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Cells At Work! Manga Gets 2nd Stage Play
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The official website for the stage play of Akane Shimizu's Cells at Work! (Hataraku Saibō) manga revealed on Friday that a second stage play will run at Tokyo's Theatre 1010 from September 27 to October 6. The sequel play's title will be Tainai Katsugeki Hataraku Saibō II (Internal Action Play Cells at Work II).
Ryō Kitamura will replace Masanari Wada as White Blood Cell (Neutrophil), and Umino Kawamura will replace Kanon Nanaki as Red Blood Cell (Erythrocite). Other main cast members will include:
- Yūki Kimisawa as Killer T Cell
- Takeshi James Yamada as Cancer Cell
- Yōjirō Itokawa as B Cell
- Kento Kitamura as Memory Cell
- Chihiro Kai as Regulatory T Cell
- Bishin Kawasumi as Dendritic Cell (Memory Cell)
- Kanon Miyahara as Natural Killer Cell
Keita Kawajiri is returning to direct the play and write the script.
The Tainai Katsugeki Hataraku Saibō play ran at Tokyo's Theatre 1010 from November 16-25. Tsuyoshi Kida (Bleach, ClassicaLoid) directed the play, and Kawajiri (Mob Psycho 100, Nanbaka stage plays) is writing the script.
Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:
The average human body contains about 60 trillion cells, and each of them has work to do! But when you get injured, viruses or bacteria invade, or when an allergic reaction flares up, everyone from the silent but deadly white blood cells to the brainy neurons has to work together to get through the crisis!
Shimizu launched the Cells at Work! manga in the March 2015 issue of Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius, and Kodansha shipped the fifth compiled volume in Japan in August 2017.
Shimizu's original Cells at Work! manga launched in the March 2015 issue of Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius, and Kodansha shipped the fifth compiled volume in Japan in August 2017. Kodansha Comics shipped the manga's fifth volume in English November 2017, and it will also debut the Cells at Work! Code Black spinoff manga this summer. The manga has inspired several spinoff series such as Hataraku Saikin (Bacteria at Work), Hatarakanai Saibō (Cells That Don't Work), and Hataraku Saibō Friend.
The first television anime adaptation of the manga premiered last July. Aniplex of America streamed the series on Crunchyroll. A new anime special aired in December, and Crunchyroll is streaming the special. The anime will get a second season.
Sources: Cells at Work! stage play's website, Comic Natalie
