Joseph Luster
March 12, 2025 
The Darwin Incident anime adaptation was announced in May 2024, revealing plans to bring Shun Umezawa’s award-winning manga to the screen. At the time we didn’t know when to expect it, but now it’s been penciled in for a January 2026 debut.
With that news comes a fresh look at the adaptation, which has Naokatsu Tsuda (Tokyo 24th Ward) directing, Shinichi Inozume (Gleipnir) on series composition and Shinpei Tomooka (TRINITY SEVEN) handling character designs for the BELLNOX FILMS production. Check out the new teaser art and trailer below.
The Darwin Incident Teaser Trailer
The series first kicked off in Monthly Afternoon magazine in June 2020, and has since been collected in seven volumes. Awards include the 15th Manga Taisho award, a Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award, France’s Asia de la Critique award and more.
The Darwin Incident is available in English through Kodansha USA, which describes the story like so:
The Animal Liberation Alliance, an eco-terrorist organization, rescues a pregnant chimpanzee from an animal testing lab-only for it to give birth to a half-human, half-chimpanzee “humanzee” named Charlie! Fifteen years later, Charlie’s human foster parents are finally ready to send him to a normal high school, where he makes his first friend: a human girl named Lucy. In the meantime, however, the ALA’s stance has become ever more extreme, and now they’re here to drag Charlie into their terrorist plot…
Source: Crunchyroll News
