Cells at Work! CODE BLACK (Season 1)

Cells at Work! CODE BLACK (2021) is a Japanese anime you can watch online on iFILM — the grim spin-off of the cheerful original about the cells inside a human body.

This time the body belongs to a burned-out middle-aged man wrecked by smoking, drinking, stress and no sleep. Red Blood Cell AA2153 hauls oxygen through vessels that look like a crumbling factory, while White Blood Cell U-1196 fights off infections she can barely keep pace with. Nobody thanks them for any of it.

Where the original series plays like an upbeat biology class, Code Black runs closer to a workplace drama about exhaustion. The anatomy stays accurate; the mood turns bleak and bloody. Not one for younger viewers. Stream every episode online on iFILM.