"I've always wondered… What's it like being a humanzee?" Ahead of a January 2026 broadcast, the anime adaptation of Shun Umezawa's award-winning The Darwin Incident manga today released a thrilling new trailer that previews the voices of Atsumi Tanezaki (Anya in SPY x FAMILY ) as Charlie, Mitsuho Kambe (Izutsumi in Delicious in Dungeon ) as Lucy Eldred and Akio Otsuka (All For One in My Hero Academia ) as Rivera Feyerabend. A key visual featuring the tagline "Sweet lies peel away, and the true reality is laid bare" was also unveiled. The Darwin Incident Trailer The Darwin Incident Key Visual RELATED: The Darwin Incident Anime Reveals Teaser Trailer and Visual, January 2026 Release Katsuichi Nakayama ( Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory ) chief-directs and Naokatsu Tsuda ( Tokyo 24th Ward ) directs The Darwin Incident at studio BELLNOX FILMS, with series composition by Shinichi Inozume ( Gleipnir ), character designs by Shinpei Tomooka ( TRINITY SEVEN ) and music by Alisa Okehazama ( JUJUTSU KAISEN ) and Mariko Horikawa. Kodansha USA publishes an official English version of the original manga and describes the story: 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
