The Snowball Earth TV anime will begin airing on April 3. It will premiere in Nippon TV’s FRIDAY ANIME NIGHT block at 11:30 PM JST, after That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4.
Snowball Earth adapts the Shogakukan-published manga by Yuhiro Tsujitsugu, which Viz Media describes as such:
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?
The manga started serialization in Shogakukan’s seinen magazine Monthly Big Comic Spirits in 2021 and has 10 volumes as of December 2025. It was the recipient of the Spirits Award in 2019.
Staff
• Director: Munehisa Sakai (ZOMBIE LAND SAGA)
• Assistant director: Takeshi Iwata (The Idolmaster: Shiny Colors Season 2 co-director)
• Series composer: Shigeru Murakoshi (Apocalypse Hotel)
• Character designer and chief animation director: Toshiya Kono (‘Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess co-character designer)
• Animation production: Studio Kai
Cast
• Takuto Yoshinaga as Tetsuo Yabusame
• Daisuke Hirakawa as Yukio
• Ami Koshimizu as Ao Nogi
• Konomi Tamura as Hagane Takimura
Source: @snowballearth_o
