History Manga / Moyashimon

* '''Kei Yuuki''' - Tadayasu's childhood friend, the son of a ''sake'' brewer who secretly [[spoiler:thinks of himself as a girl trapped in a boy's body and is also in love with Tadayasu.]]

''Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture'' (also spelled ''Moyashimon'') is a still ongoing manga series, adapted to anime in 2007 (with [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-03-22/moyashimon-returns-to-tv-in-new-anime-this-july a second season]] in 2012) and live-action in 2010, which tells the account of Tadayasu Sawaki. The son of a yeast maker and a first-year college student at an agricultural university, Tadayasu has the ability to see, touch and talk with all sorts of micro-organisms and bacteria. These microbes appear to him as bug-sized creatures that come in all sorts of shapes with whom Tadayasu can interact.

* Irony: Oikawa is a neat-freak who has an issue with germs in general. Come the end of the second season however, as Sawaki soon finds out, she's apparently a microbe-magnet on the scale of the owner of the Hiyoshi Liquor Store, to the point Sawaki could no longer ''see'' her anymore under the cloud of microbes orbiting around her.

* HoYay, not to mention LesYay

''Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture'' (also spelled ''Moyashimon'') is a still ongoing manga series, adapted to anime in 2007 (with [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-03-22/moyashimon-returns-to-tv-in-new-anime-this-july a second season]] coming up in 2012) and live-action in 2010, which tells the account of Tadayasu Sawaki. The son of a yeast maker and a first-year college student at an agricultural university, Tadayasu has the ability to see, touch and talk with all sorts of micro-organisms and bacteria. These microbes appear to him as bug-sized creatures that come in all sorts of shapes with whom Tadayasu can interact.

* '''Aoi Mutou''' - Itsuki and Hasegawa's assistant; known around campus as "Miss Agriculture", but also know for being [[BottleFairy a bit of a lush]].

* Irony: Oikawa is a neat-freak who has an issue with germs in general. Come the end of the second season however, as Sawaki soon finds out, she's apparently a microbe-magnet on the scale of the owner of the liquor house that Kei works for, to the point Sawaki could no longer ''see'' her anymore under the cloud of microbes orbiting around her.

* ElegantGothicLolita: [[spoiler: Kei]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome?: The series is prone to this, especially the live-action adaptation.

* IdenticalStranger: The first thing Sawaki notices and the audience is told by A. oryzae about Marie is how she looks strikingly similar to Kei [[spoiler: Kei]]. The even both have the same ElegantGothicLolita fashion sense.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Generally [[AvertedTrope averted]], but a few inaccuracies persist, the most prominent being that ''you just do not open a can of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstromming Surströmming]] [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime inside a building]]''. Probably more RuleOfFunny and pushing the plot forward than anything.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Generally [[AvertedTrope averted]], but a few inaccuracies persist, the most prominent being that ''you just do not open a can of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstromming Surströmming]] [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime inside a building]]''.
** Admittedly, very few people know you don't open Surströmming in a building, partly because very few people have heard of it outside of the Swedish (who invented the thing), ''Moyasimon'' readers, or people who spend too much time reading [[{{Cracked}} Cracked.com]] lists of 'most disturbing foods ever'.
** To be fair, that was probably part of the joke when they used it to get out of the restaurant. Doesn't explain the earlier scene in the lab, though.

* ElegantGothicLolita

** As amazing as it sounds, Itsuki's obsession with microbes Transforming The World is ''itself'' an example of [[ShownTheirWork Showing Its Work]].[[hottip:*:Specifically, it'd appear a lot of stuff Itsuki promotes as possibilities for future terraforming is in fact based on the RealLife science of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioremediation bioremediation]]. And yes, Real Life researchers in terraforming ARE looking at bioremediation as a model for making worlds habitable.]]

* AbusivelySexyWoman: Hasegawa. In-universe Misato is horrified by Hasegawa's drunken advances.

* AbusivelySexyWoman: Hasegawa.
** {{YMMV}}: In-universe Misato is horrified by Hasegawa's drunken advances.

** [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]], certainly compared to the rest of the cast they are "Gonky" but can appear rather average everydudeish. Yes, even Kawahama.
** We have Gonk hens, too!

''Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture'' (also spelled ''Moyashimon'') is a still ongoing manga series, adapted to anime in 2007 (with [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-03-22/moyashimon-returns-to-tv-in-new-anime-this-july a second season]] coming up in 2012) and live-action in 2010, which tells the account of Tadayasu Sawaki. The son of a yeast maker and a first-year college student at an agricultural university, Tadayasu has the ability to see, touch and talk with all sorts of micro-organisms and bacteria. These microbes appear to him as bug-sized creatures that come in all sorts of shapes with whom Tadayasu can interact with.

* ArtShift: Kawahama and Misato's faces occasionally turn to a high-contrast pride/sarcasm expression reminiscent of the Moon's "face" or the Puchuus from ExcelSaga.

* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Except with germs.

* TheDoctorDolittle: Except with germs.

''Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture'' (also spelled ''Moyashimon'') is a still ongoing manga series, adapted to anime in 2007 and live-action in 2010, which tells the account of Tadayasu Sawaki. The son of a yeast maker and a first-year college student at an agricultural university, Tadayasu has the ability to see, touch and talk with all sorts of micro-organisms and bacteria. These microbes appear to him as bug-sized creatures that come in all sorts of shapes with whom Tadayasu can interact with.

''Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture'' is a still ongoing manga series, adapted to anime in 2007 and live-action in 2010, which tells the account of Tadayasu Sawaki. The son of a yeast maker and a first-year college student at an agricultural university, Tadayasu has the ability to see, touch and talk with all sorts of micro-organisms and bacteria. These microbes appear to him as bug-sized creatures that come in all sorts of shapes with whom Tadayasu can interact with.

* FemmeFatalons: Haruka when she punishes Takuma and Kaoru, drawing blood in the process.

** As amazing as it sounds, Itsuki's obsession with microbes Transforming The World is ''itself'' an example of [[ShownTheirWork Showing Its Work]].[[hottip:* :Specifically, it'd appear a lot of stuff Itsuki promotes as possibilities for future terraforming is in fact based on the RealLife science of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioremediation bioremediation]]. And yes, Real Life researchers in terraforming ARE looking at bioremediation as a model for making worlds habitable.]]

* TheProfessor: Itsuki, who goes to great lengths in the pursuit of agricultural science.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: The author apparently had to remind readers in early chapters of the manga that Kei was the ''son'' of a sake brewer, not the daughter. [[spoiler: May have been {{foreshadowing}} for Kei coming out as a {{transexual}}.]]