Snowball Earth, Vol. 2

スノウボールアース [Snowball Earth] #2

by Yuhiro Tsujitsugu

In the year 2025, huge beasts from beyond the galaxy attacked Earth. In the war that followed, humanity fought back with a giant robot named Yukio, piloted by Tetsuo Yabusame. As the massive alien swarm closed in on humanity’s homeworld, Tetsuo and the Earth Defense Force deployed for the final battle with the invading horde. They lost...

Ten years later, Tetsuo has returned to Earth in an escape pod, but finds the planet totally frozen over! To his horror, he discovers that the alien kaiju are also on Earth. After meeting a hardy band of human survivors, Tetsuo learns that Yukio has survived as well, his consciousness downloaded into the escape pod—which is also a battle robot! But the people Tetsuo has found are not the only survivors, and a mysterious humanoid kaiju also lurks among the ruins…

Genres: Manga, Science Fiction, Comics

208 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2021

Reviews

[The Book Dragon · Rating 3 out of 5]

So... Tetsuo and Yukio join Ao and her people at Mishima Mall, an outpost of about 200 survivors. And in the span of about a week, we (and Tetsuo) learn about how the world got frozen and humanity was forced to near extinction. We also find out that those who eat kaiju meat can potentially for telepathic bonds with kaiju and get matching superpowers (Ao is one, she has heat powers).

And there's also a team of humans converging on Mishima to take Ao's kaiju... who might be a group of kids who were chosen as Tetsuo's successors (but never got to fight because the world ended).

This one... felt really choppy to me, like it couldn't wait to move the story to more action so it rushed character introductions and the world building of Mishima Mall and even the introduction of the villains... Slow down and introduce your readers to your series.

[Raven Morrigan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume is fun but sometimes it's hard to follow the action sequences and the plot gets convoluted.

[Ya Boi Be Reading · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume tries to flesh out the scope and deal of the story and bit more but it goes in a direction not expected from volume one as kaijus go from mindless beasts to taxable and capable of superpowers through a connection with a human? It's a lot more base-build-y than I was expecting too with a lot more of a focus on the Mishima Mall and the E-RDE than I was expecting. The story here isn't terrible though it's not exactly engaging either. It feels like it's sort of just leading up to its more interesting bits with a fairly bog-standard (but well enough told) ride along the way aside from notable fun character moments.
The idea of the kaiju eradication force becoming this evil organization that tears down those who don't agree with them is interesting. But we don't get much of a reason why which I feel like would make them feel more realistically as they feel a bit cartoonishly evil rn especially from the overly goofy boss in charge of them.
Some people mention the action is hard to follow and I sort of agree. The readability changes fight to fight as well as what they intend to do though I agree a lot of the fights are hard to read and often only understandable through dialogue and general context clues.
Also, this volume also suffers a panel of unnecessary extreme fanservice. God why do so many seinen feel the need to do such disgusting things? I mean, this is clearly seinen (of the slightly more serious shonen variety) without having to debase to that.

[Ester · Rating 4 out of 5]

En este segundo volumen, continuamos descubriendo el intrigante mundo de este manga, un planeta diezmado donde la supervivencia pende siempre de un hilo. Snowball Earth sigue adelante manteniendo la acción y aumentado la intriga, sin dejar que el pobre Tetsuo tenga un momento de respiro.

Y con los monstruos siempre omnipresentes y cada vez más misteriosos.

Reseña completa: https://mangaes.com/ultimas-lecturas-...

[Aubrey Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved getting to know some of the side characters and get more familiar with this post apocalyptic universe. Looking forward to more!

[Edward Giordano · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as much fun as the first one, uncertain if I will continue with the series, also the action scenes were both convoluted and too fast

[Othy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun shounen manga.

[Dan P · Rating 2 out of 5]

Alright, that's enough of this series 😂

[Siân · Rating 3 out of 5]

not sure we needed an accidentally-walking-in-on-someone-topless scene but ok…

[Vanessa · Rating 4 out of 5]

The premise really blooms in this volume. I'm very intrigued!

However. I'm reminded why I don't often read Shônen... WHY did we need a topless girl? There was no point to that. She could have been in a towel. Or even fully clothed. It's just pointless cheesecake. And the worst part? I know I have teens I now can't give this book to! Teens who hae been begging for more adventures and monsters and mechs. *sigh*

[Kiri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read a digital copy of this book in exchange for a review. All opinions are my own.

In this second volume Tetsuo meets more people and settles into life at the human settlement. Just as he's starting to fit in he has to face off with people he thought were part of humanity's heroes.
I don't typically read this type of genre in manga, but he plot is intriguing and I'm enjoying learning about the aliens that have attacked Earth. I may enjoy this series more as it continues, but I'd like to see where the story is going first.