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“Half-human chimp Charlie enters high school, befriends Lucy, while eco-terrorists plot to recruit him.”
The Darwin Incident
ダーウィン事変
7.32
5,065 rank · 6,127 readers · 36 favorites
Seinen
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Sci-Fi
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Synopsis
Half-human chimp Charlie enters high school, befriends Lucy, while eco-terrorists plot to recruit him.
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)
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
6.5
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6.5
mode 5
σ 1.50
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 5.0
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Score over time
↑ 1.50
Running avg · Sep 2022 → May 2024
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
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- 5 “JUNE 2023 EDIT: The version of Darwin I read was a truly horrendous MTL (as someone in the forums put it, it's borderline unreadable). The following review is reflective of that, and I will update...”
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Short · 50%
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Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Jun 2020 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M55366 catalog