Joseph Luster
July 17, 2025 
Yuhiro Tsujitsugu’s Snowball Earth manga is the latest to get an anime! The adaptation was announced along with the opening of an official website, heralding a 2026 premiere on NTV in Japan.
Munehisa Sakai (ZOMBIE LAND SAGA) directs, with Takeshi Iwata (The iDOLM@STER Shiny Colors) as assistant director, Shigeru Murakoshi (Apocalypse Hotel) on scripts and Toshiya Kono (’Tis Time for ‘Torture,’ Princess) handling character designs for the Studio KAI production.
You can see the announcement video, along with a teaser visual and some celebratory artwork below.
Snowball Earth Anime Announcement
Teaser visual:
Yuhiro Tsujitsugu shared the following illustrations to commemorate the news:
VIZ Media publishes the manga in English and describes the story like so:
Snowball Earth Plot
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?
Source: Anime News Network
