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Jan 21, 2021 12:59 PM

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Ashhk said:
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Also, that foreshadowing of the urine becoming red can't be a good sign.
Yeah it's because of kidney stones, it's extremely painful


Yup, I've had kidney stones several times so next episode is going to be fun, lol.
Jan 21, 2021 1:18 PM

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So much Cells at Work Code Black in 1 week, damn.

That casual conversation between WBC and RBC was the highlight, maybe cause I couldn't keep my eyes off WBC... Ahem.

That Killer T Cell is even more annoying that the OG Killer T Cell, but atleast the OG version became pretty likeable in the end.

Next episodes looks to be painful, kidney stones...
Jan 21, 2021 1:29 PM

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An auto immune disorder is no joke. Another cool episode, made me think what would happen during TRT.


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They made baldness look like a tragic, scary and apocalyptic process. Poor Killer T Cells, at the end they were victims too despite the destruction they caused.

The kidney stone hint at the end already looks painful...


The thing I'm most afraid of in the future is balding...

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Jan 21, 2021 1:45 PM

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This body suffers way too much, so many diseases and infections!!!
In this ep it was first bald spots and now kidneys stones (x_x)
Jan 21, 2021 2:36 PM

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FMmatron said:
Illyricus said:
They made baldness look like a tragic, scary and apocalyptic process. Poor Killer T Cells, at the end they were victims too despite the destruction they caused.

The kidney stone hint at the end already looks painful...


The thing I'm most afraid of in the future is balding...
And with good reason!
Jan 21, 2021 3:05 PM

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be4 said:
This body suffers way too much, so many diseases and infections!!!
In this ep it was first bald spots and now kidneys stones (x_x)


I am surprised this body even manages to stay alive. lol

Jan 21, 2021 4:04 PM

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Also, I love how they illustrate inflammation by inflammable!



but then the protagonist wants to throw oxygen to the fire! lol
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Jan 21, 2021 5:32 PM

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This body keeps suffering every single episode and it can't seem to rest anytime soon x_x I fear this body will loose consciousness someday. Not good... That kidney-stone looks very painful and the bloody urine doesn't look good either :( Also, very intense episode!

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Jan 21, 2021 5:35 PM

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hair loss, would I have ever imagined that it was due to an autoimmune response, what other autoimmune responses would there be in the body apart from cancer and this?

For the purposes of the series, steroids mention "eliminate", is it true that they kill them or only inhibit them?

Chapters like this make me reflect, and worry more about my body, I don't want to have hair loss!

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Jan 21, 2021 6:05 PM

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Great episode as always, tbh i'm starting to like this spin-off more than the original.
What tf is the owner of this body doing that he manages to fuck it up so badly tho, he needs to take better care of himself.
Looks like next episode is going to be about kidney stones, it seems like an interesting topic so i'm looking forward to it.
Jan 21, 2021 6:17 PM

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I wouldn't be surprise if the guy die at the end of the season.
Jan 21, 2021 6:34 PM

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Pissing Blood Due To Kidney Stone Yikes. I think the person will die in just a few years.
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Jan 21, 2021 6:55 PM
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God I hope MC the body isn't from the US...those medical fees will kill him faster then pissing blood.
Jan 22, 2021 12:01 AM
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This episode really contrast to what happened to the original Hataraku Saibou. This is a fucked up situations straight at the whole hair root areas. One Neutrophil could managed to neutralize that area, when at these body, the armies of Killer T Cell went on rampage by themself. Ironic. Its obviously black. What happened exactly? Autoimmune disorder, exactly. Its cause by overworked, chronic stress, and unhealthy cycle, near the definition led to Delirium state. The commander of killer T cell, Helper T cell went crazy and ordered his armies into the darkness, killing his own comrades. Spot baldness, almost. The situations got worst, Dendritic cell couldn't prevent that crazy commander to be more crazy. Fortunately, the drugs arrived in a good timing. Steroids. Such a heavy drugs. The body really reached a critical point. But, they managed to keep it alive, suppressing the T cells into a very low level.

Phew. Its over?

Nah. Another problem arise, once again, at the lower part of the body. Kidney disease!
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Jan 22, 2021 2:29 AM

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"Where is this world heading?" my guess: DESPAIR! because it is more interesting if its more DARK!
is it coincidence that hair root is also here the same way Hataraku S2 E3 has!?!?
5/5.


Jan 22, 2021 7:14 AM

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Oh yes, it’s kidney failure time😎😎
Jan 22, 2021 9:19 AM

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I wouldn't be surprise if the guy die at the end of the season.


I wouldn't be surprised either based on the episodes I watched (I think I missed 2). It makes me wonder how long did the body get from being healthy to bad shape? We got a little backstory from 2 Red Blood Cells how easy going they were, but not the new generation is taking the full force of their actions. If the guy doesn't die at the end, then it might be like how Season 1 ended for Cells At Work! where they found a donor in time and their world was saved.
Jan 22, 2021 12:22 PM

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If there's anything that can brighten up anyone's day within this bleak host body, it's the pure smile that WBC gave to RBC when she spoke about her dreams. Protect that smile at any cost, everyone...

Sadly, that was the only happy part of the episode, as the Killer T Cells went on a rampage and attacked the poor defenceless hair matrix cells, which started to cause spot balding for the host body, or every guy's worst nightmare when they get older. =(

The steroids came in the nick of time to subdue the rampaging T cells, but the next despair is always around the next corner. Next time, we'll be dealing with kidney stones and blood in the host body's urine. Damn...
Jan 22, 2021 2:15 PM

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how could they play an upbeat song after such a dark episode with a straight face!
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Jan 22, 2021 5:17 PM

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Just popping in to say Miss 1196 with a ponytail looks SO good.
Jan 22, 2021 6:34 PM

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I just wanna say I love the ED. So far my favorite this season.

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Jan 22, 2021 7:05 PM

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Oof kidney stones are quite the pain speaking from personal experience.

I doubt the anime will get there this season but the manga totally has to end with the body dying right? Might start reading it after the anime ends cause that sounds really painful.
Jan 22, 2021 7:54 PM

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We saw white cel smile! Isn't she cute? So that's why I'm losing my hair? Interesting... This guy is really going downhill. He gets a hangover, and solves it with more alcohol. He gets craps after some p...sy, there's the penicillin. Now he got some steroids, he's killing himself, and the sad part (for me) there's some cells that still keep up working hard and look what they get.

And yeah, let keep singing... Hakobe, hakobe!
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Jan 22, 2021 11:53 PM

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Great episode, also very depressing. I like the ED by it's own, but after the depression that is this episode and then you hear "Hakobe, hakobe!" it ain't right lmao.

Felt really bad for the hair matrix cells, also the Killer T Cells, they were blinded by their duties. Kidney stones look painful as fuck damn.
Jan 23, 2021 12:30 AM

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I can hardly believe this, but this show has quickly become my favorite of the season.

The way this episode contrasted with the third one from the other body only made the struggle all the more poignant. One can only hope the cells' efforts don't go to waste and the body can finally start its recovery.

But seriously, the killer t cells that were so pointless in the original show were shown in such a sympathetic light here, I was at the edge of my seat the whole episode, hoping they too would be saved. That's not something I was expecting to write when first picking this show!
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Jan 23, 2021 3:48 AM
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The owner of the body's immune system is not working properly that's why the cells failed to recognize and distinguish normal and foreign cells and end up attacking its own cells.

Take care of yourself guys!

Jan 23, 2021 4:08 AM

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It's nice how they aired the episodes about hair together in both the anime.

I didn't know Killer T were responsible for hair loss. This is stressing me out about being stressed out.
Jan 23, 2021 9:26 AM
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I feel sorry for not only Killer T but everyone. Then, I must continue to keep my body's health.
This episode was so sad. I understand job is so hard. Maybe part of destinies.
Jan 23, 2021 10:38 AM
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Lesson learned guys, don't be Stress just be Happy...
You don't want to losing your Hair and become Bald right??? Lol
Jan 23, 2021 12:03 PM

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So I barely knew hair loss was our own body screwing it up but I had no idea it was Killer T attacking hair cells mistaking them for cancer cells, next episode will personally hurt, I had kidney stones once, it was horrible.
Jan 23, 2021 4:53 PM

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Interesting, so this is how hairloss, works, a result of the body damaging itself with T Cells mistaking anything dividing rapidly like hair matrix cells as cancer cells.

The portrayal of how steroids work here is great. Continuing the trend from the main series; all medicine administered to the body like such as antibiotics are robots. In order to be anti-inflammatory, they need to restrain the Killer T Cells, this does mean that while the body is prevented from destroying itself, it becomes more vulnerable to pathogens.

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Jan 23, 2021 8:21 PM

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This series really has an unsual overarching feel to it. You want to cheer all the cells on and see them succeed, such as the RBC/WBC shipping similar to main series. But the whole purpose of this series is that they're all just trying to barely get by. It doesn't really matter how hard they work, or what they do, as only the body owner can improve their lifestyle so that such issues become less frequent.
We had the WBC puss in the last 2 episodes, now its the turn of RBC from kidney stones. Looks to be a painful episode, and just hope we don't lose any of the main RBC's like the WBC captain was lost last episode :(
Jan 23, 2021 9:49 PM

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Damn, now kidney stones? Seriously, this body won't last a second season announcement.
Jan 25, 2021 10:41 AM

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Ponytail White Blood Cell working out is love.
Those Killer T cells sure went bonkers damn.
Kidney stones next huh, no breaks for this guy..
Jan 25, 2021 9:55 PM
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Yo the body just unlocked red pee
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Jan 27, 2021 3:08 AM
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I don't get it. Why does it have less rating than Cells at Work Season 2. I belong to medical profession. But I can clearly say that this one is better than that one.
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Hakkekkyuu was cute.

Urine turning red is not good at all, that's gotta hurt and it's a really bad sign.
Jan 28, 2021 5:07 AM
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I don't get it. Why does it have kess rating than Cells at Work Season 2. I belong to medical profession. But I can clearly say that this one is better than that one.


Me too. I prefer this spin-off than original. Maybe the reason why less rating is mediocre animation. LIDENFILMS has so many shows in this season.
Jan 30, 2021 2:44 AM
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As soon as I saw the Killer T Cells talking about how they have to keep working, I knew it was going to become an autoimmune scenario. No, I have not read the manga, but if you live with an autoimmune condition, you learn about what drives it and I recognised the signs.

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hair loss, would I have ever imagined that it was due to an autoimmune response, what other autoimmune responses would there be in the body apart from cancer and this?


Conditions such as Type 1 Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Hashimoto's Disease (hypoactive thyroid autoimmune), Graves' Disease (hyperactive thyroid autoimmune), Rheumatoid Arthritis...they're all autoimmune.

I have Graves' Disease and it's awful. It's my thyroid getting attacked, but the thyroid is an organ that helps control function of other organs - my heart rate is often tachycardic and I live in brain fog, plus there's risk of damage to my kidneys, there is intense pain in some areas (though sometimes it dulls to an annoyance but never goes away), constant chronic nausea, it's caused me issues with ketones and even had me hospitalised twice with ketoacidosis (usually associated with diabetes, but confirmed not diabetic), I'm tired and weak a lot of the time, I do indeed experience hair loss and would rather shave it all off instead of constantly finding it in my food or all over my pillow...and then the fun part about Thyroid Storm which if not treated in time is fatal. Even when my thyroid is removed (they need to because my goitre - enlarged thyroid - is putting pressure on my oesophagus and larynx with risk of cutting off my airway, and it's grown down into my sternum so there's that too) I will still have the Graves' antibodies present in my body so Graves' Disease for the rest of my life, on top of having to take medication for the rest of my life. For now, it's to control my levels of my thyroid hormones because if those get too high, or irregular, very risky (had to go to the ER twice last year because they'd been thrown off). But, after the thyroidectomy, I need to take medication to replace the thyroid hormones since I'd have no means to produce them naturally.
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As soon as I saw the Killer T Cells talking about how they have to keep working, I knew it was going to become an autoimmune scenario. No, I have not read the manga, but if you live with an autoimmune condition, you learn about what drives it and I recognised the signs.

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hair loss, would I have ever imagined that it was due to an autoimmune response, what other autoimmune responses would there be in the body apart from cancer and this?


Conditions such as Type 1 Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Hashimoto's Disease (hypoactive thyroid autoimmune), Graves' Disease (hyperactive thyroid autoimmune), Rheumatoid Arthritis...they're all autoimmune.

I have Graves' Disease and it's awful. It's my thyroid getting attacked, but the thyroid is an organ that helps control function of other organs - my heart rate is often tachycardic and I live in brain fog, plus there's risk of damage to my kidneys, there is intense pain in some areas (though sometimes it dulls to an annoyance but never goes away), constant chronic nausea, it's caused me issues with ketones and even had me hospitalised twice with ketoacidosis (usually associated with diabetes, but confirmed not diabetic), I'm tired and weak a lot of the time, I do indeed experience hair loss and would rather shave it all off instead of constantly finding it in my food or all over my pillow...and then the fun part about Thyroid Storm which if not treated in time is fatal. Even when my thyroid is removed (they need to because my goitre - enlarged thyroid - is putting pressure on my oesophagus and larynx with risk of cutting off my airway, and it's grown down into my sternum so there's that too) I will still have the Graves' antibodies present in my body so Graves' Disease for the rest of my life, on top of having to take medication for the rest of my life. For now, it's to control my levels of my thyroid hormones because if those get too high, or irregular, very risky (had to go to the ER twice last year because they'd been thrown off). But, after the thyroidectomy, I need to take medication to replace the thyroid hormones since I'd have no means to produce them naturally.

Thanks for the information, the lupus talked about so much in Dr. House surprised me.

I'm sorry to hear about your condition, I think that programs like these will help to create more awareness about diseases (autoimmune or not) and progressively control and even suppress conditions like yours

I wish you better, Akiramenai!

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Feb 2, 2021 5:57 PM

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I don't get it. Why does it have kess rating than Cells at Work Season 2. I belong to medical profession. But I can clearly say that this one is better than that one.


just like me, not everyone likes to see suffering and death everywhere lol i'm kinda enjoying it, but even then i feel like this is way too much tragedy one after the other
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Feb 11, 2021 9:16 AM

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Don't know what happens to both Cells at work having hair episode but might as well happen. But damn, dude got laid just to get STD, then start losing hair after that stress and now he starts to pissing blood. I don't know if we will our new cell friends get through the end of season, body might die as well. But seeing White cell doing push ups was worth it.
Feb 18, 2021 1:42 PM
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Thanks to this anime, I just wanna get healthy.

I have the same feeling after every episode.
Mar 23, 2021 5:41 AM
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The Killer T Cells went on a rampage.

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Damn you Helper T cells and Killer T cells for causing baldness... although I feel bad for them with their best efforts since its basically the dude's fault for not taking care of his body.

Mar 8, 2022 7:22 PM

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It was quite boring until the Killer T Cell starting to go rampage even though the White Cell and Red Cell scene was cute.
Feb 4, 2023 5:26 AM

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White Blood Cell looked really good this episode, waifu material right there. Does that really happen, Killer T cells attacking Hair cells? Seemed kinda weird before they explained it.
May 20, 2023 10:38 AM

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Having your body's defence force be bloodthirsty when there isn't a threat is pretty disturbing ngl. This body is in rough, rough shape.

As dark as this spinoff is I'm glad there's still some adorable WBC and RBC developments
May 23, 2023 1:37 AM

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My gosh, this person is insanely unhealthy

They’re definitely going to die at this point? Everything is going wrong with his body
Jul 8, 2023 7:26 AM

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Seeing that the Pigment Cell was so old, it somehow made me feel bad for bleaching my hair.

Stress -> smoking and excessive drinking -> harm to lungs and liver -> stress -> unsafe sex -> gonorrhea -> stress -> excessive hair loss -> stress....

I honestly hope that the owner of the body starts changing his lifestyle slowly. At least start by drinking more water and doing some light exercise. He's already losing a lot of cells that have worked hard in their lives and existences in his body.

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