We sure hope you’ve blinked away sleep before checking out the new trailer for the anime adaptation of Hideo Kojima‘s post-apocalyptic video game, Death Stranding, because it’ll jolt you awake whether you want to be or not.

We’ve known for a bit that the celebrated video game designer (whose body is composed of 70 percent movies) was branching out his supernatural-tinged courier game to the screen with A24. Kojima also loves anime—so much so that he’s got two anime titles in development. Now, a year after we got a peek at the anime film, Death Stranding Mosquito, we finally got a looky-loo at Kojima Productions’ other anime adaptation of the series coming to Hulu and Disney Plus: Death Stranding Isolations, coming in 2027.

The Death Stranding—a catastrophic series of explosions caused when the dead crept into our world and collided with the living.

In the wake of this cataclysm, many were forced to live in absolute isolation—among them, a young girl. Although this lonely existence was forced upon her, she soon grows to prefer solitude, eschewing all opportunities for real human connection and allowing herself to be strung along by fate.

The story is set in North America immediately after Sam—the protagonist of the game—reconnects the continent by means of the Chiral Network. However, as America is reborn from the ashes, the renewed connections that bind it together bring about new and unforeseen consequences.

In this tumultuous new landscape, there are some who walk a different path to the one chosen by Sam and his Bridges comrades: a wise old man who connects people through a method that defies all reckoning; a female soldier ensnared in a cycle of war and destruction; a boy who seethes with rage at the absurdity of his life…and of course, the girl who chose to sever all ties with the outside world…Fate has other plans for her, however, and chance encounters see her launched headfirst into a world she does not recognize.

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