BODY: The official X account of Kojima Productions revealed additional staff, a teaser visual and a teaser promotional video for the Death Stranding: Isolations anime series on October 30, according to MyAnimeList. The anime is scheduled to premiere worldwide on the Disney+ streaming service in 2027.
The staff announced includes:
- Series composition and script: Tow Ubukata (RWBY: Ice Queendom)
- Character design: Sayaka Koiso (Jujutsu Kaisen season 2)
- Art director and color script: Yann Le Gall
- Director of photography: Ju-mi Lee (Ninja Kamui)
- Editing: Keisuke Yanagi
- Sound director: Shuuhei Abe
Takayuki Sano, assistant director on Magic Knight Rayearth (2026), directs at E&H Production. Ilya Kuvshinov (Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045) drafted the original character designs.
The insider take
The article does not describe the story of Isolations. For background, it says Death Stranding was developed by Kojima Productions, with Sony Interactive Entertainment publishing for PlayStation and 505 Games for other platforms. It launched on PlayStation 4 in November 2019, then Windows in July 2020, PlayStation 5 in September 2021, iOS, iPadOS and macOS in January 2024, and Amazon Luna and Xbox Series X/S in November 2024. It sold a cumulative five million copies worldwide by July 2021 and reached over 20 million players worldwide by April 2025. The game is also being adapted into an anime movie tentatively titled Death Stranding Mosquito at ABC Animation Studio.
Originally reported by MyAnimeList.