The March issue of Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius magazine is revealing the main cast for the television anime adaptation of Akane Shimizu's Cells at Work! ( Hataraku Saibō ) manga on Friday. The cast includes:

Tomoaki Maeno as White Blood Cell (Neutrophil)

Kana Hanazawa as Red Blood Cell (Erythrocite)

Kikuko Inoue as Macrophage

Daisuke Ono as Killer T Cell

Maria Naganawa as Platelet

The anime will premiere in July. Aniplex opened a Japanese and English website for the anime on January 19, and streamed a promotional video.

Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

The average human body contains about 60 trillion cells, and each of them has work to do! But when you get injured, viruses or bacteria invade, or when an allergic reaction flares up, everyone from the silent but deadly white blood cells to the brainy neurons has to work together to get through the crisis!

Kenichi Suzuki ( JoJo's Bizarre Adventure , Drifters ) is directing the anime at david production, and Yuuko Kakihara ( Tsukigakirei , Persona 4: The Animation ) is in charge of series composition, and both Suzuki and Kakihara will pen the scripts. Takahiko Yoshida ( Welcome to the NHK , Yowamushi Pedal ) is designing the characters and is also credited as chief animation director, while Kenta Mimuro is credited as cell character designer, prop designer, and animation scene animation director. Keiko Tamaki is credited for sub-character design. Kenichiro Suehiro ( Re:ZERO , Girls' Last Tour ) is composing the music at MAYUKO.

Other staff include:

Art Setting: Yoshihiro Sono, Koji Hashiguchi

Art: atelier Platz

Color Setting: Aiko Mizuno

Director of Photography: Yuki Oshima

3D CG Director: Yutaka Nakajima

Editor: Kiyoshi Hirose (editz)

Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa

Sound Production: MAGIC CAPSULE

Produce: Yuma Takahashi

Animation Producer: Go Wakamatsu

Production: Aniplex, Kodansha, david production

The manga received an animated commercial last July.