Moyashimon
- Genre: award winning comedy drama slice of life
- Author: ishikawa masayuki
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- Year: Jun 21, 2004 to Jan 22, 2014
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- Status： Finished
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Hasegawa Haruka
Main
Haruka Hasegawa is a postgraduate student. She wears a lab coat over revealing clothing. She is a violent, somewhat sadistic woman from a wealthy, over-protective family. Her family arranged a marriage for her, against her will. However, she does not have...
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Itsuki Keizou
Main
Professor Itsuki is an eccentric professor at the Tokyo Agriculture University and an acquaintance of Sawaki's family, who know of his ability. His age is a mystery, but there are reports of his works back to World War II....
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Sawaki Tadayasu
Main
Tadayasu Souemon Sawaki is the main protagonist of Moyashimon and attends an agricultural university in Tokyo as a freshman. His middle name is the yagō of his family home; it is usually omitted, and he is called "Tadayasu Sawaki". He is a childhood frien...
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Yuuki Kei
Main
Kei is a male childhood friend of Sawaki and, like him, a freshman. His parents run a sake brewery (making them customers for the mold starter from Sawaki's parents). It is revealed after a brief disappearance by Kei from the main plot, that Kei is gender...
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Aspergillus Awamori
Supporting
Its citric acid producing ability is stronger than its ability to convert starch to sugar. Since it is also able to inhibit bad bacteria it is often used in alcohol brewing, in warm climates.(Source: manga, chapter 9)...
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Aspergillus Niger
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Aspergillus niger is a fungus and one of the most common species of the genus Aspergillus. It causes a disease called black mold on certain fruits and vegetables such as grapes, onions, and peanuts, and is a common contaminant of food. It is ubiquitous in...
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Aspergillus Oryzae
Supporting
Aspergillus oryzae is a fungus used to ferment soybeans to make soy sauce and miso. It is also used to convert starch into sugar, an important step in fermenting things like rice and potatoes to make alcoholic beverages and vinegar....
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Aspergillus Sojae
Supporting
A fungus species used to make kouji for soy sauce, miso, mirin, tsukemono, and other soybean products. A second fiddle to the more famous A. oryzae....
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Bartender
Supporting
A part-time student working at the same bar as Aya. He's a lackluster bartender, but he does well when handling unruly customers....
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Corynebacterium Diphtheriae
Supporting
The bacterium that causes diphtheria, and one of the foremost enemies of skin microbes....
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Hirooka Aya
Supporting
Aya is a third year economics student at the university. She also works as a bartender at the local pub. ...
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Influenza Virus
Supporting
One of the most common viruses to infect humans, yet it still can be deadly, especially if it's a strain from chickens or swine....
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Kaneshiro Yuu
Supporting
Yuu is the keeper of the Okinawa proving ground of the agricultural university. She is a look-alike to Kei, except that she has dark skin.(Source: Wikipedia)...
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Kaneshiro Grandfather
Supporting
Yuu Kaneshiro's grandfather and an old friend of Professor Itsuki....
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Kanou Hana
Supporting
Hana comes to meet Kei at the Hiyoshi Liquor Shop to sell beer she brews in her farm. She is short, wears glasses, and looks very young.(Source: Wikipedia)...
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Kousaka Katherine
Supporting
One of Tachibana's graduate students. She is nave and easily manipulated by Mutou and the others. Her real given name is unknown, and everybody calls her "Katherine"....
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Lactobacillus Jugurti
Supporting
Since ancient times, L. jugurti has been used to make lactic acid from milk to produce yoghurt.The Japanese variety Sawaki sees has a topknot, and likes to say "de gozaru"....
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Lactococcus Lactis
Supporting
A bacterium used widely to produce cheese and other fermented dairy products....
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Malassezia Furfur
Supporting
A yeast that lives on the skin of humans and other animals. One of the causes of dandruff. It likes the oil on your nose too!(Source: Moyashimon manga)...
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Marie
Supporting
Marie is a nurse on the Sabaody Archipelago. She was helping transport a wounded man to a nearby hospital, when they encountered Saint Charloss, a Tenryuubito. Saint Charloss then refuses to let Marie pass with the wounded man ,and then kicks the heavily ...
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Maries Grandfather
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Nico's father, a quiet man with a deep love of the land, he raised his grandchildren Pierre and Marie largely by himself....
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Mutou Aoi
Supporting
Possessing the unofficial title of "Miss Agriculture" due to her beauty, Mutou is also an assistant to Itsuki and Hasegawa. She is also president of the UFO club, which she joined to escape reality. ...
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Nagamine
Supporting
One of the older students on campus. He's the one that made the contaminated food back that sent Tadayasu to the hospital, as he's not good at washing his hands after using the toilet. (Credit: TSOJ)...
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Nakayama Chisa
Supporting
When university holds its Miss Agriculture contest, she is one of the 5 contestants selected to attempt to dethrone Mutou. She's a student in the husbandries division, tending to the livestock on campus. She's acknowledged as the "Princess of Husbandries"...
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Nishino Father
Supporting
Madoka's father. His Nishino family sake factory had been famous for decades, but was undermined by modern corporate practices....
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Nishino Madoka
Supporting
A quiet, sullen high school senior working part-time on campus, whom Professor Itsuki backs in the Miss Agriculture pageant. All we know about her at first is that she dislikes beauty pageants, and absolutely hates anything to do with Japanese sake. It tu...
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Oikawa Hazuki
Supporting
Hazuki Oikawa is a freshman at the same agricultural university. She is a compulsive neat freak and always carries disinfectant tissues and antibacterial spray with her. It is later implied that she has a crush on Sawaki. ...
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Penicillium Chrysogenum
Supporting
A common fungus that is used to produced antibiotics, most notably penicillin....
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Pierre
Supporting
Pierre is a large pink bird belonging to Gan Fall.Pierre ate the Uma Uma no Mi, a Zoan-type Devil Fruit which enables him to turn into a Pegasus or a full horse.In his normal form, Pierre is a large pink bird with a red polka dot pattern on his body and h...
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Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Supporting
One of the most important microbes in fermentation, used in brewing, winemaking, and baking.Haruka has some experimentally evolved strains in her lab, and when she goes missing they tell Sawaki that they miss her too....
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Sawaki Tadatasugu
Supporting
Tadayasu's older brother, who left his responsibilities as chosen heir to the family moyashi business and moved to New Orleans....
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Tachibana
Main
Aizawas teacher and eventually his lover. Very conscious of their significant age difference, Tachibana makes almost no advances of his own, leaving Aizawa to set the pace of their blossoming relationship....
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Yuuki Grandfather
Supporting
Kei Yuuki's grandfather, and an old friend of Tadayasu's grandfather....