TV Series · 2018
Cells at Work!
24 min · Comedy, Action & Adventure, Animation · Ended
Composite
8.6
IMDb
7.5 / 10
3,771 votes
TMDB
8.1 / 10
318 votes
Local
— / 10
No votes
Synopsis
This is a story about you. A tale about the inside of your body... According to a new study, the human body consists of approximately 37 trillion cells. These cells are hard at work every day within a world that is your body. From the oxygen-carrying red blood cells to the bacteria-fighting white blood cells, get to know the unsung heroes and the drama that unfolds inside of you! It's the oddly relatable and interesting story that is the life of cells!
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Cast
Crew
Art
- Tomoyasu Hosoi Art Direction
- Mutsuki Aoki Assistant Director of Photography
- Kenta Mimuro Prop Designer
- Yoshihiro Sono Art Designer
Camera
- Yuki Oshima Director of Photography
Crew
- Tomoyuki Harada Medical Consultant
Directing
- Hirofumi Ogura Series Director
Editing
- Ryuichi Inoue Online Editor
- Kiyoshi Hirose Editor
Production
- Yoshio Kaneko Executive Producer
- Takako Shiratori Production Manager
- Yohei Ito Producer
- Hisataka Kasama Producer
- Yuma Takahashi Producer
- Masanori Miyake Executive Producer
- Shuichiro Tanaka Executive Producer
Sound
- Nobuhiro Negishi Sound Mixer
- Yui Ando Foley
- Yusuke Kobayashi Theme Song Performance
- Yu-ri Yoshida Theme Song Performance
- Rei Ueno Sound Effects
- Kana Hanazawa Theme Song Performance
- Tomoaki Maeno Theme Song Performance
- Daisuke Ono Theme Song Performance
- Kikuko Inoue Theme Song Performance
- Masaharu Yamanouchi Music Producer
- MAYUKO Original Music Composer
- Kenichiro Suehiro Original Music Composer
Visual Effects
- Norihito Ishii CGI Director
- Takahiko Yoshida Supervising Animation Director
- Keiko Tamaki Supervising Animation Director
- Takahiko Yoshida Character Designer
- Aiko Mizuno Color Designer
- Kenta Mimuro Creature Design
Writing
- Yuko Kakihara Series Composition
- Akane Shimizu Comic Book
Seasons & episodes
Cells at Work! (13 ep)
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1. Pneumococcus
Jul 8, 2018 · 24 min
This is a story that happens inside a human body. One day, as a Red Blood Cell is delivering oxygen and carbon dioxide, she is assaulted by Pneumococci and rescued by a White Blood Cell. To protect the body that’s their world, the White Blood Cell (Neutrophil) chases after the one Pneumococcus who’s escaped. But the enemy has hidden himself in the most unlikely place...
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2. Scrape Wound
Jul 15, 2018 · 24 min
Things have been peaceful for Red Blood Cell when suddenly an abrasion occurs before her eyes. The White Blood Cells (Neutrophils) arrive to battle the bacteria and viruses invading through the wound, but they struggle against enemies like Staphylococcus aureus. Will the White Blood Cells (Neutrophils) find a way to defend this body?
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3. Influenza
Jul 22, 2018 · 24 min
Naive T Cell is patrolling the body for influenza virus proliferation. But since he’s never taken on the enemy before, he’s completely terrified and useless. He finally ends up fleeing the battlefield where White Blood Cell (Neutrophil) and the veteran Killer T Cells are fighting. Naive T Cell is filled with self-loathing until Dendritic Cell sees him and speaks to him kindly.
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4. Food Poisoning
Jul 29, 2018 · 24 min
Bacteria appear near the stomach. White Blood Cell (Neutrophil) is on the scene at once. There, he finds Eosinophil, another type of White Blood Cell, already in battle, but she’s struggling badly. Seeing how powerless she is, the other cells start trashing Eosinophil behind her back. Even after White Blood Cell (Neutrophil) tells them, “There’s a job that only Eosinophil can do...”
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5. Cedar Pollen Allergy
Aug 5, 2018 · 24 min
The body has been invaded by a mass of cedar pollen! Rushing to the scene so that he can eliminate the cedar pollen, White Blood Cell (Neutrophil) runs into Memory Cell. Memory Cell is a Lymphocyte who retains the immune system’s memories. Seeing what’s actually going on, Memory Cell is strangely flustered. “What the heck? This is just like the legend...” What “legend” is Memory Cell talking about?
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6. Erythroblasts and Myelocytes
Aug 12, 2018 · 24 min
Let me become a great red blood cell one day... This is the story of Red Blood Cell before she became Red Blood Cell, when she was a young Erythroblast. The Erythroblasts are training hard to become full-fledged Red Blood Cells under the supervision of their teacher, Macrophage. But Erythroblast is directionally-challenged, and she’s always getting lost in the middle of drills. One day, while practicing to evacuate from bacteria, Erythroblast once again loses her way...
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7. Cancer Cells
Aug 19, 2018 · 24 min
The enemy disguising himself as a common cell has revealed his true identity. He is Cancer Cell. To protect this world, White Blood Cell (Neutrophil), Killer T Cell, and NK Cell must now confront the attacking Cancer Cell in battle.
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8. Blood Circulation
Aug 26, 2018 · 24 min
Delivering carbon dioxide to the lungs, and bringing oxygen to cells throughout the body... That’s Red Blood Cell’s important task. Though she’s still directionally-challenged and always losing her way, she can’t be a fledgling forever. She’s determined to go through Circulation by herself without any help from the older cells, but in the shadows, White Blood Cell (Neutrophil) watches over her with a worried look on his face.
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9. Thymocytes
Sep 2, 2018 · 24 min
In the middle of a drill, Killer T Cell tosses a subordinate right into Helper T Cell’s office. The two polar opposites start arguing. According to Dendritic Cell, although they play very different roles today, they were actually classmates at Thymus School. Not only that, but they were totally different back then! What was it that developed between these two during their days of enduring hellish training sessions at Thymus School where only two to three percent of cells manage to survive?
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10. Staphylococcus Aureus
Sep 9, 2018 · 24 min
Red Blood Cell is being chased by a germ! The one to come to the rescue is a masked Monocyte. Apparently, they are also part of the White Blood Cell family and a type of Immune Cell. There’s no way Red Blood Cell could be attacked by bacteria twice in one day, but she encounters another one on her way to the nasal cavity. The germ turns out to be Staphylococcus Aureus. They usually just exist on the skin and pores. But this time, they have a secret plan. What could it be?
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11. Heat Stroke
Sep 16, 2018 · 24 min
The world (body) is engulfed in sweltering heat. Even after triggering sweat, the body can't be cooled down. Abnormal increased vascular flow, soaring fever... That's right, the body is suffering from heat stroke! Taking advantage of the situation, the Bacillus cereus is rampaging to his heart's content. Reeling from the effects of heat stroke, the usually reliable White Blood Cell (Neutrophil) is suddenly unable to perform... Isn't there any way to save the world from further global warming?
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12. Hemorrhagic Shock (1)
Sep 23, 2018 · 24 min
Red Blood Cell has been assigned to train a rookie Red Blood Cell! She resolves to “show her what a dependable senpai I am!” But she keeps losing her way, and getting yelled at by other cells, so it’s not going very smoothly. Just then, a major incident rocks the world inside the body.
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13. Hemorrhagic Shock (2)
Sep 30, 2018 · 23 min
"We have detected life-threatening damage!" Hearing of this emergency, White Blood Cell (Neutrophil) rushes to the blast area. But there, he finds no traces of the blood cells he's supposed to protect! Due to massive bleeding, a huge amount of blood cells have already been flung outside the wound. And the bleeding continues... The situation grows more dire every second, but to protect this world and to save her friends, Red Blood Cell continues to deliver oxygen with Li'l Kouhai Red Blood Cell. Their world is on the brink of destruction... What kind of fate lies ahead for the cells?
Cells at Work!! (1 ep)
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8. Cancer Cell II (2)
Feb 28, 2021 · 23 min
"Stop it, Cancer Cell!" White Blood Cell (Neutrophil) and his comrades confront Cancer Cell, but Regulatory T Cell obstructs their fight against the enemy! Meanwhile, Ordinary Cell, who had risked his life to save lactic acid bacteria, finds himself in the clutches of harmful bacteria! What fate awaits this world and the cells that live in it?
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