Cells at Work

We have binge watched this immunology anime twice over the last few weeks - it's amazing!  It's only 13 episodes of about 20 minutes each and we would do 2-3 episodes a day.

As someone who worked on killer T cells, helper T cells, immunological approaches to cancer, and B cells, all I can say is: WOW!  It's so fun and so incredibly accurate!  Not only are they showing and telling you how the immune system and blood cells work, there is just so much real stuff going on in the background!

My favorite example is when they show the red blood cells "graduating" from the bone marrow.  They lose the pompom on their cute little red hats to show they are "mature."  Well, guess what?  That's the point in their life cycle where the immature red cells lose the ball shaped nucleus and take on their usual shape- the shape of the hat all the working red blood cells wear!

It's just phenomenally clever like that, while also being fantastically entertaining.  I will say, they play up the violence on the death of bacteria, so I'd recommend it to kids 12 and up if they're sensitive.  The first episode is a good guide to what it's like.

It is currently on Netflix and Crunchy Roll.  We watched it subtitled, but it's available with English dubs also.