Summary
- Award-winning manga The Darwin Incident is receiving a TV anime adaptation
- The series adapts Shun Umezawa’s award-winning manga, exploring identity and ethics
- Scheduled to premiere in January 2026, the adaptation is produced by Aniplex
The first trailer for The Darwin Incident‘s anime adaptation has been released, offering a preview of the highly anticipated series. The trailer introduces the anime’s central themes of social tension and ethical conflict, while also confirming the main voice cast.
Based on Shun Umezawa’s award-winning manga, the series is celebrated for its gripping and complex narrative, which centers on Charlie, a human-chimpanzee hybrid (humanzee) born from an unprecedented scientific experiment. His existence immediately sparks a global conflict over animal rights, terrorism and the ethical future of humanity, setting the stage for a tense psychological and social thriller.
Watch the trailer above. Produced by Aniplex, The Darwin Incident anime is set to premiere in January 2026 in Japan, with a global release yet to be confirmed.
