Audience reviews
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poisonousfay
This is my first review here on MAL and this anime deserves it (:
"Stuff like this is always happening around me!" -Red Blood Cell.
This is an awesome anime that teaches you about what goes inside your body at all times, it will leave you wondering how strong your body really is and how many different kinds of mechanisms it has to keep YOU safe.
It might seem like a boring idea at first but fight scenes are incredibly well done and they leave you wondering how it will turn out, because sometimes it looks like the bad guys are stronger than the good ones.
It's not only enjoyable but it will also help you learn a lot of interest things about how the human body works, I'm a health science student at university and i even learnt things from it; seriously it's very much worth watching.
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Read at the sourceBlacRocWednesday
Mmmk, hol up. Hol TF up.
Ya'll ever sit back and look at your body? And I mean LOOK at your body. Ever be feelin yourself and you just start vibin? Thinkin about all that delicious thicc weebness you're radiating? Well, if you wanna know why you're so irresistible, check out this Anime for a FULL break down.
Ow, guess what? I cut my hand. But hol up. It'll be alright because my WHOLESOME ASS PLATELETS ARE ON THE JOB. Take a detour because you ain't interrupting this CONSTRUCTION CUTENESS. This is what the anime is all about. Making you FEEL yourself while watching yourself, feel me?
Art? BANGING and a UNIQUE look into what's going on under that sexy skin of ours. 10/10.
Story? Story of US, how can it NOT be 10/10. You ever see a white blood cell mercilessly KILL some germs? Do you want…
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If you're going into this expecting it to be highly educational for older viewers, I personally believe you've missed the point.
The show, while a little informative at times, focuses on entertainment, using the idea of cells to make an interesting narrative, and throwing in some basic biology afterward.
This isn't a study guide, and I wouldn't expect it to be 100% accurate or informative.
The story itself is sweet, and you'll most likely find yourself invested in the work of the red and white blood cells, as well as the multitude of other groups you'll be introduced to. The main characters are well-written and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with them. While romantic attraction is hinted at throughout the series, don't expect much from this, as it quickly becomes clearly that this isn't…
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Disappointing. I was surprised by how educational this show was (not in a bad way), but I was also suprised by how generic many of its plotlines were. For a concept with as much potential as personifying the aspects of the human body, they took the route of presenting it in recognizable anime tropes. This was clearly done to better educate its audience on the functions of the human body (made evident by how it feels targeted to a younger demographic). However, this made it feel like a lesson instead of entertainment and I don’t think I learned that much from it in that regard. The animation looked good in static key frames, but also looked cheap during the fight scenes. I didn’t feel much for the characters, but they at least gave a little development to some characters. The music was what…
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Starting the first episode; I really thought i was gonna be bored out of my mind and get my brain over-heated from knowledge. I wasn't completely off with the second part there... hehe...
Yes it is kinda hard to REMEMBER the names of most characters exept the Red and White blood cells. BUT if you give all of them a nickname it's just twice the fun! The characters are loveable and now and then give you moments squeeling; "Gahhhh I LOVE HER/HIM SO MUCHHH!!!"
The voice acting was pretty damn great and the cast was generally well known and all are really talented! I'm pretty sure the seiyuus sing the op and well. IT'S REALLY FRIGGEN FUN!!! I generally pass the OP songs (sorry if that offends some of y'all) but with this show i did NOT skip at least 10/14 of the time. The ending was also Bea…
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I don't think I've ever seen a more average anime than Cells at Work. The art is average, the sound is average, the writing is average (from a literary perspective), the characters are average, the themes are average, just everything.
Obviously, I wasn't expecting Legend of the Galactic Heroes when I started watching Cells at Work though, so I can't complain about its average-ness. I didn't watch it for the plot. The highlight of Cells at Work is its educational content. Cells at work entertainingly teaches you microbiology. It should win a Nobel Prize for doing that.
Cells at work teaches the viewer the essential functions of the body and the immune system. I don't think I can say this about another anime, but if everyone in the world watched Cells at Work, the world would be a better…
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As a medical student and as an anime fan, I can say that this is the most unusual anime I've ever watched. I am not good at making reviews, but I will try to write as good as possible :D
Story 10
Cells at Work! or Hataraku Saibou does not have a chronological order. How the body reacts to diseases and wounds is explained in this story; decorated with the reactions of certain characters.
Art 9
If I talk about the drawings, it was not surprising to see a nice drawing, since David Production made the drawing. It was a nice nuance to find JoJo style drawings in Killer T cells and some other characters.
Characters 9
The thing I was most interested in and most liked about the characters was that they had character drawings very close to real cells. For example, eosinophils contain pink granul…
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In this anime are we following an idiot og a red bloodcell who can't flow through the bodies blood streams without help frol white bloodcell Josuke Higashikata from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I liked everything about the show from learning about how the body operates to the banter between the characters. However, I hated every second when the idiot red bloodcell came on screen. It really sucked thefun out of the show for me. You shoud watch it. Just be prepared for the annoying main character.
Macrophage is best girl don't @ me.
The show would have been average if not for the learning experianse. You could say that it is a slice of life inside the body. There is no plot other than the problem the characters face that episode. I didn't like that they reused alot of assets. I understand th…
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Hataraku Saibo is a great anime to spend a bit of your time watching early in the morning before work/school to get your brain cells working. It's an educational and purposeful anime series with a multitude of problems each in their own episodes!
Each character holds a specific role that portrays a certain cell inside your body and the useful information when a new character is introduced is what you'll be needing to look for! Some episodes even give you symptoms of different sickness/illnesses that can harm you which is also a good bonus if you're very keen on being healthy.
Do I recommend? Yes!
Get to watching as soon as possible, the facts and fun characterisation of cells in our bodies are what makes this anime so hard to miss out on!
Read at the sourceItIsIDio
Hataraku Saibou is an abstract interpretation of how the human body operates as a system, portraying the human body as a society of people (or rather cells) in which all these people have certain tasks to do. This system is constantly under attack, with the main drive of the series being to showcase how this society endures all of the threats placed upon it. There's not exactly a market for this type of show since biology, an exact science, represented as an abstract concept, by being rebuilt into a system that retains the basic notions within the exat science and changed into something else, is not exactly something that rolls off the tongue, just like this description of the show.
However, I find that this show can be a good experience for anyone that enjoys observing how systems work,…
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This show first attracted me because I thought it looked novel, and it was. For the first four episodes. After that I was really bored with this show. I couldn't sit through the show as the story repeated over and over with no effective change. The stories follow a certain format. Red Blood Cell finds either a germ, white blood cell, or a friend red blood cell and then they act afraid as the immune system fight the germs or that episode. The show failed to make me care about any of the characters. The art doesn't look back but it can be really lazy at times such as in the ED and is some walking animations.
Read at the sourceGundroog
Hataraku Saibou might be one of if not the best educational anime out there. While feeding you information on a pretty wide variety of biology and anatomy related topic it managed to mix it with a healthy dose of comedy, action and drama without feeling any of those feeling tacked on.
The show revolves around a human body being represented as one huge city, inside which the human looking cells diligently go about doing their jobs the keep everything in good condition. Just from this it should be clear that there’s plenty of artistic license taken when it comes to depicting a human body and everything within in but the show remains surprisingly faithful the topic and doesn’t mislead the viewer or try to distort facts enough to make a narrative out of it.
If have a google search license yo…
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Cells of work is a fun anime that is very charming contains a lot of love for biology and the human body, it's very well researched. However its not more than a bit of fun, at least in terms of its story and characters.
Cells at work takes places in the human body and every episode there is a new threat, a new evil germ or condition which threatens it, its resolved and we move on to the next one, that is it. Its fun seeing all the bloody fights and the characters themselves are charming and so is this show in general, but there isn't anything to this narrative. Villains are fun but incredibly one note and super evil, characters don't really get much development, and the story is monster of the week.
I guess the simplicity and repetitive nature comes from the concept, its more about showi…
Read at the sourceKakita_Ookami
While there is no denying that Hataraku Saibou is unique and innovative, people seem to believe this, by itself, makes it a great anime. It does not.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed this anime, and thought it would be a great idea to teach kids about biology, but the anime itself is lackluster.
Story: 4/10
A slice of life anime that follows the daily activities of a red and white blood cell. We get to see in detail how the body reacts to different problems and learn more about how the body works. HS gets points for accurate biology and for a novel idea, but unlike your typical SOL anime, It's impossible to relate to the characters, because A) They're blood cells. And B) They're tropes, exaggerated with the intent to amuse kids. Also, since episodes are designed to be stand alone, it defeat…
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Advised, possible spoilers.
Opinion & Informal
Art: 5/10 I wasn't too impressed by the art. It was fine at times and it was sort of just bad at other times. For example, one of the few instances where I thought the art wasn't up to par was episode 10 with the (I forgot the exact name) with the hazmat suit character (later finding out it's just macrophage). If you want to take a look, during the foot bath/drinking chug by hazmat suit cell, just look at how that was drawn. Almost zero dimensionality and shading. You can even see they dropped frames during the chug animation. The proportions and anatomy of the characters was fine for the most part but there were some questionable instances of quality control such as the episode with the activated killer T…
Read at the sourceCordobezEverdeen
Hataraku Saibou or Cells at Work has been highly praised despite his lack of story and the lack of characters just because it's unique and innovative.
If Hataraku Saibou can do something is to show that originality is not a guarantee of a good anime.
The show lacks something that i still cannot precisely explain. After the initial shock you quickly realize that despite its originality this anime is incredibly generic (does that make sense? i dunno but thats how i felt while watching this).
Story: There is no story, this is kind of a simpsons slice of life where at the end of the day everything is fine and dandy. Episode 12 and 13 were the most entertaining of all of them because the story felt real even if just a little. Sadly i personally felt that the ep 13 was the worst animated of all…
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This series was one of the most unique ones that most have been anticipating since the start of the year, and when it arrived in the lackluster Summer season, aside from the certainty that does not disappoint, it is entertaining to the mildest degree, while having a lot of *pokes* at the function of the most important system: us human beings.
Now, I don't care that whether you have studied subjects that are close to this, but I'm fairly certain that no matter our background as people whom have learned about cells in one way or another, Hataraku Saibou, or Cells at Work!, will definitely please your senses that you are learning about yourself, and the cells that work hard to be able to sustain you in the long run and grow stronger. With that said, everyone, be it otaku or non-otaku, have a…
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"The human body is the best work of art." - Jess C. Scott
Science is the study of everything around us. From the early stages of our universe, to the ancient civilizations in the past that leads us to our modern and technological society. Then we come to society. What makes a society even? The people. Humanity have transcended and evolved for generations and generations and will continue evolving like an endless cycle of life.
What does a human compose of? Cells, organs, organ system, tissues, atoms, molecules, ions and so on and so forth. This things, particularly the cells, are the ones that keeps on giving humanity life as we know it. From RBCs transporting oxygen throughout the body, to the WBCs fighting and defending our body against foreign invaders. Truly, the human body is indeed…
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It’s almost impossible to ignore biology when it comes to the human body. Hataraku Saibou (Cells at Work!) has the confidence to be its own series. It’s like you take the cartoony Osmosis & Jones and turns it into an educational exploration. The human body is complex and that alone really made me wonder how this show could capture its magic.
I’d say making this show takes a creative mind and the audience should feel connected when watching this anime. Right from the start, the show reveals the human body and what it’s made up of which is essentially red blood cells. It takes place in an anonymous person but one should presume that it’s healthy until it faces conflicts inside. This is where the meat of the show really comes in. The human body is vulnerable and we face consequences every da…
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The Summer season of 2018 seemed to rely heavily on original adaptations when compared to the previous seasons of the same year, especially Spring, when more than half of the top ten most popular anime on this site were sequels. Various well-received returning and continuing anime fought for the position of best show of the cour, all of them with very high ratings; but new releases also held up competently, bringing both classic manga and recent visual and light novels to the screen, along with its fair share of originals. Among the new names of Summer 2018, Hataraku Saibou (Cells at Work!) deservedly warranted much attention, establishing itself as one of the most hyped shows over the course of its successful run. Brought to life by David Production, the show also acted as a testament of…
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