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Cells at Work! Code Black TV Anime's 1st Full Promo Unveils More Cast, Staff

The official Twitter account for Shigemitsu Harada and Issei Hatsuyoshiya's Cells at Work! Code Black (Hataraku Saibō Black) spinoff manga began streaming the first full promotional video for the anime adaptation on Sunday. The video announces more cast and staff members.

【第1弾PV公開!】
2021年1月放送 TVアニメ「はたらく細胞BLACK」第1弾PVを公開!

ブラックな職場で奮闘する細胞たちの物語。
これは、あなたの体の物語──。

働け。命ある限り——。

■YouTubehttps://t.co/QqDzsIUCWN

■公式サイトhttps://t.co/bQB0e8Y6Ap#細胞BLACK pic.twitter.com/JbvpEaN5XP

— 『はたらく細胞BLACK』【公式】 (@cellsatworkbla1) September 6, 2020

The newly announced cast members are:

• Kenn as Red Blood Cell
• Lynn as White Bood Cell (Neutrophilic)
• Yumi Uchiyama as White Bood Cell (Neutrophilic)
• Takashi Narumi as Gastric Chief Cell
• Yurika Kubo as Platelet

The newly announced staff members are:

• Mechanic Design: Yoshihiro Ujiie
• Action Effect Animation Director: Tomohiro Kamitani
• Art Directors: Masahiro Sato, Chiaki Tsukahara
• Art Director Assistant: Mayuka Ota
• Color Key Artist: Ryoko Oka
• 3D CGI Director: Kazuaki Hara (Asahi Production)
• Compositing Director of Photography: Junpei Takatsu
• Compositing Director Assistant of Photography: Masami Takamura
• Editing: Mai Hasegawa
• Sound Director: Ryoshi Tanaka
• Sound Effect: Masami Kitakata
• Music: Yūgo Kanno
• Music Production: Aniplex

Junya Enoki is playing Red Blood Cell (Erythrocite), Yōko Hikasa is playing White Blood Cell (Neutrophilic), and Kenjiro Tsuda is narrating the anime.

Hideyo Yamamoto (Strike the Blood, Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka) is directing the series at Liden Films. Hayashi Mori (The Snack World, Layton Mystery Tanteisha: Katori no Nazotoki File) is supervising and writing the series scripts. Eiji Abiko (Last Hope, Baby Blue) is designing the characters, and Yūgo Kanno (Psycho-Pass, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable) is composing the music.

The anime will premiere in January 2021.

Kodansha Comics licensed the manga, and it describes the story:

In this new spinoff of the hit manga, a newbie Red Blood Cell is one of 37 trillion working to keep this body running. But something's wrong! Stress hormones keep yelling at him to go faster. The blood vessels are crusted over with cholesterol. Ulcers, fatty liver, trouble (ahem) downstairs... It's hard for a cell to keep working when every day is a CODE BLACK!

The manga and anime Cells at Work! showed you what happens when a young, healthy body gets in trouble... but what if the body wasn't so young, and was never very healthy? This new take stars a fresh-faced Red Blood Cell and his friend, the buxom White Blood Cell, as they struggle to keep themselves and their world together through alcoholism, smoking, erectile dysfunction, athlete's foot, gout... it's literal body horror! Whoever this guy is, he's lucky his cells can't go on strike!

Harada and Hatsuyoshi launched the manga in Morning and the Weekly D Morning digital manga magazine in June 2018. Kodansha will publish the manga's sixth compiled book volume on April 23. Kodansha Comics published the third volume in English on January 21.

The Cells at Work! Code Black anime has a separate staff and cast from Cells at Work!! (with two exclamation points), the previously announced second anime season of Akane Shimizu's Cells at Work! manga. The second Cells at Work! anime season is also debuting in January 2021.

A theatrical anime based on a story from volume 5 of the original manga will premiere in theaters in Japan on September 5. Aniplex stated that the anime will screen in theaters before it airs on TV as part of the second season. The theatrical anime's full title is: Tokubetsu Jōei-ban "Hataraku Saibō!!" Saikyō no Teki, Futatabi. Karada no Naka wa "Chō" Ōsawagi! (Special Screening Edition: "Cells at Work!!" The Return of the Strongest Enemy. A Huge Uproar Inside the Body's "Bowels!").

The first television anime of the original manga premiered in July 2018 and aired for 13 episodes. Aniplex of America streamed the series on Crunchyroll, and Funimation added the show in February. The company released the anime on Blu-ray Disc with an English dub in August 2019. A new anime special aired in December 2018, and Crunchyroll is streaming the special.

Sources: Cells at Work! Code Black manga's Twitter account, Comic Natalie