Hataraku Saibou Black

Due to poor lifestyle choices, a certain human's body is in constant turmoil. With germs, bacteria, and foreign substances abound, the jobs of various cells become increasingly difficult and dangerous. As some of the unfortunate ones who matured in this chaotic environment, Sekkekkyuu AA2153 and Hakkekkyuu U-1196 strive to fulfill their duties—even if it means seeing many of their fellow cells lose their lives in duty.

Set in an environment vastly different from its parent story, Hataraku Saibou Black portrays the cells' struggles as they try to maintain the body's health. However, the human's condition continues to deteriorate, and whether or not these efforts will amount to something concrete depends on the cells!

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Hakkekkyuu U-1196 Main

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Sekkekkyuu AA2153 Main

Enoki, Junya Japanese

Sekkekkyuu AC1677 Supporting

KENN Japanese

Kesshouban Supporting

Kubo, Yurika Japanese

Kan Saibou Supporting

Bridcutt, Sarah Emi Japanese

Hakkekkyuu 1212 Supporting

Uchiyama, Yumi Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Tsuda, Kenjirou Japanese

Nou Saibou Supporting

Hirakawa, Daisuke Japanese

Macrophage Supporting

Shiina, Hekiru Japanese

Hakkekkyuu 8787 Supporting

Lynn Japanese

Cao, Cong Producer

Takahashi, Yuuma Producer

Kitazawa, Shiryuu Producer

Itou, Youhei Producer

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Jan 19, 2023

Paul-A-Bear

Recommended

When I watched this anime, I was just doing it so I could complete the Cells At Work Series. I knew Cells at work code black was wayy wayy more messed up than the other cells at work and it really showed that with all these different types of crazy diseases, illnesses, infections and even critical body damage. If being honest, I did not really find it as interesting or appealing at the first few episodes and just watched it to get the anime over with. However, nearing the end of the anime things took a turn for the worse for this body and the ... things that happened to the cells during this really struck me emotionally. Funny huh? Crying for some cells in a body? But it was truly sad and I couldn't hold back the tears.

Let's get some rating out the way! Firstly, the story. Well completely the opposite of your wholesome cells at work, the story here is way darker and way more filled with death and depression. It makes you think 'What in the cell is this human doing with their body?'. Apart from the story being more dark and gore induced, I would say that it builds up the interest and gives you a lot of knowledgeable information you might find useful. Although it did not strike me as an interesting show at first, it definitely carried its weight nearing the end (like 8 episodes in). Secondly, the characters. Definitely the characters are almost all unique and I really appreciated that this was implemented. As much as normal cells are similar, this anime decided to implement some unique characters around the body to further build that strong character connection between us, the audience, and the anime as a whole. Lastly, the music. As much as I like the OP and ED, they really really did not fit. At one point I'm crying my eyes out to a seriously sad scene and the next thing I hear is upbeat pumped up motivational music. Even so really nice music, just wish they coulda read the mood.

Overall, I would recommend this anime if you don't mind being somewhat uninterested for the first like 7 episodes only to be hit by a wave of emotion and chaos nearing the end. Would have given this anime a lwoer score if it wasn't for such a emotional and hard-hitting ending.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 1, 2023

Mx_Human

Mixed Feelings

If you treat this a stand alone it’s great, I even like it more then the source material (Cells at work) in terms of storytelling at some point and information given albeit by a narrator for the details. I can see why it ended on a cliffhanger at the end, while it’s definitely a more about you vs your body it just beats the same depressive ideas over and over again (like a heart beat one might say) and at some points it switches gears from serious stressed out moments to realistic interpretations of what the host would go through in a [spoiler redacted] situation ... instead of being about cells in this particular host. I don’t recommend watching this series and the original series around the same time, as they may share a concept but one handles it better (in my opinion)

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Feb 8, 2021

JCPrp

Not Recommended

Preliminary (4/13 eps)

Imagine the original Cells At Work, now revamp the characters and make the host body a stressed out, anxiety ridden person and create a new story based on the complications of stress and anxiety. It will be pretty clear if you will like the show or not by the first episode.

This is basically a darker version of the original cells at work, with very uninspired and overall flawed character and a decent alternate story and you have code black.

This is not an anime I am jumping out of my seat to recommend, its an average anime at best, I feel like you will know if ... this anime is for you right off of the bat.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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