Random: Dancing Microbes

[nebroadwe]

I was never that enamored of giant plush microbes -- something about a large, fuzzy Yersinia pestis or Streptococcus pyogenes winking cheerfully at me from shelf or bed just isn't very reassuring, which I believe to be the point of plushies. I may have to change my tune, however, after seeing this:

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It's the OP for an anime currently broadcasting on Japanese t.v., entitled もやしもん [Moyashimon] (Tales of Agriculture). The protagonist, Tadayasu Sawaki, is a college freshman studying agriculture who happens to be able to see microbes. And speak with them. A sort of microbe-whisperer, as it were. Hijinks ensue. I think I'm going to keep an eye out for this one if it gets an R1 release. (If nothing else, it's caused me to experiment successfully with embedded video. My mad blogging skillz increase by one!)

[P.S. Ignore the 8:00 running time; that appears to be some kind of upload artifact. The actual OP is only two minutes or so, followed by six minutes of nothing happening.]

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

They *are* pleasant and humorous!

E. coli is still miffed that, on your last visit to lab, he had to tuck up all his dangling flagellae like that so you'd feel less creeped out. I remind him that we make sacrifices in the name of hospitality, but he's mumbling anti-microbial discrimination ...

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry -- I'm a medievalist, for whom the clearest association with "microbe" is "reduction of the European population by a third", followed closely by "I feel sick" or "what made that weird lace-like pattern that obscures half the text on this page?" If all the microbes in the world were as friendly as the ones in the Moyashimon opening, I might feel differently ...