The Japanese animated film "Working Cell: Cell Battle" (hereinafter referred to as "Working Cell") was released nationwide on April 9, as a popular science animation, "Working Cell" uses a cell anthropomorphic approach, imagining a person's body as a huge workplace, telling the work and life of different types of cells in the human body in this workplace and the unknown battle. Kenichi Suzuki, the director who animated the manga "Working Cell", said that he hopes that after watching the anime, he can take a good look at their own health and pay attention to health, and also hope that the audience can watch it with the mood of becoming a member of the cell: "'Working Cell' has a magic that makes people easy to fall into, and if everyone imagines what happens in this work in their own bodies when they watch it, he will be very happy, because in this way, everyone will pay great attention to the body when they live." ”
【Highlights】
Cells anthropomorphize to promote the audience's attention to health
The comic "Working Cell" is a story that focuses on the human body itself, each person's body is composed of about 37,200 billion cells, and different types of cells perform different functions to maintain the normal operation of the body. In "Working Cells", these cells are anthropomorphized, they have their own cute images and personalities, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, T cells, macrophages, good salt-based balls and other cells also work side by side in your body to expel viruses, bacteria and other foreign enemies. The movie "Working Cell" is adapted from the comic of the same name serialized by Akane Shimizu in the "Monthly Teenage Sirius", which tells the story of white blood cells and red blood cells meeting good general cells and lost lactic acid bacteria, in order to escort lactic acid bacteria to the place where their companions are, white blood cells and ordinary cells head towards the intestine, but they meet the strongest opponent cancer cells that are resurrected...
Lactic acid bacteria snuggle up next to ordinary cells.
You can imagine that each cell in your body is an independent individual with their own personality and traits that sustain your life. For the cells, the human body is both their workplace and even their entire world, and human death means the destruction of the world, and all their efforts are to make the world usher in tomorrow. For example, the skin is a large gathering place for cell residents, a slight abrasion is equivalent to blowing up a "sinkhole" in their urban buildings, pneumonia, which is equivalent to an earthquake in their world. Even a small wound on the human body will cause countless red blood cells to gush out of the body due to pressure imbalance, and immune cells such as white blood cells and macrophages will face the test of life and death in the fight with bacteria and viruses that enter the human body along the wound. When the working cells become anthropomorphic characters with moods and sorrows, exhaustion, injury and death, it is easy for the audience to empathize with them and seem to re-understand their relationship with the body. Watching these cells work hard, optimistic, and never give up hope for their life attitude, watching them work hard to complete their duties for health even if they are in danger, will make the audience can't help but reflect on whether their living habits are healthy and pay attention to their own health, which is also the biggest effect of "Working Cell".
【Production】
Be faithful to the original book and ask the author for any details
Animation can represent cells, but also can represent bacteria, with the most cute animation, the boring science into a pleasant appreciation. For example, the Japanese animation "The Story of Germs" is to present microscopic bacteria with a cute anthropomorphism, so as to introduce the role of bacteria in life, vivid and vivid, and highly sought after. "Working Cell" is a fairly well-known Japanese comic IP. The TV anime "Working Cell" is based on the manga of the same name that Akane Shimizu began serializing in 2015 and premiered in Japan in 2018, where it successfully landed in biology teaching classes and was praised by medical professionals. The animation was a great success as soon as it was introduced into China, and the first season was broadcast exclusively by Station B since July 2018, becoming one of the most watched animations on Station B at that time, and was nominated for the Best Animation award at the 25th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Awards, and became a word-of-mouth masterpiece with a Douban score of 8.9 points.
Working Cell: Cell Wars family portrait poster.
In fact, Akane Shimizu created "Working Cell" by accident, born in Tokyo in 1994, she did not graduate from a medical-related department, but a graduate of a Japanese manga college, and all she knew about cells was the knowledge mentioned in high school textbooks. By chance, when learning about cells, my sister said that if she drew a cartoon on cell knowledge, she would be easy to remember, so she suggested that my sister draw a story that ended in one sentence. She also hopes to be able to animate this theme so that junior high school and high school students can learn the human immune system more happily.
Encounter red and white blood cells of platelets.
After the great success of the manga, the animation schedule also began, and director Kenichi Suzuki was very interested in the animation of this work, saying that cell anthropomorphism has a great impact on all creators, and the temptation to the audience is also very large. During the production of the animation, Akane Shimizu will also be involved, she sees things such as character setting tables and storyboards, which are very fresh, just by looking at the storyboards, you can feel that the painting seems to be active, just like watching animation and movies. For various character settings, the production staff drew the characters appropriately, and the movement of the camera in the animation was also very faithful to the original. Although the creators are sometimes annoyed because they don't know how to supplement what the original work doesn't have, in order not to deviate from the worldview, they try to show it according to Shimizu Akane's depiction. But for example, if there is no elevator in the original work, there is a need for existence in the animation, and this kind of problem Suzuki Kenichi will ask Shimizu Akane for permission, even if the original painting is too small and too small to recognize the text, Suzuki Kenichi will also ask Shimizu Akane what is written on that paper. Manga is basically a black and white world, and animation has to supplement it with various colors. Suzuki said that this was the most difficult thing to do, because it was impossible for Akane Shimizu to check all the pictures, so he could only simulate his own imagination based on his impressions, and to Kenichi Suzuki, he looked like he was doing Akane Shimizu's translation.
Macrophage collections join the battlefield.
Each episode of the animated version of "Working Cell" basically tells about an event related to human health, such as streptococcus pneumoniae invasion, influenza, fir pollen allergy, food poisoning, etc., in an interesting story that not only explains the pathogenic principle, but also vividly shows the means and measures of the immune system to fight diseases. It is worth mentioning that the rich scientific knowledge in "Working Cell" does not detract from the watchability of the story, whether it is a vivid and cute character or a blood-boiling battle, the audience can most intuitively enjoy the great charm of the narrative itself, the film version is based on the animation to do a collection of collation and innovation, the director of the animation version of Hirofumi Kokura even thinks that the role of macrophage is the "animator killer", because the number of frills on her clothes is very large and the animators complain, saying that the workload of painting macrophages is too large. But Akane Shimizu says she had a great time drawing macrophages.
Cell Wars Science Popularization
white blood cell
Function: White blood cells have the most adorable "contrast cuteness", the appearance looks cold and difficult to get along with, but it is very gentle and kind. At the same time, he is also a good employee with an extreme sense of responsibility and justice, showing no mercy to harmful bacteria and viruses that invade the human body, using a dagger, and when driving bacteria out of the body in the form of sneezing, he will raise his right hand to salute and say "bye-bye".
Features: Likes to drink tea; can wander between tissues, often from unexpected places, such as sewers, vents; a sensor on the hat that doesn't look very smart, but can quickly sense nearby bacteria and viruses.
Fighting white blood cells.
erythrocyte
Function: Optimistic and positive, the main task is to transport oxygen and carbon dioxide to the designated organs in the body.
Features: The red blood cell girl is a road fool, and she is fighting tirelessly with the lost every day. In the stumbling rookie career, it is often necessary to turn to white blood cells.
View red blood cells on delivery slips.
platelet
Function: When a blood vessel is damaged, it gathers to block the wound.
Features: Under the appearance of the young, there is a strong blood clotting ability! Things are done in an orderly manner; they are still a little expert at cheering, which is a group of kindergarten children who are as soft and cute as glutinous rice dumplings, making the audience exclaim "their hearts are melted".
Play platelets on a tour.
Killer T cells
Function: Identifies and destroys virus-infected cells and killers of foreign bodies such as cancer cells. Follow the orders of the helper T cells.
Features: This is a group of muscular men dressed in black, fierce eyes, like to fight, they are also training maniacs, unsociable, monotonous life, see white blood cells and other cells play together will be angry.
A strong killer of T cells.
Dendritic cells
Function: The function of transmitting antigen information to other immune cells, coordinating and organizing battles, it will inadvertently release ugly photos of several cells to the world, so that everyone can fight after excitement.
Features: "Inflate" the initial T cells with gentle encouragement to activate them and evolve into powerful killer T cells.
The cells face the enemy with a hard face.
In addition, there are also "commander" helper T cells that formulate correct attack strategies and give attack orders; macrophages that are beautiful and can ruthlessly destroy bacterial foreign bodies; regulatory T cells that are responsible for "pacifying" out of control and avoiding abnormal immune T cells; and NK cells that patrol the whole body and attack cancer cells. The anthropomorphic setting of each cell, whether it is appearance or personality, is closely related to their actual function, so that these originally awkward and abstract cell names become real and perceptible character images, and the audience can quickly remember their characteristics and functions.
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