The official anime website and accounts for The Darwin Incident unveiled a brand-new teaser trailer and visual today, along with a January 2026 release date. No cast for the sci-fi thriller series have been confirmed yet, though a foreboding voice repeats the visual’s tagline at the end of the trailer: “Humanzee, you are special.”
The Darwin Incident Teaser Trailer
The Darwin Incident Teaser Visual
Based on the award-winning manga by Shun Umezawa, Katsuichi Nakayama (Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory) chief-directs and Naokatsu Tsuda (Tokyo 24th Ward) directs The Darwin Incident at studio BELLNOX FILMS, with series composition by Shinichi Inozume (Gleipnir), character designs by Shinpei Tomooka (TRINITY SEVEN) and music by Alisa Okehazama (JUJUTSU KAISEN) and Mariko Horikawa.
Kodansha USA publishes an official English version of the manga and describes the story:
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: Comic Natalie
