{"rewrite":{"id":"r_ac0bcf04bf20421780ad3a68","clusterId":"c_c14db2a9abede295abd87ebb","slug":"death-stranding-isolations-anime-teaser-streams-in-2027-on-disney","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Death Stranding Isolations Teaser Debuts With Tow Ubukata On Script","summary":"KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS released the first teaser video and key visual for \"DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS\" on October 30, an anime series set in the same world and era as the 2019 game \"Death Stranding.\" The teaser premiered at the studio's 10th anniversary event, \"BEYOND THE STRAND: A Voyage of Creation and Challenge,\" which opened on the 31st at Azabudai Hills Gallery and runs through December 20. The series is scheduled to stream exclusively on Disney+ \"Star\" in 2027. The story follows a girl left isolated by the Death Stranding phenomenon, who has rejected connection with the world until a new encounter draws her into an unknown place. Around her are an old sage trying to restore the world's connections by unknown means, a female soldier trapped in destruction and conflict, and a boy angry at the world's absurdity. Tow Ubukata handles series composition and script. E\u0026H production animates, with Takayuki Sano directing, Ilya Kuvshinov on original character design and Sayaka Koiso on character design. Hideo Kojima is executive producer.","whyItMatters":"The adaptation hands a Kojima Productions property to an outside animation studio for a hand-drawn series, and places it on Disney+ rather than a game-adjacent platform.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe teaser opens on a giant crater and a person gazing at it, with a blonde girl at the center; the key visual shows a girl standing beside a motorcycle and a small robot under the line \u0026#34;My mama became a crater.\u0026#34;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOther footage shows a devastated world spread with giant craters and a girl sleeping in goggles that display \u0026#34;SLEEP.\u0026#34;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe setting is the North American continent immediately after Sam Bridges linked it through the chiral network, as the former America tries to become whole again and that link brings new calamity.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTow Ubukata is known for the science fiction novel \u0026#34;Mardock Scramble\u0026#34; and the historical novel \u0026#34;Tenchi Meisatsu,\u0026#34; and has written series composition and scripts for \u0026#34;Ghost in the Shell: Arise\u0026#34; and \u0026#34;PSYCHO-PASS.\u0026#34;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eE\u0026amp;H production\u0026#39;s credits include \u0026#34;NINJA KAMUI\u0026#34; and \u0026#34;BULLET/BULLET.\u0026#34;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIlya Kuvshinov, the original character designer, worked on \u0026#34;Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045.\u0026#34;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDirector Takayuki Sano said: \u0026#34;Elevating something like the human spirit, I think that is one of the jobs that entertainment can do. I believe Director Kojima\u0026#39;s works have always been doing exactly that.\u0026#34;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe visuals are produced as hand-drawn 2D animation.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe title was announced at \u0026#34;Disney+ Original Preview 2025\u0026#34; in November 2025.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeparate from this series, an animated film \u0026#34;DEATH STRANDING MOSQUITO (working title)\u0026#34; directed by Hiroshi Miyamoto and a live-action film project with A24 have been announced.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Tow Ubukata writing Death Stranding Isolations puts a novelist who built Psycho-Pass and Ghost in the Shell: Arise on Kojima's mythology. The game's lore needs a script that treats absence and isolation as structure, not mood.","twitterPost":"Tow Ubukata scripting Death Stranding Isolations puts the Psycho-Pass writer on Kojima's mythology. The game's isolation theme needs a script, not a mood.","threadsPost":"Death Stranding Isolations hands its script to Tow Ubukata, the writer behind Psycho-Pass and Ghost in the Shell: Arise. Hideo Kojima is executive producer and E\u0026H production animates, but the game's lore lives or dies on whether a script can build absence and isolation as structure instead of atmosphere.","newsletterBlurb":"A teaser for DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS arrived at Kojima Productions' 10th anniversary event, showing a girl left alone by the Death Stranding and a cratered America. E\u0026H production animates it in hand-drawn 2D for a 2027 Disney+ Star run. Tow Ubukata writes.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Denfaminicogamer\",\"url\":\"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2610302a\",\"title\":\"Latest Footage Released for \\\"DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS,\\\" a Completely New Anime Series Based on \\\"Death Stranding\\\"!\"},{\"source\":\"Cinema Today\",\"url\":\"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157729\",\"title\":\"Hideo Kojima's New DEATH STRANDING Anime Unveils First Teaser Video! Tow Ubukata Takes On Series Composition and Script\"},{\"source\":\"KAI-YOU\",\"url\":\"https://kai-you.net/article/97008\",\"title\":\"Teaser Video Released for Hideo Kojima's New 'Death Stranding' Anime; Script by SF Author Tow Ubukata\"},{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/10/30/174277.html\",\"title\":\"New \\\"DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS\\\" Anime Reveals Latest Footage! 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