Today’s Kojima-filled news doesn’t stop as more of Kojima Productions' projects are still well on the way. In celebration of the studio's 10th anniversary, the "Beyond the Strand" showcase unveiled new information about Hideo Kojima's plans for his future titles. This includes new details about his experimental horror game with Jordan Peele in OD: Knock, which stars IT's Sophia Lillis and Hunter Schafer, as well as the PlayStation 6's PHYSINT, an action-espionage harkening back to the days of Metal Gear Solid.
But there's also one other entry that Hideo Kojima is proud to announce, and it's the long-rumored Death Stranding anime, which has finally been revealed as Death Stranding: Mosquito.
What is Mosquito About?
Still a working title, there are plenty of things to speculate regarding what Death Stranding: Mosquito is all about. For starters, it has a new, unnamed protagonist, and he's far from the Sam Porter Bridges we know from the titles. He doesn't do any deliveries, nor does he have a baby strapped to his chest. This man, however, has a mysterious mosquito-like proboscis attached to his mouth.
The implications here are interesting, as this unnamed protagonist is essentially using it to feed off something. All the more, he seems to have a close relationship with a dog-like BT, which he later defends against a porter in the trailer.
Death Stranding: Mosquito is an animated film, meaning we don't have to wait for multiple episodes to drop and just witness what this story is all about in one go. It's a standalone entry, which is evident as we're controlling someone not belonging to BRIDGES or FRAGILE Express. This might be a rogue porter, a MULE, or someone completely fresh.
Personal Thoughts on Death Stranding: Mosquito
It's hard to top Sam Porter Bridges' adventures across America and Australia alongside B.B., but maybe there's something good that comes out of Mosquito once it arrives; it might be giving us more information about the nature of BTs and the Death Stranding phenomenon as a whole, or it could bridge the gap between the games and the potential future of the series.
Mosquito is going to be an interesting case, as this isn't a game written by Hideo Kojima himself. Rather, it's from Aaron Guzikowski, the writer behind the dark sci-fi HBO show Raised by Wolves and Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners. Given that Raised by Wolves had some themes about parenting and biology, it could allude to the true nature of why Mosquito's unnamed protagonist protects his fellow BTs so much.
As the writer of Prisoners, there's a lot to glean from this information, as Denis Villeneuve's crime drama is still being talked about today due to its harrowing themes of violence and the morally gray line between justice and injustice. Whether or not Death Stranding: Mosquito will have these kinds of themes is something we're going to have to see when it comes out.
It's clear there are still some questions about Death Stranding: Mosquito, but the way it's being presented is clear: it's going to be a fresh start to the future of Death Stranding titles in the years to come, and with Kojima moving away from the next iterations of Death Stranding, this is likely the first taste of the series' future. If it’s as successful as video game adaptations like Netflix's Arcade and Amazon's Fallout, we're in for a treat.
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