The Darwin Incident Anime Reveals New Trailer and Main Cast Members
The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Shun Umezawa’s The Darwin Incident manga series revealed the anime’s main cast members in a new promo video, along with a new key visual. The Darwin Incident will premiere in January 2026, and the anime will air on TV Tokyo and affiliate channels.
The anime will star:
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Charlie
- Mitsuho Kambe as Lucy Eldred
- Akio Ōtsuka as Rivera Feyerabend
Naokatsu Tsuda directs the anime at BELLNOX FILMS, and Katsuichi Nakayama is the series director. Shinichi Inotsume handles the series scripts, Shinpei Tomooka designs the characters, and Yoshikazu Iwanami is the sound director. Arisa Okehazama and Mariko Horikawa are the anime’s music composers.
Umezawa launched the manga in Afternoon magazine in 2020, and Kodansha publishes the manga in Japan and abroad. Thus far, nine compiled book volumes and eight English volumes have been released to date.
Lastly, Kodansha USA Publishing licenses the manga and describes the story 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.
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.
