Shinryaku! Ika Musume

[Kraco]

"Squid Girl has come to the land from the depths of the sea to conquer humanity for its pollution of the ocean. Unfortunately she ruins the first house she uses as an invasion base and has to work to pay for repairs. Of course, she can't overcome the Aizawa sisters who manage the house, so who knows whether she can subjugate humankind." -ANN

Themes: Comedy, beach, invaders

Links: AniDB | ANN | Official

Episode 1 - FFFPeeps
Episode 1 HD | SD - EMO







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This was, for an unknown reason, actually a series I paid attention to when the first lists of the autumn shows appeared. Maybe because it sounded so stupid. And it ended up being pretty stupid as well, but fortunately on purpose. The Squid Girl is quite an airhead, even if also pretty capable whenever she actually tries something, so the invasion success probability doesn't seem too high but I'm sure a lot of stuff will happen in the story nevertheless. It's a very light series, which also seems to apply to the production values, so a (Minami-Ke) warning of not expecting too much from it would have been appropriate.

The main role is voice acted by Hisako Kanemoto (Kanata Sorami of Sora no Woto), who seems to be quite new to voice acting without too many roles. But she's supported by veterans like of Ayumi Fujimura (Misaki of Kaichou) and Rie Tanaka (Sammy of Eve no Jikan).

I'll keep watching for now. Fulfills the silly show of the season quota.

Edit: I suggest choosing the FFFPeeps version. I watched the EMO release (which was out first) and I had to edit the font styling and remux to make the subs bearable.
Edit2: FFFPeeps changed the file link.

[Nadouku]

Aw, this anime's pretty cute. I really like the Squid Girl.

[Ryllharu]

It was really dumb, but I needed that after today at work. The background noise her tentacles make when she runs around is kinda gross though.

It needs a little something though, it's not really grabbing me, but it is close. I'll stick around for a bit though, the middle of the week is fairly empty for me.

The irony of her throwing her "comrade" (made of paper and ribbons) into the sea was priceless though. I'd feel bad if she ever found out about what she had done there.

[animus]

That was better than I expected, and I was expecting something really bad and silly.

[TheBladeChild]

The squid ink in the spaghetti was funny.

[shinta|hikari]

This anime sucks. What the hell are they thinking animating a squid? And a loli too? Too much stupid fanservice for me. It's not cute or anything.





/looks at sig and avatar and realizes it's too late

[Archangel]

This anime sucks. What the hell are they thinking animating a squid? And a loli too? Too much stupid fanservice for me. It's not cute or anything

Tsuuuun~

[TheBladeChild]

Episode 2 from WhyNot:http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=165982

[David75]

Tried that one, laughed a bit with the squid ink. But that's all, unfortunately.
Like many other shows, you have a catchy idea for first ep, sometimes you get only mildly caught and have to let go.
I'll pile it up for days when I'm bored. After all, it's quite fresh.

[Kraco]

FFFPeeps has also released the second ep. I'm watching their releases.

Episode 2 - FFFPeeps

This isn't really a series generating much discussion material. With slice-of-life there's also always the worry in the background that they run out of ideas. Of course that's no fate, though, and many series run for a long time while coming up with new stuff. I liked the second ep so much I'm anything but worried. The new characters are funny as well.

Squid Girl has a very entertaining combination of hapless airheadedness resulting in her prompt victimization in any situation and the invader mentality that rarely seems to produce any results. It's so much funnier than a generic cute airhead taken advantage of.

[Nadouku]

This anime does bring a certain charm about it that I really like. My favorite part is the last segment since we got to see a plethora of Squid Girl cosplay!

[shinta|hikari]

This is a loli show.


It's great.

[Kraco]

The next episode of the fell deeds of the fearsome tentacled invader:

Episode 3 - FFFPeeps




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The last part of this ep was great. You could really feel Squid Girl's happiness when she realised there finally appeared a human afraid of her! Although the new girl appeared quite a racist by maintaining her fear and hatred for so long, almost too much like so, but it was still funny to see someone intimidated by Ika Musume.

Still a splendid series. Three eps in it hasn't lost any of its shine.

[Nadouku]

The new character wasn't terribly interesting to me, but the episode was.

[shinta|hikari]

I totally understand the new girl's POV though. Ika musume and her monstrous tentacles should be frightening despite her loli kawaii appearance, especially if you don't know about the more frightening older sister right beside you.

I loved the face Ika musume made when she realized the girl was afraid of her. I like it so much I made it into my avatar. I don't know how to describe the expression though.

[Archangel]

Wow, this show is REALLY boring

Not my cup of tea, dropped

[Kraco]

Intrusion:

Episode 4 - FFFPeeps

[shinta|hikari]

The perverted human shrimp killed me.

[Nadouku]

I lost at the part where the fake Ika Musume poured the seasoning from every oriface.

[Kraco]

I'm really happy by the subtle consistency Ika Musume's character shows. While she has the undeniable human qualities, she still possess quite fundamental animal instincts she seems to be able to suppress very poorly. Like how she used the whole money to buy shrimp and how she acknowledges Chizuru as a superior predator and simply can't ignore her to any degree.

The human shrimp was certainly a weird sight.