A new promotional video for the TV anime adaptation of Yuhiro Tsujitsugu’s Snowball Earth manga announced that tuki. will perform the opening theme song “Zero.” The Snowball Earth opening theme song will be tuki’s first-ever anime theme song, and Tsujitsugu released a new illustration to celebrate the announcement.
The Snowball Earth anime will premiere on April 3 on NTV at 11:30 p.m. JST during the “Friday Anime Night” programming block.
The cast and staff of the Snowball Earth anime include:
Cast
- Takuto Yoshinaga as Tetsuo Yabusame
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Yukio
- Ami Koshimizu as Ao Nogi
- Konomi Tamura as Hagane Takimura
Staff
- Director: Munehisa Sakai
- Production: Studio KAI
- Assistant Director: Takeshi Iwata
- Series Scripts: Shigeru Murakoshi
- Chief Animation Director and Character Design: Toshiya Kōno
- Assistant Production: Toho Animation
- Mecha Design: Se Jun Kim
- Monster Design: Ryuuta Yanagi
- Art Director: Mari Fujino
- Color Design: Hironori Nochi
- CG Director: Hiroki Motooka
- Motion Graphics: Hiromu Ōshiro (Production I.G)
- Director of Photography: Kenta Hayashi, Shōta Kodera
- Editing: Tomoki Nagasaka
- Music: Tatsuya Katō, Hiroaki Tsutsumi, Yuki Kanesaka
Yuhiro Tsujitsugu launched the Snowball Earth manga in Shogakukan’s Monthly Spirits magazine in 2021. Shogakukan will publish the ninth compiled book volume of the manga on July 30. VIZ Media will publish the manga’s sixth volume in English in August.
Lastly, VIZ Media licenses the manga in English and describes 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?
