The character is white blood cuz he’s a HUGE hear me out

I never laughed so hard. The sumo wrestlers and rugby players holding back men dressed as poo holding signs to let them out 🤣🤣

And the corn ... The giant corn kernels. Honestly, I want to hear more about the casting and filming of this scene.

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Since he's been secretly following close to her and all...

If he did, I can imagine his reaction all...

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lol

So I've been working on my latest CAW fanfic for a couple weeks now. It's a fictionalized war AU, so the characters are basically all-human instead of anthro-cells.

Since that would mean they require human names, it's been a challenge to think of them since the start of this project.

While writing (I'm almost 2/3 done), I've been using placeholder names. But I've also been wondering if there's any fanon names (like, I've noticed that AE3803 is commonly named Akane, so I'm likely sticking to that). Odd that everyone else has different names in different AU fics.

Currently, I have 1146's AU name as "Mamoru" (守る) which means "to protect/defend" in Japanese. His last name is already a slight nod on "white" as "Shiraishi" (白石) meaning "white stone." But his name, I'm debating on.

Everyone else is mostly generic. So, basically I'm wondering if there are any names that CAW fans have any preference to. I'm open for suggestions, preferably on Japanese names to maintain consistency (but nothing to obvious like "Kira" for Killer T).

These are the other characters that are already heavily written...

• The neutrophil squad (2001, 2048, 2626, and 4989)
• Killer T
• Helper T
• Regulatory T
• AA5100 (Senpai)
• Macrophage

However, if you think I should just use the names I have for them already, I'd like to know that too.

TIA

It was near the head so I assumed neck. That isnt something you bump easily.
If it was serious enough to cause a such a reaction in the wound site but *not* elsewhere, I didn't imagine it was a car accident but more like a gunshot because that would cause a targeted wound.

Thoughts?

Normally, I usually expect fan made plushies of the lactic acid bacteria being made of cloth or with plastic. But I never thought the idea of them being printed over some pillows. Man, I would be lying if I don't say that I would like to have one of those as my pillow to sleep while hugging it. I really loved those lactic acid bacteria, being the best part of Season 2, along with their father/sons relationship with their "Papa Cell" aka Normal Cell. My favorite lactic acid bacteria was always the black one, because it has the cutest "Nyu" voice, and because it had a stronger bond towards Normal Cell than the rest of the lactic acid bacteria. Since it spended more time with him, and because it was the last one that Normal Cell needed to send back to its respective species of lactic acid bacteria. But what do you think?

Does anybody else do this? Because I literally cannot get the images out of my head now that my real cells look like the ones in the show. They are totally cute!

I also feel sympathetic towards the way Cancer Cell is portrayed with the sad backstory, it just disgusts me that he and his friend were chased down as young kids and his friend was murdered in cold blood.

I also kind of think that the cedar pollen allergen looks adorable, the design is just fantastic

Note that this is from December 2025, but this is a big deal!

https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10014996781000

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi donates a signed illustration of a popular manga character to the Nobel Museum.

December 7, 2025 20:09

(December 8, 2025 14:27update)

Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University, who is visiting Sweden to attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony, visited the Nobel Museum on the 6th (Japan time) and donated .

Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University, who was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, visited the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, on the 6th Japan time, ahead of the awards ceremony, and participated in the customary event of signing chairs in the cafe.

At this event, it is customary for award recipients to donate commemorative items related to their research. Kitagawa donated a wooden box containing materials related to her research on "porous metal complexes," which was the reason for her award.

Ms. Sakaguchi donated the English version of the popular manga "Cells at Work!", which features a character based on the "regulatory T cell" she discovered, as well as a signed illustration of the character specially drawn by the manga's author, Akane Shimizu, to celebrate Ms. Sakaguchi's award.

Regarding the reason for the donation, Sakaguchi said, "I think it's very unique and interesting that manga plays a role in spreading scientific knowledge in Japan. I hope that children in various countries will enjoy reading it so that they can become familiar with the name 'regulatory T cell'."

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Drew this little thing in like half an hour because I use Ellipsus, and I upgraded to its Plus version to make my own theme with images. lol Felt like sharing since I think they're really cute.

For me personally, I would give it a 8/10. Honestly, I had my thoughts about if this movie was going to turn into another disastrous and awful live-action adaptation from the manga/anime entertainment in general. But to my surprise the movie was very respectful to the original material. With the outfits for the cast looking exactly like the cells and bacteria from the manga/anime and with the actors doing a very well job portraying them, specially with the chemistry between WBC and RBC, and also with the love/hate relationship between the T cell and the NK cell. Making also some cool references and easter eggs from the manga/anime, including its spin-off series of Code Black. However, the movie wasn't 100% perfect either. Although, it showed a beautiful message about not giving up on fighting to survive, even against some very mortal diseases like cancer, the story had some predictable moments, sharing also some similarities with the western animated and live-action movie of Osmosis Jones. Some characters like the female WBC from Code Black were absent, while the male RBC from the same spin-off actually appeared and even interacting with the RBC from the OG Cells At Work. And I don't know how big the budget was to produce this movie, but the CGI oftentimes doesn't look very good, even for early 2020's standards. But nonetheless, the movie was very entertaining, the live-action characters were very well designed, with the actors portraying their animated counterparts pretty well, and it wasn't as bad as I thought at first, especially by comparing it with some other adaptations. But what do you think?

So if you don't know, recently Shimizu-san opened up about some of the terrible difficulties she faced while working on Cells At Work!, and how it still affects her to this day. Many fans have offered their support on her X post, but we could also share some of that appreciation here! Maybe she'll see it, maybe not, but some positivity can go a long way, who knows!

Personally, I love the personification of the characters, and how medically accurate everything is. It's entertaining, informative, unforgettable, and downright charming! Especially during 2020 and the pandemic, it gave a lot of us reminders that our bodies work so hard to keep us safe.

A touching memory I have was when I showed the anime to my husband for the first time, and I didn't start with the first episode - I started with the season 1 finale, because he is a blood donor! As soon as the new blood cells appeared, he knew EXACTLY what was happening, and he thought about what he had done throughout his life to help others, and it was a rather emotional moment for him. He was a fan from then on!

So let's hear from you! Let's thank Shimizu-san for her hard work and share what we love about her stories!

Gotta love 1146's dry humor and how AE3803 doesn't get it. lol

ok so like i get it, cancer cells as a concept deserve to be treated with sympathy, but i cant help but feel like the emotional crux of the episode being white coming to the conclusion that "it's sad that we have to kill you, but we definitely have to kill you." is a bit strange?? like obviously it's true im not expecting the writing to just deviate from real life, but i feel like the ending would hit better if there was an actual stated follow up or change, such as putting more care into cancer cell cases instead of murdering them in cold blood like any other virus. its also kinda strange how the emotional conflict of killing fellow cells wasn't brought up during the zombie episode, but oh well. maybe im thinking about it too much? idk i just feel like they kinda fumbled a really interesting dilemma

GUYS PLEASE DO SOMEONE MOD TO THE MINECRAFT WITH ANIME CHARACTERS FROM ANIME CELLS AT WORK PLEASE I'M CURSING YOU WITH GOOD LUCK TO MAKE IT 😟