History Manga / Moyashimon

* BroughtDownToNormal: Tadayasu Sawaki loses his ability to see microbes for a while, which apparently happens on occasion.

* IdenticalStranger: The first thing Sawaki notices and the audience is told by A. oryzae about Marie is how she looks strikingly similar to [[spoiler: Kei]]. The even both have the same ElegantGothicLolita fashion sense. Kaneshiro was also like this, looking like a tan [[spoiler:Kei]] without the dress.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Several between Misato and Hasegawa after the France arc. This led to Kawahama spreading rumors and Kaneshiro attempting to shut the door on them to give them privacy.

* SecretKeeper

* ShipperOnDeck: The ''A. oryzae'' from Sawaki's household heavily endorse a relationship with [[spoiler:Kei]]. This includes holding up signs that say "True Wife" and "Go for it!"

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

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

* CharacterFilibuster: Do ''not'' get Professor Itsuki started on the wonders of fermentation, unless you want to get hit by one of these.
** In the manga, his explanations [[WallOfText fill entire panels]].

* 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 {{transsexual}}.]]

* ElegantGothicLolita: [[spoiler: Kei is one]]. Marie in the second season also goes by this style of dress, except her dresses are mostly white to the former's black.

* KissingUnderTheInfluence: [[spoiler:Hazuki and Aoi (Aphrodisiac), Haruka (Aphrodisiac + Alcohol)]].

* ShownTheirWork: If you're willing to accept that the over-enthusiastic Itsuki tends to overstate the importance of microbes from time to time, most of the factual information given on microbes in ''Moyasimon'' is generally correct.

* {{Transsexual}}: [[spoiler:Kei Yuuki.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: Years ago, the chief brewer for Kei's family brewery hung himself in shame when his aversion to modernized sanitation for experience led to Hiochi bacterium spoiling years of inventory. The disaster is what motivates Kei towards trying to learn how to eradicate Hiochi entirely.

* DrivenToSuicide: Years ago, the chief brewer for Kei's family brewery hung himself in shame when his aversion to modernized sanitation for experience led to Hiochi bacterium spoiling years of inventory. The disaster is what motivates Kei on his goal towards eradicating Hiochi entirely.

* BroughtDownToNormal: Tadayasu Sawaki loses his ability to see microbes for a while.

''Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture'' (also spelled ''Moyashimon'') is a manga series, adapted to anime by Creator/TMSEntertainment 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. It concluded in 2014 after ten years of intense work.

* {{Kawaisa}}: All the bacteria and fungi are cute, even pathogens like O-157 ''E. coli'' and MRSA.

[[IThoughtItMeant Not what would happen if]] [[TalesSeries they made a Tales game about agriculture]]. Or with ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' or ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: [[spoiler:Kei Yuuki.]]

''Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture'' (also spelled ''Moyashimon'') is an ongoing manga series, adapted to anime by Creator/TMSEntertainment 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.

It concluded in 2014 after ten years of intense work.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[AvertedTrope Pretty much averted.]]

* '''Professor Itsuki''' - Professor at the university. A [[TheObiWan mysterious old man]] with a passion for fermentation of all kinds who [[SecretKeeper knows of Sawaki's ability.]]

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

* HypocriticalHumor: Oikawa and Mutou mock Sawaki for making out with [[spoiler: Kei]], a "boy" from their perspective, only for it to be pointed out that ''they'' were caught in flagrante delicto together under the influence of the afrodesiac

''Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture'' (also spelled ''Moyashimon'') is a still ongoing manga series, adapted to anime by TelecomAnimationFilm 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.

* HYpocriticalHumor: Oikawa and Mutou mock Sawaki for making out with [[spoiler: Kei]], a "boy" from their perspective, only for it to be pointed out that ''they'' were caught in flagrante delicto together under the influence of the afrodesiac

* {{Tsundere}}: Haruka Hasegawa and Hazuki Oikawa.

[[IThoughtItMeant Not what would happen if]] [[TalesSeries they made a Tales game about agriculture]].

[[caption-width-right:250: ''Moyasimon'' logo and the [[SeriesMascot show's mascot]], ''A. oryzae'']]

** 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.

* ElegantGothicLolita: [[spoiler: Kei]]. Marie in the second season also goes by this style of dress, except her dresses are mostly white to the former's black.

* '''Kei Yuuki''' - Tadayasu's childhood friend, the son of a ''sake'' brewer who secretly [[spoiler:thinks of herself as a girl trapped in a boy's body and is also in love with Tadayasu.]]
* '''Professor Itsuki''' - Professor at the university. A mysterious old man with a passion for fermentation of all kinds who knows of Sawaki's ability.