Staff for the Snowball Earth (スノウボールアース) TV anime have revealed the anime’s new teaser trailer and visual. Additionally, it has also been confirmed that the anime will premiere in April 2026 on the NTV channel.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSSpV7x4-4Y]
Sakai Munehisa is directing the anime at Studio KAI, and the anime will star:
- Yoshinaga Takuto as Tetsuo Yabusame
- Hirakawa Daisuke as Yukio
- Koshimizu Ami as Nogi
- Tamura Konomi as Hagane Takimura
The anime is an adaptation of Tsujitsugu Yuhiro’s Snowball Earth manga. Tsujitsugu started the ongoing manga in January 2021 in Shogakukan’s Monthly Spirits magazine, and Shogakukan published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in July 2021 and the ninth in July 2025. The manga’s 10th volume is scheduled for release on December 26th, 2025.
Viz Media publishes the manga in English, and it will release the manga’s eighth volume on February 17th,2026. The company describes the manga’s story below:
“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. As the massive alien swarm closed in on humanity’s homeworld, 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. 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?”
