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Yumi's Cells
"What is Yu-mi thinking now?"
Overview
Yumi is a 30-year old, ordinary woman who struggles with expressing her feelings. Told from the perspective of the many brain cells in her head, she experiences growth in both her love life, her career, and finds happiness in the small joys of everyday life.
Status
Ended
Created By
Song Jae-jung, Kim Yoon-joo
Network
tvN, TVING
Seasons & Episodes
Yumi's Cells 2
After a chance meeting with game designer Goo Woong helped revive her "love cells," Yumi enters a new chapter of growth following their eventual breakup. When an unexpected source of inspiration from her co-worker, Bobby Yoo, reignites her ambition, Yumi sets out to pursue her long-held professional dreams. As she navigates fresh personal and career challenges, Yumi strives to find true fulfillment in both her life and her heart.
Episodes
Episode 1
After breaking up with Woong, Yumi and her cells are struggling to keep her life together. Although she acts as if nothing happened, Yu-mi is suffering from post-breakup syndrome and Ba-bi comforts her. In no time, a Yoo Ba-bi club has formed in the cell village without Yu-mi realizing...
Episode 2
Although Yu-mi was taken aback by Ba-bi's sudden confession, her confidence level shoots up. Yu-mi becomes more preoccupied by Ba-bi and she unconsciously finds herself getting heated up when Ruby sets up a date for Ba-bi.
Episode 3
News of Ba-bi's date puts Yu-mi in despair. Yu-mi wishes he doesn't go on the date. But she couldn't tell him in the end... On the day of Ba-bi's date, Yu-mi falls asleep after feeling perturbed the entire day, when a message from Ba-bi arrives.
Episode 4
Yu-mi's sweet romance with Ba-bi begins... Her new romance leads her onto a new path. When Yu-mi goes to a book cafe with Ba-bi, she is reminded of her long-lost dream. Although she knows it's too late, someone keeps encouraging Yu-mi to pursue her dream.
Episode 5
Yu-mi and Woong meet again during second-hand market meet up. Unlike Woong who thought it was a fateful meeting, Yu-mi is confused by what Woong said in the past as compared to his current situation. While Yu-mi is trying to enjoy her Christmas with Ba-bi, a message from Woong arrives.
Episode 6
Yu-mi works hard from day-to-day as an aspiring writer. Ba-bi visits her house to cheer her on. While the two of them are enjoying their date, an unexpected visit from Yu-mi's parents catches them by surprise... Yu-mi's father begins to openly keep Ba-bi in check.
Episode 7
Unlike her courageous start, Yu-mi continues to taste failure from all her contests. Despite Writer Cell's efforts to keep her mind together by recalling wise sayings, Yu-mi feels dejected at her own lack of talent... At that moment, she receives an offer from Mr. Nam to reinstate her position at Daehan Noodles.
Episode 8
Da-eun, an intern at Daehan Noodles' Jeju branch, likes Ba-bi but she decides to give up when she realizes Ba-bi has Yu-mi. Meanwhile, the chief editor at Julie Literature, Ahn Dae-yong, finds out that Yumi, the writer he picked, is his first love from his college days and believes that this is fate...
Episode 9
Yu-mi starts working with the oddball illustrator Control Z. Although she's on the verge of exploding when Control Z nitpicks at everything, she controls herself to stay professional. When Yu-mi flies to Jeju to spend the new year with Ba-bi, she finds out that Ba-bi is giving up his lease.
Episode 10
After the breakup with Ba-bi, Yu-mi's writing improves greatly thanks to Writer Cell who has become the Prime cell. Now a successful entrepreneur, Woong is surprised to find that Yu-mi is now a writer. When he meets Control Z through a business meeting and learns that he is the illustrator for Yu-mi's works, his heart pounds restlessly...
Episode 11
When Yu-mi hears that Ba-bi has returned to Seoul, she notes down the places that Ba-bi frequently visits to avoid him but ends up running into him at his go-to cafe. Having thought over countless times what he would say to Yu-mi if he meets her again, Ba-bi holds her back...
Episode 12
As the war of nerves between Woong and Ba-bi rages on, Yu-mi is put in a tight spot by the unexpected three-way encounter... Meanwhile, Yu-mi finds out that Ba-bi is going to America for a business trip while planning for his birthday. With everything happening at bad timing, will getting back together with her ex be that hard?
Episode 13
After being proposed to by Ba-bi, Yu-mi goes to meet Ba-bi's father. Yu-mi tries her best to make a good impression on Ba-bi's father, going as far as to summon her full-of-manners self. Meanwhile, Woong hears of Yu-mi's wedding and asks to meet her...
Episode 14
On the day of the wedding, Yu-mi is unable to meet the deadline. She falls into a panic when she loses her laptop containing the manuscript. At the wedding, all she can think of is running away from reality... At that moment, someone contacts Yu-mi and says that he found her laptop. Who could it be?
Top Cast
Kim Go-eun
Kim Yu-mi
Kim Jae-won
Shin Soon-rok
Jun Seok-ho
Ahn Dae-yong
Lee Yu-bi
Lee Ruby
Mi Ram
Kang Yi-da
Choi Daniel
Kim Ju-ho
Cho Hye-jeong
Baek Na-hee
Sung Ji-ru
Kim Man-Sik
Park Se-in
Producer Jang
