Overview

• The first teaser for the animated feature, working title Death Stranding: Mosquito, premiered during the Beyond the Strand livestream.
• Kojima Productions named Hiroshi Miyamoto as director, Aaron Guzikowski as writer, and ABC Animation Studio as the animation house, with Hideo Kojima producing.
• The anime will use hand-drawn animation lines that are digitally assembled, according to the creative team.
• Teaser imagery nods to series lore with a porter-like figure, Timefall, a tar-like proboscis, and a Beached Thing–style creature.
• Director Michael Sarnoski said A24’s live-action film will feature a standalone story with new characters, with Kojima serving as producer and keeping limited creative involvement, and neither project announced casting or release dates; an early AR/geospatial concept with Niantic Spatial was also previewed.