Hideo Kojima Shows Off First Look at Death Stranding Animated Film: Mosquito

During today's Beyond the Strand presentation, Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions gave america an authoritative archetypal look astatine a caller animated movie acceptable successful the satellite of Death Stranding. It's called Death Stranding: Mosquito and, per Kojima and animation manager Hiroshi Miyamoto's ain words, it follows the communicative of a feline who sucks.

We got a look astatine a snippet of animation from Mosquito, showing a antheral with thing stuck to his look that has a weird tentacle happening coming retired of it. He's successful the h2o astatine the opening of the clip, swimming and approaching thing human-shaped that's hard to marque out. But successful the 2nd portion of the clip, he's connected land, successful the Timefall, warring a feline successful a porter suit, inactive with the gooey happening connected his face.

That's it! Who is this guy, and what does each this mean? No idea! We bash find retired from a follow-up speech with Kojima and Miyamoto that the connection "Mosquito" refers to the main character, who tin suck...something. Not blood! Just something. We'll find retired later.

It was besides revealed that Mosquito is being animated with hand-drawn lines that are past digitally utilized to assemble the animation itself. And Studio Easter, which worked connected Dandadan, is doing the film's backgrounds. Additionally, Aaron Guzikowksi (Prisoners, Raised by Wolves) volition constitute the script script.

This isn't the lone Death Stranding movie we're getting. We besides got caller accusation contiguous astir the upcoming A24 Death Stranding movie. And Kojima showed disconnected a caller clip of upcoming crippled OD arsenic well. To drawback up connected everything announced astatine today's show, instrumentality a look here.

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