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Zero Friends. One Mission: Save The Earth!
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SNOWBALL EARTH (スノウボールアース Sunōbōru Āsu) is a 2026 animated mecha series animated by Studio KAI. It is an adaptation of the Monthly Big Comic Spirits manga of the same name by Yuhiro Tsujitsugu.
Description
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For shy young Tetsuo, the only friend he’s ever known is the giant robot Yukio. Together, they defended humanity as its “saviors,” standing against galactic monsters that invaded from space. |
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Episodes
Episodes are referred to onscreen as "Steps". Their numbers are formatted, 第1ヶ条 (Dai Ichi-kajō, "Step 1") and so on.
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| No. | Title | Directed by | Storyboards by | Written by | Air date |
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| 1 | "THE SAVIOR WHO COULD NOT BRING SALVATION" | Munehisa Sakai | Munehisa Sakai | Shigeru Murakoshi | April 3, 2026 |
| In 2025 AD, after a sudden invasion of intergalactic kaiju, a painfully shy boy, Tetsuo Yabusame, saves the autonomous bomb Yukio and becomes an unlikely defender of Earth. Ten years later, now hailed as a "savior", Tetsuo heads into space with Yukio for the Final Battle. With 20,000 kaiju closing in, humanity's fate is on the line to bring an end to this relentless conflict! | |||||
| 2 | "ENCOUNTERS" | Takeshi Iwata | Takeshi Iwata | Shigeru Murakoshi | April 10, 2026 |
| The world outside the escape pod is covered in snow and ice, and devoid of life. Tetsuo sets off to find human survivors, his promise to Yukio on his mind. Riding an excavator that he finds in the ruins, he battles an intergalactic kaiju that attacks him, and it is then that he encounters the members of humankind who’ve survived! Can Tetsuo finally make the “friends” that he’s always longed for? | |||||
| 3 | "MY FIRST FRIEND" | Tomonari Tanaka | Ko Matsuo | Shigeru Murakoshi | April 17, 2026 |
| After meeting Ao and the others on the frozen Earth, Tetsuo is gradually accepted into the fold. | |||||
| 4 | "THE KAIJU TAMER AND THE CAN OF PINEAPPLE" | Satoshi Ifuku | Satoshi Ifuku | Kodai Minami | April 24, 2026 |
| Tetsuo and Yukio are crossing the snowy plains to reach the Mishima Mall, where Ao and the others live. | |||||
| 5 | "GOOD JOB!" | Shunsuke Machitani | Shunsuke Machitani | Takeshi Iwata | May 1, 2026 |
| Welcomed into the Takimura family, Tetsuo meets Hagane, a young girl who just lost her mother a month ago. | |||||
| 6 | "BEYOND THE MADNESS" | Takeshi Iwata | Takeshi Iwata | Shigeru Murakoshi | May 8, 2026 |
| Suddenly, Yukio is assaulted from afar by snipers. Showing up soon afterwards is “The Light of E-RDE (Vierde)”, a brigade of boys and girls controlling kaiju. Like Tetsuo, their commander, Sagami, once belonged to E-RDE. He’s a man harboring a twisted sense of justice and raging jealousy. As past grudges and madness mingle inside him, he unleashes a merciless attack on Tetsuo and the others! | |||||
| 7 | "THE COST OF COURAGE" | Tomonari Tanaka | Tomonari Tanaka | Kodai Minami | May 15, 2026 |
| Yukio, half-destroyed, is under fierce attack by Hercules, a powerful kaiju that emerges from the snow. Tetsuo desperately goes on the defensive, but bit by bit, the enemy’s overwhelming power and calculated tactics backs him into a corner. Finding himself in dire straits, what Tetsuo tries next to turn the tide of battle is… communication, for the first time ever! | |||||
| 8 | "MISHIMA MALL ACTIVATES" | Yuichi Wada | Koichi Ohata | Takeshi Iwata | May 22, 2026 |
| As Tetsuo and the others rush back to the Mall, they receive a mysterious transmission. At around the same time, Mishima Mall is ambushed by Vierde! The Boss activates the secret “Anti-Kaiju Defense System” to fend off the kaiju attack, and it’s all hands on deck! Can the Mall residents hold out until the savior arrives? | |||||
| 9 | "THE GREAT KAIJU WAR" | Tomonari Tanaka | Hiroshi Kobayashi | Shigeru Murakoshi | May 29, 2026 |
| Ten years after saving Earth with his robot friend Yukio, Tetsuo returns to a planet of endless ice and snow. | |||||
| 10 | TBA | June 5, 2026 † | |||
| 11 | TBA | June 12, 2026 † | |||
| 12 | TBA | June 19, 2026 † | |||
| 13 | TBA | June 26, 2026 † | |||
Staff
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Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Directed by Munehisa Sakai
- Assistant director Takeshi Iwata
- Episode directors Munehisha Sekai, Takeshi Iwata, Tomonari Tanaka, Satoshi Ifuku, Yuichi Wada
- Storyboards by Munehisa Sakai, Takeshi Iwata, Ko Matsuo, Satoshi Ifuku, Koichi Ohata, Hiroshi Kobayashi
- Chief animation director Toshiya Kono
- Series composition by Shigeru Murakoshi
- Written by Shigeru Murakoshi, Kodai Minami, Takeshi Iwata
- Based on the manga by Yuhiro Tsujitsugu
- Music by Tatsuya Kato, Hiroaki Tsutsumi, Yuki Kanesaka
- Chief animation director and character designer Toshiya Kono
- Art Director Mari Fujino
- Directors of photography Kenta Hayashi, Shota Kodera
- Executive producers Keiji Ota, Kazutaka Yamanaka
- Co-executive producers Yuzo Kuwabara, Shuji Wada, Takayuki Oshima, Masahiko Minami, Eiji Inomoto
- Produced by Hibiki Saito, Yuito Hirahara, Shinya Ishihara
- Publicity producer Masataka Fukamachi
- Chief producer Atsushi Takahashi
- Music producer Kenji Kobayashi
- Opening theme "zero" by tuki.
- Ending theme "What's Burning in My Heart Right Now" by Ai Higuchi
- Sound director Munehisa Sakai
- Sound effects by Eiko Morikawa
- Character Modeling Supervisor Kentaro Kogusuri
- Modeling supervisor Nozomi Ogihara
- Prop design by Kazuma Tanaka
- 3DCG directors Hiroki Motooka, Takuma Uno
- 3DCG animation supervisor Hiroki Motooka
- Art director Mari Fujino
- Color design by Hironori Noji
- CG director Hironori Motooka
- Editing by Tomoki Nagasaka
- Character designer Yuhiro Tsujitsugu
- Sub-character design by Sera Kota
- Monster designer Ryuta Yanagi
- Mechanical designer Sejoon Kim
Cast
Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- Takuto Yoshinaga as Tetsuo Yabusame
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Yukio
- Ami Koshimizu as Ao Nogi
- Konomi Tamura as Hagane Takimura
- Tomokazu Sugita as Isseki Sagami
- Kengo Kawanishi as Nayuta Izumi
- Tomohiro Ōno as Tamiya Sakurai
- Manami Narahira as Yuma Uzuki
- Anna Nagase as Otoichi Kinoe
- Chitose Morinaga as Makoto Saionji
- Tesshō Genda as Riko Akagi
- Maki Kawase as Tae Nakanoshima
- Manami Narahira as Yuma Uzuki
Appearances
Mecha and kaiju
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Weapons, vehicles, races, and organizations
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Development
TBA.
Marketing
TBA.
Gallery
Screenshots
To be added.
Posters
Internet
Videos
Trailers
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Miscellaneous
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Trivia
- The title of episode 9, "THE GREAT KAIJU WAR", is the Japanese title of Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965). Both are Toho productions.
External links
Refferences
This is a list of references for Snowball Earth. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]
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