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Definitely the oddest show in the autumn anime lineup, this manga adaptation centres on college student Tadayasu Sawaki, unassuming son of a yeast-shop owner, who since childhood has had the unique ability to see and communicate with microbial bacteria and fungi. Tadayasu's a nice guy, a little alienated maybe, but when he enrols in an agricultural college on the outskirts of Tokyo with his friend Kei Yuuki, he quickly meets all sorts of people who are very interested in his odd talent - mostly, of course, because they want to use it to make money.
The plot isn't what's going to hook you into this show, though - it's the chibi-ness. Tadayasu's little companions are visualised as a tremendous anthropomorphic assortment of tiny, squeaky, lively little Pokemons, pervading every scene and environment in the show, from the Petri dishes in the laboratory to the beer and sandwiches his slovenly housemates leave lying about. Laboratory denizens will be in heaven with this show, as the eccentric Professor Itsuki discourses on everything from homebrewing sake to revolting fermented Inuit foodstuffs to the possibilities of terraforming; the rest of us will be torn between paroxysms of cuteness and a lingering sense that we should get our athlete's foot seen to as soon as possible. If that wasn't enough, there's also the invigoratingly non-moé graduate student Haruka Hasegawa whose choice of footwear might not be laboratory standard but certainly comes in handy for dominating the pathetic males in the cast.
All that, and a closing theme by Polysics that will make you sling yourself around the room like Aspergillus oryzae on crack. Seriously, do you need more? |
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