Thank you to NetGalley, Kodansha Comics, Akane Shimizu, and Tetsuji Kanie for the opportunity to read this manga in exchange for an honest review.

This manga features the while blood cell brigade, best friends who work together to fight bacteria and viral infections! While 1146, from the original Cells at Work manga, makes an appearance, this spinoff is actually about Ban Cell, an immature white blood cell who is learning the ropes of how while blood cells protect the body.

This volume has a nice blend of humor along with its integration of biology. It's like having a mini lesson after reading this manga. I come away feeling smarter. The concept of showing how the body works by featuring cells and functions as characters is a unique concept that is very enjoyable.

4 stars - It was really good

This is the start of a Bond Cells journey to becoming part of a white blood cell group. I quite enjoyed these short stories of Bond Cell trying to learn the ropes from this White Blood cell group. Also I liked that 1146 was a main mentor in Bond Cell’s training because I really liked him in the anime.

Overall, this was a great expansion of the Cells at Work stories. I like that you learn about different parts of the body as well.

Cells at Work!: White Brigade 1 is a graphic novel presentation of white blood cells and the way they protect the body. Anthropomorphism is used to portray the cells as soldiers under training and the types of battles they wage and alliances they form with other cell types. The story was difficult to follow and the information was difficult to understand. The storyline seemed appropriate for a middle grader, while the informational text more suited to high school. The illustrations were well done from an aesthetic perspective, but the information they were attempting to convey wasn't clear.

ARC Copy...Just a regular day inside the body...only this time we're going through the POV of the white blood cell's daily life. I can very much confirm it's going to be a bloody yet educational trip just like the main series.

I have always loved the white blood cells in the Cells at Work series. They go from 0 to 60 with crazy intensity.
This series specifically is all about the White blood cells and their new trainee Band Cell. Like all of the other Cells at Work books, they introduce you to different types of cells and bacteria and explain their functions or how they attack the body. There's a fair amount of blood right off the bat but not too brutal for the rest of the book.

Thank you Netgalley and Kodansha Comics for an eARC.

Another work by Akane Shimizu in the Cells at Work series. This particular manga follows the hard work that the white blood cells do to protect the body.

This particular story shows that inside, there is a city, where these white blood cells, have their own life and while not on duty, they just have a normal life.

It is a very interesting concept to think of this, and I look forward to more from Akane Shimizu in the series.