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Cells at Work! CODE BLACK

Hataraku Saibou BLACK · はたらく細胞BLACK

TV · Finished · Winter 2021 · 13 episodes · 24 min

A rookie Red Blood Cell has been bustling about, frantically making oxygen deliveries all around the body! But his workplace is on the brink of going Code Black!! Drinking, smoking, stress, sleep deprivation... Struggling to survive a life not unlike the brutal corporate world, what must these overworked cells be thinking at the end of the day? This is a tale about the inside of your body...

(Source: Funimation)

Notes:

The episodes were streamed two days ahead of the Japanese broadcast on Funimation beginning on Jan 8, 2021 at 2:30 JST. The regular TV broadcast started on Jan 10, 2021 at 0:00 JST.

- Episodes 3 and 4 were broadcast in Japan as a one hour special episode on Jan 19, 2021 at 1:40 JST.

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Tags: Educational, Dystopian, Seinen, Work, Primarily Adult Cast, Anthropomorphism, Episodic, Medicine, Male Protagonist, Drugs, Gore, Survival

Studio: LIDENFILMS

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Episodes

  1. Episode 1: Smoking, Bacteria, and the Beginning of the End
  2. Episode 2: The Liver, Alcohol, and Pride
  3. Episode 3: Excitement, Expansion, and Emptiness
  4. Episode 4: Front Line, Gonococci, and Conflict
  5. Episode 5: Overwork, Hair Loss, and Delirium
  6. Episode 6: Kidneys, Kidney Stones, and Tears
  7. Episode 7: Caffeine, Temptation, and Jealousy
  8. Episode 8: Calves, Pulmonary Embolism, and Quick Thinking
  9. Episode 9: Calamity, Athlete's Foot, and the Meaning of Work
  10. Episode 10: Stomach Ulcer, Friendship, and Loss
  11. Episode 11: Desperation, Gout, and Rebellion
  12. Episode 12: Return, the Heart, and Demise
  13. Episode 13: Cardiac Arrest, Revival, and a Change

Reviews

An extremely depressing journey that manages to be leagues ahead of its contemporaries in nearly every aspect

And that, folks, is how you make Cells at Work good.

A story about ambitious cells working in a hopeless body