The frozen wasteland comes alive as Thursday unveiled a digital gateway for Yuhiro Tsujitsugu’s Snowball Earth manga, now thawing into a TV anime slated to crystallize on NTV in 2026. The site erupted with a super teaser visual, announcement video, and the creative architects behind this icy odyssey.
©辻次夕広／小学館／「スノウボールアース」製作委員会
The frostbite continues with Tsujitsugu’s commemorative illustration:
©辻次夕広／小学館／「スノウボールアース」製作委員会
Tsujitsugu’s X/Twitter account erupted with another frozen tribute:
「スノウボールアース」TOHO animationで
2026年日本テレビ系にてTVアニメになります
読者の皆様の応援のお陰です!有難うございます!スタジオKAIさん制作で、境宗久監督です!
自分が夢中になる漫画を目指して描いていたら
自分が夢中になったアニメを作られた方々に手をかけていただけます!最高です! pic.twitter.com/jHWDQqP0ZQ— 辻次夕広／9巻 7月30日発売！ (@yuhirotsuji) July 17, 2025
Munehisa Sakai (Zombie Land Saga, Dance Dance Danseur) helms this glacial journey at Studio KAI, with Takeshi Iwata (The IDOLM@STER Shiny Colors) as first officer. Shigeru Murakoshi (Apocalypse Hotel) scripts the frozen saga, while Toshiya Kōno (‘Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess) crafts the frostbitten character designs. TOHO animation fuels the engines.
©Yuhiro Tsujitsugu, Shogakukan
Viz Media’s English release describes the frostbitten epic:
2025: Cosmic leviathans breach Earth’s skies. Humanity’s last gambit—the Yukio mecha piloted by Tetsuo Yabusame—shatters in the final confrontation. Eight frozen years later, Tetsuo’s escape pod thaws onto a planetary graveyard, where glaciers gnaw at civilization’s bones. What cosmic winter consumed mankind? Can Tetsuo honor Yukio’s final oath in this ice-locked purgatory?
Tsujitsugu began sculpting this frozen epic in Shogakukan’s Monthly Spirits in 2021. Volume 9 chills Japanese shelves July 30, while Viz’s English volume 6 freezes readers on August 19.
Sources: Snowball Earth anime’s website, Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Web
News source: Animenewsnetwork.com
