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Viz Media brought another manga series to print last year as they released the first volume of Snowball Earth with an April 16th, 2024, release. The property comes from writer/artist Yuhiro Tsujitsugu which began serialization in 2021 in Gekkan Spirits. Known originally under the same name, it has nine volumes out in Japan so far and is listed as ongoing.
We learned in July 20256 that this was on track for an anime adaptation, with Munehisa Sakai directing it from the scripts overseen by Shigeru Murakoshi. Toshiya Kono is handling the character designs with Studio KAI on the animation production.
With an April 3rd, 2026, premiere date, the series is getting some new promotion with the production bringing out the first preview of the 3rd episode ahead of its April 17th, 2026, debut.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Yukio
- Takuto Yoshinaga as Tetsuo Yabusame
- Ami Koshimizu as Ao Nogi
- Konomi Tamura as Hagane Takimura
- Kengo Kawanishi as Nayuta Izumi
- Tomohiro Ōno as Tamiya Sakura
- Manami Narahira as Yuma Uzuki
- Anna Nagase as Otoichi Kinoe
- Chitose Morinaga as Makoto Saionji
- Maki Kawase as Riko Kawagi
- Tomokazu Sugita as Isseki
The series features the opening theme song “Zero” as performed by tuki, while the ending theme song is “Ima Kono Mune ni Tagiru no wa” as performed by Ai Higuchi.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: In the year 2025, huge beasts from beyond the galaxy attacked Earth. In the war that followed, humanity fought back with a giant robot named Yukio, piloted by Tetsuo Yabusame, a boy barely old enough to go to school. Ten years later, the massive alien swarm closed in on humanity’s homeworld and Tetsuo and the Earth defense force deployed for the final battle with the invading horde. They lost…
Yukio was destroyed in battle and Tetsuo survived in an escape pod. After eight years in cold sleep, the escape pod finally lands back on Earth, and Tetsuo awakens, determined to fulfill his promise to his comrade in arms that he would live his life to the fullest and make many friends. But what he finds instead is a world in ruins, entirely frozen beneath a blanket of ice and snow – a snowball Earth! What happened to humanity, how did the Earth freeze over, and will Tetsuo be able to keep his last promise to Yukio?
Previous promos and visuals.
©辻次夕日郎／小学館／「スノウボールアース」製作委員会
©辻次夕日郎／小学館／「スノウボールアース」製作委員会
©辻次夕日郎／小学館／「スノウボールアース」製作委員会
©辻次夕日郎／小学館／「スノウボールアース」製作委員会
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