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TOHO animation announced on Wednesday that Shun Umezawa's manga, The Darwin Incident (Darwin Jihen), will be adapted into a TV anime. Alongside the announcement, a new official Twitter account for the anime was launched, unveiling a teaser visual:

Thunbnail via The Darwin Incident anime's Twitter account © Shun Umezawa, Kodansha / The Darwin Incident Production Committee

To mark the occasion, Umezawa shared a special illustration:

The previous day, TOHO animation hinted at the announcement on its X (formerly Twitter) account with the cryptic message "H■M■NZ■■."

Kodansha USA Publishing, which has licensed the manga, will release the sixth volume in English on July 9. The story is described as follows:

Created in a biological science lab, Charlie is a half human, half chimpanzee hybrid known as "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. However, his "normal" life is disrupted when the animal rights extremists who freed his mother from the lab fifteen years ago resurface as terrorists determined to kidnap Charlie at any cost.

Umezawa began the series in Afternoon magazine in 2020. Kodansha published the seventh compiled volume of the manga on Wednesday. The series went on hiatus in January 2023, resuming serialization in May 2023.

The Darwin Incident has received numerous accolades, including the 15th Manga Taisho award in 20

22 and an Excellence Award in the Manga Division of the Japanese government's Ministry of Cultural Affairs' 25th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2022. It was also ranked #10 for manga for male readers in the 2022 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook and was nominated for the 47th and 48th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards in 2023 and 2024, respectively.

Source: The Darwin Incident anime's Twitter account