Moyashimon 01: Agricultural University Microbe Tales

COLLEGE LIFE BEGINS: Sawaki Tadayasu, a young man gifted with the ability to see microbes, starts his first day with friend Yuki Kei at an agricultural university in Tokyo. The opening ceremony quickly proves to be eventful as students are warned about a missing student by a faculty member who lacks some delicacy to say the least. Soon after, Sawaki's special ability reveals a dense trail of microbes that leads them to a suspicious mound on the ground. Could this have something to do with the missing student?



A crowd soon gathers around the mound, including a mysterious old man who decides to dig up the ground. A strong stench quickly fills the air and Sawaki and Yuki get a quick lesson about fermentation. The old man turns to be Prof. Itsuki Keizo, an acquaintance of Sawaki's grandfather. Apparently, the nutty professor has heard of Sawaki's special ability, which soon gets quickly put to the test.



After winning over a certain skeptic, Sawaki's demonstration gets interrupted after he notices a major infestation of creepy microbes known as fructivorans coming from somewhere in the university. What could possibly be going on?