It has been announced that Official HIGE DANdism will perform the opening theme song for the TV anime THE DARWIN INCIDENT, based on Shun Umezawa‘s original work. The main trailer, featuring a snippet of “Make Me Wonder,” is set to be released on December 12.
The anime is set to premiere in January 2026.
Official announcement:
Key Visual:
CAST:
Atsumi Tanezaki as Charlie
Mitsuho Kambe as Lucy Eldred
Akio Otsuka as Rivera Feyerabend
STAFF:
Director: Naokatsu Tsuda
Series Director: Katsuichi Nakayama
Series Composition: Shinichi Inozume
Character Design: Shinpei Tomooka
Animation Production: BELLNOX FILMS
THE DARWIN INCIDENT, winner of the prestigious Manga Taisho and an Excellence Award at the Japanese Media Arts Festival, combines thrilling action with profound social commentary.
KODANSHA USA handles the English version of the manga, and describes the first volume as follows:
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…
Source: Comic Natalie
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