Monday, May 13, 2013

Squid Girl - Season 2




Episodes:  12

How:  CrunchyRoll
Grade:   B+

Summary: {from MAL} The nefarious Squid Girl is back to continue her self-appointed mission to invade the surface world. Or that's what she would do, if she could just stop getting distracted by squidding movies, reading squidly manga, and making friends as only a squid could make them. Squid Girl must overcome not only danger found at every turn, but her own squidly good nature as well. 

Opening Song:   High Powered -  Fast, Addictive, I really loved this one.
Ending Song:  Kimi wo Shirukoto -  Slow, Nice song....

Thoughts: This season was pretty much the same as the first season, Three small stories per episode with some running story lines. Everyone is back and really they didn't add anyone new.. It was enjoyable but, It wasn't quite as good as the first season.
      It's also difficult to believe but, I really missed the Dub VAs.



Whats going on...

- Goro's love for Chizuru as not advanced a bit, Nor has Sanae's for Squid Girl.
- Sanae attempted to be not stalkerish for most of an episode, Only to have her desires overcome her and start glomping Squid Girl again.
-Kiyomi plays a bigger role this season, I didn't even touch on her in the first seasons entry. Whoops.

Kiyomi Sakura - She's Squid Girls best friend, The two of them met when Squid Girl attempted to do a Ding Dong Ditch on her house. Only to have Chizuru show up after she rang the bell, before she had a chance to run away and had to lie and say she was there to see Kiyomi {Who she didn't know yet.}.
      Kiyomi is on her schools baseball team and Squid Girl ends up playing with the team due to one of the players not being able to.  Squidy isn't too bad at Baseball when she uses her Tentacles.
    Squidy, Kiyomi and a few of her friends also make an "Invasion Club", They go around and "Invade" places. In other words they just go out and have fun in places and call that an invasion.

Ayumi Tokita - The daughter of the rival beach house is back, She's still attempting to become less shy and sort of does so for a while.. thanks to some cosplay like uniforms though.  She's still quiet and such but, She seems to be coming out of her shell.


The End:   There's not much to write about really but then, at the same time there is too much. With every episode having three little plots it could take forever, It's random and slice of life like.  The final episode this time doesn't involved Squid Girl leaving but instead..
    Eiko and Squid Girl get into an argument about Squidy saving over one of her game files, This leads to Eiko not talking to Squidy.  It's Festival time, The entire group goes and Squidy ends up getting lost... Eiko of course is the one who finds her with the help of the Octopus girl again.
   Eiko really does care about Squidy!


Favorite Episode-  Episode 10 - Again this is an episode where all three parts stuck out, There's the battle of the food basically, Where Eiko is trying to get the food pieces of beef anyway she can before Squidy and Chizuru snarf it down.
   Then there's Chizuru teaching Ayumi how to defend herself, to make raise her self confidence by showing Ayumi her self defense moves on Goro.
    Winter on the Beach, On an extremely hot day the three stooges have a device that makes it snow on the beach.  Snow a little too much, The device breaks and it becomes like the North Pole.