The Darwin Incident (2025)
Anime adaptation recently announced! This award-winning series marries a unique scifi set-up with an examination of social issues surrounding veganism, animal exploitation, and ecoterrorism.What is "life"? Time to update the definition!!Half-human, half-chimpanzee Charlie has lost the one thing he holds most dear—Lucy, kidnapped by the ALA!! The terrorists want to use her in their insane plot, but Charlie will do anything to get her back...even charge into the belly of the beast. But inside Omelas's hideout, Charlie faces a showdown with his brother that could change the fate of humanity!!
This award-winning series marries a unique scifi set-up with an examination of social issues surrounding veganism, animal exploitation, and ecoterrorism.Half-human, half-chimpanzee Charlie has finally apprehended the ALA’s mastermind, Rivera Feyerabend. But now Omelas has Lucy, and the ALA’s true intentions are at last becoming clear—! It’s up to Charlie and his friends to save Lucy before the terrorists can carry out their bizarre plan!!
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Shun UmezawaAll Issues
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The Darwin Incident 1
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!
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The Darwin Incident 5
Half-human, half-chimpanzee Charlie’s birth mother Eva is dead—but her startling last message could change everything. Even as Charlie and his friends struggle with the possible existence of another humanzee, a fateful encounter forces them to accept the truth...And now Charlie faces his greatest challenge yet!
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The Darwin Incident 8
This award-winning series marries a unique scifi set-up with an examination of social issues surrounding veganism, animal exploitation, and ecoterrorism.Half-human, half-chimpanzee Charlie has finally apprehended the ALA’s mastermind, Rivera Feyerabend. But now Omelas has Lucy, and the ALA’s true intentions are at last becoming clear—! It’s up to Charlie and his friends to save Lucy before the terrorists can carry out their bizarre plan!!
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The Darwin Incident 9
Anime adaptation recently announced! This award-winning series marries a unique scifi set-up with an examination of social issues surrounding veganism, animal exploitation, and ecoterrorism.What is "life"? Time to update the definition!!Half-human, half-chimpanzee Charlie has lost the one thing he holds most dear—Lucy, kidnapped by the ALA!! The terrorists want to use her in their insane plot, but Charlie will do anything to get her back...even charge into the belly of the beast. But inside Omelas's hideout, Charlie faces a showdown with his brother that could change the fate of humanity!!