The world is left in ruins underneath a blanket of ice and snow in the thrilling TV anime adaptation of Yuhiro Tsujitsugu’s Snowball Earth manga! Final Weapon has everything you need to know about the Snowball Earth anime, including the weekly schedule, release dates and timing for new episodes, and the cast and staff.
In the story of Snowball Earth, Tetsuo Yabusame and his mech, Yukio, are defeated in battle against beasts from beyond the galaxy. Tetsuo survives in his escape pod and enters a cold sleep for eight years. Once back on Earth, Tetsuo emerged to a frozen world and sets out to find answers about this ruined earth.
Snowball Earth Release Dates, Exact Premiere Time and Schedule
New Snowball Earth episodes will release on Fridays at 7:30 a.m. PT / 10:30 a.m. ET on Crunchyroll. Episodes will be released with English subs. Snowball Earth will feature 13 episodes in total.
Here are the release dates and schedule for Snowball Earth (subject to change):
- Episode 1 – April 3 – OUT NOW
- Episode 2 – April 10 – OUT NOW
- Episode 3 – April 17 – OUT NOW
- Episode 4 – April 24 – OUT NOW
- Episode 5 – May 1 – OUT NOW
- Episode 6 – May 8 – OUT NOW
- Episode 7 – May 15 – OUT NOW
- Episode 8 – May 22 – OUT NOW
- Episode 9 – May 29 – OUT NOW
- Episode 10 – June 5 – OUT NOW
- Episode 11 – June 12
- Episode 12 – June 19
- Episode 13 – June 26
New episodes of Snowball Earth will premiere at the following times (subject to change):
- Pacific Daylight Time: 7:30 a.m. PDT
- Mountain Daylight Time: 8:30 a.m. MDT
- Central Daylight Time: 9:30 a.m. CDT
- Eastern Daylight Time: 10:30 a.m. EDT
- Greenwich Mean Time: 2:30 p.m. GMT
OP/ED, Cast and Staff
tuki. will perform 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).”
The main cast 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
Where Can I Watch Snowball Earth?
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.
What is Snowball Earth About?
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?
