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The fight against invasive bacteria in the gut and the face of the immune trio against the cancer cell continues in what I will forever call the ‘Yogurt Bow’. NK, Memory T and White Blood Cell have more problems than usual thanks to Regulatory T Cell. RT Cell has appeared in previous episodes, but she is usually ‘office work’ with Helper T Cell. These latest installments show that she is equally capable of fighting … against the other immune cells.
Visually, it may seem ridiculous that any cell can look at Cancer Cell and think “Yes, this is normal;” in fact I think the plot structure would benefit from it if there is a physical representation why RT Cell cannot see that Cancer Cell is for the general body. Either way, RT prevents Memory T from attacking the cancer cell effectively because it considers it part of the host’s body, and its job is to prevent immune cells from attacking and killing healthy cells in the body. Think back to Cells at work! Code Black where the Killer T cells became nut and caused destruction in the scalp; this is a perfect example of when a regulatory T cell had to enter. Now I want to know why this is not happening. In any case, the interference of regulatory T Cell is unfortunately part of the reason why cancer cells in the human body can grow unnoticed until other problems arise. and why medical procedures to treat cancer are so extreme.
Meanwhile, all the milk bacteria storm into the intestines and make them work from the invasive bacteria. The opportunistic bacteria vary from side to side in favor of the good guys so that they can load into the gut again. I will be honest, knowing that my gut is basically a biosphere for bacteria to hang around with only little or no real symbiotic relationship makes me angry. If you’re going to enjoy all the delicious food I eat, you can at least not know it, give me a superpower or something? Either way, with the eradication of bad bacteria, the environment in the intestines begins to dissolve and is no longer a danger to the little bloods.
The only remaining problem is Cancer Cell and he is fully Sephiroth in his quest for body dominance. His evil plan is to start death in the name of cellular freedom so that cells can exist without their own roles. Of course, the whole body would collapse, but he sees the sacrifice as liberating. Things look in his favor until Memory T Cell gets its lighter setback and releases perforin. RT Cell eludes (hilarious) and the protein-driven punch damages Cancer Cell enough to finally show RT Cell that he is not a healthy cell. The clearance of the intestinal toxins robs him of his power so that white blood cells can deliver the killing blow.
All in all, it was actually a pretty satisfying final battle with some semi-decent action segments for what would otherwise have been a dubious production. I never fully boarded David ProductionThe cell shading approach here and some of the episodes were less appealing than last season. The factoids were a bit more ‘Biology Basics’ and spending about half of a very short season focused on dairy bacteria was quite disappointing. The return of Cancer Cell was a good discount, but it was forced to combine it with the journey through the bowels. I would rather have seen something related to carcinogens.
Overall, I would say the series is an adequate sequel to the first season, but it did not have the memorable shortcomings and diversity that hooked me in the first season.
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Cells at work! currently streaming on Funimation.