The Darwin Incident (Darwin Jihen) anime revealed two new character visuals on December 14, celebrated as Monkey Day. The anime was announced in May of this year. Studio BELLNOX FILMS will be in charge of the animation, with Naokatsu Tsuda (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind) as the director.
The rest of the staff includes Katsuichi Nakayama as the series director, Shinichi Inozume handling the series somposition, and Shinpei Tomooka as the character designer. The new character visuals feature Charlie and Lucy, and you can see them below.
The first visual for the anime also featured the two characters, and you can see it below.
The Darwin Incident is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shun Umezawa. It has been serialized in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon seinen magazine since June 2020. Volume 8 was released on November 20, 2024. The series won the 15th Manga Taisho in 2022, as well as the Excellence Award at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival.
Kodansha USA is publishing it in English, and they describe the story:
Created in a biological science lab, Charlie is a half human, half chimpanzee hybrid known as a “Humanzee.” Raised by his adoptive human parents, Charlie is now 15 and starting high school. There he meets Lucy, a clever loner who becomes his first-ever friend. But his “normal” life is shattered when the animal rights extremists who freed his mother from the lab fifteen years ago reemerge as terrorists bent on kidnapping Charlie at all costs.
Source: Official X (formerly Twitter)
© Shun Umezawa, Kodansha / “The Darwin Incident” Production Committee
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