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Working Cells “was adapted into an animation in 2018, featuring cells and bacteria in the body to explain the workings of the body. It was highly praised for its educational significance and quickly became popular. Subsequently, a second season and many derivative works were released. However, how many people knew about this manga, which has been serialized since 2015, before it became an anime?
Recently, senior manga editor Tetsuya Ishii revealed that the popularity of this work is actually thanks to the word of mouth from nurses! Next, let’s understand how he explains this phenomenon.
In ‘Working Cells’, various cells in the body are personified and depicted
Tetsuya Ishii, a senior manga editor who has worked for well-known manga magazines such as Monthly Shonen Magazine and Weekly Shonen Magazine, recently discussed the reasons for the popularity of “Work Cell” on the X platform
Working Cells can become popular! When it was serialized in the less widely circulated Monthly Boy Sirius, this work was not outstanding. However, with the recommendation and dissemination of nurses, doctors also began to pay attention to this comic, quickly forming a reputation in the medical industry and even among the public. Indeed, this comic is loved for its meticulous research, but I did not expect to receive such widespread support in the medical industry. As the saying goes, the best promotion for the work to become popular is through word of mouth, and the success of Working Cells is precisely this example
Ishii Tetsuya pointed out that “Working Cells” was originally serialized in small magazines with limited circulation, and its initial popularity was not significant, making it difficult to become popular. Surprisingly, through the mutual circulation between nurses and doctors, it has developed into adapted animations and launched numerous derivative products.
Tetsuya Ishii’s views have sparked enthusiastic discussions among healthcare workers.
Many people have shared their experiences of resonating with ‘Work Cells’ in their school or work environment:
When I was in nursing school, everyone excitedly recommended this manga, calling it easy to understand
The nursing staff at the hospital unanimously believe that this comic is fascinating
This comic is also popular among nutritionists and may have been widely used in fields related to the human body
This comic is deeply loved by pediatricians, who believe that it helps children understand the causes of fever, hand washing, and injections, providing great help to the pediatric department of hospitals. The director of pediatrics first recommended it in hospitals. Children’s crisis tolerance has been greatly improved, which is a world of difference compared to not understanding why they endure
One of the inspection technicians said:At first, the technician who did blood cell counting was reading this book, and then it spread to the entire hospital. In the end, even patients in the hematology department were reading it. The biggest reason why it can be popularized in the medical field is because many clever details in the plot are explained very accurately
Surprisingly, this work has sparked a craze in the Japanese medical community.