Cells at Work!

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Jul 03, 2026 (PST) | Translate to English
  わかりやすくて面白い
  Easy to understand and interesting
  細胞達のことを擬人化していて、物凄く面白くわかりやすく細胞のことを教えてくれる作品。はじめて見た時は衝撃的でした。本当にわかりやすくて、自分が風邪をひいたりした時に細胞達はこうやって働いてくれていたのかと、感謝すら覚えるレベル。アニメも映画実写化も、全て面白く見させてもらいながら学ぶことができました。

  It is a work that personifies cells, and teaches us about cells in an extremely interesting and easy-to-understand manner. It was shocking when I first saw it. It's really easy to understand, and it's a level where I even feel grateful that my cells worked like this when I caught a cold. I was able to learn about both the anime and the live-action film adaptation while being shown in an interesting way.

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Jan 11, 2026 (PST) | Translate to English
  楽しくて学べちゃう細胞のはなし
  A fun and learnable cell story
  体のはたらきを知りたい人も、生物科目の暗記を楽にしたい人も読むべき漫画。「細胞擬人化まんが」の名の通り、キャラの動きが実際の細胞を元ネタとしているため視覚的に分かりやすい。ひと言解説もあって勉強になるし、一つの細胞や細菌にフォーカスした話があるため興味が広がる。キャラに細胞のはたらきとは関係のない個性や会話などもあるが多すぎず、かといって学術的になりすぎず、細胞について全く知らない状態から読んでも理解できる。専門家監修。5巻で完結かと思われたが6巻が出て嬉しかった。6巻は各話病気にかかった身体のなかで何が起こっているのか細胞目線で描かれており、明確な最終話はなかった。おそらく、細胞たちにとっては命絶えるその日まではたらく毎日は続いていく、だから最終話はあなたの死のとき…ということではなかろうか。私はそう考えた。

  A comic that people who want to know how the body works and those who want to make memorizing biology subjects easier should read. As the name “cell anthropomorphism manga” suggests, the movements of the characters are based on actual cells, so they are easy to understand visually. There is also an explanation in a few words, so it's a learning experience, and since there are stories that focus on one cell or bacteria, my interest expands. The characters have personalities and conversations that have nothing to do with the function of cells, but they aren't too academic, and you can understand them even if you read them from a state where you don't know anything about cells. Supervised by experts. I thought it would be completed in volume 5, but I was happy that volume 6 came out. Volume 6 depicts what is happening in a diseased body from a cellular perspective in each episode, and there was no clear final story. Probably, for cells, every day they work until the day they die out continues, so the final story isn't about when you die... I thought so.

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Oct 14, 2025 (PST) | Translate to English
  ノーベル賞受賞きっかけで拝読
  I read it after winning a Nobel Prize
  ノーベル賞受賞された制御性T細胞について、はたらく細胞を読んでいた小学生が「あのキャラクターだねっ!!」と分かっていたというポストを見て、興味がわき読んでみました。個性的な擬人化で、すごく面白く体内の勉強が出来ました。細胞の働きを勉強する取っ掛りに良いと思います

  An elementary school student who was reading Cells at Work about regulatory T cells that won a Nobel Prize said, “That's the character!!” I saw a post saying I knew that, and I read it out of interest. It was a unique personification, and I was able to study the body in a very interesting way. I think it's a good starting point for studying the function of cells

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