{"id":30475,"date":"2026-06-26T12:50:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/snowball-earth-tv-anime-returns-for-2nd-season\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:50:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:50:51","slug":"snowball-earth-tv-anime-returns-for-2nd-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/snowball-earth-tv-anime-returns-for-2nd-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowball Earth TV Anime Returns for 2nd Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A second season has been announced for the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Snowball Earth<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> TV anime series, shortly after the broadcast of its final episode. A premiere date for season two has not been revealed, as of the time of writing, and more updates will be provided in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The anime first <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">premiered in Japan on April 3, 2026<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and ended on June 26, 2026 with a total of 13 episodes.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Munehisa Sakai <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ZOMBIE LAND SAGA<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) directed the first season, with<\/span> Takeshi Iwata<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Idolmaster: Shiny Colors <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Season 2 co-director) as assistant director, <\/span>Shigeru Murakoshi <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apocalypse Hotel<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as series composer, and <\/span>Toshiya Kono<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018Tis Time for \u201cTorture,\u201d Princess <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">co-character designer) as character designer and chief animation director. <\/span>Studio KAI<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is handling the animation production.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Meanwhile, the anime\u2019s voice cast include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Takuto Yoshinaga<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Tetsuo Yabusame<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Daisuke Hirakawa<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Yukio<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Ami Koshimizu<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Ao Nogi<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Konomi Tamura <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Hagane Takimura\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Kengo Kawanishi<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Nayuta Izumi<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Tomohiro Ono<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Tamiya Sakurai<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Manami Narahira<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Yuma Uzuki<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Anna Nagase<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Otoichi Kinoe<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Chitose Morinaga<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Makoto Saionji<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Maki Kawase <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Riko Akagi<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Tomokazu Sugita <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Isseki Sagami\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sci-fi mecha manga series by <\/span>Yuhiro Tsujitsugu<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> began serialization in Shogakukan\u2019s seinen magazine Monthly Big Comic Spirits on January 27, 2021 and has released 11 tankobon volumes as of April 2026. The manga was the recipient of the Spirits Award in 2019. VIZ Media <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">releases the series in English<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">\u00a9\u8fbb\u6b21\u5915\u65e5\u90ce\uff0f\u5c0f\u5b66\u9928\uff0f\u300c\u30b9\u30ce\u30a6\u30dc\u30fc\u30eb\u30a2\u30fc\u30b9\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Snowball Earth<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is streaming on Crunchyroll in select countries and regions worldwide. It describes the main synopsis as:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tetsuo is a shy boy whose only companion is Yukio, a giant robot who once fought beside him to save Earth from invading monsters. Ten years after the final battle, Tetsuo returns home to a planet transformed\u2014buried beneath endless snow and ice. In this frozen world, he sets out alone, holding tight to the promise he made to Yukio and searching for what remains of the world they once protected.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Sources<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/snowballearth_o\/status\/2070522772565246270\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Snowball Earth Official X\/Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/news\/latest\/2026\/6\/26\/snowball-earth-season-2-anime-announced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crunchyroll News<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second season has been announced for the Snowball Earth TV anime series, shortly after the broadcast of its final episode. A premiere date for season two has not been revealed, as of the time of writing, and more updates will be provided in the future.\u00a0 The anime first premiered in Japan on April 3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11622],"tags":[8125,195,3971,537,1074,20745],"class_list":["post-30475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animeplug","tag-2nd","tag-anime","tag-earth","tag-returns","tag-season","tag-snowball"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",0,0,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",0,0,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",0,0,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",300,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",1024,1024,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",1536,1536,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",2048,2048,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",370,265,false],"kava-thumb-s":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",150,85,false],"kava-thumb-s-2":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",230,230,false],"kava-thumb-m":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",400,400,false],"kava-thumb-m-vertical":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",370,500,false],"kava-thumb-m-2":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",570,450,false],"kava-thumb-l":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",1170,650,false],"kava-thumb-xl":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",1920,1080,false],"kava-thumb-masonry":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",600,999,false],"kava-thumb-justify":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",640,640,false],"kava-thumb-justify-2":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snowball-earth-season-2-video-feature-image-e1782490756239.png?fit=1852%2C1043&ssl=1",1280,640,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"#RiseCelestialStudios","author_link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/author\/ralph-c\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/category\/animeplug\/\" rel=\"category tag\">ANIME PLUG<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"A second season has been announced for the Snowball Earth TV anime series, shortly after the broadcast of its final episode. 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