Cells at Work! Origins(a small rant)Big text ahead
Hi guys, how are you?
With this recent anime about the Human Body that came around, i was really happy on seeing something familiar in this time and age
BUT!
I’m kinda tired of seeing people on the internet comparing this anime to the movie AND tv show “Ozmosis Jones”, which, in my opinion leaves me very sad.
As some of you must know, i’m a 25 year old grown woman, and in contrary to some of you young sprouts, I’ve seen lots of tv shows that you will never watch or even heard of(example: the beggining of CGI was not in movies but in tv cartoons like Insektors, Shadow Raiders and Reboot)
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Now, continuing this small rant, why do i feel sad and not that please with the “cells at work!” and “ozmosis Jones” comparation?
I do understand that for most of these youtubers and other people, Ozmosis jones is the only base they have as is one of the first “body related cartoon” they know. I watched the movie and the tv show and i see no similarities what-so-ever.
When i first saw the anime come out and watched the first episode, there was only one idea in my mind, and that was this:
This is a french cartoon that was about..You guessed...The human body.
Here you have the english intro:
In this cartoon, you can see how blood cells, white cells, platelets, monocytes, the different kinds of viruses and many others cells look. Very diferent from one another, dont they?
This is a cartoon from the 90′s, and this had many other collections like “Once upon a time...Man” or “once upon a time...Space”, which back then were very informative and educative.
Just like in the “Cells at Work!” anime, each episode would be about a certain part of the body and how it worked, all funny but still educative. And another thing it had but for a very breif moment, was it showed how other people’s bodies worked in case they did drugs, smoked or even drank alchool or ended up in the hospital after a really big accident.
I’m not telling you that “oh shit now! this anime was completly based off on this french cartoon!!!”, no. I’m not telling you that. Eveeryone’s have an opinion and this is mine, and i respect other’s opinions(as long they dont come pouncing on me with death threats....), I’m just saying that, in my head, i feel like !Cells at Work!” feel alot like “Once Upon a Time...Life” than any other “human body cartoon” out there.
The unique character designs, the way they tell the story each episode, how they show us how virus and each cell work, they even show us - in the same episode - how the body goes when its dying and what happens during pregnancy(showing the development of a baby from the conception to birth).
They even talk about vaccination and how it works inside our bodies. The show its particulary simple but very full of information.
I learned alot from this cartoon as a kid, and i would watch it all over again, even if its outdated nowadays, but its still very interesting to watch it.
Give it a chance and watch a few episodes. You wont regret it.
Thank you for reading all of this and have an amazing day.