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Yumi's Cells

유미의 세포들
Romance · Comedy · Drama

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01 / A closer look

The story, without the spoilers.

Kim Yumi is an ordinary office worker in her early thirties whose love life has just fallen apart. After a painful break-up, the tiny cells inside her head — the little workers who run her feelings, her hunger, her fashion sense, and her courage — have gone quiet. Her love cell is in a coma, and Yumi has stopped believing anything good will happen to her. Then she meets Goo Woong, a game developer who says exactly what he thinks and has no idea how to read a room. He is awkward, honest, and strangely sincere, and Yumi's cells start waking up one by one. Later, she meets Yoo Ba-bi, a warm colleague who seems perfect in every way, and her cells face a harder question: what does she actually want, and not just what looks good? Told half in live action and half in charming animation, this is a romance about the small voices inside your head, the fear of starting again, and the slow work of learning to love yourself first.

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02 / The watch guide

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36
Episodes
Completed

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04 / A closer look

The Oxfea take.

Oxfea Score: 8.0/10 — Highly recommended

Verdict in one line: A genuinely inventive romance: the animated cells are delightful and Kim Go-eun is wonderful — but the gimmick sometimes outshines the story.

Why you'll get hooked

  • Your feelings are run by tiny animated cells — and Yumi's love cell is in a coma after a break-up.
  • Kim Go-eun makes an ordinary office worker feel completely real, cells and all.
  • Two very different love interests ask what Yumi actually wants, not what looks right.

Story, in plain words

Kim Yumi works at a noodle company and has just come out of a relationship that left her numb. Inside her head, a village of cells manages her emotions: a love cell, a rational cell, a hunger cell, and more. After her break-up, the love cell has shut down, and Yumi moves through life on autopilot. Then Goo Woong, a blunt game developer, walks into her life and says the wrong thing at exactly the right time.

The show mixes live action with animation, so we see Yumi's inner arguments as well as her outer life. In later seasons, Yoo Ba-bi offers a warmer, easier kind of love, and Yumi must choose between comfort and honesty. The cell comedy is fresh and often very funny, though it occasionally repeats its own jokes. What holds it together is Kim Go-eun, who plays Yumi's quiet growth with total sincerity across all three seasons.

Yumi's Cells: at a glance

  • Original title: 유미의 세포들
  • Genres: Romance · Comedy · Drama
  • Network / platform: tvN, TVING
  • Episodes: 36
  • First released: 17 September 2021

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Sources: Wikipedia, AsianWiki and the broadcaster's official page. Facts checked November 2026. Streaming availability varies by location.

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