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Moyashimon (2007) - S02E01 - Commie vs GotWoot
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Commie
GotWoot
Sawaki?
Sawaki?
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Kei
.
Kei
!
That's Kei.
That's Kei.
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For real
?!
Seriously
?!
So he
took a leave of absence from
school
to
dress
as a girl?
He
took a leave of absence from
the university
to
cross-
dress
?
Uh
...
Well
...
What
are you doing?! Are you stupid?
!
What
the hell
are you doing?! Are you stupid?
Well, you said you're going to turn this into your ideal store, but you never do anything about it.
You said you were going to remodel the shop, but you never even started!
Still, what you're doing will ruin this store!
You're going to end up trashing the place with the way you're going about this.
Wow. You've really done a number on this place.
Wow, what a mess.
This means you'll be closed for some time.
I guess the shop will be closed for a while.
Well, even if the store
takes a break
,
Well, even if the store
's closed
,
we'll
be fine since we can still make money from the bar in back.
we'll
make ends meet with the bar we're running.
But you understand, don't you?
The funny thing is...
A liquor store is not merely a place to sell liquor.
liquor stores originally weren't just for selling bottles of sake.
He's
still
a microbe monster
.
He's
a microbe monster
as usual
.
Long time
,
no see!
Moyashimon
here
!
Long time
no see!
This is
Moyashimon
!
This
story is about a boy at
an
a
gricultural
u
niversity
who can see microbes
,
This
is the tale of Sawaki Souemon Tadayasu,
an
A
gricultural
U
niversity
student
who can see microbes
.
Sawaki Souemon Tadayasu, and
his friends
.
Sharing the stage are
his friends
and us
microbes
—a
minimalist
story!
We
microbes
will also pop in with our own
minimalist
ic theater presentations!
Let's get brewing
again!
We're gonna brew up some fun
again!
It's autumn, a very busy season for both farm
er
s and microbes
!
Let's brew!
Livestock coming through!
Please make way!
The Itsuki Research Group's fermentation lab has finally opened!
They'll be making all sorts of fermented foods
here.
It's autumn, a very busy season for both farm
s and microbes
.
We'
ll
brew
you!
Livestock coming through!
Itsuki
-sensei
?
Priority passage requested!
My yogurt
tastes quite good.
It's just about time for Itsuki's seminar to start up its fermentation cellar.
Huh? Sensei?
They make all kinds of fermented products
here.
That's strange. Could've sworn I just saw
him.
We'
re gonna
brew
!
W
as
this stairway
always
here?
Professor
Itsuki
?
I
'd rather not
go down there
by myself.
My yogurt
is delicious.
What the hell's wrong with you?
Hey, Professor?
You
shouldn't
whip
somebody
like that!
Weird...
Shut up!
This guy's getting
it for spreading
that
stupid rumor
!
I know I caught a glimpse of
him.
I still
can't forget
about what
I saw
you two
doing
that night during the
s
pring
f
estival!
H
as
there
always
been an opening
here?
Get over it, dumbass!
I
don't want to
go down there
alone.
And
you told
people about
what
I did
wh
ile
I
was blitzed
, didn't you?!
You idiot! You idiot!
You
're not supposed to really swing a
whip
at people
like that!
Shut up!
He deserves
it for spreading
stupid rumor
s, even after all this time
!
I still
have my doubts
about what
you two
did
that night during the
S
pring
F
estival!
Are you that stupid?!
Besides,
you told
everyone
what
happens
wh
en
I
get drunk
, didn't you?!
Do you like raw meat?
Do you like raw meat?
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Th-That's ridiculous
!
N-Not at all
!
Don't lie to me!
Don't lie to me!
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Damn.
Oh my.
Uh, according to my investigations,
Um, I ran a survey and found out that the rumor mutated as it spread.
scattered rumors of that Spring Festival night point to the conclusion that a drunken Hasegawa
Now they're saying that Hasegawa-san was drunk, got carried away, and came on to Misato-kun.
forced herself upon Misato in the heat of a moment.
Did you tell everyone it's not true?
And did you deny them?
Well, no.
I
didn
't know the truth
either
.
Well, no.
..
I
don
't know the truth
, so..
.
Aya
-chan!
Aya
!
Do
you
know anything about
th
e rumor
concerning
Hasegawa
-san
and Misato
-kun?
What do
you
think of
th
os
e rumor
s about
Hasegawa
and Misato
?
Well
, I
can't
really
tell you
.
Oh
, I
really
can't say
.
I'll tell
them
! I'll go tell
them
!
I'll tell
her
! I'll go tell
her
!
Oh,
Sensei
! I was looking for you
!
Oh,
Professor
! I was looking for you
earlier
!
You were?
I'm s
orry
.
You were?
S
orry
about that.
Long time no see.
Hey, guys!
You're Yuuki
-kun
, right?
You're Yuuki
, right?
Yeah.
Yuuki?!
I'd heard rumors, but...
So this is what his transformation looks like.
Isn't he cute?
He's Sawaki's girlfriend now!
No, no, no...
Anyway, is the liquor store okay?
Yeah, they're remodeling now.
I came here to help out until they're done.
Sorry for all that ruckus the other day.
Actually, I was more surprised by your outfit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Well, everyone, if we can get right to it, let's split into the rice team and the soybean team.
Yuuki?
We'll use the soybeans for soy sauce and miso,
I heard about this. So that's your new look!
and I was thinking of polishing the rice to make
sake.
Doesn't he look adorable?
Now,
which team would everyone like to work on?
Now he's Sawaki-kun's girlfriend!
Beans!
No. Just no.
Support for the bean team!
Is it okay to ditch the shop?
Leader for the bean team!
Yeah. It's being remodeled now, so I came here to help in the meantime.
Why does everyone want to work with the soybeans?
Sorry for the fuss last time.
Wait, doesn't polishing rice usually involve using a water wheel to grind the rice for several days with a millstone?
We were just shocked to see you in that getup.
Pretty much.
Let's get down to business and divide up into teams for rice and soybean.
The soybean team will work on making soy sauce and miso. The rice team will polish rice and brew
sake.
Now,
who wants to do what?
Soy!
Soy!
Soy team cheerleader!
Soy team supervisor.
Why are all of you choosing soy?
Isn't rice polishing where you grind it for a few days with a pestle and a water-wheel?
What?!
What?!
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Sorry, Oikawa. We'
ll leave the rice to you.
Sorry, Oikawa. We'
re counting on you!
No! You're a man, aren't you?! Trade me!
I don't wanna! Switch with me! You're men!
Men don't want to do it either!
I'm a man, but I refuse! Polishing rice by hand takes days!
How long do you think it takes to polish rice by hand?!
The pestle the professor brought should've been a hint. Clueless first-years who didn't get it should be
on the rice team!
That mallet in the professor's hand means the uneducated first-years belong
on the rice team!
Just go refine rice
!
Come to ricey, baby
!
We
aren
't
using
pestles.
We
won
't
be
using
the mallet.
It'
s for making
rice cakes
for school events.
This i
s for making
New Year's
rice cakes
.
We're off
to
see
the rice
polishers, so have fun!
All right, we'll head
to
the rice
mill now.
Thank goodness we
w
on't
be
polish
ing
rice by hand
.
Take care of the rest.
Yeah, t
hat would
've been rough
.
Thank goodness we
d
on't
have to
polish
that
rice by hand
!
Hey.
T
hat would
definitely be exhausting
.
Did you take
time
of
f school to
work at Hiyoshi
L
iquor
S
tore?
Hey.
..
No,
not
really
.
Did you take
a leave
of
absence so you could
work at Hiyoshi
's l
iquor
s
tore?
Then
was it to
dress
up
like a girl?
No,
that's
not
why
.
Something like that.
Then
, so you could
dress
like a girl?
Kei, putting it that way will cause misunderstandings.
That might be closer to the truth.
Explain to her what you're doing.
Hey, you're going to give people the wrong idea.
Basically, I'm just exploring all the possibilities.
Shouldn't you give a clearer explanation?
You've been thinking about quite a lot
, huh?
Well, I guess you could say I wanted to try all kinds of new things.
That's right!
So you had a lot of things on your mind
, huh?
S
ix
hyou
, or 360
kg,
of brewing rice
was harvested th
is
year.
Yeah.
I'm planning on using
all
of it
to
brew
sake.
By the way, this year we harvested s
ix
bales
, or 360
kilograms
of brewing rice
,
What
about the
polishing ratio
?
which
is
why I thought we'd use it
all
to
make
sake.
Given how much
we
have, forty percent would be too extreme
.
What
polishing ratio
should we use?
Let's
make it somewhere around fifty
.
Well,
we
can't expect 40%, with the amount we have
.
That's more than
enough!
That'll be d
aiginjou sake!
Let's
try for 50%
.
That's more than
good
enough!
A 50% polishing ratio would give us D
aiginjou sake!
Polishing ratio?
Polishing ratio?
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The "polishing ratio" in terms of making Japanese sake
It refers to how much was lost in the process.
is the percentage of rice that is polished away to produce rice suitable for making sake.
The opposite, huh?
We say "polished," but it's actually the opposite.
So why do we polish rice?
That's what we call the percentage of rice that gets polished away.
Basically, polishing it makes the sake taste better.
That is the opposite.
The core of the rice contains a lot of starch, which is what's really important for brewing sake.
So, why do we polish the rice down?
Brewing rice has a larger core than cooking rice!
In short, polishing the rice leads to better tasting sake.
We use pre-polished rice to brew our sake since our family doesn't own any rice fields.
The white core of a rice grain is high in starch,
T
his will be my first time seeing a
polishing machine close up. I can't wait
!
and that is what we value when making sake.
What do you think, Yuuki
-kun?
The white core is larger in brewing rice than in rice used for eating.
The introduction of vertical rice polishing machines like these made it easy to polish rice to any degree desired.
The other nutrients surrounding the white core
Yeah, so in a way, ginjou sake wouldn't have been possible without this invention.
produce several flavors when made into sake,
Polishing off half of the rice really turns sake into an extravagance.
so it's sometimes called the sake's "bitterness."
That is correct. I've met
people who said they don't want to drink
d
aiginjou sake.
Wow...
They
say that it's a wasteful luxury to throw away more than half of the valuable crop as rice bran.
We don't have our own rice paddies at our brewery,
But I think of it differently.
so we purchase rice that's already been polished and use it to make our sake.
No one would wear diamond jewelry without first refining and cutting it from the ore.
So t
his will be my first time seeing a
rice mill.
Well, you could say both daiginjou and diamonds are luxury items,
I'm so excited
!
but I propose a question to you, one that can be asked of humans as well.
What do you think, Yuuki
?
Is it wrong to
praise
something that
shine
s more brightly after it's
polished?
Thanks to the creation of these upright rice mills, we can polish away as much of the rice as we want.
Indeed, there's normal
sake
that's
delicious
,
and
only stuck-ups would
drink
d
aiginjou
exclusively
.
Yes.
I think
any sake is fine as long as you enjoy it.
In a way, if these hadn't been invented,
But to give a rebuttal as a man working in the agricultural industry,
we wouldn't have Ginjou sake.
we're not just simply throwing it
away.
But polishing away half of the rice?
We
are sincerely grateful
for the
harvest
and
show our appreciation
through our
craft.
Sake sure is a luxury item.
That's what brewers do, and
I believe that
's the way agriculture
should
be.
Indeed it is, in fact,
I'm
back!
I have met many
people who said they don't want to drink
D
aiginjou sake.
Oh
, w
elcome back.
They
believe that polishing away and discarding more than half of that hard-earned rice harvest
What happened
?
and valuing the Daiginjou sake that gets made with it is overindulgent.
We've been
steaming soybeans
in here all day.
But you know what I think?
We had
to soak the
m
in water before steaming them, so they
got ridiculously
heavy
!
Nobody would wear a diamond ring with the pure, uncut diamond.
I should've
chosen
the rice team.
You may think, "So you're saying both diamonds and Daiginjou sake are overindulgent luxury items,"
Are Misato
-san
and Kawahama
-san
in the cellar?
but anyone can reword another's opinion.
Huh?
Yeah, they are!
Is it wrong to
admire
something that
gains its
shine
by being
polished?
They're
both getting all hot and
steam
y in front of
the
steamer.
Still, common
sake
can be
delicious
as well,
The hole in the wall
is blocked
off.
and
people who only
drink
D
aiginjou
can be somewhat disagreeable
.
H
ey, Oikawa.
I think
people should just enjoy drinking all types of sake.
Ah, yes!
However, if I may offer a rebuttal as a man of agriculture...
We do not simply throw anything
away.
We
give thanks
for the
bounties we
harvest
,
and
respond
through our
deeds.
I believe that
both brewers and farmers
should
do this.
We're
back!
Oh
... W
elcome back.
Whoa...
What happened
to you
?
We've been
in this cellar
steaming soybeans
the whole time.
You have
to soak the
beans
in water before steaming them, so they
're really
heavy
.
I should've
gone with
the rice team.
Are Misato
and Kawahama
in the cellar?
Huh?
Yep.
They're
by the steamer,
steam
ing along with
the
beans.
That opening
is blocked
by stuff.
Oh, h
ey, Oikawa.
Yes?
There's some yeast on my desk on the second floor.
There's some yeast on my desk on the second floor.
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Could you go get
it
?
Mind grabbing
it
for me
?
It's faster to go
down
the
hall rather
than
the front entrance.
It's faster to go
through
the
hallway
than
to go outside.
Okay
.
Got it
.
I wonder if Hasegawa
doesn't
know
about
that opening?
I wonder if Hasegawa
-san
know
s
about
the hole.
It
couldn't
'
ve
been
my
imagin
ation, right?
I
couldn't
ha
ve
just
been
imagin
ing it.
I know
what
I saw
.
I know
I saw
it.
Well, whatever
.
Oh, well
.
I'll
figure it out sooner or later.
I'll
find out eventually.
Time to get pumped up for brewing!
Brewing, huh? How exciting!
We microbes have been torn into three kingdoms and face our doom in the intestines!
The microbes have now divided into three nations, and those within the intestines are exhausted.
But we shall fight on for the sake of our pride!
But we continue to fight because we are proud microbes!
Now is
the
time
for us
to
take arms and fight
as soy sauce and miso,
Now is
our
time
to
proceed toward battle
as soy sauce and miso,
to conquer
the intestines
and
re
make the
flora
in
our
image!
suppress those within
the intestines
,
and
make the
intestinal
flora
our
own.
So
Tadayasu, Oikawa, Hasegawa
-san, Mutou-san, or anyone else, deliver us unto glory!
So
, whether it's
Tadayasu, Oikawa, Hasegawa
, or Mutou, let us brew in battle!
Charge!
Forward, men!
Pipe down!
Shut up.
Who are you talking to?
Shut what up?
Oh
, um
...
Oh
... Uh
...
By the way, Oikawa
doesn't know that Tadayasu can see microbes.
By the way, Oikawa
still
doesn't know that Tadayasu can see microbes.
Everyone else does
, though.
All the other members know
, though.
Did you find
them?
Did you find
it?
Y
east for
miso,
soy sauce,
and sake.
The y
east for
soy sauce,
miso,
and sake.
Yeah, the labels
were
helpful.
Yes. They
were
labeled.
Is it
okay
, Tadayasu?
Are you
okay
with
keeping
secret
s
from Oikawa
, Tadayasu?
You're still
keeping
it a
secret
from Oikawa
.
We
had something for crushing
beans?
We
got a machine to grind the
beans?
The one in the
farm resource center worked
, so I brought it
.
The one in the
agricultural museum was working
, so I brought it
over
.
Mutou
, should I bring
in
the
roasted wheat,
too?
Mutou
-san
, should I bring
the
barley flour
too?
No,
you can
take it straight to the
malt cellar.
No,
just
take it straight to the
incubation chamber.
The soy sauce is in malt cellar 1.
Take the soy sauce yeast there as well.
This is great. You're all hard workers.
It's nice to see everyone hard at work. I'm impressed.
Well done.
But you'll tire yourselves out if you're working this hard so soon.
But if you work this hard from the start, you'll never last.
Preparing soy sauce and miso takes four days and four nights of
nonstop
work
, after all!
Preparing soy sauce and miso takes four days and four nights of
endless
work
.
Four days and four nights
...
Four days and four nights
?
When I'm dressed like this?
I have class
!
In these clothes?
Borrow clothes from Haruka
-san.
But
I have class
es
!
Get the most obscene-looking ones you can find.
Borrow clothes from Haruka
.
I-I'll put up with being dirty.
The sexiest ones you can get.
It's because Oikawa hates bacteria.
I'll endure it in my dirty clothes, thanks.
I have an idea! Can you l
et us use the baths in your
co-op dorms?
Oikawa's a sterile woman, after all.
Oh, that could work!
I know!
We do have showers here,
L
et us use the baths in your
student-run dorm!
but since you'll be staying over, we should take a nice, relaxing bath together.
Oh, that might be a good idea.
Whoa, Hazuki-chan, your skin is so nice!
There are showers here, too, but since you're staying over anyway,
Your skin
is much smoother, Mutou
-san
!
it'd be nice to have a long soak with all the girls.
But the real surprise is
you,
Yuuki
-kun.
It's like you're
really
a girl.
Wow, Hazuki, your skin is gorgeous!
Whoa, what
are you doing? Please
stop
!
Oh, come on, yours
is much smoother, Mutou
!
Oh,
come on.
But the real surprise is
Yuuki
.
You've
gone
this far
. Just grit
you
r teeth and
show us!
He
really
looks like
a girl.
...is probably what those girls would do.
What
are you doing? Please
don't
!
We won't let them use the bath for something like that!
Oh,
why not?
Why would Kei be there?
You've
come
this far
, so
you
should be prepared to
show us!
Are you off in cuckooland?
Just do it.
Those useless
virgins.
They're just going to do it anyway. It's what women do.
They
're so stupid
.
It's impure.
Sawaki, you're
gonna go
back to the
lab
instead of
your
apartment, right?
That's why I won't lend my bath to them.
Huh? Y
ou guys aren't coming
too
?
Why is Kei with them?
Hasegawa
-san already left because
she had
business
to
take care of.
Is that even right?
My shift's
at six. I
'm gonna
sleep.
Stupid
virgins.
I'
m at my limit
too.
They
really are idiots
.
We're leaving everything to
you
.
Sawaki, you're
going
back to the
cellar
instead of
the
apartment, right?
Enjoy
your harem.
What, y
ou guys aren't coming
back
?
But watch out
.
Hasegawa
said
she had
something
to
do and went home.
I
've
heard
conversations get
really dirty when
girls are by themselves.
I'm on duty starting
at six. I
gotta
sleep.
It's
better
to keep your mouth shut
than
to embarrass yourself by
pretending
to know
it
all
.
I'
ve had all I can take,
too.
Did you
pick
that
up
from
late-night anime
? Or just
your
delusions?
The rest of today is all
you
rs, Sawaki
.
Let
's
pop it
!
Enjoy
being surrounded by girls.
Yeah
, let
's
pop it
!
Just be careful
.
Tadayasu, Oikawa
, and the others will be coming around every few hours to stir up the batch,
I
heard
the dirty jokes are
really dirty when
it's only women around.
so we should get nice and koji over these four days!
You're
better
off playing innocent
than
pretending
you get
it
and humiliating yourself
.
After that, the batch gets thrown into a cask along with salt water,
Did you
learn
that
from
some
late-night anime
,
and the
fermentation of the koji mold will diffuse throughout the mixture.
or
your
own fantasies?
Over the course of a year, enzymes in the koji mold create moromi, which is basically soy sauce.
It
's
gonna burst
!
Now take the prepared moromi and run it through pressing, pasteurization, and sediment removal.
Yeah
! It
's
gonna burst
!
This results in standard soy sauce, the "thick" kind.
Tadayasu, Oikawa
and the others come to stir up the rice every few hours,
A real necessity in any Japanese kitchen!
so now we spend four days developing malt in all this rice!
Japanese food can't stand without it!
After that, salt water will be poured into the barrel,
Soy sauce that isn't pasteurized is called "raw" soy sauce.
and the yeast fermentation becomes long-term secondary fermentation.
This kind of thick soy sauce retains the most authentic soy sauce flavor.
The enzymes produced by the yeast
By the way, "light" soy sauce isn't called light because it has a lighter taste but because it has a lighter color.
spend almost a year producing unrefined mash,
The sodium content is actually about two percent higher.
which becomes soy sauce.
So only the color is light!
The completed mash is pressed, pasteurized, and allowed to settle,
You guys sure talk a lot.
and the
n it becomes the standard soy sauce, "dark soy sauce."
Oh, done with your shift, Sawaki?
Definitely a must-have in any Japanese kitchen.
You can't even begin to make Japanese food without this!
And the mash that isn't pasteurized becomes "pure soy sauce."
This dark variety best preserves the original soy sauce flavor.
By the way, "light soy sauce" has a paler color than standard soy sauce,
but the taste is not weaker.
In fact, it has a 2% higher salt content.
So it's only the color that's lighter?
You guys spare no details...
Oh, Sawaki, are you off duty now?
Yeah.
Then, let's go to the break room.
Like Professor Itsuki said,
if you work too hard now, you'll never last.
Just be careful.
I heard the dirty jokes are really dirty when it's only women around.
Well, it should be okay if Kei's there.
What will?
Oh...
Mutou fell asleep?
Yeah, I think she had too much to drink again.
The Itsuki seminar really is fun.
It has nothing to do with our classes, though.
Really?
Yeah, but the professor's so overzealous.
He's always exaggerating, like...
"Miso is the world's greatest masterpiece of solid fermentation!"
It is true that a lot of the fermentation done in Asia is solid fermentation.
Even with sake.
Western liquors are primarily made by fermenting fruit juices and other liquids,
but many Asian liquors originate from non-liquid products.
You mean sake wasn't originally a drink?
There were some types that weren't.
People used to put grain and yeast in a pot,
ferment the mixture without adding water, and eat it.
You sure know a lot, Yuuki.
My family does own a brewery, after all.
They're having a pretty serious conversation...
Oh, yeah! One time...
I went to visit an awamori distillery.
Their awamori was classified for sale based on alcohol content.
The window to the interior of the tank was marked
indicating what brand it would become if water was added to that point.
I thought it was sort of funny how simple the technique was.
Wow!
But when I thought about it, it made sense.
Once it's distilled, awamori has a really high alcohol content.
Wow, I didn't know they add water after it's already finished.
I'm pretty sure you're not alone.
Is it the same with sake?
Yeah.
Yeah.
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So the sake sold in stores is diluted with water?
Then let's go to the lounge.
Well, after it's brewed, sake has an alcohol content of around 20%.
As Itsuki-sensei said, you'll exhaust yourself if you work this hard so soon.
Other than undiluted sake, the types sold in stores are around 15%.
Watch out.
Y-Yeah, but...
I've heard conversations get really dirty when girls are by themselves.
Wow, I didn't know that.
Well, I guess it'll be fine since you'll be there too.
There used to be a law that sake with alcohol content higher than 15%
What'll be fine?
was taxed increasingly higher in accordance with increasing percentage.
Huh? Mutou-san fell asleep?
But now, tax laws have changed, so as long as the alcohol content is less than 22%,
Yeah, seems like she drank too much again.
the tax applied is always the same.
It's fun to hang out with Itsuki's seminar students.
Wow...
This has nothing to do with academics, though!
Wait.
Is that so?
I just thought of something really mean.
Yeah, but he's so energetic and always exaggerates everything.
Undiluted sake with 20% alcohol content and sake that's diluted to 15% have the same tax rate now, right?
So what's the point of diluting it?
"Miso is the is the crown jewel of solid fermentation and we should all be proud of it!" is something he'd say.
Wouldn't adding water inflate the cost?
Well, a lot of fermented food in Asia is solid-fermented to begin with.
A lot of people who love sake interpret it that way,
Take liquor. Europeans mainly use liquids like fruit juice for fermentation,
but undiluted sake with 20% alcohol content is strong stuff.
while Asian liquor originates from the fermentation of solid items.
Really?
Huh? Liquors weren't beverages from the start?
Not all of them.
They would put grain and koji into a pot or something, ferment it without adding water, and eat it.
Oh, you know a lot about this, Yuuki-kun.
My family runs a brewery, after all.
Their conversation is surprisingly normal.
Oh yeah, I visited an awamori distillery the other day.
They had a lineup of different awamori for each level of alcohol content.
There were marks on the tank next to where I could see inside.
Those marks basically showed how much water was added for each brand.
I found it funny that it's so simple.
Oh?
But when I thought about it, it became obvious,
especially since distilled awamori can have a really high alcohol content.
Oh, I didn't know they add water after they're done.
I'm sure you're not the only one.
Is sake like that too?
Yeah.
Yeah.
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So, even though the 15% alcohol content was set by the tax laws,
Then sake sellers are basically selling diluted liquor?
if you look at it the other way, it still has that familiar, strong sake flavor.
Well, right after sake's made, it's about twenty percent alcohol.
Of course, now, each brewery adjusts the dilution based on their own tastes.
Aside from what is sold undiluted, sake is typically around fifteen percent alcohol.
I-I can't even keep up.
B-But... I see.
This goes beyond serious into just plain difficult.
Back in the day, the tax code imposed additional taxes
If everyone sold only unprocessed sake, it would raise the bar for all sake made in Japan.
on sake for each percentage point above fifteen percent.
What
were
Misato
and Kawahama
talking about
?
The law has changed since then, so now there's a flat tax on sake that has an alcohol content under twenty-two percent.
I
get it...
Huh? I just realized something really fishy.
A
t thi
s rate, there's hardly a place for you here
.
The twenty-percent undiluted sake and the usual fifteen-percent sake
That's not
the problem.
are taxed equally under the current law, right?
Are you t
alking to yourself again?
Then why are they still adding water?
Uh... No, I
...
Aren't they just inflating the volume?
Oh,
Sawaki!
Many people, especially sake lovers, interpret it that way,
Drink
! D
rink!
but the truth is that the twenty-percent undiluted sake is pretty tough to drink.
No,
I'm underage
, so...
I see.
You're
no fun!
Yeah! Even though the fifteen-percent alcohol content was undoubtedly brought about by the tax code,
Oh
, man,
no
w you're
soaked!
on the flip side, it's become the familiar concentration for sake.
W
ant to borrow
clothes from
Hasegawa
?
Well, right now, each brewer decides the best tasting concentration for themselves...
Uh, I'll pass
...
I-It's at the point where I can't follow this conversation anymore. It's gone completely over my head.
Actually, it
's
late
anyway.
What
happened to what
Misato
-san was
talking about
earlier
?
I think I'll head back to the
store
.
I
see.
I don'
t thi
nk things will get brewing anytime soon
.
That's not
what I mean.
T
alking to yourself again?
Oh, no
...
Sawaki!
Drink
, d
rink!
I can't.
I'm underage
.
What? That's
no fun!
Oh
no
! Your dress got
soaked!
Do you w
ant to borrow
Hasegawa
-san's clothes?
That's a little
...
It
's
getting
late
, so
I think I'll head back to the
shop
.
Will you be okay like that?
Will you be okay like that?
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Sure
. See you tomorrow.
Yeah
. See you tomorrow.
Sawaki,
here
's fine.
Sawaki,
I can take it from
here
.
See you.
See you.
Yeah, t
ake care.
Okay. T
ake care.
Oh
,
Yuuki
-kun
already
left?
Oh
!
He did, b
ut
you can probably still catch up
.
Yuuki
left
already
?
He forgot
to take
his
headdress since
Mutou
-san
was wearing it.
Yeah.
Yuuki
-kun
!
B
ut
he couldn't've gone too far yet
.
Yuuki
-kun!
He forgot
his
hairpiece.
Mutou
was wearing it.
Yuuki
!
Yuuki
!
Huh?
Not there?
No. I wonder why...
It's the yeast from the sake that Mutou spilled.
Oh well, too late now.
Tomorrow I'll—
Sawaki, you knew about it?
About what?
The opening!
Did Yuuki leave through there?
Huh?
Huh?
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Hey, how do you open
this wall?
Gone?
I was just thinking the boxes
aren't where they
were
before
.
Yeah. I wonder where?
You know
...
It's yeast from the alcohol that Mutou-san spilled.
Sometimes I feel like I'm being kept in
the
dark
about
something.
Oh well, I can return it tomor—
That kind of thing
really
makes
me
mad.
Sawaki-kun, did you know about that?
Huh? About what?
The hole! Did Yuuki-kun go down there?
What?
Hey, how do you open
up
this wall?
Uh,
I was just thinking the boxes
were
arranged a little differently
.
You know
,
I get the feeling that
the
re are things everybody but me knows
about
.
And quite frankly, stuff like that
really
pisses
me
off.
Microbe Theater Returns!
Microbe Theater Returns!
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Hi!
A. oryzae
here!
Hey, it's us,
A. oryzae
! Now that
the
series
is back
...
As
the
new
series
begins
...
...
Microbe Theater
has returned as well!
Our
Microbe Theater
is back, too!
For the celebratory first
episode
, we'll explain
what
"Moyashiya
" is,
In
episode
one
, we'll explain
the term
"Moyashiya
," the origin of the name
"Moyashimon
."
which is where
"Moyashimon
" came from.
A "m
oyashiya
"
is
a kind of factory that's
indispens
a
ble
in
making fermented
products
.
M
oyashiya
is
where starter koji,
indispens
i
ble
for
making fermented
foods, are made
.
Wait a
minute
!
Wait a
second
!
Oh, S. cerevisiae.
Oh, S. cerevisiae.
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Even alcoholic drinks
origina
t
e from
fruits and other products that we
yeasts
have brewed!
Liquor
origina
lly cam
e from
us
yeasts
brewing stuff like fruit.
That's true, alcohol
naturally
results from your guys' efforts
,
Certainly, you guys made liquor
naturally
,
but
then
some
people showed up who made sake from
rice
that
we brewed
,
but
some
humans happened to use
rice
we brewed
for liquor
,
and
from then on
, the
y began to use malt.
and
people started using us
, the
koji mold.
Then, a
fter
some
trial and error,
A
fter
much
trial and error,
humans
created
starter
!
the
humans
discovered "mold-
starter
s."
And the shops where these starters were sold came to be called moyashiya.
Factories that produced these mold-starters for sale came to be called "moyashiya."
Oh, by the way, the word "moyashi" comes from the way the koji mold spores spread,
By the way, the "moyashi" part comes from "moeru," meaning "to sprout,"
originating from the word "moeru", used to refer to the sprouting of plants.
from the way the malt microbes' spores stretch out like flowers sprouting.
Moe!
Sprouting!
Moe!
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Commie Sawaki? Kei. That's Kei. For real?! So he took a leave of absence from school to dress as a girl? Uh... What are you doing?! Are you stupid?! Well, you said you're going to turn this into your ideal store, but you never do anything about it. Still, what you're doing will ruin this store! Wow. You've really done a number on this place. This means you'll be closed for some time. Well, even if the store takes a break, we'll be fine since we can still make money from the bar in back. But you understand, don't you? A liquor store is not merely a place to sell liquor. He's still a microbe monster. Long time, no see! Moyashimon here! This story is about a boy at an agricultural university who can see microbes, Sawaki Souemon Tadayasu, and his friends. We microbes will also pop in with our own minimalistic theater presentations! We're gonna brew up some fun again! Let's brew! It's autumn, a very busy season for both farms and microbes. Livestock coming through! Priority passage requested! It's just about time for Itsuki's seminar to start up its fermentation cellar. They make all kinds of fermented products here. We're gonna brew! Professor Itsuki? My yogurt is delicious. Hey, Professor? Weird... I know I caught a glimpse of him. Has there always been an opening here? I don't want to go down there alone. You idiot! You idiot! You're not supposed to really swing a whip at people like that! Shut up! He deserves it for spreading stupid rumors, even after all this time! I still have my doubts about what you two did that night during the Spring Festival! Are you that stupid?! Besides, you told everyone what happens when I get drunk, didn't you?! Do you like raw meat? Th-That's ridiculous! Don't lie to me! Damn. Uh, according to my investigations, scattered rumors of that Spring Festival night point to the conclusion that a drunken Hasegawa forced herself upon Misato in the heat of a moment. And did you deny them? Well, no... I don't know the truth, so... Aya! What do you think of those rumors about Hasegawa and Misato? Oh, I really can't say. I'll tell her! I'll go tell her! Oh, Professor! I was looking for you earlier! You were? Sorry about that. Hey, guys! You're Yuuki, right? Yeah. Yuuki?! I'd heard rumors, but... So this is what his transformation looks like. Isn't he cute? He's Sawaki's girlfriend now! No, no, no... Anyway, is the liquor store okay? Yeah, they're remodeling now. I came here to help out until they're done. Sorry for all that ruckus the other day. Actually, I was more surprised by your outfit. Yeah. Well, everyone, if we can get right to it, let's split into the rice team and the soybean team. We'll use the soybeans for soy sauce and miso, and I was thinking of polishing the rice to make sake. Now, which team would everyone like to work on? Beans! Support for the bean team! Leader for the bean team! Why does everyone want to work with the soybeans? Wait, doesn't polishing rice usually involve using a water wheel to grind the rice for several days with a millstone? What?! Sorry, Oikawa. We'll leave the rice to you. No! You're a man, aren't you?! Trade me! Men don't want to do it either! How long do you think it takes to polish rice by hand?! That mallet in the professor's hand means the uneducated first-years belong on the rice team! Come to ricey, baby! We won't be using the mallet. This is for making New Year's rice cakes. All right, we'll head to the rice mill now. Take care of the rest. Thank goodness we don't have to polish that rice by hand! That would definitely be exhausting. Hey... Did you take a leave of absence so you could work at Hiyoshi's liquor store? No, that's not why. Then, so you could dress like a girl? That might be closer to the truth. Hey, you're going to give people the wrong idea. Shouldn't you give a clearer explanation? Well, I guess you could say I wanted to try all kinds of new things. So you had a lot of things on your mind, huh? Yeah. By the way, this year we harvested six bales, or 360 kilograms of brewing rice, which is why I thought we'd use it all to make sake. What polishing ratio should we use? Well, we can't expect 40%, with the amount we have. Let's try for 50%. That's more than good enough! A 50% polishing ratio would give us Daiginjou sake! Polishing ratio? The "polishing ratio" in terms of making Japanese sake is the percentage of rice that is polished away to produce rice suitable for making sake. We say "polished," but it's actually the opposite. That's what we call the percentage of rice that gets polished away. That is the opposite. So, why do we polish the rice down? In short, polishing the rice leads to better tasting sake. The white core of a rice grain is high in starch, and that is what we value when making sake. The white core is larger in brewing rice than in rice used for eating. The other nutrients surrounding the white core produce several flavors when made into sake, so it's sometimes called the sake's "bitterness." Wow... We don't have our own rice paddies at our brewery, so we purchase rice that's already been polished and use it to make our sake. So this will be my first time seeing a rice mill. I'm so excited! What do you think, Yuuki? Thanks to the creation of these upright rice mills, we can polish away as much of the rice as we want. Yes. In a way, if these hadn't been invented, we wouldn't have Ginjou sake. But polishing away half of the rice? Sake sure is a luxury item. Indeed it is, in fact, I have met many people who said they don't want to drink Daiginjou sake. They believe that polishing away and discarding more than half of that hard-earned rice harvest and valuing the Daiginjou sake that gets made with it is overindulgent. But you know what I think? Nobody would wear a diamond ring with the pure, uncut diamond. You may think, "So you're saying both diamonds and Daiginjou sake are overindulgent luxury items," but anyone can reword another's opinion. Is it wrong to admire something that gains its shine by being polished? Still, common sake can be delicious as well, and people who only drink Daiginjou can be somewhat disagreeable. I think people should just enjoy drinking all types of sake. However, if I may offer a rebuttal as a man of agriculture... We do not simply throw anything away. We give thanks for the bounties we harvest, and respond through our deeds. I believe that both brewers and farmers should do this. We're back! Oh... Welcome back. Whoa... What happened to you? We've been in this cellar steaming soybeans the whole time. You have to soak the beans in water before steaming them, so they're really heavy. I should've gone with the rice team. Are Misato and Kawahama in the cellar? Huh? Yep. They're by the steamer, steaming along with the beans. That opening is blocked by stuff. Oh, hey, Oikawa. Yes? There's some yeast on my desk on the second floor. Could you go get it? It's faster to go down the hall rather than the front entrance. Okay. I wonder if Hasegawa doesn't know about that opening? It couldn't've been my imagination, right? I know I saw it. Oh, well. I'll find out eventually. Brewing, huh? How exciting! The microbes have now divided into three nations, and those within the intestines are exhausted. But we continue to fight because we are proud microbes! Now is our time to proceed toward battle as soy sauce and miso, suppress those within the intestines, and make the intestinal flora our own. So, whether it's Tadayasu, Oikawa, Hasegawa, or Mutou, let us brew in battle! Forward, men! Shut up. Shut what up? Oh... Uh... By the way, Oikawa still doesn't know that Tadayasu can see microbes. All the other members know, though. Did you find it? The yeast for soy sauce, miso, and sake. Yes. They were labeled. Are you okay with keeping secrets from Oikawa, Tadayasu? We had something for crushing beans? The one in the farm resource center worked, so I brought it. Mutou, should I bring in the roasted wheat, too? No, you can take it straight to the malt cellar. The soy sauce is in malt cellar 1. This is great. You're all hard workers. Well done. But if you work this hard from the start, you'll never last. Preparing soy sauce and miso takes four days and four nights of endless work. Four days and four nights? In these clothes? But I have classes! Borrow clothes from Haruka. The sexiest ones you can get. I'll endure it in my dirty clothes, thanks. Oikawa's a sterile woman, after all. I know! Let us use the baths in your student-run dorm! Oh, that might be a good idea. There are showers here, too, but since you're staying over anyway, it'd be nice to have a long soak with all the girls. Wow, Hazuki, your skin is gorgeous! Oh, come on, yours is much smoother, Mutou! But the real surprise is Yuuki. He really looks like a girl. What are you doing? Please don't! Oh, why not? You've come this far, so you should be prepared to show us! Just do it. They're just going to do it anyway. It's what women do. It's impure. That's why I won't lend my bath to them. Why is Kei with them? Is that even right? Stupid virgins. They really are idiots. Sawaki, you're going back to the cellar instead of the apartment, right? What, you guys aren't coming back? Hasegawa said she had something to do and went home. I'm on duty starting at six. I gotta sleep. I've had all I can take, too. The rest of today is all yours, Sawaki. Enjoy being surrounded by girls. Just be careful. I heard the dirty jokes are really dirty when it's only women around. You're better off playing innocent than pretending you get it and humiliating yourself. Did you learn that from some late-night anime, or your own fantasies? It's gonna burst! Yeah! It's gonna burst! Tadayasu, Oikawa and the others come to stir up the rice every few hours, so now we spend four days developing malt in all this rice! After that, salt water will be poured into the barrel, and the yeast fermentation becomes long-term secondary fermentation. The enzymes produced by the yeast spend almost a year producing unrefined mash, which becomes soy sauce. The completed mash is pressed, pasteurized, and allowed to settle, and then it becomes the standard soy sauce, "dark soy sauce." Definitely a must-have in any Japanese kitchen. You can't even begin to make Japanese food without this! And the mash that isn't pasteurized becomes "pure soy sauce." This dark variety best preserves the original soy sauce flavor. By the way, "light soy sauce" has a paler color than standard soy sauce, but the taste is not weaker. In fact, it has a 2% higher salt content. So it's only the color that's lighter? You guys spare no details... Oh, Sawaki, are you off duty now? Yeah. Then, let's go to the break room. Like Professor Itsuki said, if you work too hard now, you'll never last. Just be careful. I heard the dirty jokes are really dirty when it's only women around. Well, it should be okay if Kei's there. What will? Oh... Mutou fell asleep? Yeah, I think she had too much to drink again. The Itsuki seminar really is fun. It has nothing to do with our classes, though. Really? Yeah, but the professor's so overzealous. He's always exaggerating, like... "Miso is the world's greatest masterpiece of solid fermentation!" It is true that a lot of the fermentation done in Asia is solid fermentation. Even with sake. Western liquors are primarily made by fermenting fruit juices and other liquids, but many Asian liquors originate from non-liquid products. You mean sake wasn't originally a drink? There were some types that weren't. People used to put grain and yeast in a pot, ferment the mixture without adding water, and eat it. You sure know a lot, Yuuki. My family does own a brewery, after all. They're having a pretty serious conversation... Oh, yeah! One time... I went to visit an awamori distillery. Their awamori was classified for sale based on alcohol content. The window to the interior of the tank was marked indicating what brand it would become if water was added to that point. I thought it was sort of funny how simple the technique was. Wow! But when I thought about it, it made sense. Once it's distilled, awamori has a really high alcohol content. Wow, I didn't know they add water after it's already finished. I'm pretty sure you're not alone. Is it the same with sake? Yeah. So the sake sold in stores is diluted with water? Well, after it's brewed, sake has an alcohol content of around 20%. Other than undiluted sake, the types sold in stores are around 15%. Y-Yeah, but... Wow, I didn't know that. There used to be a law that sake with alcohol content higher than 15% was taxed increasingly higher in accordance with increasing percentage. But now, tax laws have changed, so as long as the alcohol content is less than 22%, the tax applied is always the same. Wow... Wait. I just thought of something really mean. Undiluted sake with 20% alcohol content and sake that's diluted to 15% have the same tax rate now, right? So what's the point of diluting it? Wouldn't adding water inflate the cost? A lot of people who love sake interpret it that way, but undiluted sake with 20% alcohol content is strong stuff. Really? Yeah. So, even though the 15% alcohol content was set by the tax laws, if you look at it the other way, it still has that familiar, strong sake flavor. Of course, now, each brewery adjusts the dilution based on their own tastes. I-I can't even keep up. This goes beyond serious into just plain difficult. If everyone sold only unprocessed sake, it would raise the bar for all sake made in Japan. What were Misato and Kawahama talking about? I get it... At this rate, there's hardly a place for you here. That's not the problem. Are you talking to yourself again? Uh... No, I... Oh, Sawaki! Drink! Drink! No, I'm underage, so... You're no fun! Oh, man, now you're soaked! Want to borrow clothes from Hasegawa? Uh, I'll pass... Actually, it's late anyway. I think I'll head back to the store. Will you be okay like that? Sure. See you tomorrow. Sawaki, here's fine. See you. Okay. Take care. Oh! Yuuki left already? Yeah. But he couldn't've gone too far yet. He forgot his hairpiece. Mutou was wearing it. Yuuki! Yuuki! Huh? Not there? No. I wonder why... It's the yeast from the sake that Mutou spilled. Oh well, too late now. Tomorrow I'll— Sawaki, you knew about it? About what? The opening! Did Yuuki leave through there? Huh? Hey, how do you open this wall? I was just thinking the boxes aren't where they were before. You know... Sometimes I feel like I'm being kept in the dark about something. That kind of thing really makes me mad. Microbe Theater Returns! Hi! A. oryzae here! As the new series begins... Our Microbe Theater is back, too! In episode one, we'll explain the term "Moyashiya," the origin of the name "Moyashimon." A "moyashiya" is a kind of factory that's indispensable in making fermented products. Wait a minute! Oh, S. cerevisiae. Even alcoholic drinks originate from fruits and other products that we yeasts have brewed! That's true, alcohol naturally results from your guys' efforts, but then some people showed up who made sake from rice that we brewed, and from then on, they began to use malt. Then, after some trial and error, the humans discovered "mold-starters." Factories that produced these mold-starters for sale came to be called "moyashiya." By the way, the "moyashi" part comes from "moeru," meaning "to sprout," from the way the malt microbes' spores stretch out like flowers sprouting. Sprouting!
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GotWoot Sawaki? Kei! That's Kei. Seriously?! He took a leave of absence from the university to cross-dress? Well... What the hell are you doing?! Are you stupid? You said you were going to remodel the shop, but you never even started! You're going to end up trashing the place with the way you're going about this. Wow, what a mess. I guess the shop will be closed for a while. Well, even if the store's closed, we'll make ends meet with the bar we're running. The funny thing is... liquor stores originally weren't just for selling bottles of sake. He's a microbe monster as usual. Long time no see! This is Moyashimon! This is the tale of Sawaki Souemon Tadayasu, an Agricultural University student who can see microbes. Sharing the stage are his friends and us microbes—a minimalist story! Let's get brewing again! It's autumn, a very busy season for both farmers and microbes! Livestock coming through! Please make way! The Itsuki Research Group's fermentation lab has finally opened! They'll be making all sorts of fermented foods here. We'll brew you! Itsuki-sensei? My yogurt tastes quite good. Huh? Sensei? That's strange. Could've sworn I just saw him. Was this stairway always here? I'd rather not go down there by myself. What the hell's wrong with you? You shouldn't whip somebody like that! Shut up! This guy's getting it for spreading that stupid rumor! I still can't forget about what I saw you two doing that night during the spring festival! Get over it, dumbass! And you told people about what I did while I was blitzed, didn't you?! Do you like raw meat? N-Not at all! Don't lie to me! Oh my. Um, I ran a survey and found out that the rumor mutated as it spread. Now they're saying that Hasegawa-san was drunk, got carried away, and came on to Misato-kun. Did you tell everyone it's not true? Well, no. I didn't know the truth either. Aya-chan! Do you know anything about the rumor concerning Hasegawa-san and Misato-kun? Well, I can't really tell you. I'll tell them! I'll go tell them! Oh, Sensei! I was looking for you! You were? I'm sorry. Long time no see. You're Yuuki-kun, right? Yeah. Yuuki? I heard about this. So that's your new look! Doesn't he look adorable? Now he's Sawaki-kun's girlfriend! No. Just no. Is it okay to ditch the shop? Yeah. It's being remodeled now, so I came here to help in the meantime. Sorry for the fuss last time. We were just shocked to see you in that getup. Pretty much. Let's get down to business and divide up into teams for rice and soybean. The soybean team will work on making soy sauce and miso. The rice team will polish rice and brew sake. Now, who wants to do what? Soy! Soy! Soy team cheerleader! Soy team supervisor. Why are all of you choosing soy? Isn't rice polishing where you grind it for a few days with a pestle and a water-wheel? What?! Sorry, Oikawa. We're counting on you! I don't wanna! Switch with me! You're men! I'm a man, but I refuse! Polishing rice by hand takes days! The pestle the professor brought should've been a hint. Clueless first-years who didn't get it should be on the rice team! Just go refine rice! We aren't using pestles. It's for making rice cakes for school events. We're off to see the rice polishers, so have fun! Thank goodness we won't be polishing rice by hand. Yeah, that would've been rough. Hey. Did you take time off school to work at Hiyoshi Liquor Store? No, not really. Then was it to dress up like a girl? Something like that. Kei, putting it that way will cause misunderstandings. Explain to her what you're doing. Basically, I'm just exploring all the possibilities. You've been thinking about quite a lot, huh? That's right! Six hyou, or 360 kg, of brewing rice was harvested this year. I'm planning on using all of it to brew sake. What about the polishing ratio? Given how much we have, forty percent would be too extreme. Let's make it somewhere around fifty. That's more than enough! That'll be daiginjou sake! Polishing ratio? It refers to how much was lost in the process. The opposite, huh? So why do we polish rice? Basically, polishing it makes the sake taste better. The core of the rice contains a lot of starch, which is what's really important for brewing sake. Brewing rice has a larger core than cooking rice! We use pre-polished rice to brew our sake since our family doesn't own any rice fields. This will be my first time seeing a polishing machine close up. I can't wait! What do you think, Yuuki-kun? The introduction of vertical rice polishing machines like these made it easy to polish rice to any degree desired. Yeah, so in a way, ginjou sake wouldn't have been possible without this invention. Polishing off half of the rice really turns sake into an extravagance. That is correct. I've met people who said they don't want to drink daiginjou sake. They say that it's a wasteful luxury to throw away more than half of the valuable crop as rice bran. But I think of it differently. No one would wear diamond jewelry without first refining and cutting it from the ore. Well, you could say both daiginjou and diamonds are luxury items, but I propose a question to you, one that can be asked of humans as well. Is it wrong to praise something that shines more brightly after it's polished? Indeed, there's normal sake that's delicious, and only stuck-ups would drink daiginjou exclusively. I think any sake is fine as long as you enjoy it. But to give a rebuttal as a man working in the agricultural industry, we're not just simply throwing it away. We are sincerely grateful for the harvest and show our appreciation through our craft. That's what brewers do, and I believe that's the way agriculture should be. I'm back! Oh, welcome back. What happened? We've been steaming soybeans in here all day. We had to soak them in water before steaming them, so they got ridiculously heavy! I should've chosen the rice team. Are Misato-san and Kawahama-san in the cellar? Huh? Yeah, they are! They're both getting all hot and steamy in front of the steamer. The hole in the wall is blocked off. Hey, Oikawa. Ah, yes! There's some yeast on my desk on the second floor. Mind grabbing it for me? It's faster to go through the hallway than to go outside. Got it. I wonder if Hasegawa-san knows about the hole. I couldn't have just been imagining it. I know what I saw. Well, whatever. I'll figure it out sooner or later. Time to get pumped up for brewing! We microbes have been torn into three kingdoms and face our doom in the intestines! But we shall fight on for the sake of our pride! Now is the time for us to take arms and fight as soy sauce and miso, to conquer the intestines and remake the flora in our image! So Tadayasu, Oikawa, Hasegawa-san, Mutou-san, or anyone else, deliver us unto glory! Charge! Pipe down! Who are you talking to? Oh, um... By the way, Oikawa doesn't know that Tadayasu can see microbes. Everyone else does, though. Did you find them? Yeast for miso, soy sauce, and sake. Yeah, the labels were helpful. Is it okay, Tadayasu? You're still keeping it a secret from Oikawa. We got a machine to grind the beans? The one in the agricultural museum was working, so I brought it over. Mutou-san, should I bring the barley flour too? No, just take it straight to the incubation chamber. Take the soy sauce yeast there as well. It's nice to see everyone hard at work. I'm impressed. But you'll tire yourselves out if you're working this hard so soon. Preparing soy sauce and miso takes four days and four nights of nonstop work, after all! Four days and four nights... When I'm dressed like this? I have class! Borrow clothes from Haruka-san. Get the most obscene-looking ones you can find. I-I'll put up with being dirty. It's because Oikawa hates bacteria. I have an idea! Can you let us use the baths in your co-op dorms? Oh, that could work! We do have showers here, but since you'll be staying over, we should take a nice, relaxing bath together. Whoa, Hazuki-chan, your skin is so nice! Your skin is much smoother, Mutou-san! But the real surprise is you, Yuuki-kun. It's like you're really a girl. Whoa, what are you doing? Please stop! Oh, come on. You've gone this far. Just grit your teeth and show us! ...is probably what those girls would do. We won't let them use the bath for something like that! Why would Kei be there? Are you off in cuckooland? Those useless virgins. They're so stupid. Sawaki, you're gonna go back to the lab instead of your apartment, right? Huh? You guys aren't coming too? Hasegawa-san already left because she had business to take care of. My shift's at six. I'm gonna sleep. I'm at my limit too. We're leaving everything to you. Enjoy your harem. But watch out. I've heard conversations get really dirty when girls are by themselves. It's better to keep your mouth shut than to embarrass yourself by pretending to know it all. Did you pick that up from late-night anime? Or just your delusions? Let's pop it! Yeah, let's pop it! Tadayasu, Oikawa, and the others will be coming around every few hours to stir up the batch, so we should get nice and koji over these four days! After that, the batch gets thrown into a cask along with salt water, and the fermentation of the koji mold will diffuse throughout the mixture. Over the course of a year, enzymes in the koji mold create moromi, which is basically soy sauce. Now take the prepared moromi and run it through pressing, pasteurization, and sediment removal. This results in standard soy sauce, the "thick" kind. A real necessity in any Japanese kitchen! Japanese food can't stand without it! Soy sauce that isn't pasteurized is called "raw" soy sauce. This kind of thick soy sauce retains the most authentic soy sauce flavor. By the way, "light" soy sauce isn't called light because it has a lighter taste but because it has a lighter color. The sodium content is actually about two percent higher. So only the color is light! You guys sure talk a lot. Oh, done with your shift, Sawaki? Yeah. Then let's go to the lounge. As Itsuki-sensei said, you'll exhaust yourself if you work this hard so soon. Watch out. I've heard conversations get really dirty when girls are by themselves. Well, I guess it'll be fine since you'll be there too. What'll be fine? Huh? Mutou-san fell asleep? Yeah, seems like she drank too much again. It's fun to hang out with Itsuki's seminar students. This has nothing to do with academics, though! Is that so? Yeah, but he's so energetic and always exaggerates everything. "Miso is the is the crown jewel of solid fermentation and we should all be proud of it!" is something he'd say. Well, a lot of fermented food in Asia is solid-fermented to begin with. Take liquor. Europeans mainly use liquids like fruit juice for fermentation, while Asian liquor originates from the fermentation of solid items. Huh? Liquors weren't beverages from the start? Not all of them. They would put grain and koji into a pot or something, ferment it without adding water, and eat it. Oh, you know a lot about this, Yuuki-kun. My family runs a brewery, after all. Their conversation is surprisingly normal. Oh yeah, I visited an awamori distillery the other day. They had a lineup of different awamori for each level of alcohol content. There were marks on the tank next to where I could see inside. Those marks basically showed how much water was added for each brand. I found it funny that it's so simple. Oh? But when I thought about it, it became obvious, especially since distilled awamori can have a really high alcohol content. Oh, I didn't know they add water after they're done. I'm sure you're not the only one. Is sake like that too? Yeah. Then sake sellers are basically selling diluted liquor? Well, right after sake's made, it's about twenty percent alcohol. Aside from what is sold undiluted, sake is typically around fifteen percent alcohol. B-But... I see. Back in the day, the tax code imposed additional taxes on sake for each percentage point above fifteen percent. The law has changed since then, so now there's a flat tax on sake that has an alcohol content under twenty-two percent. Huh? I just realized something really fishy. The twenty-percent undiluted sake and the usual fifteen-percent sake are taxed equally under the current law, right? Then why are they still adding water? Aren't they just inflating the volume? Many people, especially sake lovers, interpret it that way, but the truth is that the twenty-percent undiluted sake is pretty tough to drink. I see. Yeah! Even though the fifteen-percent alcohol content was undoubtedly brought about by the tax code, on the flip side, it's become the familiar concentration for sake. Well, right now, each brewer decides the best tasting concentration for themselves... I-It's at the point where I can't follow this conversation anymore. It's gone completely over my head. What happened to what Misato-san was talking about earlier? I see. I don't think things will get brewing anytime soon. That's not what I mean. Talking to yourself again? Oh, no... Sawaki! Drink, drink! I can't. I'm underage. What? That's no fun! Oh no! Your dress got soaked! Do you want to borrow Hasegawa-san's clothes? That's a little... It's getting late, so I think I'll head back to the shop. Will you be okay like that? Yeah. See you tomorrow. Sawaki, I can take it from here. See you. Yeah, take care. Oh, Yuuki-kun already left? He did, but you can probably still catch up. He forgot to take his headdress since Mutou-san was wearing it. Yuuki-kun! Yuuki-kun! Huh? Gone? Yeah. I wonder where? It's yeast from the alcohol that Mutou-san spilled. Oh well, I can return it tomor— Sawaki-kun, did you know about that? Huh? About what? The hole! Did Yuuki-kun go down there? What? Hey, how do you open up this wall? Uh, I was just thinking the boxes were arranged a little differently. You know, I get the feeling that there are things everybody but me knows about. And quite frankly, stuff like that really pisses me off. Microbe Theater Returns! Hey, it's us, A. oryzae! Now that the series is back... ...Microbe Theater has returned as well! For the celebratory first episode, we'll explain what "Moyashiya" is, which is where "Moyashimon" came from. Moyashiya is where starter koji, indispensible for making fermented foods, are made. Wait a second! Oh, S. cerevisiae. Liquor originally came from us yeasts brewing stuff like fruit. Certainly, you guys made liquor naturally, but some humans happened to use rice we brewed for liquor, and people started using us, the koji mold. After much trial and error, humans created starter ! And the shops where these starters were sold came to be called moyashiya. Oh, by the way, the word "moyashi" comes from the way the koji mold spores spread, originating from the word "moeru", used to refer to the sprouting of plants. Moe! Moe!
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