Cells at Work! Hataraku Saibō is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akane Shimizu. It features the anthropomorphized cells of a human body, with the protagonist being a red blood cell. The manga was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sirius starting in March 2015. It is licensed in North America by Kodansha USA. An anime television series adaptation by David Production aired on July 7, 2018 and is currently ongoing with 13 episodes having been produced