The Death Stranding Anime Now Has A Title And Its First Trailer

The long-running joke astir Hideo Kojima is that he’d secretly alternatively beryllium making movies than video games. Kojima someway astir sewage into double figures connected Metal Gear games without immoderate of them receiving nan adjustment curen (though not for nan deficiency of trying connected his part), but it’s looking for illustration a very different communicative for nan Death Stranding bid connected which he’s been moving since departing Konami.

A live-action adjustment of nan post-apocalyptic stepping simulator landed a writer and director backmost successful nan spring, and it was announced a fewer months later that an animated Death Stranding movie was besides connected nan way, pinch Aaron Guzikowski (Raised by Wolves) penning nan screenplay. We now cognize what film will beryllium called, and there’s a trailer.

Death Stranding Mosquito is directed by ABC Animation’s Hiroshi Miyamoto, pinch Kojima himself serving arsenic a producer, and will apparently show an original communicative wrong nan "surreal and emotionally resonant" Death Stranding universe. If you’ve played nan original crippled aliases its 2025 sequel, nan teaser will look very familiar, pinch nan movie seemingly focusing connected a characteristic who decidedly isn’t Norman Reedus’ Sam Porter Bridges, but is sporting very akin get-up.

The hooded fig comes look to look pinch what appears to beryllium a BT-ified doglike creature, and past has a sadistic fist conflict pinch different character. We don’t get immoderate much discourse than that, nor immoderate whiff of a merchandise date, but visually Death Stranding Mosquito looks perfectly stunning.

It’s been a engaged fewer days for Kojima-related announcements. We sewage nan first gameplay trailer for Kojima Productions’ upcoming scary game, OD, and recovered retired that Kojima is besides releasing his ain in installments paper successful Japan. Yes, really.