Hataraku Saibou

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Japanese: はたらく細胞

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 6

Chapters: 30

Status: Finished

Published: Jan 26, 2015 to Jan 26, 2021

Genre: Comedy

Themes: Anthropomorphic, Educational, Medical

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Sirius

Authors: Shimizu, Akane (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.74¹ (scored by 4,247 users)

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Ranked: #1493²

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Popularity: #982

Members: 17,692

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Cells at Work!
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Inside the human body, there are around thirty-seven billion cells, who diligently carry out their duties every day. New to her job, clumsy but cheerful Sekkekkyuu AE3803 is excited to start delivering oxygen and collecting carbon dioxide despite her poor sense of direction. Meanwhile, Hakkekkyuu U-1146 is always ready to fight and kill any pathogen that he comes across. After running into each other multiple times, they quickly become good friends, regardless of their contrasting personalities.

Entertaining and educational, Hataraku Saibou follows the two blood cells and their many comrades as they work together to keep the body healthy.

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Hataraku Saibou placed seventh in the male readers category in the 2016 edition of Kono Manga ga Sugoi! magazine.

The series was published in English as Cells at Work! by Kodansha Comics USA from November 1, 2016 to August 31, 2021, and in French as Les brigades Immunitaires by Pika Editions since May 31, 2017.

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Adaptation:	Hataraku Saibou CM, Hataraku Saibou, Hataraku Saibou!!

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Hakkekkyuu U-1146

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Sekkekkyuu AE3803

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Kesshouban

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Macrophage

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Jujou Saibou

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Gan Saibou

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Killer T Saibou

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Kousankyuu

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B Saibou

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Kouenkikyuu

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Jul 1, 2018

Major_Gilbert

Recommended

Preliminary (25/30 eps)

As someone who thinks that the immune system is the most exciting feature of the human body, I always waited for a day I would find a manga like "Hataraku Saibou", otherwise known as "Cells at Work".

Story: 9
The story mainly focuses on a red blood cell (Ae 3803) and a white blood cell (U-1146). They aren't given names, but numbers. The red blood cell has a hard time trying to find routes through the body, so the white blood cell helps her out. Through this, we get to know what exactly happens in different parts of the body and encounter different types of cells ...

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Jul 7, 2018

youseiki

Recommended

Preliminary (25/30 eps)

This is one of the my most anticipated adaptation after reading it on a whim, an exceptional story about Cells, by turning them into characters, emphasizing the similarities of humans and cells through comparing them by how they do their job.

This manga is entertaining so far, for an author to be able to make great characters even if they are cells, an action packed story which centers around White Cell's adventures along with blood cell, this is truly one of the most interesting stories that I've ever read.

Story: 7
I don't think this manga was made for biology, anatomy or even medical students, this manga ... focused on the entertainment value which was about the "Daily Life of Cells", but let's just throw out accuracy out of the picture. The story introduces a small number of cells/characters, and most of them are the generally known cells which are made in bone marrow without going further to the complicated ones(like specialized cells for the organs, brain cells for example) same could be said to the foreign bodies(like virus or bacteria). It focuses inside the body, showing how the cells react, cells doing their job, or even how the body affects the cells when somethings happens no matter how small or big it is. It's simplicity but ironically a complexity made it a different story from the rest, it's like I'm watching One Punch Man or Boku no Hero Academia, but in a world of a fictionalized analogy of a body.

Art: 8
Great artwork, especially to the background(which is the body) which always gets destroyed by the antagonist and to the awesomeness of character (especially Cancer). The design for the characters is kinda similar to FMA or Silver Spoon, though the monsters are still the same as your basic antagonist, except that they are actually depicted good for their own image.

Characters: 9
Oh, the characters, they are the best in this series, after reading them, I felt that I have to improve my body(which I really have to) they have unique personality, entertaining reactions, rationale behavior, baddass moments, I can't help but to see how beautiful seeing cells alive. The characterization was executed so good that there's a lot of character development, and even the antagonist are well written. It's so weird that there's a lot of time that I want to see a romantic development in this story, when it isn't possible, that's how good it is, the interaction was good which never bores me and the reactions lives up to their existence.

Enjoyment: 10
I have an emotional roller coaster while reading this one, this is one of the manga that I easily enjoyed in different emotions, it has the creativity of something I didn't expect, I've learned a lot of things, and I recalled a lot of things which I haven't understand in biology when I was in middle school.

Overall it's a must read manga, a refreshing story with original setting based on Microbiology, it showed me just how complicated cells is, while simplifying their functions, nevertheless it has a good accuracy about cells(thanks to the Medical Editor)

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Oct 10, 2020

topidoru

Recommended

Preliminary (25/30 eps)

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.

In a nutshell
Humans are complex biological robots that are made up of trillion of cells, each with their own structure and function. Even one cell is a masterpiece, complex mechanism that humanity will never be able to reproduce. Even a single cell cannot slack off, because it might result in an illness. Scientists have come a long way in estimating the number of cells in the average human body. According to the most recent estimates, the number of cells in a human body is around 30 trillion. Hataraku Saibou ... focuses on the work of these 30 trillion cells to keep the owner of the body healthy.

Hataraku Saibou vs Hataraku Saibou Black
Some readers might question themselves the following: in Hataraku Saibou Black, cells were fighting against the bad habits of the owner of the body and that Hataraku Saibou would have less of a story because of that. After all, in Hataraku Saibou the owner of the body leads a healthier life. That would be wrong. Even if you are healthy, your body contains trillion of bacteria, as well as viruses that will not miss an opportunity, when you become ill.

Story
Hataraku Saibou focuses on an erythrocyte and a leukocyte/red and white blood cells. While the manga focuses only on the two cells, it also gives enough time to shine to supporting characters (other cells), which makes the manga that interesting and helps the reader to never feel bored. As soon as one story ends, another begins immediately, with other supporting characters. The only thing that does not change in-between the episodes is the two protagonists. Hataraku Saibou manages to maintain a perfect balance between education, comedy and drama, which helps you appreciate this manga even more. By the way, Hataraku Saibou has well-written educational overtones, explaining the role of cells and many more. This is very handy, I must say. After all, it is somewhat annoying to google over and over again, when you find something, you do not know. Here, however, most of the needed piece of information is already given to you, all you need is to read the notes.

Criticism
I have absolutely nothing to criticize. Hataraku Saibou does everything so that the reader can enjoy reading the manga; there are no unnecessary details: if leukocytes look like they only care about killing, it is because they are involved in protecting the body against both infectious disease and foreign invaders; that is what they do. I do, however, have a regret. I wish this manga were longer. There are just so many cells that could have been depicted in the manga. But this is not quite a flaw.

Overall
The human body is the best work of art. Hataraku Saibou manages to show the struggles of cells, doing everyday routine to keep us, people, alive. There are no unnecessary details, everything has its aim: be it comedy, or drama. On top of that, you will hardly ever read something even remotely similar to Hataraku Saibou. I highly recommend you to read both Hataraku Saibou and Hataraku Saibou Black and to see the upcoming anime adaptations of the two manga.

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