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Thank you @Packmule3! Let us enjoy this!
Annyeong!
The first part made me laugh so hard…
Then, a certain brain cell came into play that made me sentimental as well. The end was a very good surprise, though!
Kim Go Eun-ni nailed it tonight! <3
More tomorrow in order for you to watch E3 as well!
Episode 3 was too funny again.
I’m glad that their blind date went well…until Yumi’s bad cell (what’s it called?) messed it up with the mood change.
The way to a woman’s heart is through her stomach, too. They bonded over food.
I think she might have confused the poor guy when she lied and told the ticket seller that they were a couple just to get the discounted price.
I don’t blame her for suddenly getting cold feet. Once burned, twice shy.
The guy’s brain cells are hilarious too. Especially when they tried to burn the “jokester” cell at the stake, and when they shaved off the “beard” cell’s long hair. hahaha.
The guy’s anxiety over her not texting back after the date was a bit of a cringe. Did he tear up or was that just because of eyestrain? I hope he isn’t a clingy sort of guy.
So, we were right to complain about the icky goatee. I like guys with five-o-clock shadows, and I don’t mind men with beard, but his goatee looks lame. It has to go.
The umbrella scene at the end?? At least, it wasn’t yellow.
This episode is a hoot and better than ep1/2. My hunger cell is probably as big as Yumi’s and watching them bond over the food was mouth watering.
Yumi’s bad mood cell is called Hysterious!
I think WG’s female officemate secretly likes him but she is just one of the guys to him.
I did not expect that there is a Hair cell! And Yumi’s cells cannot fathom what WG meant when he said he shaved off his goatie. They are so clueless.
Yumi’s bangs in particular reminds me of how I used to cut my kids’ hair when they were young. The bangs were that short length because I can’t keep them straight so I kept snipping until I get them aligned (sometimes not as successful!)! When I show them the pictures, they blame me and then I blame them for moving too much. Good times! LOL!!!
@Janey,
Agree. I think WG’s female colleague has a crush on him but she’s doing this weird hot-&-cold behavior with him.
WG has the Hair cell but Yumi also had a “should I cut my bangs” cell. It was one of the cells missing after the Great Deluge of Tears. 🙂
As for bangs…thank goodness for grandparents and nannies. They took care of my sons’ haircuts.
Hysterious. Is that a portmanteau for hysteria and mysterious? I guess it’s the self-sabotaging cell. That’s why only love can deal with it.
I laughed with Hunger cell lost that Taekbokki antenna on its head. And its pipe music made sense.
Thanks for the Yumi’s Cells threads @pkml3 and for your write-up. It reminded me that I did want to check it out and got me to start watching this show. It’s the cute and easy show that I need, now that we’re facing more restrictions due to the rising Covid cases.
This is a super sweet way to dissect how girls and guys think while they date. The cells are so relatable. What they say are the kinds of thoughts that affect decisions.
I’m thinking that Yumi had cold feet during her blind date, because she really did become attracted to something about Gu Woong.
I agree that Sae Yi likes GW, but made a mistake of appearing to colleague-zone/friend-zone Gu Woong, and has been stuck in that role even when she’d like to be his girlfriend.
I anticipated the umbrella coming along in the rain scene at the end, but I was thinking it might be another pink umbrella LOL. Poetic in that her last bf left her in the rain while walking off with the small pink umbrella while the one who wants to be her new bf comes to shelter her in the rain with his big blue umbrella.
I must say that Lee Yoo Bi plays the role of annoying Ruby to a T, and Ahn Bo Hyun is almost unrecognisable from his role as the guy who stole his boss’ wife in Kairos.
Kim Go Eun, I’ve always liked and it’s good to see her again. I did feel so much for her ‘Eun Tak’ in Goblin, but she inhabits her role here so well, I didn’t see Eun Tak in her at all. A sign of a great actress.
What?! Ahn Bo hyun was THAT guy in Kairos??!! I didn’t realize that, @GB unnie. He’s good.
Park Jin Young (He’s Psychometric) is supposed to be in this drama too. I wonder if he’s going to play the exBF. Or he’s going to play the rival of GW.
Yes, Lee Yoo Bi plays Ruby very well. She’s doing such a good job of portraying a passive aggressive, infantilized woman, that every time I see and hear Ruby, I grind my molars.
Sidenote: she dresses so inappropriately for a professional setting. She wouldn’t pass my dress code. 🙂
I had to look her up too. The actress is 30 years, the same age as Kim Go Eun. She was in “A Poem a Day” and that short-lived “Joseon Exorcist.”
So WG’s female officemate really likes him (even in college) and he knows it too but plays possum or bear in this case. I like his algorithms and defense tactics. Well played, cells.
Lust (Yumi’s cell) vs Laustaurus (WG’s version of Lust cell illustrated as a dinosaur) rearing their feral heads was hilarious!
Spoiler alert… we get a kiss in ep4! And a solid kiss, too! Too early by kdrama standards but I saw this is 14 eps only.
This show is so fun to watch. I kept snickering and laughing, even at the shower scene. Well, he carried Yumi princess-style to the hospital (more than 10 mins away) so those muscles were put to good use and not just for show. That’s my justification for the shower scene. LOL!
Hi there doensaeng @Janey and Everyone, yes, such a fun watch! I know I annoyed my son, with whom I share the study, since I was squirming while giggling quite often.
I like that the possibility of Yumi liking Gu Woong, even more than she liked Chae Ugi was already established when her cells levitated at GW’s touch, compared to how they didn’t at Ugi’s touch. In other words, we can use that dreaded word here… they had ‘chemistry’ of skinship, so that one touch sparked more results than multiple touches by others.
Now that we have the kiss, I’d like to see the effect on both Yumi’s and GW’s cells LOL. Maybe with fireworks and tremors in their heart cities?
It’s good that GW is not clueless about Sae Yi. He’s not as dim-witted or slow as he keeps saying that he is. LOL his Bear mode. He became totally amnesiac to save SY’s pride and his need to reject her. It’s interesting that in this short series (But each episode could be more than an hour long), even the side character’s cells may make an appearance.
I liked how GW’s love cell infiltrated the fortress of Yumi’s heart by his froggy cuteness. In the same way that he was smitten by her cuteness, she too let him slip in because she found him cute. I hope later episodes will develop their relationship from just the meet-cute, and love-cute to more serious relationship stuff. 🙂
I just finished Yumi’s Cells Ep 4 and I was really entertained.
The naughty vs nautisaurus comparison was wacky but so imaginative. I kept thinking, “Wow! How did the writer come up with this idea?!” It’d be fun to meet this writer. She/he has such a rich imagination.
When GW turned into a bear to evade SaeYi? You’re right, @GB Unnie. He wasn’t a slow-top at all…at least his brain cells weren’t. They immediately went into red alert. He’s been fending off her “love calls” (will there be a pipe too like with Hunger Cell?) so well, thanks to his brain cells’ experience at defensive maneuvers. I lol’ed when he suddenly switched seats and when he folded his arms to avoid her hand. His face looked sooooo innocent each time that SaeYi didn’t realize what was going on.
I like that he retained the bear ears on his head even when the whole bear façade disappeared. They only deactivated once his taxi drove away and left SaeYi behind.
There’s so much to like about this episode. The plot itself is run-of-the-mill. We’ve seen the tropes: giving a piggy-back ride, buying clothes for the girl, going to the guy’s apartment. But the Cells’ perspective gives them a novel spin. Like when the cells levitated at GW’s touch — she feels so giddy that she’s floating on air. Or when the Cells experienced an unexpected snowfall of sugar because he was so sweet with her.
Yes, I also like GW’s Love Cell infiltrating “the fortress of Yumi’s heart by his froggy cuteness.” See that? Without context, what you wrote, @GB, sounds so cheesy. It’s straight out of a romance book. But we really saw the Love Cell disguised as a frog disarming the guards with its croaking. lol.
I’m really liking this show so far. 3 reasons it speaks to me:
1. It’s a rational and clear (albeit scientifically liberal) view of how the brain works. As I was diagnosed only last year of ADHD, it has been a real journey to understand myself better and to overcome all the confusion this has brought into my childhood and then adult life. This show represents the inner workings, exchanges, and voices in an entertaing yet grounded manner – for this I am very impressed with the writer.
2. It feels like an ode to self love. Although there is a love line and the cells constantly talk about not wanting Yumi to be single for life, it is very clear to me how Yumi takes really good care of herself – from the way she dresses, to the way she lives in her cozy apartment, and even to the way she scarfs down a midnight snack. Yumi loves herself, as do her cells.
3. Finally, a kdrama portrays adult feelings and hormones in a mature manner – and done with cartoons at that! The treatment is refreshing and unique. The whole sequence of lust and lustsaurus cells going wild made me realize this show is gonna be different from the rest.
Took a lot of courage but came out of lurker mode finally! This is perhaps the equivalent of Yumi’s true feeling cell finally being released.
Welcome to the blog, @exwriter.
Yes, I agree. I like the way the drama showed “lust” — they’re both in their 30s for heaven’s sake and she had ex-boyfriend so it’s not as if they don’t know what comes with sexual attraction.
But the show still manages to keep it squeaky clean because of the animation. The raging naughtysaurus (or lustosaurus) was so funny. It has a mop of curly hair, too. 😂😂
My only complaint (I’ll just raise this point once — or twice) is the show is a bit sexist. For example, Yumi has to be in love to function properly. Her love cell is her primary cell. I would have preferred it if the love cell was also a self-love cell, but her love cell is a romantic one. Maybe it’ll transform later in the future.
Also, GW’s brain cells have an algorithm they can follow while Yumi only has the reasoning cell and emotional cell arguing with each other, with the rest of the cells just chiming to voice their support for either one. I wish Yumi also had an algorithm because hey…many women do follow logic, too. Women can be hard-wired like GW.
But I get it. And I see that Yumi tries to balance their relationship when she offers to pay her share or treat GW
out to dinner to return a favor.
I think when this webtoon was conceptualized, the writer had the “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” mindset and wasn’t steeped in the sexual politics of woke-ness. Thank goodness, though! The humor and wit of this show would be totally destroyed if the writer had to abide by the rules of woke culture.
Kalimera!
I enjoyed both episodes 3 + 4. It made me laugh a lot and I needed those laughs, mostly because I have been watching “Beyond Evil” which is a well written puzzle…
I will agree with all the Ladies above that Sae-Yi likes him, but she was sending him mixed signals for so long. They were friends, but when she was drunk she was acting like she wanted more and that was happening for so long obviously.
Hence his Bear Mode. Wuung also commented about it to Ugi that’s why Ugi decided to arrange that blind date with Kim Yumi.
Welcome on board @ExWriter!
I agree with @Packmule3 on self love. So far Kim Yumi seems to love herself, but she is trying too much for her bfs. If this a journey to self awareness then Kim Yumi is doing pretty well. Her cells seems to genuine love her and act on her wellbeing.
I really like and enjoy Yumi’s Cells. Although it is a bit sexist, the reference “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” is spot on @Packmule3 (!), it gives us food for thought.
Hello @GB Unnie and @Janey!
I like this song so very much!
NCT Doyoung OST Cut – ‘Like a Star
I checked out all three new shows because I like the main leads. And out of these three dramas I really like Yumi’s Cells. And totally loving the OTP’s chemistry.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, @M.
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You do know that they’re not the OTP, right? If the screenwriters follow the manga, then Woong isn’t the love of her life.
In the manga, Yumi ends up with somebody else. In fact, she’ll have another boyfriend after Woong, then another boyfriend after that 2nd boyfriend.
She’ll marry her third boyfriend.
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I’ll pretend I did not see the spoiler alert. Hehehe. Maybe they will change this like Nevertheless or there will be season 2/3?
Just wanted to come back here and post a new song favorite on repeat since @Cleo posted “Like a Star”.
This is “Night Falling”.
https://youtu.be/lhxLoxRiOi8
Hey my agapimeni @Janey!
Yumi’s Cells will have multiple seasons. Season 2 is already confirmed!
Maybe it will have a Season 3 too?
As for “NightFalling” I like that song too!