Manga 'Darwin Jihen' Gets TV Anime

Production company TOHO animation announced a television anime adaptation of Shun Umezawa's Darwin Jihen (The Darwin Incident) manga and revealed a teaser visual (pictured) on Wednesday. Umezawa began serializing the sci-fi manga in Afternoon magazine in June 2020. Kodansha shipped the seventh volume on May 22. Kodansha USA licensed the manga in English in November 2022. The fifth volume went on sale on May 7. In 2022, Darwin Jihen won the Excellence Award at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival and placed first in the Manga Taisho Award rankings. The manga also ranked tenth in 2022's Kono Manga ga Sugoi in the Male Readers' Top 20 and was nominated twice in the General category of the Kodansha Manga Awards in 2023 and 2024. 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… (Darwin Jihen on MAL