Darwin Jihen

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: Kodansha USA)

Darwin Jihen won the 15th Manga Taisho Award in 2022. The manga also ranked 10th in the 2022 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! in the Male Readers division.

The series has been published in English as The Darwin Incident by Kodansha USA under the Vertical Comics imprint since September 5, 2023.