Review: Snowball Earth

Title: Snowball Earth

Japanese Title: スノウボールアース

Edition: Kindle, Paperback

Author(s): Tsujitsugu, Yuuhirou

In the year 2025, Earth faces an existential threat: an invasion by colossal alien beasts from beyond the galaxy. Humanity's last hope rests on Yukio, a giant robot piloted by a young boy named Tetsuo Yabusame. Despite his critical role as humanity's "savior," Tetsuo is socially awkward, with Yukio being his only true friend. His personal mission, beyond saving the world, is to learn how to make friends. After a devastating final battle where Yukio is destroyed, Tetsuo narrowly escapes in an escape pod. He awakens eight years later, expecting to return to a grateful Earth. Instead, he finds a world transformed into a "snowball" – entirely covered in ice and snow, a desolate wasteland. what happened to humanity? How did the planet freeze over? And can he survive in this new, harsh environment while also unraveling the mysteries of this "Snowball Earth"?