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“Educational series using familiar characters to depict human body systems and immune defense against viruses and bacteria.”
Once Upon a Time... Life
生命の科学ミクロパトロール
7.2
3,651 rank · 3,464 viewers · 10 favorites
Adventure
Educational
Medical
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Synopsis
Educational series using familiar characters to depict human body systems and immune defense against viruses and bacteria.
The series "Once Upon a Time... Life" teaches about the human body and about the different systems in it with the same characters from the other "Once Upon a Time" seasons. "The good Characters" represent the body's defense mechanisms, whereas "the bad Characters" represent the viruses and bacteria that threaten to attack the human body. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.0
/10
What 3 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 1.41
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.41 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.00
Running avg · Nov 2019 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Here we have the father of Anime Hataraku Saibou and the American series Osmosis Jones, a very educational series that will explain the functions of the human body from a scientific and historical...”
- 8 “Seimei no Kagaku: Micro Patrol or Il était une fois la vie (once upon a time... life) Is a French Japanese Animation financed by several EU countries (Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Holland) and...”
- 5 ““Seimei no Kagaku: Micro Patrol” is a Japanese and French co-produced educational 26-episode OVA that covers different aspects of bodily processes, from how various organs function to what happens...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 0%
Long · 67%
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- Format 26 × 25′ eps × min
- Total runtime 10h 50m all episodes
- Aired Dec 1986 – Jun 1987
- Source Ova media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-3168 catalog
Produced by
- Procidis Producer