(L+CR) Hataraku Saibou! (Cells at Work!) Season 2

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Great news! Cells at Work/Hataraku Saibou is getting a second season. Announced today.

Official site
hataraku-saibou.com

Source
https://twitter.com/hataraku_saibou/...24413864800256

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Announcement PV

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x74on5l

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New key visual (airs in January/Winter 2021)



https://twitter.com/hataraku_saibou/...94315072024576

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Subs are out on Funimation.

The platelets are back and in full force! So refreshing yet to see the Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, etc. We got to see Backward Cap, a character that wears their cap backwards. Heh, clever gimmick for this show.

The 'bump' is a reminder that the human body is vulnerable to just about anything.

Wonderful first episode.

[BWTraveller]

Yeah, I love BC. She's seriously adorable. Going to be fun watching the two of these back to back from now on.

BTW, not sure it's save having a megakaryocyte wandering around outside the marrow. Pretty sure those things are supposed to stay put. Her wandering around outside might suggest a fracture causing some marrow to leak out, which in turn could mean a risk of a fat embolism.

[Kanon]

Backward cap reminded me of Makoto from Fruits Basket, the design, the voice, and the personality were all a match.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by Kanon

Backward cap reminded me of Makoto from Fruits Basket, the design, the voice, and the personality were all a match.

Do you mean Tohru? Because Backwards Cap is actually voiced by Tohru .

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by Frontier

Do you mean Tohru? Because Backwards Cap is actually voiced by Tohru .

Yeah, that's who I meant

[James Rye]

Leave it to the Platelets to be super-adorable and give us the cutest series start ever. I love how all the adult looking Cells get "healed" by the cuteness of the Platelets. ^^

[Master_Yoma]

Its good to see the Platelets again and there all ready getting to trouble good thing that Backwards hat on the job

[FlareKnight]

That was a cute episode. The Platelets are a treasure to be sure.

And nice to have a crisis where White Blood Cell couldn't do anything since it was just a bump . Left good work for those little heroes without any fear of attackers.

Gold medals for everyone!

[Cosmic Eagle]

Oh, T-cell has now been specialized to Memory-T? That happened in the movie with the gut bacteria

[Dark Wing]

Kind of sad that we're only getting 8 episodes this time around...

[Frontier]

That poor virus didn't know what hit him...but he praised it, all the same .

The new Opening isn't quite as catchy as season 1's, but it's still very peppy and fun watching our cells at work and fighting off all the nasty viruses .

It's nice to see Red Blood Cell still trying her best to be a proper Senpai, even if she's still Red Blood Cell at the end of the day .

I was not expecting a Platelets focused episode to start off the new season, but it was a really wholesome and cute premier to watch, especially when I became as invested in Backwards Cap as White Blood Cell (I think their resemblance to Red Blood Cell helped a tad on that front) .

"What the cell is going on!?" Is that a new thing the subs are trying out this season ?

Megakaryocyte is like the Platelets' mom and teacher in one body. Even wearing the Platelet's normal uniform in a very fully-formed woman's body makes her look like a mom that just gave birth. I also know to listen to anything Yuko Kaida says to me .

Megakaryocyte might have a harsh tongue and be tough on her Platelets, but she knows how to properly motivate and reward them .

Originally Posted by Dark Wing

Kind of sad that we're only getting 8 episodes this time around...

A shame we won't be getting a full one-cour...but hopefully this helps lead to a strong production across each episode .

[arkhangelsk]

The platelets were the most popular thing in this series, IIRC, so I wasn't surprised to see an episode centered on them.

But yeah, though there are lots of platelets, before it is really only the long haired one that's a character with real speaking parts. Now that there are two of them, we need to tell them apart so now its Leader-chan and Backward Cap-chan

[TnAdct1]

Originally Posted by Dark Wing

Kind of sad that we're only getting 8 episodes this time around...

The way I see it, those are the regular episodes (with the rest of the season consisting of the movie).

Originally Posted by arkhangelsk

The platelets were the most popular thing in this series, IIRC, so I wasn't surprised to see an episode centered on them.

But yeah, though there are lots of platelets, before it is really only the long haired one that's a character with real speaking parts. Now that there are two of them, we need to tell them apart so now its Leader-chan and Backward Cap-chan

Actually, there's than those two, as the episode does feature the other main platelets from their spin-off manga (with the vice-leader and one of the two rookie platelets that are referred to by the way they look at things having speaking roles in this episode as well).

[James Rye]

I wouldn't wonder if the Platelets spinoff gets an anime someday as well, given how popular they are.^^

[Alchemist007]

Glad this is back.

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Episode 2

Wow, this episode looked like the apocalypse with all the zombified roaming around. Nice to also see the human body taking care of business as usual, especially Macrophage.

It's crazy to see how malicious some bacteria acts in this show. Even taking hostages!

[Frontier]

I can never get enough of Kikuko Inoue's Macrophage just casually coming in and serenely slicing stuff up .

I guess this is what Memory Cell gets when he mistakes his recall ability for the power to see the future and makes the Cells work harder than they actually have to...it's tough being neurotic .

That being said, the scene of him and B-Cell coming in for the save was pretty awesome .

Still some rivalry between Killer T-Cell and our White Blood Cell, with Killer T-Cell viewing White Blood Cell's doting on Red Blood Cell as a weakness instead of strength...of course, in all the chaos, White Blood Cell still ends up forgetting about Red Blood Cell .

I guess this just goes to show you can't really negotiate with germs, even germs with grand visions for themselves, and the best bet is to play along until you get a chance to turn things around .

Is that Show Hayami as that M-Cell bartender ?