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Cells at Work! Medicine Spinoff Manga Ends in Next Chapter
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The spinoff manga centers on the function of medicine inside the body.
The manga launched simultaneously with Choco Aozora and Meku Kaire's Hataraku Saibō Neko (Cells at Work! Cat) manga in Monthly Shonen Sirius in May 2023. Shimizu Production is working in cooperation for both spinoff manga. Kodansha published the third compiled book volume of Hataraku Saibō Okusuri on November 8.
The ongoing Hataraku Saibō Muscle (Cells at Work! Muscle) spinoff manga launched on Kodansha's Morning two manga website in February 2023. Yū Maeda is drawing the manga.
Shimizu launched the original Cells at Work! manga in the March 2015 issue of Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius magazine, and ended it in January 2021. Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English.
Kodansha USA Publishing is also releasing the following spinoff manga in English: Cells at Work: Bacteria!, Cells at Work!: Neo Bacteria!, Cells at Work! White Brigade, Cells at Work! Baby, Cells NOT at Work!, Cells at Work! Code Black, Cells at Work and Friends!, and Cells at Work: Platelets!.
The latest Cells at Work! spinoff manga to end is Akari Otokawa and Shigemitsu Harada's Hataraku Saibō Lady (Cells at Work! Lady), which ended in September 2022. The manga focused on adult women's physiology, such as menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth. Harada also writes the separate Cells at Work! spinoff manga Cells at Work! Code Black, which ended in January 2021.
The first television anime of the original manga premiered in July 2018. The second season premiered in January 2021, alongside the anime of the Cells at Work! Code Black spinoff manga.
The original Cells at Work! manga's live-action film adaptation premiered in Japan on December 13 and ranked at #1 in the Japanese box office. The film sold a total of 612,000 tickets and earned a total of 844,768,310 yen (about US$5.86 million in current conversion) in its first three days.
Source: Monthly Shonen Sirius June issue
