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Shun Umezawa's Darwin Incident Manga Gets TV Anime Adaptation
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Manga about half human, half chimpanzee boy launched in 2020
TOHO animation
announced on Wednesday that
Shun Umezawa
's
The Darwin Incident
(
Darwin Jihen
manga will get a television anime adaptation. A new official
Twitter
account
opened and unveiled a teaser visual:
Original creator Umezawa shared an illustration to commemorate the announcement:
TOHO animation
had teased on its X (formerly
Twitter
) account on Tuesday that it would announce a new anime on Wednesday at 12:00 midnight JST, with the clue "H■M■NZ■■."
Kodansha USA Publishing
licensed the manga, and will publish the manga's sixth volume in English on July 9. The company describes the story:
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.
Umezawa launched the manga in
Afternoon
magazine in 2020.
Kodansha
published the manga's seventh compiled book volume on Wednesday. The manga went on
hiatus
in January 2023, and
resumed
serialization in May 2023.
The manga
won
the 15th Manga Taisho awards in 2022. It also
won
an Excellence Award in the Manga Division of the Japanese government's Ministry of Cultural Affairs' 25th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2022. The manga also
ranked
at #10 for manga for male readers in the 2022 edition of
Takarajimasha
's
Kono Manga ga Sugoi!
(This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook. The manga was nominated in the
47th
and
48th
Annual
Kodansha
Manga Awards in 2023 and this year, respectively.
Source:
The Darwin Incident
anime's
Twitter
account
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