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REVIEW: Cells at Work! BR

meiam wrote:

I really don't think the show can be considered a success as far educational point of view is concerned. Most of the depiction involved are only accurate on the most superficial of elements and the major aspect of the show are flat out wrong. For example one of the major defining characteristic, the only one really, for red blood cell (the main character) is that she's constantly lost... this makes no sense whatsoever since red blood cell have no destination, they just circulate at random, delivering oxygen when they pass upon area where it's needed.

The popular theory is that she has the sickle cell defect.

Also sickle cell anemia is very rare in Japan. https://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=6282897#post6282897

I really don't think the show can be considered a success as far educational point of view is concerned. Most of the depiction involved are only accurate on the most superficial of elements and the major aspect of the show are flat out wrong. For example one of the major defining characteristic, the only one really, for red blood cell (the main character) is that she's constantly lost... this makes no sense whatsoever since red blood cell have no destination, they just circulate at random, delivering oxygen when they pass upon area where it's needed. A particular egregious case is (light spoiler) spoiler[cancer depiction, shown as an oppressed minority when it's anything but that]. In the end the only educational aspect is that the show throw fancy scientific name around, but I'd wager less than 2% of people who watched the show could even name most of the foreign pathogen and the body defence mechanism that feature prominently in the show after watching it.