- Streptococcus-B cells look more like Hormigaunts than the humanized bacteria of the regular series. Streptococcus-B is flesh-eating disease. Tyranids eat whole planets and streppe plans to eat the whole body.
- Invasive bacteria are depicted as mindless alien horrors instead of gloating saturday-morning cartoon villains. They're winning due to the Body being such a turd viewing, so they have no need to taunt the immune system with how evil they are.
- The Unhealthy Body has many differences from the original beyond just being a crap place to work. Neutrophils represented by an Amazon Brigade armed with katanas instead of pocket knives, Macrophages using morningstars instead of honking great cleavers, Killer T cells who look like Moses Hightower, Helper T's with long hair, no Nerd Glasses, and a stronger jawline, Always Male red blood cells, the Intestinal Epethelial cell has an Atmospheric Diving Suit instead of a wetsuit and SCUBA gear, etc. Everyone's different, so the Cast of Personifications depicting their bodies are different as well. Better armed WBC's and beefier Killer T's could indicate a stronger immune system than than the body in C@W-Prime, it's theorized that this body only having deliverymen instead of a mixed group represents a different blood type, and the tissues being represented by grouchy old housewives instead of Unlucky Everydudes could represent that they're cross and run-down because of a lack of exercise. Furthermore, during the transfusion that results in Red and White being thrust into a world that's similar (Neutrophils still being sexy ladies and all-male red blood cells) but subtly different (neutrophils have a short skirt instead of an Open Shirt Taunt) is a result of the new body being the old one's even more unhealthy brother.
- You might see it as a copout that this new body has the same gender structure and ratio of the old one. But it makes sense. If the old body was indeed a singular type of blood, like a type A or B, then it makes sense that their blood would go to someone of the same type. Meaning the ratio would be about the same. Even though the new cells are relatively different aesthetic wise.
- However, this presents a problem when we consider the fact that there's three primary blood types in the ABO spectrum and also the additional complication of the RH factor. Meaning that this similarity in blood cell appearance is likely shorthand for the transfusion having been between two people of the same blood type and also a sneaky way for the artists to not need to alter their character model sheets too much.
- The Chief Digestive Cell becoming angry at seeing an improperly-masticated bit of food probably represents a stomachache from overeating.
- The Kupffer cells being represented as topless dancers may have to do with their name, or at least their old ones. Kupffer cells, before they were properly labelled as a type of macrophage, were called "Sternzellen" or "star cells". And in many cabarets like the one the liver is supposed to represent, the dancers can be considered the "stars" of the establishment.
- The Native cell yelling at "our" RBC that "foreign cells should just shut up and work" represents that native cells really are quite hostile to transplanted tissues, being that they're foreign particles in a place that's absolutely xenophobic by necessity.
- Issues of Code Black, start with a looming, winged shadow overlooking the run-down cityscape as Guy!Red toils on. While this is obviously the Angel of Death, the carcinoma in C@W! manifested angel wings as a directed mutation. All the preservatives and toxins present in or resultant from the various vices the Body indulges in may cause a breakdown in the tissue cells' (or worse, the stem cells') cloning machinery, leading to cancer.
This becomes
Ascended Fridge Horror once a lung cell gets fired one day and decides to become a terrorist...
- Liver cells manifest as sexy waitresses and dancers at a nightclub. Since cells reproduce by way of cloning themselves or by being produced by a literal baby factory, why would they be excited by tiddy dancers?
- Probably more for the readership's benefit than anyone else, if you want to get on a meta level about it. But if you want to look into it as more of an in-story perspective, it may just be an aesthetic attraction over a sexual one, given they have no sex drives. Even if they have no individual major desires as an actual human would, it might just be relaxing, or at least visually pleasing, to see a dance like that.
- In this case a Doylist explanation probably works better than a Watsonian would. Portraying the leisure time of red blood cells as sleazy rather than wholesome adds to the whole "this body is a bad place" vibe (keep in mind that Japanese society is very conservative in certain respects). Of course, this explanation is not mutually exclusive with the Fanservice one mentioned above.
