027.

This is the third Death Stranding-inspired animated project, joining the much darker-looking Death Stranding: Mosquito anime from ABC Animation Studio and a planned adult animated feature produced with L.A.’s Line Mileage.

Isolations branches off from the game franchise that began in 2019 and has since grown into a sprawling, multi-platform phenomenon. Rather than retelling the story of the games, Isolations introduces an original narrative set within the same eerie, post-apocalyptic world disrupted by supernatural “explosions” that blur the boundaries between the living and the dead.

An official synopsis published by Kojima Productions reads:

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 People who remain are now isolated, withdrawn, and without connections.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…

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…

Japanese studio E&H Production will handle the show’s traditional 2D, hand-drawn animation. Takayuki Sano (animator on Promare, Jujutsu Kaisen 0) directs the series, which will feature characters designed by Ilya Kuvshinov.

With Death Stranding 2: On the Beach having recently launched on PlayStation 5, this announcement, along with Mosquito and the Line Mileage feature, signals a major expansion of Kojima Productions’ storytelling ambitions beyond video games.

Isolations will stream exclusively on Disney+ in 2027.