In this year's seventh edition of Kodansha's Morning magazine, it was announced that the spin-off manga written by Shigemitsu Harada and illustrated by Issei Hatsuyoshiya, Hataraku Saibou Black (Cells at Work! Code Black), will come to an end with its next chapter, which will be published in Japan on January 21.
Previously, information had already been leaked that the eighth volume, scheduled to be launched in Japan on February 22nd, would be the last one of the franchise, however, an exact completion date had not been revealed. Harada and Hatsuyoshiya have been publishing the manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine since June 2018. The publisher published the sixth compilation volume on April 23rd, followed by the seventh on September 23rd.
The work is inspiring an adaptation to the anime produced by LIDEN FILMS studios, under the direction of Hideyo Yamamoto and scripts written by Hayashi Mori, which has been on air since January 9th in Japan and is confirmed with a total of thirteen episodes.
Synopsis by Hataraku Saibou Black
The story focuses on a fledgling red blood cell, a member of the other 37 trillion cells in the body, but something is wrong! The stress hormones keep screaming at him to speed up the pace. Your blood vessels are covered with cholesterol. Ulcers, fatty liver, problems (ahem) down... It's hard for a cell to do its job when every day there is BLACK CODE!
Hataraku Saibou showed what happens inside a young and healthy body... but what if the body is not so young and was never very healthy? Hataraku Saibō BLACK tells the story of such a body, starring a red blood cell and a white blood cell, as they struggle to survive while doing their jobs inside a body that suffers from alcoholism, smoking, erectile dysfunction, athlete's foot, gout... literally a body horror. Whoever this guy is, he's lucky the cells can't go on strike!
Source: Morning issue 7
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