Real DOCTOR reacts to CELLS AT WORK! // Episode 6 // 'Erythroblasts and Myelocytes'

Where do the cells in your blood come from? We find out by watching episode 6 of Cells at Work (Hataraku Saibou) from a real doctor's perspective! I'll be breaking down what's on screen, reacting to the scenes and explaining a little more about the medicine and how the cells work.

We learn about how erythroblasts become erythrocytes, why pseudomonas infections are so bad, what are NK cells, how your cells recognise viruses and cancer cells, and much, much more!

As with all these reviews I skim over a lot of medical terms, please leave a comment if you want any clarifications!

If you like this you can check out my look at the first episode here:

Or the second one here:

Or even the third one here:

Or even the fourth one here:

Or EVEN the fifth one!

You can watch Cells at Work! here:

Be warned this video is again very medical / lots of talk about cell biology, so it's not just a straight up reaction, I try and bring something different to each video, so if you enjoyed this please check out my other reviews of Medical TV dramas; House MD, Scrubs, The Good Doctor, Grey’s Anatomy, The Resident and ER!

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[darkness]

Why does our red blood cell have red hair? Well let me tell you she has a verry serious mutation that causes a verry dangerous sickness we call: main-character syndrome. It causes a person to have verry notable features so any random person will recognise her as a main-character.

[pigeontato]

Dr Hope: why is the main character’s hair different?

Me: you must be new

[merwinbagano]

NO ONE SPOIL HIM FOR EP 7

LOVE YOUR REACTS DOC HOPE

[TheSleepysleep]

This series is 50% "this is just like in your body" and 50% "this is just like in med school" 😂😂

[thomasderosso]

Moral of the story: if your bus gets a flat tire or has dark windows, the cops will come kill everyone aboard.

[Robert-kelb]

1:08 "Ahoge". Slowly, but surely, Dr. Hope is becoming a weeb like us.

[TrainfanJanathan]

As a school bus driver, your bus analogy really made me laugh. It gave me the image of a bus driver being pulled over for a roadside inspection.

Cop:
- *inspects* *bus*
- *finds* *a* *flat* *tire*
- *nukes* *the* *bus*

[painnful]

RBC: will I ever see you again?

*YES in every single episode. 100% ALL OF THE TIME*

[EsWandervogel]

6:07 those zombies are like “You get a hat and you get a HAT!!!”

[briannalawson]

1:09 what an adorable dork 😂❤️ He pointed out his little ahoge

[gtf]

AE-3803's red hair has only been called out during this storyline- they decided to make her an erythrocyte simply because she had red hair, but nobody bats an eye at it being significant. Her number is a play on this though because AE3803 is the hexcode for the color of her hair. Her senior is named AA5100, that also being a hexcode that produces a color that matches said character's hair. I explain this in reference to how they are colored in the manga's colored illustrations.

Meanwhile the name code for the protagonist neutrophil was eventually cracked (and by cracked I mean the official fan anthology book explained it)- his name is a verbal pun: 1146 is said "i-i-shi-ro" verbally sounding similar to the words good/nice and white, Ī and Shiro

[sweaves]

The main character red blood cell probably just has red hair to differentiate her as the main character among a crowd of similar characters. Sort of like a bright red shirt in a crowd of grey shirts.

[BaileyL]

I really like the police analogy. The killer t cells are like cops because they have to be informed of the situation, there has to be someone on the radio telling them what the suspect looks like. The nk cells are like detectives, they look at the evidence and crime scene first to follow it back to the perp, relying on their ability to sniff out suspicious activity

[ayyylmao]

" _Blimey, _ what the hell kinda cell is that?"
I CAN'T BREATHE 😂

[painnful]

Of course theyll skip over the phagocyting...
Because who wants to see Macrophage-sama eat our main character

[richardlsp]

I think the macrophages are maids because unlike the neutrophils, they mainly act as cleaners inside our body, macrophages are not the first fighters to deal with invaders. Additionally, as you have seen in this episode, the macrophage enucleates erythroblasts, so they are nurturing cells that make the red blood cells mature, so an analogy would be being a teacher to take care children (erythroblasts). I would consider the macrophage is very versatile, so that’s why the author gave her this character. There will be another episode talks more about the macrophages, so you will know why such strong cells are characterized as maids.

[grandmask]

:o another episode of doctery boi doing doctory stuff on anime

[fnger]

This is where the show starts to get... dystopian. So far, the "human body as a giant company/factory" analogy has been fun and relatively light-hearted, but the cancer episodes turn it into some kind of Orwellian nightmare. When you're a cell, thinking and living for yourself is the greatest crime imaginable, for which the penalty is immediate death. Orwell himself used the analogy of "cells in an organism" to describe what a totalitarian regime does to people, reducing individuals to the mere sum of their usefulness to the system. It's all well and good when we're just talking about regular, dumb, cells, but these cells are literally humanized. They're given character, wants, needs, emotions, and even interpersonal relationships. Seeing a person just like them, who's only crime was being born "wrong", hunted like an animal for just being who they are, then being expected to root against them in favor of an uncaring state/company/system, is wholely unsettling to me.

Still, I love that they didn't ignore or try to sugar coat this rather bleak implication of their world. This show is a damn masterpiece.

[melikajahedpari]

I think this show has made me go insane, every time I get a scratch and it starts to bleed I say "sorry cells" when It dries up I say "thank you platelets". I think Im mad...

[scottflickinger]

In most anime it's a trope to give the main character a bright color to distinguish them from the rest