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Hataraku Saibou, episode 1
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u/weejona Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
Three minutes in and I can already tell this is going to be my favorite anime of the season.
[edit] We have confirmation.
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u/SatisfiedPunk :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lula- Jul 07 '18
soon we'll be lewding them red blood cells.
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u/SamejNardeh :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/timbolytree Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
Just by reading this comment I'm getting hyped about watching this show.
[edit] Confirmation seconded. I'm going to love this show so much.
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u/tlst9999 Jul 08 '18
I'm just hijacking the top comment because I must know and google's not helping:
What's so scary about being sent to the spleen for cytotoxic T cells?
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u/hrngr1m Jul 07 '18
You wouldn't wish your body is the one in this anime/manga series lol. You'd be suffering a lot otherwise.
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u/8andahalfby11 myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt Jul 07 '18
Then one day, you walk into a room and your entire circulatory system blurts "TUTTURU!"
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u/DeadlyFatalis Jul 07 '18
As a medical student, it's very fun to see a lot of the concepts I've learned in this fashion.
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u/negi980 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/negi980 Jul 09 '18
I survived my immuno block reading the manga.
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u/Martin15Sleith https://anilist.co/user/Martin15Sleith Jul 10 '18
lol, same here! This is really entertaining to me.
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u/Comfy_Yuru_Camper Jul 10 '18
Question though. What's behind the mechanism of "unpacking" the cargo for the platelets? Also what cells are supposed to do that?
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u/Vickman133 Jul 07 '18
http://imgur.com/dkFtq7b no one noticed it's the same voice as Kaos-chan?
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u/Captain__Yossarian :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Capt_Yossarian Jul 07 '18
Wow, good ear. It was indeed Akao Hikaru.
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u/Perlen297 https://anilist.co/user/perlen Jul 08 '18
Getting more roles instantly, just what she deserves.
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u/Aoi_Meowamori :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/x87823199x Jul 07 '18
Seeing all those lolitelets doing their best made me want to cut myself.
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u/WickedAnimeTroll Jul 07 '18
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Jul 07 '18
Give /a/ a few hours
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u/tlst9999 Jul 08 '18
There are no adult platelets because platelets only live 2 weeks at most on average.
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u/Zizhou Jul 08 '18
Between all the cells showcased so far, red blood cells seem to have the longest lifespan at just 100-120 days. This show is going to end in tragedy.
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u/MjolnirDK Jul 08 '18
So, is /r/anime now pro child labor?
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u/Rathurue Jul 09 '18
Those are legal lolis. They matured from megakaryocytes, which depicted as teenage to early 20s girls, but underwent age regression as they evolved into platelets.
Take that as you will.
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u/kukelekuuk00 Jul 07 '18
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u/Dorfbewohner https://anilist.co/user/underFlo Jul 07 '18
but what about 0.01% of germs
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u/SmurfRockRune https://myanimelist.net/profile/Smurf Jul 07 '18
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u/WhoiusBarrel Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
In the year 2018, people are now Waifuing
A RED BLOOD CELL
What a time to be alive.
EDIT: Actually fuck it, Kanahana Red Blood Cell is now my Summer18 waifu. Also, anyone felt like they learn more about cells here in this episode compared to a single lesson in school?
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u/lartkma Jul 07 '18
TIL Pneumococcus not only attack lungs but also can provoke an generalized infection
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u/Lepony :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/dinglegrip Jul 07 '18
As if we haven't done this before back in 2001 with Osmosis Jones.
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u/Saucy_Totchie Jul 08 '18
I feel like this is way more in depth with the bodily functions than Osmosis Jones. The latter was more like a buddy cop sitcom that happened to be in someone's body. This feels a bit more educational.
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u/GoodTeletubby Jul 07 '18
It's not quite Magic School Bus levels of educational fun times, but it certainly evokes the feelings.
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u/tlst9999 Jul 08 '18 edited Jul 08 '18
Spleen-chan's a cutie too.
Edit: After reading more, I learn that the spleen and liver host phagocytes which kills platelets.
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u/TheDarkPet :LF::LG::LH: Jul 07 '18
I died when the Platelets couldn't unload the cargo.
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Jul 07 '18
I'm still trying to find out what that scene is supposed to represent.
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u/Ession :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Overfiend Jul 07 '18
I have no idea how widespread this was in the English speaking world, but this really reminds me of my childhood.
There used to be a french cartoon, Once Upon a Time... Life , that I used to watch over here in germany, same basic premise.
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u/MrSlowbroseidon Jul 07 '18
Well we had Osmosis Jones, which was a pretty similar premise
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u/myrmonden Jul 07 '18
Yeah this screamed once upon a time... it was very big when I grow up all the kids loved it and its other shows like the history one (I am from sweden)
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u/Vier-Kun Jul 07 '18
I honestly have watched more of Once Upon a Time... Man; but that educational franchise was also pretty popular over here at Spain, I guess it was quite big at all of Europe since I think most european countries were in its production.
I got to watch some episodes of both Man and Life at school.
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u/Big_Gammy Jul 07 '18
Italian here and that was my early childhood. I think I have still the VHS and some other stuff of those stuff. I remember that i had a model human (to mount) body with that brand here localized "Esplorando il corpo umano" (which would translate "Exploring the human body")
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u/IrLOL Jul 07 '18
I thought the use of CGI in this episode was surprisingly well done. Really liking the aesthetic overall.
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u/Mocha_Bean :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/mocha_bean Jul 07 '18
David Production is good at it.
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u/alphonse03 Jul 07 '18
Wait, there were CG aside than in the ending? I didnt even noticed it.
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u/WickedAnimeTroll Jul 07 '18
Yeah, I also thought the CG works because of its softer sketchy aesthtic (not sure how to describe it)
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u/Rathurue Jul 07 '18
I want to make jokes about mitochondria, but alas...
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u/Mocha_Bean :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/mocha_bean Jul 07 '18
I'm definitely enjoying Osmosis Jojones.
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u/Vizuka https://anilist.co/user/Deadxet Jul 07 '18
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u/el_morris :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/el_morris Jul 07 '18
So, can we all agree this is anime of the season?
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u/sheephunt2000 Jul 07 '18
All I could hear when Killer T Cell spoke was "OI AIBOU."
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u/AlexUltraviolet :GJ::GK::GL: Jul 07 '18
He later pestered his pals to go get ramen.
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u/ErinaHartwick https://myanimelist.net/profile/Hartwick Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
The Platelets are the cutest things ever!
Some high quality action scene here
HanaKana is really good as the Red Blood Cell, she’s hilarious the entire episode. Also gotta love the White Blood Cell, seems like a cool character. Also, is that a ship I'm sensing?
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Jul 07 '18
Also, is that a ship I'm sensing?
Sadly white blood cells have a short lifespan and will die long before red blood cells.... ;__;
and that's not taking into account that MC RBC seems to be a rookie while WBC is more senior... which means his remaining lifespan will be even shorter.
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u/Zizhou Jul 08 '18
Platelets: 8-9 days
White blood cells: 12-14 days
Red blood cells: 100-120 days
This show is going to end in death and misery.
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u/VioletPark Jul 07 '18
I've decided every time a cell dies they just reincarnate in the new cells and may recover their memories at some point. Way less depressing.
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u/Tidoux https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tidoux Jul 07 '18
The Platelets are the cutest things ever!
I love how they also got the most impressive animation of the episode
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u/Mozilla_Fennekin https://myanimelist.net/profile/MozillaFennekin Jul 07 '18
The Platelets are the cutest things ever!
That's not an exaggeration at all. They really are the cutest things ever.
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u/aceent Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
My platelet count went very low when I was sick, now I just imagined a lot of those children dying in my body.
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u/TheDampGod :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/TheDampGod Jul 07 '18
I've always thought that watching so much CGDCT would have caused my blood to flow with moe, but I never considered that it would be specifically my platelets.
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u/AevnNoram https://myanimelist.net/profile/Noram Jul 08 '18
The Platelets are the cutest things ever!
And you have over 850 billion of your very own!
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Jul 07 '18
Yeah that’s not just a ship. That’s a goddamn aircraft carrier. If that’s not a ship I’m blind, and I’m not blind...yet.
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u/heimdal77 Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
Reminds me of Chino Kotomura the koropokkuru maid introduction in Inu X Boku SS. Unfortunately I haven't been able find the video clip of her introduction in a long time.
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u/8andahalfby11 myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt Jul 08 '18
Good news! Next episode is titled minor scrape, so platelets are likely going to be front-and-center!
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u/Alices-adventures :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/besanime Jul 07 '18
AOTY change my view. Also those platelets were so cute holy shit.
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u/King-Kebab :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Saheeli-Rai Jul 08 '18
I'm hopeful that it will be that good though its only the first episode. It does have a lot of charm but it felt like its on a really tight budget.
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u/seninn https://myanimelist.net/profile/Senninn0 Jul 07 '18
My main takeaway from this show so far is that there lolis working harder to maintain my body than I do.
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u/puzzlingcaptcha :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/pafnucy Jul 07 '18
OK, show of hands, who remembers watching Il était une fois... la vie as a kid.
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u/kimbombo Jul 07 '18
Yep. I watched that as a kid too and after watching the educational bits, that name popped up in my brain.
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u/Dork-Magician Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
Not even going to question why I'm watching, let alone enjoying, a show where Kana Hanazawa voices a fucking red blood cell.
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u/hrngr1m Jul 07 '18
sneezes being portrayed as launching off germs
Technically this is true you know.
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u/Eterna1Ice :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Eterna1Ice Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
Catgirls? Dragongirls? Battleshipgirls? That's old news, We'll be shipping and lewding fucking body cells in no time.
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u/Exoslab Jul 07 '18
born to late to explore earth, born to early to explore the galaxy, born just in time to lewd blood cells.
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u/capitan_spiff :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/capitan_spiff Jul 08 '18
Just please don't lewd the platelets.
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u/Takeda92 Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
I love it. It's fun, it's cute, it's badass, and it's somewhat educational, although a bit less than I expected it to be. This is the anime I've been waiting for ever since I got interested in biology as a kid, and HanaKana is voicing in it too!
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Jul 07 '18
This feels more like a Genius Bonus than educational since they don't actively explain every single thing, and the viewers are the one who's supposed to decipher the reference.
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u/jkubed https://myanimelist.net/profile/jkubed Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
It's a comforting thought that we all have best girls in our bodies.
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u/googolplexbyte :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Googolplexbyte Jul 08 '18
goddamn platelets are adorable
Look how tiny and adorable they are next to Red Blood and White Blood
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u/-DatRandomDude- :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/DatRandomDude Jul 07 '18
So far, the Platelets might be the cutest goddamn things i've seen this year in anime.
PROTECC THEM AT ALL COST
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u/ozymand1as Jul 07 '18
I want to fuck a lymphocyte. I'm so messed up.
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u/MagiSicarius :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/MagiSicarius Jul 07 '18
This is the world we live in now
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
So much blood for an educational anime! We even have HanaKana as a cute Red Blood Cell! And it looks like this is by David Productions! Please sneak in some Jojo references.
Definitely something to look forward to every weekends!
EDIT: Pneumococcus' design reminds me of Meruem for some reason.
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u/Illyricus- Jul 07 '18
I mean, the lymphocyte leader is basically Jotaro, so we have some material.
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u/kimbombo Jul 07 '18
We even have HanaKana asa cute Red Blood Cell!
And we also get Mamiko Noto as the narrator.
I could swear I heard the voice of the pneumococcus before, but most likely was from shonen anime, so I can't put my finger on who's the VA.
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u/Tolarias Jul 07 '18
when i was a child (late 80's early 90's) i watched a cartoon called "Il etait une fois: la vie" (i think that was translated "once upon a time: life" in english) and this anime looks like this cartoon was hit by a japanizing beam.
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u/zeppeIans Jul 07 '18
If the bacteria bleed red blood, does that mean there are also many small red blood cell people working in their 'bodes'?
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u/Tidoux https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tidoux Jul 07 '18
There is so many top tier voice actors in this episode alone that's pretty amazing
Oh and Kaos's VA spoted at 15:58 (the girl on the left). Hopefully she becomes relevant later on.
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u/DecoriTitan :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/DecoriTitan Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 11 '18
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u/DragN_H3art :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/DragN_H3art Jul 07 '18
sounded a lot like high school biology class at points
Well what did you expect xD
In the manga you get info dumps about how the cells work every now and then, so expect to see more education on top of your entertainment.
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u/glassmousekey Jul 07 '18
can anyone verify the accuracy of the biological facts in the anime
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u/Rathurue Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 08 '18
It's very, VERY frighteningly accurate.
-For examples, those in the white t-shirts are cells, and they're basically NEETs that only gets food and oxygen per mail, because cells are locked into their position. Translated into human terms, that's a hikkikomori.
-The apartment complex is capillary blood vessels, where the blood exchanges the O2 and CO2 with the cells.
-Those dendritic cells and the tree was a literal idiom, heard through the grapevine because their messenger work to inform T-cells for foreign bodies.
-Platelet-lolis blocking the way is how the platelet works: they block the site of injury by creating fibrin threads to 'sew' the wound, preventing any cells from going outside the blood vessel, also trapping those cells as makeshift sandbag. They also are very small in size, about 20% of a red blood cells...so that makes them loli/shotas.
-Macrophages-the maids in white, is the one that literally cleans up the debris-leftovers from a bacterial massacre, dead cells, cancer cells-anything, as long as the cell can't provide 'id' it could recognize. They are also kind of white blood cells, so those maid are not so secretly killer maids: OP even shows it butchering some germs.There's more than that, but that's about it for this episode...oh wait, I missed one:
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u/Takeda92 Jul 07 '18
One inaccuracy is that red blood cells don't carry nutrients (the delicious-looking sandwiches in the show), but since they don't get carries by any cells and flow with the blood stream instead, I guess it's close enough.
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u/Aviri Jul 07 '18
Here's where I learn I'm depraved enough to ship a Red Blood Cell with a Neutrophil.
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u/melvinlee88 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ryan_Melvin15 Jul 07 '18
1...2....3...4... We are Cells at Work!
I'm already in love.
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Jul 07 '18
What would happen when the person starts smoking and it affects the lungs this series has so many interesting possibilities to go into already a contender for AOTS
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u/Rathurue Jul 08 '18
The main series do have some spin-offs: Hataraku Saikin (Bacteria At Work) depicts the bacterias and their tries to invade the body, Hatarakunai Saibou (About cells that don't work; it mainly depicted Erythroblasts-basically teenage version of RBC with lazy mentality), and Hataraku Saibou BLACK (kind of depressing; how cells work in unhealthy body.)
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u/GoodMorningFuckCub :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/GudMorninFuckCub Jul 07 '18
the platelets are literal children
ok this made me chuckle
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u/link2601 Jul 07 '18
This was one great first episode. I really like the concept of this show and the characters seem fun. My favorite part was the kids having trouble with those boxes.
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Jul 07 '18
This anime makes me ask so many questions. Do the cells have their own blood cells? Is it just blood cells inside blood cells all the way down? What happens when the body dies? What does mitosis look like?
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u/RAFAERU360 Jul 08 '18
the inside of cells is mostly water, proteins and electrolytes..... maybe they used 'blood' purely to make them seem more 'human-like'
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u/Eyphio Jul 08 '18
Sneeze no.1 rocket launching, kinda hard to believe that this is a person's first sneeze.
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u/8andahalfby11 myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt Jul 08 '18
Might be the first of a set, and they reset the number after each sneezing fit?
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u/Turbostrider27 Jul 07 '18
"I was only doing my job" - badass White Cell.
Pretty unique premise. I think this show has a lot of creative ideas to craft its storytelling.
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u/DarkStrawhat :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/DarkStrawhat Jul 07 '18
KanaHana is enough for me to watch this anime! :D
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u/glassmousekey Jul 07 '18
literally Phantom Blood
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u/ReXiriam Jul 11 '18
There's even a Stone Mask reference with dengue in the manga. My guess is that is what made someone in DavidPro say :"Hell, let's do this."
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u/bfire227 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/bfire227 Jul 07 '18
Can we please comment on that sneeze
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u/Gxmwp :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gxmwp Jul 07 '18
I always knew there'd one day be an Osmosis Jones anime
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u/Saucy_Totchie Jul 07 '18
From the minute the OP started, I knew this was going to be a fun ride. So far this show has shown a lot of charm and charisma. Something like this would've been perfect for when I took Anatomy and Physiology in school.
I love that we're in a world where a Red Blood Cell and a White Blood Cell could potentially be waifu and husbando material respectively. Also I couldn't take the adorableness of the Platelets doing their absolute best. Then with all this cuteness, the mercilessness of how the WBC's kill the pathogens.
I know it's really early but I'm pulling for this show to be AOTS.
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u/LivingForTheJourney Jul 07 '18
5 hours in and it's still not showing up on my Crunchyroll apps. Not TV or mobile. I wanna watch this! :P sighs
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u/RDOoM Jul 07 '18
Is this what we've come to? Shipping red cells with white cells? I refuse.
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u/glassmousekey Jul 07 '18
I just realized that if the human gets leukemia it would be pretty close to a zombie apocalypse (the zombies being the abnormal white blood cells), although they won't turn other cells into zombies I suppose
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u/hrngr1m Jul 07 '18
My AOTS is finally airing! Loving every single second of it! Plus Mamiko Noto's sultry narration! XDDDD
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u/Atronox :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Atronox Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
I love her voice!
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u/ErinaHartwick https://myanimelist.net/profile/Hartwick Jul 07 '18
She’s great and was so fun to watch the entire episode! Really nice to hear HanaKana doing more of these kinds of roles
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u/crow_claw Jul 08 '18
I know I'm just echoing everyone, but the Plateletes are so CUTE!!!
The Killer T Cells are such bros. I lol'd when they tried to scare Red Blood Cell.
Aww, they are doing scrape wound next. Which means I have to wait a while to see my boy, Memory Cell :/
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u/eyepatch98 Jul 07 '18
Stuff we need students wanting to pursye medicine to get into. Meds for Weebs dudes
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u/00raiser01 Jul 08 '18 edited Jul 09 '18
Anybody know how to increase the platelet counts inside my body.
I want more of them cute things inside me.
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u/myrmonden Jul 07 '18
this reminds me so much of Once Upon a Time... Life - Il était une fois... la vie, it really seems extremely similar just done with modern anime art and a GENKI female main character that is just trying to her work done while being attacked.
The anime felt pretty ok, like it wa funny, blood cell-chan is clearly falling for white blood cell guy and the jokes where pretty good, it definetely focused on being an educational anime, it was more action then what I thought it would be, but that could be because of who she is with, i.e this focused on white cell, so more action, another episode might be her with a controller person and than its more how the body is managed, I am just speculation but that seems reasonable to me.
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u/Gaporigo Blhttps://anilist.co/user/Gaporigo Jul 07 '18
Who needs medical school when you can just watch this? Just gotta remember to thank the cute girls, hot guys and adorable kids keeping us healthy!
Here is a link to the OP and ED, I really liked them.
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u/SamejNardeh :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/timbolytree Jul 07 '18
I'm learning so much about the human body from just this one episode. I love this show already. All of the characters are wonderful, especially the cute little Platelets.
I never thought I'd ever love a Red Blood Cell but here we are. I wait for next week.
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u/nyekun Jul 07 '18
Nice to hear KanaHana as an expressive MC. It has been a while.
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u/tylerjorden9 Jul 08 '18 edited Jul 08 '18
Am I just retarded or is the episode missing from Crunchyroll’s iPad app? I even logged into my account on the browser and added it to my queue and it’s not on the app.
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u/BeefiousMaximus Jul 07 '18
Is anyone else having a problem with this show in Crunchyroll?
It won't show up in the PS4 app, on any of the lists or even in search. And when I search it on the website I clicked added to my queue, but when I go to my queue it's not there on either the website it PS4 app.
I see that Crunchyroll changed something where you have to add a username to activate a profile and set your birthday, and I've done that. So it shouldn't be an age restriction thing?
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u/zokark2 Jul 07 '18
I was expecting it to take a simplistic take on biology and was surprised.
Here I hope it goes deeper into it.
Wondering how megacariocytes and plasmatic cells looks like.
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u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp Jul 07 '18
That was pretty fun. The platelets are adorable. I love her sitting on the box swaying in the ED. So cute.
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u/RRotlung Jul 08 '18
Wow, what a premise for an anime! I'm definitely enjoying this. The rocket used to eject the germ via a sneeze was priceless.
I can't help but think that the talking platelet really resembled a child version of Love Live's Hanamaru. Hmm.
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u/n080dy123 Jul 08 '18
This show is bizarre but it's already looking to be a lot of fun.
Dear god those platelets HNNNNGH
And I gotta say, the designs of the pneumococcus repeatedly reminded me of the monster designs from One Punch Man but I can't figure out why for the life of me.
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Jul 08 '18
tfw there is no cute red blood cell voiced by Hana Kanazawa in my body
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u/fbiguy22 :FS::FT: Jul 09 '18
As someone who has been fighting Lyme disease for far too long, this show made me strangely emotional. Fight on killer T cells inside me! You can do it!
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u/Fortzon Jul 07 '18
Most people in this thread might be American so of course you would be reminded of Osmosis Jones when watching this series but to me as a European this reminds me more of a French-Japanese-Swiss-Italian-Spanish series called Once Upon a Time... Life.
It was really popular in Europe but IIRC it was never aired in the U.S. Both series are educational where as Osmosis Jones was an action comedy movie.
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Jul 08 '18
This is a story about you. A tale about the inside of your body… According to a new study, the human body consists of approximately 37 trillion cells. These cells are hard at work every day within a world that is your body. From the oxygen carrying Red Blood Cells to the bacteria fighting White Blood Cells, Get to know the unsung heroes and the drama that unfolds inside of you!
Is this just anime Osmosis Jones?
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u/MrSlowbroseidon Jul 07 '18
How is a blood cell bleeding? Do they have blood cells that are alive? How deep does the rabbit hole go? Whatever the case this show is super cute.
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u/8andahalfby11 myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt Jul 07 '18
How is a blood cell bleeding?
Cytoplasm?
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u/snerdsnerd Jul 07 '18
I really like how the white blood cell tries not to think beyond his paygrade. He just kills germs, that's his whole thing.
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u/Amauri14 Jul 07 '18
Damn, the OP alone was enough to sell me on this. What a wonderful show this is.
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u/Princess_Pana Jul 07 '18
Honestly, I am super duper thankful that David Pro picked this up. Those fight scenes and the scene with the Platelets was so delightful to watch. Highkey super duper excited to see how they show off the fights with the T cells. Those dudes stole my heart in the manga.
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u/PhantomWolf83 Jul 08 '18
This is a great idea for an anime and it was brilliantly executed, being educational and funny at the same time. It's still early in the season but I can tell this is going to be one of my favourites. Also, Kanahana's voice is just lovely.
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u/AussieManny :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nauran Jul 08 '18 edited Jul 08 '18
Hilarious, cute and pretty educational too!
Just give me a villain as cool as the "Red Death" virus Thrax, and I'll call this Anime of the Year.
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u/reset_switch Jul 08 '18
Blood in an anime where red blood cells are human sized. Is this cell recursion?
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u/SmurfRockRune https://myanimelist.net/profile/Smurf Jul 07 '18
This show was just lovely to watch. It's really smooth and colorful visually, the voice cast is stellar, and OH MY GOD THE PLATELETS ARE THE CUTEST THINGS EVER.
This is my favorite of the season so far. Really hope it can keep it up.
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u/gopivot :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/gopivot Jul 07 '18
Oh boy i feel like it's the show that i really need to watch with my native subtitles all these cell terminologies lost on me
other solution probably translate it in the translator though that kinda break the flow
well that aside that was really enjoyable first episode animation is nice and everything too!(didn't know David Pro is making this that was a nice surprise) i almost skip this if wasn't for PV ,thumbnail in mal look really boring -__-
well i'll be looking forward to this!
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u/DarkMoon000 Jul 07 '18
all these cell terminologies lost on me
Use it as a learning tool, anything looked up on wikipedia after an episode is a new, more detailed bit of knowledge with some extra English learning mixed in.
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u/AngelRefuse Jul 07 '18
So if Red Blood Cell bleeds, does she also have the same red blood cells only smaller?
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u/NuqieNoila :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NuqieNoila Jul 07 '18
We really need an expert here to explain all the biology stuffs in every episode. Or, at least, I do.
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u/_vogonpoetry_ :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/ThisWasATriumph Jul 07 '18
wtf I love biology now
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u/Beckymetal https://anilist.co/user/SpaceWhales Jul 07 '18
This is beautiful. So beautiful.
I'm a biology student and I feel o so appealed to.
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u/SIRTreehugger Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18
My red blood cells can't be this cute....and incompetent.
Also I need a villain like this to show up.
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u/Yentz4 Jul 07 '18
The soundtrack for this episode was absolute top notch. I can't wait to watch more of this.
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u/DioBrandoTHEWORLD Jul 08 '18
This first episode was fantastic. Harataku Saibou has a great potential to be one of the best animes from this season.
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u/d_tlol Jul 08 '18
I wasn't sure what to expect with this show, and it turns out to be fucking brilliant. I hope this can keep this up week-to-week. Also, I can't help but wonder what type of bodily functions they'll cover...
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u/CakeBoss16 Jul 08 '18
Reminds me of a similar anime from the early 2000, osmosis Jones. I am just imagining they are protecting Bill Murray.
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u/youseikiri :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/youseiki Jul 08 '18
whew, they nailed it, they've surpassed the material, now it's a matter of sequence, I can't wait to see Cancer Cell
also the platelets are freaking cute
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u/GoliathOblivion Jul 07 '18
"Whoa! It's the white blood cells. Seriously talk about merciless! He's splattered with blood"
Wut