ABSTRACT
Thouny situates Ishikawa Masayuki's Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture (2004–2014) and Stars Without Confusion (2015–) within debates about fermentation, hospitality, and planetary relations. In both manga, invisible life forms—microorganisms and planets—are given figuration and voice, unsettling boundaries of scale and subjectivity. Thouny argues that fermentation, understood as an open process of deformation, becomes a metaphor for dwelling hospitably within a planetary situation marked by uncertainty and interconnectedness. Through the mediating work of characters (kyara), Ishikawa's comics offer alternatives to the fortress-like logics of otaku culture and sovereignty, instead imagining collective life as contingent, playful, and planetary.
