Story Summary Cells At Work is an episodic series with little overarching plot. Not including multipart episodes. It follows the two main characters Red Blood Cell AE3803 and White Blood Cell U1146 along with various side characters such as the TCells Macrophage and Platelets showing their involvement in various incidents in the human body ranging from simple scrapes to cancer. Characters The main two characters in this show are Red Blood Cell AE3808 and White Blood Cell U1146 however for the sake of simplicity I will just be referring to them as Red and White Blood Cell respectively. Red Blood Cell is played as a clumsy cell who is bad with directions. She regularly needs help from other cells to find where she is going however despite this fact she is heavily determined and always delivers her Oxygen. The other main character is White Blood Cell who is shown to be cold and ruthless at first but after the first episode or so starts to warm up to Red Blood Cell although he still keeps his ruthlessness for dealing with his enemies the germ cells. Speaking of germ cells they are usually the villains in each episode usually having dangerous looking designs although they are all oneoff characters. There are other Red and White Blood Cells that we see however they never really get fleshed out. There are also different varieties of White Blood Cells that we see throughout the series such as the Killer Naive and Helper T Cells. Their job is to destroy anything that the standard White Blood Cells cannot and they are characterized quite well just like the main characters and along with the Platelets and Macrophages are some of the few recurring characters. Animation and Voice Acting Both animation and voice acting quality are very good with no noticeable drops in quality. Animation is sometimes used for visual gags but the drop in quality for these gags is done well and never takes you out of the moment. Comedy The comedy is done very well in the series. Along with the before mentioned visual gags they also use recurring jokes and while I wont spoil any jokes recurring or not here I will say that they are done in a way that you recognise that its a recurring joke without rolling your eyes due to bad attempts to shove jokes into serious scenes. TLDR In Short Cells At Work is both an educational and entertaining show and well deserving of the 8/10 I have given it. It also has a sequel set for Winter 2021https://anilist.co/anime/117533/HatarakuSaibouBLACK/ as well as an OVA with both available on AnimeLab Crunchyroll Funimation Netflix and VRV.
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