The upcoming The Darwin Incident anime revealed the main cast along with a new visual and trailer on Friday. The series, slated to premiere in January 2026, stars Atsumi Tanezaki as Charlie, Mitsuho Kambe as Lucy Eldred, and Akio Otsuka as Rivera Feyerabend.
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Studio BELLNOX FILMS is animating, with Naokatsu Tsuda as the director. Katsuichi Nakayama is credited as the series director, Shinichi Inozume handles the series composition, and Shinpei Tomooka is the character designer.
The anime is adapting a manga series written and illustrated by Shun Umezawa. It has been serialized in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon seinen magazine since June 2020 and it 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. The plot is as follows:
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: The Darwin Incident Official Website
© Shun Umezawa, Kodansha / “The Darwin Incident” Production Committee
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