The Darwin Incident
2025 · TV Series · 24 min · ★ 7.7
A one-of-a-kind human–chimp hybrid with extraordinary abilities tries to live a normal life while facing fear, prejudice, and intense public attention. When a violent animal-rights extremist group targets him, he’s forced to protect the people he cares about and decide what kind of person he wants to be.
Based on The Darwin Incident
Also known as Darwin's Incident
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Streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
5 hours to watch · 13 episodes.
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Details
- Original title
- ダーウィン事変
- Years
- 2025
- Release date
- 2026-01-07
- Network
- TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TVh, TVQ, TSC
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 24 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.7/10 (33 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a tense, thoughtful series that mixes school life with moral questions, dark humor, and escalating danger; Not for you if you want pure escapism or dislike overt social commentary.
Pros: thought-provoking ethical questions; tense weekly suspense; unusual outsider perspective | Cons: slow early episodes; heavy political messaging; occasional distracting CGI
Themes
- identity crisis
- based on manga
- genetic engineering
- ethical dilemma
- animal liberation
- anime
- human animal hybrid
- interspecies friendship
- disgusted
Cast & crew
Atsumi Tanezaki
as Charlie (voice)
Mitsuho Kambe
as Lucy Eldred (voice)
Akio Otsuka
as Rivera Feyerabend (voice)
Toshiyuki Morikawa
as Gilbert Stein (voice)
Rina Sato
as Hannah Stein (voice)
Yoji Ueda
as Philip Graham (voice)
Kaito Ishikawa
as Gale (voice)
Hiroya Egashira
as Lesley K. Lippman (voice)
Episodes1 season · 13 episodes
Season 113 episodes
- S1E1Humanzee24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E2ALA (Animal Liberation Alliance)24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E3Heterosis24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E4One of a Kind24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E5The Struggle for Rights24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E6Direct Action24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E7Red Pill24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E8Visitors24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E9Bluebeard's Castle24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E10Door to Accelerated Advancement24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E11Transfer of Ownership24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E12Sexual Dimorphism24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E13Will24mAmazon Prime Video