The Darwin Incident
Japanese manga series
The Darwin Incident (Japanese: ダーウィン事変, Hepburn: Dāwin Jihen) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shun Umezawa. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon since June 2020. An anime television series adaptation produced by Bellnox Films aired from January to April 2026.
By May 2024, the manga had over 1.6 million copies in circulation. In 2022, The Darwin Incident won the 15th Manga Taishō, as well as the Excellence Award at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival. It won the 50th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category in 2026.
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An extremist animal rights organization called the Animal Liberation Alliance (ALA) carries out a raid on a biological research institute and rescues a miscarrying chimpanzee. At an animal hospital, she gives birth to Charlie, a rare human–chimpanzee hybrid known as a "humanzee".
Raised by human adoptive parents, Charlie develops physical abilities far beyond those of either humans or chimpanzees. Charlie enters high school at the age of 15, where he befriends a shy girl named Lucy Eldred.
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