Yumi’s Cells (Season 2)

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Yumi’s Cells (Season 2)

유미의 세포들 시즌2 (Yumieui Sepodeul Sijeun 2) · 2022 · South Korea

WriterSong Jae-jung · Kim Yoon-joo · Kim Kyung-ran

DirectorLee Sang-yeob

Episodes14 eps · ~60–68 min each

⏱️ Binge Time15h 52m

AiredJun 10 – Jul 22, 2022

GenreRomance · Comedy · Slice of Life

Content RatingPG-13

Viki
Prime Video
TVING

Romance
Heartbreak
Webtoon
Second Love
Self-Growth
Animated Cells

One box. Everything you need to decide.

Twelve performances — from the woman healing her heart to the cells inside her head doing most of the heavy lifting.

Kim Go-eun

Kim Yu Mi

Lead

Jinyoung

Yoo Babi

Lead

Ahn Bo-hyun

Goo Woong

Supporting

Mi Ram

Kang I Da

Supporting

Lee Yu-bi

Ruby

Supporting

Joo Jong-hyuk

Louis

Supporting

Kwon Seung-woo

Kang Han Byeol

Supporting

Park Ji-hyun

Seo Sae-yi

Supporting

Shin Ye-eun

Yoo Da-eun

Supporting

Jung Soon-won

Chief Nam

Supporting

Pyo Ji-hoon

Ctrl-Z

Supporting

Sa Moon-young

Love Cell (Voice)

Supporting

Spoiler-light recaps — enough to remember where you left off, nothing that ruins the ride.

EP 01

Dormant

June 10, 2022 · TVING

Yumi is still healing. Her Love Cell remains in a coma, her heart somewhere between numb and cautious, and her daily life a quiet routine of getting by. A new face at work — the consistently kind Yoo Babi — begins to register, even if Yumi isn’t ready to admit it yet. The premiere establishes the season’s more muted, introspective tone with confidence.

EP 02

The First Move

June 10, 2022 · TVING

Babi confesses. Yumi rejects him — her Love Cell is still offline and she genuinely can’t feel it. But then she spots him with another woman and something unexpected flickers. The cells begin debating whether Babi is the real thing or just a distraction, while Yumi tries to figure out the difference between wanting someone and wanting to want someone.

EP 03

Her Turn

June 17, 2022 · TVING

After learning the truth about the blind date Ruby arranged, Yumi musters the courage to confess first. They officially begin dating — but her Love Cell, back from its coma, is watching everything with a raised eyebrow. The episode captures the specific anxiety of being with someone almost too good: the fear that the other shoe is always about to drop.

EP 04

Soft Landing

June 17, 2022 · TVING

The early relationship glow. Babi is warm, patient, and consistently present — and Yumi begins to feel something she had almost forgotten was possible. The episode also plants the writing dream: Babi notices a journal she hides and asks about it. The spark for her novel is quietly lit here, and it matters more than it seems.

EP 05

Writer in the Making

June 24, 2022 · TVING

Yumi’s writing aspirations move to the center. Babi actively encourages her to pursue it — not in a vague, romantic way, but practically and specifically. The contrast with Woong’s passive support in Season 1 is deliberate. Underneath the warmth, Yumi’s insecurities begin surfacing: she wonders if she deserves this, if she can trust it, if happiness this easy is real.

EP 06

Small Cracks

June 24, 2022 · TVING

Yumi makes meaningful progress on her manuscript. But hairline fractures are beginning to form beneath the picture-perfect surface of her relationship with Babi. Nothing dramatic — just the subtle friction of two people whose emotional rhythms don’t fully align. The cells are working overtime managing the tension between love and self-preservation.

EP 07

The Intern Problem

July 1, 2022 · TVING

Da-eun enters the picture — a female intern who clearly has lingering feelings for Babi, and who Yumi cannot stop noticing. Babi is calm and reassuring. Yumi’s cells are not. The jealousy arc begins here, and the episode is honest about how past wounds make it nearly impossible to read new situations clearly. Trust is not a switch you flip back on.

EP 08

The Spiral

July 1, 2022 · TVING

Yumi’s suspicions about Da-eun intensify. Babi’s steady calm doesn’t land the way he intends — it reads to Yumi as indifference rather than reassurance. The episode is a careful study of how two people can be saying the right things to each other and still completely miss each other. Kim Go-eun’s performance in the quieter scenes here is the best in the season.

EP 09

Breakthrough

July 8, 2022 · TVING

Babi takes decisive steps to address the Da-eun situation — distancing himself professionally and personally without being asked. Yumi and Babi share a breakthrough moment that feels genuinely earned, and the relationship settles into something warmer. The ghost of unresolved trust doesn’t vanish, but it quiets. For now.

EP 10

The Return

July 8, 2022 · TVING

Goo Woong re-enters Yumi’s life in a meaningful way — and the drama lets the emotional complexity breathe. His presence forces Yumi to measure what she had against what she has now, and neither comparison is simple. Her cells are pulled in multiple directions. The episode doesn’t rush toward an answer, which is the right call.

EP 11

The Honest Question

July 15, 2022 · TVING

Yumi’s writing career gains momentum — a genuine professional milestone. But the love triangle tightens, and the episode forces a reckoning Yumi has been quietly avoiding: the difference between loving someone and being in love with them. Moving forward requires honesty she isn’t sure she has. The penultimate setup is patient and real.

EP 12

The Proposal

July 15, 2022 · TVING

Babi proposes. Yumi accepts. And then — crucially — her Love Cell is nowhere to be found during the moment. The engagement proceeds, families meet, Babi’s standoffish father eventually warms to her. But the drama doesn’t let the happiness sit cleanly. Something is missing, and both the show and the cells know it. The most emotionally loaded episode of the season.

EP 13

After the Ring

July 22, 2022 · TVING

A time jump reveals what the engagement became: nothing. Yumi and Babi have broken up — the Da-eun shadow never fully lifted, and a love that was never fully reciprocated from Yumi’s heart couldn’t sustain the weight of a proposal. Woong, who never quite moved on, learns of the breakup and struggles to contain himself. Yumi channels the wreckage into her novel and keeps writing.

EP 14

The Cell Awards

July 22, 2022 · TVING

Yumi loses her laptop containing the manuscript — both Woong and Babi step up in their own ways, Babi tracking it down at a café before his flight to Singapore. A bittersweet reunion, a warm farewell. Yumi publishes her novel to critical acclaim. At the year-end Cell Awards, both Babi and Woong are honored by the cells for what they gave her. The Love Cell returns. Yumi meets her new editor — and the story, deliberately, continues.

Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.

The Manuscript Crisis. The finale opens with Yumi’s laptop — containing her completed novel — going missing. The panic is real and immediate, and what happens next says everything about the two men in her life. Babi, who is hours away from boarding a flight to Singapore, tracks down the café where the laptop was left and recovers it himself before he goes. Woong, hearing about the crisis through the grapevine, sends a replacement device without being asked. Neither act is performed for credit. That restraint is what makes both of them land.

The Last Goodbye with Babi. Yumi and Babi meet one final time before his departure — warm, honest, slightly painful. Babi tells her he has a girlfriend so she won’t feel guilty. He’s lying, and she probably knows it, but they both let the fiction stand. It’s an act of kindness that asks for nothing in return. Their parting is not dramatic — it’s just two people who genuinely cared for each other, acknowledging that it wasn’t quite enough, and choosing to leave it clean.

The Cell Awards — and What They Mean. The season’s most distinctive sequence: Yumi’s cells host a year-end awards ceremony, honoring both Babi and Woong for what they contributed to her growth. Babi is recognized for reigniting her creative life and believing in her writing before she believed in herself. Woong is honored for being the love that cracked her open again after she had shut down — the relationship that reminded her she was capable of feeling anything. Season 1 ended with Yumi broken. Season 2 ends with her cells gathering in celebration, because both loves — imperfect, incomplete — left her better than they found her.

The Love Cell Returns — and a New Door Opens. After spending most of Season 2 in recovery, Yumi’s Love Cell finally returns to the inner village, welcomed back by the other cells with quiet warmth. Yumi publishes her novel to genuine acclaim — the creative dream she spent two seasons building toward becomes real. And in the final scene, she meets Shin Soon Rok, her new editor: a stranger whose face the camera lingers on just long enough to signal something. The season closes not with an ending but with a breath — Yumi still moving, still capable of being reached. She came back to herself first. The rest is still being written.