Series premieres on July 7

The official website for the television anime of Akane Shimizu's Cells at Work! ( Hataraku Saibō ) manga revealed two commercials on Tuesday. The videos preview the opening theme song "Mission! Ken - Kō - Dai - Ichi" (Mission! Health First), performed by Kana Hanazawa, Tomoaki Maeno, and Daisuke Ono, and the ending theme song "CheerS," performed by musical duo duo ClariS. (Note: The official videos in the source link below are region-locked to Japan.)

The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX, BS11, Tochigi TV, and Gunma TV on Saturday, July 7 at 24:00 (effectively midnight on Sunday morning). The anime will now also premiere on MBS, TV Aichi, and Hokkaido Broadcasting on July 7, on RKB Mainichi Broadcasting on July 8, on AT-X on July 10, and will begin streaming on Docomo Anime Store on July 9.

The cast includes:



Kana Hanazawa as Red Blood Cell (Erythrocite)



Tomoaki Maeno as White Blood Cell (Neutrophil)



Kikuko Inoue as Macrophage



Daisuke Ono as Killer T Cell



Maria Naganawa as Platelet



Takahiro Sakurai as Helper T Cell (T Lymphocyte)



Saori Hayami as Regulatory T Cell



M.A.O as Eosinophil



Nobuhiko Okamoto as Dendritic Cell





Shōya Chiba as B cell



Yūichi Nakamura as Memory Cell

Ayako Kawasumi as Mast Cell

Aya Endo as Senpai Red Blood Cell

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Pneumonia Coccus

In addition, Mamiko Noto will narrate the show.

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

Shimizu launched the Cells at Work! manga in the March 2015 issue of Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius , and Kodansha shipped the fifth compiled volume in Japan last August. Kodansha Comics shipped the manga's fifth volume last November. The manga ranked on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook's 2016 list of top graphic novels for male readers. The manga has 1.5 million copies in print. Haruyuki Kichida launched the Hataraku Saikin (Bacteria at Work) spinoff manga in Nakayoshi last April. Moe Sugimoto launched another spinoff manga titled Hatarakanai Saibō (Cells That Don't Work) last July, and Shigemitsu Harada and Issei Hatsuyoshi launched the Hataraku Saibō BLACK spinoff on June 7.

Thanks to Dennis R. for the embedded videos.

Source: Cells at Work! anime's official website