Cells At Work!

Cells at Work! is a 2018 anime series based on the manga series with the same name written and illustrated by Akane Shimizu.

The anime series was announced in January 2018. Both seasons were animated by David Production, while the first season was directed by Kenichi Suzuki, and the second season by Hirofumi Ogura. It ran the first season in Japan from July 8, 2018 to September 29, 2018, consisting of 13 episodes, with a special titled "The Common Cold: that aired on December 27, 2018. The second season of the series titled Cells At Work!! premiered from January 9, 2021 to February 27, 2021, consisting of 8 episodes.

Aniplex of America produced an English dub of the series with Bang Zoom! Studios, which was released on home video on August 27, 2019^[1]. It was added to Funimation's streaming service on February 24, 2020^[2]. The second season's English Dub premiered on Funimation on April 29, 2021^[3]^[4].

Synopsis
The human body contains approximately 60 million cells. White and red blood cells, thrombocytes, macrophages, neurons or lymphocytes, among many others, coexist and collaborate relentlessly together to resist the attack of germs and viruses. In this story, cells take human form to tell us about the complications of maintaining the human body.

Cast[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Main Characters
	Red Blood Cell (AE3803)	Kana Hanazawa	Cherami Leigh
	Red Blood Cell (AE3803)	Kana Hanazawa	Cherami Leigh
	White Blood Cell (U-1146)	Tomoaki Maeno	Billy Kametz
	White Blood Cell (U-1146)	Tomo Muranaka (Myelocyte)	Erica Mendez
	Macrophage	Kikuko Inoue	Laura Post
	Killer T Cell	Daisuke Ono	Robbie Daymond
	Killer T Cell	Mariko Higashiuchi (Immature Thymocyte)	Kimlinh Tran
Cells
	Platelet	Maria Naganawa	Xanthe Huynh
	Helper T Cell	Takahiro Sakurai	Ray Chase
	Helper T Cell	Mikako Komatsu (Immature Thymocyte)	Erika Harlacher
	Regulatory T Cell	Saori Hayami	Erica Mendez
	Dendritic Cell	Nobuhiko Okamoto	Griffin Burns
	Memory Cell	Yūichi Nakamura	David Vincent
	Mast Cell	Ayako Kawasumi	Maureen Price
	B Cell	Shōya Chiba	Erik Kimerer
	NK Cell	Toa Yukinari	Morgan Berry
	Basophil	Tomokazu Sugita	D.C. Douglas
	Memory T Cell	Ryōta Takeuchi	Armen Taylor
	Naive T Cell	Mutsumi Tamura	Laura Stahl
	Naive T Cell	Kenji Nomura (Effector)	Chris Tergliafera
	Thymic Epithelial Cell Instructor	Rikiya Koyama	Armen Taylor
	Cancer Cell	Akira Ishida	Khoi Dao
	Ordinary Cell	Yūsuke Kobayashi	Bryce Papenbrook
	Platelet (Backward Cap)	Manaka Iwami	Jackie Lastra
White Blood Cells
	Eosinophil	Mao Ichimichi	Kayli Mills
	White Blood Cell (U-2048)	Kensuke Satō	Christian La Monte
	White Blood Cell (U-2626)	Junichi Yanagita	Lucien Dodge
	White Blood Cell (U-4989)	Kentaro Kumagai	Sean Chiplock
	White Blood Cell (U-2001)	Akinori Egoshi	Zachary T. Rice
	Neutrophil Teacher (U-1110)	Satoshi Hino	Xander Mobus
	Monocyte	Kikuko Inoue	Laura Post
Red Blood Cells
	Senpai Red Blood Cell (AA5100)	Aya Endō	Kira Buckland
	Kouhai Red Blood Cell (NT4201)	Yui Ishikawa	Jeannie Tirado
Bacteria
	Pneumococcus	Hiroyuki Yoshino	Benjamin Diskin
	Staphylococcus Aureus	Mai Nakahara	Cristina Vee
	Campylobacter	Daiki Kobayashi	Kayli Mills
	Streptococcus Pyogenes	Masaya Matsukaze	Landon McDonald
	Pseudomonas Aeruginosa	Riki Kitazawa	Bill Rogers
	Vibrio Bacteria	Itaru Yamamoto	Armen Taylor
	Bacillus Cereus	Kōsuke Toriumi	Joe Zieja
Parasites
	Cedar Pollen	Kazuyuki Okitsu	Armen Taylor
	Lactic Acid Bacterium (Black)	Yuri Yoshida	Michelle Marie
	Lactic Acid Bacterium (Red)	Rie Takahashi	Kayli Mills
	Lactic Acid Bacterium (Panda)	Natsumi Fujiwara	Abby Trott
	Lactic Acid Bacterium (Spotted)	Yurika Kubo	Xanthe Huynh
Megakaryocyte
	Megakaryocyte	Yūko Kaida	Amber Lee Connors
Other
	Narrator	Mamiko Noto	Karen Strassman