The Darwin Incident, an upcoming TV anime based on the science fiction manga by Shun Umezawa, has revealed the main staff for the series as well as a new piece of teaser art (below). At the time of this reporting, no further details about the production (such as the cast or the release date) have been revealed.Kaokatsu Tsuda and Katsuichi Nakayama direct The Darwin Incident TV anime at animation studio Bellnox Films, with Tsuda serving as the director and Nakayama as the series director. Shinichi Inotsume provides the series composition and Shunpei Tomooka provides the character designs.
The Darwin Incident teaser art
Since June 2020, Kodansha has serialized the original The Darwin Incident manga in their Monthly Afternoon seinen manga magazine. Kodansha USA also publishes an English language version of the series, and describes the story as follows:
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: The Darwin Incident on X (formerly Twitter)
