The staff of the TV anime adaptation of Yuhiro Tsujitsugu’s Snowball Earth manga have revealed a new trailer, key visual, more cast members, and the ending theme song “Ima Kono Mune ni Tagiru no wa (What is Surging in My Heart Now)” by Ai Higuchi. Tsujitsugu also released a new illustration for the Snowball Earth anime.
The new cast members include:
- Kengo Kawanishi as Nayuta Izumi
- Tomohiro Ōno as Tamiya Sakura
- Manami Narahira as Yuma Uzuki
- Anna Nagase as Otoichi Kinoe
- Chitose Morinaga as Makoto Saionji
- Maki Kawase as Riko Kawagi
- Tomokazu Sugita as Isseki
The Snowball Earth anime will premiere on April 3 on NTV at 11:30 p.m. JST during the “Friday Anime Night” programming block.
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The main cast includes:
- Takuto Yoshinaga as Tetsuo Yabusame
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Yukio
- Ami Koshimizu as Ao Nogi
- Konomi Tamura as Hagane Takimura
The staff includes:
- 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 and VIZ Media publish the compiled book volumes in English and Japanese, respectively.
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?
