The official website for the SNOWBALL EARTH anime have announced that the series will premiere on April 3, 2026, at 11:30 p.m. JST. It will air in Nippon TV’s FRIDAY ANIME NIGHT slot.
Official announcement:
Teaser Visual:
MAIN CAST:
Takuto Yoshinaga as Tetsuo Yabusame
Daisuke Hirakawa as Yukio
Ami Koshimizu as Ao Nogi
Konomi Tamura as Hagane Takimura
STAFF:
Director: Munehisa Sakai
Assistant Director: Takeshi Iwata
Series Composition: Shigeru Murakoshi
Character Designer & Chief Animation Director: Toshiya Kono
Mecha Designer: Se-Joon Kim
Monster Designer: Ryuta Yanagi
Art Director: Mari Fujino
Color Designer: Hironori Noji
CG Director: Hironori Motooka
Motion Graphics: Hiromu Oshiro
Directors of Photography: Kenta Hayashi, Shota Kodera
Editor: Tomoki Nagasaka
Music Composers: Tatsuya Kato, Hiroaki Tsutsumi, YUKI KANESAKA
Animation Studio: Studio KAI
VIZ Media publishes the official English-language edition of the original manga and provides an official synopsis of the story:
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. But when Tetsuo emerges he finds a world in ruins, entirely frozen beneath a blanket of ice and snow—snowball Earth! What happened to humanity, how did the planet freeze over, and will Tetsuo be able to keep his last promise to Yukio?
Source: Official Website
© Yuhiro Tsujitsugu/Shogakukan/ “SNOWBALL EARTH” Project
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