The Darwin Incident manga gets anime adaptation, teaser visual, and celebratory visual
Michelle Topham 
Shun Umezawa’s The Darwin Incident has an anime adaptation, with an official X account opened, a teaser visual and a celebratory visual from creator Umezawa also released this week.
TOHO Animation released The Darwin Incident key visual along with a comment asking “Why are humans the only ones who are special?”
No other information about the upcoming sci-f anime is known as yet.
The Darwin Incident celebratory visual, which features protagonist Lucy taking a video of herself for social media while Charlie, the half human half ape protagonist watches in the background was also released on the manga’s official X account.
The Darwin Incident manga now has seven volumes out in Japanese, with five translated into English so far via Kodansha USA.
Kodansha explains the plot of the critically acclaimed sci-fi manga in this fashion:
The Animal Liberation Alliance, an eco-terrorist organization, rescues a pregnant chimpanzee from an animal testing lab-only for it to give birth to a half-human, half-chimpanzee “humanzee” named Charlie! Fifteen years later, Charlie’s human foster parents are finally ready to send him to a normal high school, where he makes his first friend: a human girl named Lucy.
In the meantime, however, the ALA’s stance has become ever more extreme, and now they’re here to drag Charlie into their terrorist plot…
Winner of the prestigious Manga Taisho, as well as an Excellence Award at the Japanese Media Arts Festival, The Darwin Incident is as action-packed as it is socially relevant!
Enjoy the new The Darwin Incident visual above, and keep checking back to Baozi Buns as we will update you as soon as more information about the anime comes out.
Update: A full The Darwin Incident trailer is also now out along with a new key visual
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