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[[File:moyashimonlogoum0.jpg|frame| ''Moyasimon'' logo and the [[Series Mascot|show's mascot]], ''A. oryzae'']]

 

''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.

 

The Department of Agriculture building on the school's campus is a near identical replica of the [[Real Life]] University of Coimbra in Portugal (up to and including the school flag being the Portuguese flag).

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* [[Art Shift]]: Kawahama and Misato's faces occasionally turn to a high-contrast pride/sarcasm expression reminiscent of the Moon's "face" or the Puchuus from [[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]].

* [[Bastard Girlfriend]]: Hasegawa. In-universe Misato is horrified by Hasegawa's drunken advances.

* [[Gay Aesop]]

* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Kaoru Misato gets a double dose of this; both his first ''and'' last names can be used as female names.

* [[Gonk]]: Takuma Kawahama and Kaoru Misato.

* [[Green Aesop]]: But averted in some instances. On the one hand, the whole show is about ecology. On the other hand, treating fields with chemicals ''works'' (agricultural science!) and biofuel-powered tractors don't (it's still just an experimental model, and the coal-powered tractors work just fine).