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What You Need to Know:
- Kodansha announced Wednesday the collaboration of the Hataraku Saibou (Cells at Work) manga with the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and have shared two videos through Full Anime TV that are part of an awareness campaign against COVID-19.
- These two chapters discuss the topics of COVID-19 and the coronavirus vaccine and are available in Japanese with a duration of 14 minutes and 6 minutes respectively. The videos are in motion comic format and are currently available in Japanese only. English and Hindi versions are coming soon and will be shared on the Anime Manga Official YouTube channel.
- The "New Coronavirus Edition" is included in the 6th volume of Cells at Work, while the "Infection Prevention Edition" is a newly written chapter.
© Akane Shimizu / Kodansha
© Akane Shimizu / Kodansha
Coronavirus Edition (Japanese Only)
Coronavirus / Infection Preventio (Japanese Only)
Source: Shonen Sirius
"The new coronavirus infection has spread around the world, and the number of
infected people has exceeded 100 million, but there is no prospect of ending it yet.
Under such circumstances, Kodansha produced "New Coronavirus Edition" and "Infection Prevention Edition" of the manga about anthropomorphized cells in the body "Cells at Work! ", with the cooperation of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare .
With the support of JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency), these two works will be translated into English and Hindi, and will be distributed free of charge to the world as "moving comics" with audio and sound effects.We would like to express our gratitude to all the medical professionals who are fighting at the forefront, and hope that people all over the world will deepen their understanding of the new coronavirus infection through manga and that each and every one of them will prevent it and overcome this crisis together."
Medical supervision: Satoshi Kutsuna (National Center for Global Health and Medicine)
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