The March issue of Kodansha 's Afternoon announced that the manga The Darwin Incident (Darwin Jihen) will go on hiatus due to the author's recovery from an illness.
The magazine did not reveal when the manga will resume.
Synopsis
Raised in a biological sciences laboratory, Charlie is a half-human, half-chimpanzee hybrid known as a "Humanzee." Charlie is now 15 and starting high school. There, he meets Lucy, an intelligent loner who becomes his first friend. But his "normal" life is shattered when the animal rights extremists who freed his mother from the laboratory fifteen years ago resurface as terrorists bent on kidnapping Charlie at any cost.
Shun Umezawa launched the manga in Afternoon magazine in 2020. Kodansha then published the fourth volume of the manga in April 2022 and will publish the fifth volume on March 23.
The Darwin Incident won the 15th Manga Taisho Award in 2022. In addition, it also won an Excellence Award in the Manga Division of the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of the Japanese government in 2022.
In addition, the work also ranked 10th for manga aimed at male audiences in the 2022 edition of Kono Manga ga Sugoi.
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Source: ANN
