Your gut bacteria just started a turf war and your immune system brought a knife to a germ fight.
The theatrical episode will cover events from the fifth volume of the manga.
Production
Gut environment as claustrophobic alien landscape
Acting
Hanazawa's panic-screaming as a red blood cell getting lost AGAIN
Practical Effects
Cancer Cell's return brings genuine menace to a body comedy
Director
Hirofumi Ogura
Kana Hanazawa
Red Blood Cell AE3803 (Erythrocyte) (voice)
Tomoaki Maeno
White Blood Cell U-1146 (Neutrophil) (voice)
Akira Ishida
Cancer Cell (voice)
Saori Hayami
Regulatory T Cell (voice)
Daisuke Ono
Killer T Cell (voice) / Memory T Cell (voice)
Toa Yukinari
NK Cell (voice)
Kikuko Inoue
Macrophage (voice)
Maria Naganawa
Platelet 'Leader' (voice)
Yusuke Kobayashi
Ordinary Cell (voice)
Yu-ri Yoshida
Black Lactic Acid Bacterium (voice)
Rie Takahashi
Red Lactic Acid Bacterium (voice)
Natsumi Fujiwara
Panda Lactic Acid Bacterium (voice)
Yurika Kubo
Dappled Lactic Acid Bacterium (voice)
Mamiko Noto
Narrator (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film dropped during peak pandemic anxiety, making 'cells protecting the body' weirdly therapeutic propaganda.
The manga's author is a former biology teacher, and the gut-specific immunology here is actually syllabus-accurate.
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