Another manga spinoff is on the way to expand the world of Akane Shimizu’s Cells at Work! series. The latest is Cells at Work! Illegal (Hataraku Saibou Illegal), which is set to launch on the YanMaga website on February 1. Manga author Kae Hashimoto revealed …Read more »
Ever wanted more from your favorite anime and manga? (The answer is yes, obviously — we just like to lead with a question.) Even the longest-running series leave us wanting more if they’re especially good. Whether it’s variants on the story, explorations of favorite characters, …Read more »
The ‘Cells at Work! Pop-up Corner’ store has just opened in Japan today, and it will be around only until August 3. It’s located at the Kinokuniya Seibu Shibuya Store in Shibuya City, Tokyo. While getting in is free, the merchandise isn’t, and they have …Read more »
Veteran voice actress Kikuko Inoue has been voicing our favorite anime and game characters for decades. From romantic heroines to terrifying baddies (and a certain Tall Vampire Lady), this eternally youthful star has done it all. But do you know where you’ve heard her? Here …Read more »
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Kodansha Publishing have teamed up to use Cells at Work! in the fight against COVID-19. Creator Akane Shimizu finished her Cells at Work! series about anthropomorphic cells with a chapter about COVID-19. This chapter, plus a new …Read more »
Yasuhiro Fukuda’s Cells at Work! Baby manga is a spinoff of Akane Shimizu’s Cells at Work! series that first kicked off in Kodansha’s Morning magazine in October of 2019. The manga previously went on hiatus last June, and now it’s set to take a three-month …Read more »
Akane Shimizu’s popular manga Cells at Work! has officially ended its run. The is currently in its second season (inspired by Cells at Work! Code Black), but we’re going to miss our favorite hardworking cells. How will we fill the void? With more educational anime, of course! We’ve …Read more »
Here’s a toast to the success of Cells at Work! Champion Sake award-winning brewing company Aizu Homare has come out with a special Cells at Work! themed sake meant to celebrate both the culmination of the manga, and the new season of the anime. The …Read more »
It’s been a wild ride full of equal parts laughs, action, and education, but the time has officially come for Akane Shimizu’s Cells at Work! manga to end. We recently posted about the final chapter coming in the next issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Sirius, …Read more »
The Cells at Work! manga has received a few spinoffs, and now it’s spawned off into a medical reference book aimed at children. Being released by Kodansha, the same publisher of the manga, the textbook has the long title of Learn Correctly About Infectious Diseases! …Read more »
The Cells at Work! manga series is almost over. Its last chapter will be in the next issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Sirius, which becomes available in late January. The final manga — volume six — will be released in Japan just afterward, on February …Read more »
Cells at Work!! (the second season of Cells at Work!) will be debuting January 9. The franchise’s official Japanese Twitter handle shared this news, along with a trailer and more details on cast and crew.
With Hetalia due to to return to our screens in spring 2021, we’re all pretty hype right now! The one-of-a-kind show put a surprising spin on international relations in wartime… and that’s a strange sentence to say when talking about a show full of cute anime boys. …Read more »
Each Cells at Work! spinoff has its own flavor while keeping the style of the original. So if Cells at Work! Baby is cute and Cells at Work! and Friends is about foibles, then Cells at Work! Bacteria is . . . well, gross. But it’s …Read more »
Japan’s weekend box office numbers are in! According to Anime News Network, the much-advertised Cells at Work! movie, Tokubetsu Jōei-ban “Hataraku Saibō!!” Saikyō no Teki, Futatabi. Karada no Naka wa “Chō” Ōsawagi!, came in at number 10 for its opening weekend. Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s …Read more »
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