Hideo Kojima never ceases to extend the universe of Death Stranding. After two video games, a live-action film in production and parallel projects like OD, the creator of Metal Gear Solid embarks on Japanese animation. And not with any project: an original feature film called Mosquito has just been revealed, marking the very first Kojima foray into the world of anime.
Directed by Hiroshi Miyamoto and produced by ABC Animation Studio, the film promises to be as strange as it is ambitious. It is still unknown its release date, but the first images were revealed during a livestream of Kojima Productions, with a mysterious aesthetic and an already very marked atmosphere.
Mosquito: an original animated film in the world of Death Stranding
The anime Death Stranding: Mosquito Will not be an adaptation of the original game, but a completely unprecedented story. And that’s what intrigues the most. The intrigue remains secret, but we already know that the main character – with a confusing look – fits perfectly in the enigmatic name of the project. Norman Reedus, who plays Sam Porter Bridges in the Games, could lend his voice to it or appear there in one way or another.
The studio in charge of the film is not a stranger: ABC Animation has worked on emblematic titles like Violet Evergarden,, Darling in the Franxx Or Lycoris Recoil. At the controls, Hiroshi Miyamoto, whose CV includes Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods And Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary. A promising duo to give life to a universe as dense as that imagined by Kojima.
Kojima wants to tell a “new story” in his cult universe
Rather than redoing the game in animated form, Kojima and his teams want to offer a fresh look. The director of the live-action film being developed at A24, Michael Sarnoski, has also summed up this approach: “I think that with this project, we really want to capture the soul of the game, capture its themes, while telling a new story in this universe and exploring unpublished characters, discovering all this magnitude and all these incredible real places, but also by discovering all these nuances and justice, on large and small scale. “
A statement that sums up the common intention of future projects: extend the Death Stranding experience without distorting it, but without repeating it either. With MosquitoKojima seems determined to make his universe a transmedia creation field.