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Moyashimon 1

Filed under Uncategorized by Suii on 11-07-2008

As I promised, here’s the post about Moyashimon! Just don’t read it if you don’t like spoilers.

It all starts with two old men sitting and talking. While they’re talking, two names appear. Their grandchilds are going to a university in Tokyo. Then there’s the funky and funny opening and, after that, you get to see Kei and Tadayasu on the campus grounds of the Agricultural University. Even the police is there for some reason. The two continue to the slimey opening ceremony and it seems that a student is missing. The police fears that she might be buried somewhere around the area. As Tadayasu is pretty easily bored and he still has to meet with a friend of his grandpa, they decide to visit a professor. While strolling around the campus, a huge thing gets carried and it’s just for showoff, but still funny. Next up is a huge group of animals, followed by poo-cleaners. The weirdest thing is, they even seem to like that job. Their search for Itsuki-sensei continues and they come along a path through the woods. Something’s floating in the air and while Kei doesn’t notice those things, Tadayasu does and he think that there might be even more down the path. They notice that a sign sticks out of the ground with the name of the missing student on it, so they think that there might be a corpse beneath it. It doesn’t take long and the police is informed and Tadayasu gets questioned about the floating bacteria he sees. Itsuki-sensei shows up and starts digging at the sign. It doesn’t take that long and even the so-called missing student shows up, claiming that the thing buried down there is a subject of her studies. Tadayasu and Kei are introduced to Hasegawa by Itsuki-sensei. They meet up in Itsuki-sensei’s laboratory and Hasegawa bombards Tadayasu with a lot of tests to proof that he can actually see bacteria. She’s finally convinced when Tadayasu inspects her feet and he discovers that there are a lot of bacteria that are responsible for athlete’s foot, so she got an athlete’s foot. She’s convinced, but then a bacteria floats in the sky that doesn’t belong there. It’s from sake and a huge sake ton fell over, so that’s why there’s a huge amount of bacteria floating around the campus grounds now. It’s now up to Kei and Tadayasu to stop the bacteria going mad~!

So, Moyashimon is definitely funny, but it’s also weird and I’m not talking about those lovely bacteria. I’m talking about the way and manner it’s told. Is it supposed to be funny or serious or seriously funny? Well, it’s a ”educational” anime, so I guess that suits it. Still, you’re definitely going to forget about all those bacteria and in which things they actually live. At least I do. However, it’s still something I enjoyed. Too bad about that melodramatic ending of the first episode. I hate my pc and/or screen for not being able to make it possible for me to watch it easily, as my pc/screen are acting to slow and so the animation ánd the subs are lagging as hell. Let’s hope I get a new screen soon.

Sorry, I actually planned to put screenshots in this blog, but they’re screwed up. Why? Well, I’m not that good with making screenshots or at least, my programs aren’t working as I want them to. Got any ideas with my screenshot problem, please leave a comment. Also leave a comment just to think how you think about this episode review… ^^

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