Episodes: 12
How: Netflix Stream
Grade: A
Summary: {From MAL} Foolish land-born air breathers! Behold the terror from the depths, the tentacled conqueror of humanity: Squid Girl! With your pollution and stuff you really deserve it, so prepare for menacing, inky doom!
Squid Girl has come from the depths of the sea to conquer humanity for its pollution of the ocean. Within moments of arriving on the surface world, our easily distracted, little invertebrate is promptly bullied into working for the Aizawa sisters as a waitress, supplying their restaurant with squid ink. If poor Squid Girl can't handle two pushy Japanese girls, how will she ever subjugate the human race?
Opening Song: Shinryaku no Susume - Meh, I really didn't like this song much at all. Skipped it almost every time.
Ending Song: Metamarism by Kanae Ito - This wasn't so bad, slow... nice music. Good Song.
Thoughts: Attempted to watch this show on CrunchyRoll before but, It just didn't do anything for me at the time. Then Netflix gets it, It's Dubbed, I thought....maybe. So there it went.
Every episode is like two little episodes, Random nonsense really with some running themes. The way Squid Girl speaks got on my nerves at first but as it grew on me I found it quite amusing. It's a relaxing show, one to watch whenever you just want to sit back and chill.
Too bad Media Blasters won't be dubbing the second season.
Who we have....
Squid Girl - Always snarfing shrimp, she spits ink, she glows, she has tentacles for hair, she's a math genius and she's here to take over the world! Well, At least that was the plan. From the sea she came only to run into difficulties as soon as she entered the upper world.
The Lemon, A beach house ran by the Aizawa family and her first target for domination. Hoping to make the house her headquarters she quickly finds out that there are frightening things on dry land. Chizuru.
After accidentally smashing a hole in the Lemons wall she is forced to work there as a waitress to pay off the repair bill.
As the story progresses she's really seen more as entertainment than a threat, At least to most people. Day by day she learns more about the upper world through curious misadventures and actually makes "friends" with those she's trying to conquer.. sort of. She's also quite afraid of the blow up killer whales, Seeing that the real things try to eat her in the ocean.
Eiko Aizawa - Squid Girls babysitter, Although she'd probably never admit she cares deeply for the blue tentacled girl. Always the one bringing the others down to earth so to speak she is constantly getting irritated by Squid Girls antics.
Chizuru Aizawa - The Older Aizawa sibling, She's normally quiet and polite but you do not want to get her angry. Squid Girl is terrified of Chizuru due to the fact that she's a knife wielding maniac... Basically. Throughout the series she goes into psycho mode just a few times but that's all that's needed to keep most people in check when she's around.
Takeru Aizawa - Chizuru and Eiko's younger brother, He and his friends really tend to worship Squid Girl and will go out of their way to make her happy. He's like her playmate.
Sanae Nagatsuki - Eiko's friend and Squid Girls stalker.. or should I say wishful lover. At any given opportunity she is attempting to glomp on Squid Girl, Normally to be flung away by her tentacles. This tends to attract her even more crazy, masochistic stalker girl.
Alex - Sanae's Dog, He really dislikes Squid Girl since Sanae is so infatuated with her. Even after the two of them have a small adventure together and saved each other from a giant, ferocious dog... He still hates her.
Running Themes and Odd Things...
- Squid Girl can spit ink, like a squid. Chizuru uses this ink on the pastas at the Lemon, Which grosses Eiko out and all but apparently it's quite tasty.
- There's a Rival Beach house{Southern Winds} with an owner that's just insane. Well, Maybe not insane but he has his extremely shy daughter wear unusual gets up that tend to have giant Squid Girl like heads.
- Cindy Campbell, An American Alien Hunter. She's in Japan with three of her cohorts looking for Aliens and she thinks Squid Girl is actually one.. A Squidian.
- Cindy's cohorts are, Harris, Clark and Martin. They are extremely smart {sort of} MIT Graduates that want to run tests on Squid Girl.
- Someone is actually afraid of Squid Girl and believes her invasion is an actual threat, That someone? Nagisa Saitou. She's a surfer that takes a job at the Lemon, Squid Girl loves her since she's the only one that's scared of her.
- Unrequitted, Goro. He's a lifeguard at the beach and claims to be the protector of the sea! He has a huge crush on Chizuru of course he can't bring himself to tell her this. Also, Squid Girl misinterprets his protector status at first and thinks he's like her...
The End: Time on land apparently has taken it's toll on Squid Girl, No longer does she really need her squid abilities and her body starts to evolve or maybe devolve. With her tentacles, ink and everything else not working it's decided that she should go back to the sea.
While she's gone everyone is sad, lonely, bored and constantly looking out to sea for Squid Girl. She seemed to have been gone for the Fall/Winter seasons and then... She comes back! Her abilities however have not.
Now with short hair, she works at the Lemon as any normal human would. Using her hands for everything which is rather inconvenient seeing that she use to use her tentacles to carry stuff. It's not until Eiko nearly drowns that her abilities come back to save her.. Yea.. That was a little cliched.
Favorite Character{s}- Too hard to choose, Pretty much loved them all.
Favorite Episode- Episode 3; They are all quite good but the combination of Squid Girl glowing in the cemetery, the killer whale floats and Nagisa showing up was just the best.
TidBit; In the last episode while Squid Girl is on the beach alone, A new girl shows up. This girl tells Squid Girl she isn't alone up there with the humans and not all the humans were bad. To me she sort of looked like a Jellyfish but.. after further poking around it turns out she's probably an Octopus Kozue Tanabe.
