Yumi’s Cells 2: Episodes 3-4

by missvictrix

It’s only our second week back with Yumi and her cells, but things are full speed ahead. From a realization of her feelings, to (literally) heart-pounding swoony moments, reclaiming a forgotten dream, and selling off an old rice cooker — the story covers a lot of ground this week.

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Just to jazz things up, Yumi’s Cells plays a bit with its timeline this week — as well as making several callbacks to the first season — but it’s all for the purpose of delivering the story and its progress in a way that’s dynamic and fun. And did I mention swoony? Because it was a swoony week.

I was expecting some kind of fried egg umbrella confession from Yumi after where we left off last week, but instead, we meet up with Yumi and her pals as they rave over the way-too-perfect woman that Ruby wants to set Bobby up with. Yeah, I don’t like her anymore than Yumi does — and for someone who told Bobby they should just be friends, she’s awfully preoccupied with the ulzzang pharmacist’s blind date.

My favorite part of this show is Yumi and Bobby dancing around each other in this “some” relationship, and though I’m not complaining because the squees are high with them as a couple, they did go from awkward attraction to dating quite quickly.

But first, Yumi mopes on her awesome cayenne-colored couch thinking about Bobby on his blind date… only to realize at 2 a.m. that he texted her at the far-more-respectable 9 p.m. about returning her umbrella. They plan to meet the next morning — obvious excuse though it is — and it’s another deliciously awkward meetup, with Yumi trying to figure out if he fell for the pharmacist, and a Yumi-smitten Bobby pretending to be just a friend.

When Yumi finds out he didn’t go on the blind date because of his “some” relationship, her cells have had enough and they spring into action. They can’t get a rise out of the Love cell yet, so they fake it with three — yes, three — rounds of Heart Fever.

Poor Yumi darts and dashes through the park (giving herself — and me! — deja vu) and eventually finds Bobby and confesses to him in her awkwardorable way. But why does Bobby look like his heart just dropped?

The show then tricks us and jumps a week ahead, with Yumi diagnosed with gastritis from stress. Bobby is also quite cold at the office. Uh oh, what happened?

The giant gulp soon turns into squees, though, because Bobby’s direct and professional voice turns to an intimate whisper when they’re alone in the break room, and he asks how her doctor’s appointment went. We can assume they’ve been together for a week, but already they have all the cuteness and warmth of their shared experiences — like eating too much spicy food which affected Yumi’s stomach.

Flashing back to Yumi’s confession, we see that Bobby didn’t disappoint us. Getting over his shock he approached her and gently took her hand and asked if they could start dating as of right then. My heart! I just love how he treats her, and it only gets better as the dating goes into full gear.

Yumi’s cells are surprised that Bobby got into her village so quickly. Unlike Woong’s little frog disguise that let him sneak in, Bobby has apparently been sending giant rock curveballs at the gate of her heart/village, and they are some fearsome boulders! Before long they blow the gate completely away, and the only cell that’s apprehensive (Love) agrees to accept him, but holds onto her lingering doubts.

What we see of Bobby, however, gives us no reason to doubt. As her cells believe, he’s a “calm and upright gentleman” — even Yumi worries that he’s too perfect. Because he really is. Outside of being on his phone too much (is this a clue or is this just life in 2022?), he is 100% perfect. He sneaks Yumi a chocolate at work when giving her a report. He whispers to her in the elevator bank and invites her out for dinner. He catches her when she almost falls down a flight of stairs and jokes about their slipped coffee. He shares her taste in food. He drives her home every night in his car.

Speaking of said car, when the two are out on a date one night, there are kiss vibes in the air, and Yumi’s cells are out of control trying to figure out if Bobby is going to kiss her. Naughty cell is a live wire as ever, but we’re also introduced to Yumi’s tongue cell. Or should I say, Yumi’s tongue cell is introduced to Bobby’s tongue cell. Lol this show.

The kiss(es) opens the wormhole from village to village, and Yumi’s Love cell flies off, anxious to learn who Bobby truly is. This might be one of my favorite moments of the show — the way they compared Woong’s village to Bobby’s. The Love cell is shocked to see no algos or AI like in Woong’s village. Instead, she’s greeted with “roses, music, and overwhelming romance” as she’s swept off her feet, serenaded, and rejoiced over.

Back in the real world, as we follow our couple in their early days of dating, we see the same dynamic echoed. Bobby is exactly like his cells, cherishing Yumi, respecting her, encouraging her, etc. etc. etc. They’re both in the high of their emotions, with their cells literally yeeted around their respective villages by the endless pounding of their hearts when the other says or does something sweet (my favorite of these: when Bobby said he wanted to call her “Yumi-ah”).

One of Bobby’s key encouragements to Yumi is with her writing, and now that they’re dating we learn so much more about their shared love of writing and novels than we did when they were just coworkers. With cute dates at the forest of wisdom library (dramaland loves this place as much as I) and discussions about writing, Yumi revisits her old dreams of writing a novel.

Our story diverts briefly to give us context on Yumi’s past, and how she sacrificed her desire to write a novel for finding a full time job. Now, almost ten years later, she’s not sure how she feels about her decision. This story detour, though, has a purpose, because when we catch up with our couple again, Yumi is turning in her resignation at Daehan Noodles (noooo) and prepared to be jobless and write her novel. Bold move, but also, I’m rooting for her.

Time passes and Christmas approaches. Our couple is making their plans, Yumi is growing out her hair (yay!) because Bobby commented that she looked pretty with it long — and Yumi is also struggling with raised rent, no income, and an expensive gift (really, a tie?!) that she wants to get Bobby for Christmas.

The need for quick cash sparks her to sell a rice cooker that she won and never opened, and though the deal almost falls through, she runs off on Christmas Eve to deliver it to the buyer. I seriously had no bloody idea why we were lingering on this rice cooker story for so long. It didn’t hit me until Yumi was walking towards a tall figure in a gray hoodie, rice cooker in hand. Oh snap. It’s Woong.

I’ll trust that the story knows what it’s doing here as we dig into this accidental meeting next week, but also, sigh. I would honestly just rather watch Bobby and Yumi have a series of awkwardorable evenings together in his apartment, because that was another highlight of the episodes this week. Why are they so cute?!

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Yumi’s Cells 2: Episodes 3-4