Hulu has announced that Mission: Yozakura Family Season 2 will be streaming on the service alongside MAO and Snowball Earth. Snowball Earth will receive same-day English dubs on Hulu, and the Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero movie will also be added to Hulu on April 13.
Alongside the Hulu premiere, Mission: Yozakura Family Season 2 will air on 28 MBS and TBS networks on Sundays at 5:00 p.m. JST during the “Nichigo” slot starting April 12.
Mirai Minato is now the chief director of the anime at SILVER LINK and oversees the series scripts. Takahiro Nakatsugawa directs the anime, and other returning staff members include character designer Mizuki Takahashi, composer Kōji Fujimoto, and sound director Tōru Kanegae.
Sakurazaka46 performs the new opening theme song “What’s ‘KAZOKU’ (What’s ‘Family’).”
The cast includes:
- Kaede Hondo as Mutsumi Yozakura
- Reiji Kawashima as Taiyō Asano
- Akari Kitō as Futaba Yozakura
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Kyōichirō Yozakura
- Aoi Yūki as Shion Yozakura
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Shinzō Yozakura
- Yumi Uchiyama as Nanao Yozakura
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Kengo Yozakura and Goliath
- Mariya Ise as Ayaka Kirisaki
- Romi Park as Rin Fudō
- Kōki Uchiyama as Aoi Sui
- Daiki Hamano as Ouga Inugami
- Kaito Ishikawa as Sōsuke Michibata
Currently, the first season of Mission: Yozakura Family is streaming on Disney Plus and Hulu.
Hitsuji Gondaira launched Mission: Yozakura Family in 2019, and Shueisha publishes the manga series on MANGA Plus. Yen Press is also publishing the manga series in print.
Here’s an overview of the manga, via MANGA Plus:
Taiyo Asano is a super shy high school student and the only person he can talk to is his childhood friend, Mutsumi Yozakura. It turns out that Mutsumi is the daughter of the ultimate spy family! Even worse, Mutsumi is being harassed by her overprotective, nightmare of a brother, Kyoichiro. What drastic steps will Taiyo have to take to save Mutsumi?! A spy family comedy – the mission begins!
Crunchyroll is streaming Snowball Earth in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS and Indian Subcontinent. In Japan, the anime will be airing on NTV’s “Friday Anime Night” programming block.
The main cast of Snowball Earth includes:
- Takuto Yoshinaga as Tetsuo Yabusame
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Yukio
- Ami Koshimizu as Ao Nogi
- Konomi Tamura as Hagane Takimura
- 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 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
The English dub cast includes:
- Griffin Burns as Tetsuo Yabusame
- Alejandro Saab as Yukio
- Cory Yee as Kojika Yabusame
- Courtney Lin as Mist
- Ben Balmaceda as Lonely Iwaki
- Craig Lee Thomas as Narrator
The English dub crew includes:
- Executive Producer: Eric P. Sherman
- Co-Producers: Mami Okada and Mio Moroe
- Associate Producer: Misa Shimogata
- ADR Director: Steve Staley
- ADR Writer: Kyle McCarley
- Co-Writer: Danica Sweet
- Casting Director: Mami Okada
- Project Coordinator: Jackie Landazuri
- Sound Supervisor: Patrick Rodman
- Re-Recording Mixer: Ben Harrington
- Recording Engineer: Kenneth Thompson
- Dialogue Editors: John Shieh and Kenneth Thompson
- Audio Operations Supervisor: Ismael Yanez
- Assistant Engineer: Mara Westgaard
- Video Coordination: Kevin Ross
- Video Editor: Jerald DeVictoria
- Closed Captions: Kaylyn Saucedo
- Spotting: Conor Anderson
- Translation: Yuki Urakawa
tuki. performs the opening theme song “Zero,” and Ai Higuchi performs the ending theme song “Ima Kono Mune ni Tagiru no wa (What is Surging in My Heart Now).”
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?
