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Characters from ''{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}'' include:
[[File:Shrinyaku 3825.jpg|frame|Takeru, Squid Girl, Sanae, Eiko, and Chizuru]]
== Lemon Beach House ==
=== Ika Musume/Squid Girl ===
[[File:Ikamusume 4388.png|frame]]
The [[protagonist]] of the series, an anthropomorphic squid-girl who comes ashore to invade the surface world in retaliation for constant human pollution of the seas, only to end up being forced to work as a waitress at the Lemon Beach House restaurant in order to pay for a damaged wall of the restaurant.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Squid Girl include:}}
* [[Alien Hair]]
* [[Anti-Villain]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type IV]]
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: In Seasons 2 episode 2.3 it turns out that Ika Musume can pick up heavy weights with her tentacles because she can manipulate her weight using her bracelets, which makes [[Required Secondary Powers]] a [[Justified Trope]] in the episode.
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: She's shown to be extremely good at math, has mastered several skills that have nothing to do with world domination, and of course there's her extremely powerful tentacles. She could at least be a serious threat, if she wasn't so lazy and easily distracted (and, of course, if it weren't for Chizuru.)▼
▲* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: She's shown to be extremely good at math, has mastered several skills that have nothing to do with world domination, and of course there's her extremely powerful tentacles. She could at least be a serious threat, if she wasn't so lazy and easily distracted (and of course, if it weren't for Chizuru.)
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]
* [[Combat Tentacles]]
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]
* [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]]: After she swears off shrimp. They pop up everywhere.
* [[Cry Cute]]: Every time Chizuru intimidates her into obeying her, or whenever a "comrade" of hers (e.g. Takeru in a squid paper-hat, and an umbrella) "dies" (Takeru's hat blown away, the umbrella ran over by a truck).
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: And the tentacles.
* [[Cute Clumsy Girl]]: Without the use of her tentacles she can barely kick a soccer ball.
* [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Squid Girl]]
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Ika is, in an appropriate and friendly way, friends with many kids of either gender, specifically Takeru and Kiyomi's respective groups of friends. Sanae and Cindy, on the other hand...
** In season 2 episode 9.1, Ika is asked by Risa to join her play as ''her husband.'' Minutes later, Eiko, Sanae, and Kiyomi all join in. They have different roles but they share one similar thing: they ''
* [[Face Your Fears]]: In Season 2, Episode 11.3, {{spoiler|she overcomes her fear of Chizuru, accidentally ticks her off again, and ''gets dragged by her to a room while
{{quote|'''Ika:''' Oh? About what? {{spoiler|(while being dragged by Chizuru to a room)}}}}
* [[Genius Ditz]]/[[Small Name, Big Ego]]: At her best, she is the former. At her worst, she is the latter.
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* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: Her reason for invading the surface world. Her subsequent experiences, however, apparently start to impress to her that the situation is more like "[[Humans Are Flawed]]".
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: The dub version makes many puns related to undersea creatures.
* [[I Call It "Vera"|I Call It Squid Unit 1, Hyperion and Eyjafjallajökull]]: [[Tear Jerker|Her]] [[Parasol of Pain|umbrella.]]
** In a similar vein,
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: In Season 2, Episode 7.2.
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** [[Light Is Not Good]]: and there is the fact of Ika being a [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[Modern Major-General]]
* [[Multi-Armed Multitasking]]: Well, multi-''tentacled'' multitasking.
* [[Mundane Object Amazement]]: Given her little knowledge of the human world, this naturally comes in.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Her [[Prehensile Hair]] is frequently used like an extra set of hands for carrying food.
* [[Never Bareheaded]]: And for a very good reason: it's mentioned that her "hat" is actually her life source. If it's removed, she dies. Luckily, removing it is pretty hard since it's fused to her scalp.
* [[Nice Hat]]: It's more than just a [[Nice Hat]], she needs it to live.
* [[No Social Skills]]:
{{quote|'''Ika:''' "What's a military?"}}
* [[Offhand Backhand]]: To Sanae, every time she tries to glomp her.
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* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Sometimes sees Goro as one.
* [[Woman in White|Squid Girl in White]]
* [[Fish Out of Water
* [[Take Over the World]]: Her ultimate goal. Too bad she has no idea as to the strength of all the world's military forces.
* [[Tentacle Rope]]
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* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Chizuru, Orcas and Sharks?]]
**
* [[Work Off the Debt]]: The premise of the entire series, even if it's in the background more often than not.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Sky-Blue Tentacles]]
=== Eiko Aizawa ===
[[File:Squid Girl - Eiko.png|thumb|250px]]
Middle child of the Aizawa siblings and manager of the Lemon Beach House, as well as Ika Musume's principal "handler".
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Eiko include:}}
* [[Bob Haircut]]
* [[Bodyguard Babes|Bodyguard Babe]]: She's like this towards Ayumi when she sees some [[Casanova Wannabe
{{quote|"Pain in the ass bodyguard!"}}
* [[Book Dumb]]: Studying isn't her forte, but she's also too proud to ask Ika for help.
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red to Chizuru's blue.
* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Her high-school uniform.
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=== Chizuru Aizawa ===
Eldest of the Aizawa siblings, Chizuru does the cooking at the Lemon Beach House.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Chizuru include:}}
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: {{spoiler|Season 2, Episode 11.3}} focuses on her {{spoiler|and her quality time with Ika.}}
** This is the first and only episode that is focused on her for this season.
* [[Badass Adorable]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Her store and [[Big Brother Instinct|her siblings]].
** She has another one, as revealed in Season
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Even Eiko is wary whenever she exudes an intimidating aura.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]
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** Though she actually looks pretty good when she opens them [http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j396/Goosta/Chizuruopeneyes.png without malicious intent.]
* [[Flanderisation]]: In the early episodes she was extremely nice and rarely went berserk. By the end of the second season this behavior has almost gone to [[Once an Episode]] territory.
* [[Mentor Archetype]]: Teaches {{spoiler|Ayumi}} the art of self-defense while
* [[Nice Girl]]: Her default state. Annoy her and [[Beware the Nice Ones|she'll make you regret it for the rest of your life]].
* [[Nightmare Face]]: At least to Ika's eyes.
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** The first time Ika Musume sees Chizuru's scarier side, you can [[Bring My Brown Pants|hear some sort of liquid trickling in the background]]...
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Blue to Eiko's red.
* [[Troll]]/
* [[Weight Woe]]: Her only weakness. Ika may have a chance of ''actually beating her'' using only this weakness, if she's smart enough to notice it.
** She is also concerned with her muscles, as {{spoiler|Eiko}} exploits it in an attempt to eat more meat.
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=== Takeru Aizawa ===
[[File:Squid Girl - Takeru Aizawa.jpg|thumb|200px]]
Youngest of the Aizawa siblings.▼
▲Youngest of the Aizawa siblings - a typical elementary-school student.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Takeru include:}}
* [[Anime Hair]]
* [[Cross Dressing Voice]]: If you look at his seiyuu's name above, then yes.
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=== Nagisa Saito ===
A surfer and part-time worker for Lemon Beach House, and perhaps the only person who sees Ika as a genuine threat to humanity.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Nagisa include:}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v07/c117/4.html Don't take surfing lightly. Even if you're Ika Musume.]
* [[Bifauxnen]]: Just sweeping her hair back is enough to make her look like a [[Bishounen]].
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=== Ayumi Tokita ===
Daughter of the manager of Southern Winds, Lemon Beach House's rival restaurant from a neighboring town. She sometimes works part-time at the Lemon Beach House.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Ayumi include:}}
* [[Antenna Hair]]
* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Without those creepy "Fake Ika Musume" ''kigurumi'' masks her father has her wear.
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* [[Fridge Horror]]: Her father tried to trade her to the Lemon Beach House in exchange for the original Ika Musume. Behavior like this is probably why she's so insecure to begin with.
* [[Les Yay]]: Implied with her bashfulness around Eiko.
* [[Meido]]: In Chapter 162 (Season 2, Episode 2.2 in the anime), she is this while working at the store and while wearing ''bladed brass knuckles!'' (Which her father correctly identifies as trading one mask for another; see "The Faceless", above.) Needless to say, male customers are petrified at the unusual sight.
* [[Not Good with People]]: Chapter 210 reveals she can speak normally with Ika, because ''she doesn't consider her human''. The matching anime scene indicates this is why {{spoiler|she can speak with Chizuru normally, too.}}
* [[The Quiet One]]
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== Others ==
=== Goro Arashiyama ===
[[File:Squid Girl - Goro Arashiyama.jpg|thumb|200px]]
A lifeguard and Eiko's childhood friend, who has his sights for Chizuru.▼
▲A lifeguard and Eiko's childhood friend, who has his sights for Chizuru.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Goro include:}}
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: His tan is justifiable with his career. When he tries to recruit Ika-chan as a lifeguard and she asks if she has to tan, he quickly replies "It's not a uniform!"
* [[Bishonen]]
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=== Sanae Nagatsuki ===
Eiko's neighborhood friend (and classmate, in the anime) who has taken an obsessive liking to Ika.▼
▲Eiko's neighborhood friend (and classmate, in the anime) who has taken [[Stalker with a Crush|an ''obsessive'' liking]] to Ika.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Sanae include:}}
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Well, she's actually cute, but this is how Ika sees her.
* [[Bodyguard]]: In the sixth episode of the second season, Sanae becomes Squid Girl's self-appointed [[w:Security Police (Japan)|"SP"]]. Since Sanae is [[Stalker with a Crush|one of the people who Squid Girl sometimes needs to be protected from]], this does not fill her with confidence.
* [[Camera Fiend]]
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: The mere sight of Ika having a friendly chitchat with Kiyomi and her friends made her exude a dark aura that made a chill run down Eiko's spine.
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* [[Hopeless Suitor]]
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: The main reason why Ika dislikes her.
* [[Single-Target Sexuality]] / [[Token Lesbian]]: She's Camp Ikasexual.
* [[Stalking Is Love]]
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Or at least willing to get beaten up by Ika. At the end of the story when she gives up stalking her crush, she ends up ''wanting'' the violent interaction to resume.
* [[Yandere]]: She looks like this whenever she sees Ika chatting with another girl.
=== Cindy Campbell ===
An American alien researcher who comes to Japan to investigate Ika.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Cindy include:}}
* [[Alliterative Name]]
* [[Anime Accent Absence]]: In her introduction, Eiko tried out an "American" accent
* [[Berserk Button]]: [http://fanfox.net/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v20/c362/1.html#ipg6 Do NOT EVER pull her jacket off].
* [[Eagle Land]]: A mix of both types.
* [[Foreign Fanservice]]: A sexy blonde woman with a
* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Name's the Same]]: She shares her name with a character from ''[[Scary Movie]]''.
* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]
* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Her obsession with Ika sometimes goes beyond finding her "alien heritage
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]
* [[Walking Swimsuit Scene]]: Does this for the majority of the series.
=== Mr. Tokita ===
Ayumi's father whose first name is unknown. He is the Southern Wind's owner. He is fond of making creepy kigurumi based on Ika.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Mr. Tokita include:}}
* [[Mad Scientist]]: His Ika kigurumi are both cute and creepy, but creepy most of the time. He even has built a ''toilet room'' out of them.
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]
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=== Harris, Clark and Martin ===
A trio of American [[Mad Scientist]]s and MIT graduates (each of whom graduated at the top of his class) who, together with Cindy, investigate Ika.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by the "stooges" include:}}
* [[Eagle Land]]
* [[Geek Physiques]]: Harris is a little skinny, Clark is ''very'' skinny, and Martin is fat.
** When Ika is gone in episode 12.1, they become depressed -- Harris and Clark gain a ton of weight, while Martin loses quite a bit.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Humorously, a few of their Gratuitous English lines go unaltered in the English dub. "You're a god, man! We are god men!"
* [[Mad Scientist]]s
* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: In their zeal to discover Ika's "alien" heritage, they conveniently overlook their other, far more important discoveries: a universal language translator ''and'' a cure for cancer. Being that we actually learn this ''from them'', they appear to have some faint awareness of the fact that they're squandering their talents and discoveries.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: They never pass up a chance to remind people that each of them graduated at the top of his class at MIT. (Cindy graduated at the top of her class at MIT, as well, but we only hear her mention that once during the entire anime, in reply to one of their boasts.)
* [[Villain Team-Up]]: While they are not really villainous, the trio and Ayumi's father join forces in Season 2, Episode 11.2 to build a [[Robot Me|Mecha-Ika Musume]]. This Mecha-Ika has almost all of the original's powers
=== Kiyomi Sakura ===
A middle-school student who Ika befriends after a prank gone wrong.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Kiyomi include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[A-Cup Angst]]: She is so angsty about it that her original wish for [[Tanabata]] is to ''have a bigger bust.''}}
* [[Meganekko]]
* [[Nice Girl]]: [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v10/c185/8.html Clearly seen] in Chapter 185 of the manga, for example.
* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Not her only outfit, but she is a middle-school student.
* [[Sick Episode]]:
* [[The Rival]]: Sanae sees her as this. Of course, this has something to do with [[Love Triangle|Ika.]]
=== Tatsuo Isozaki ===
[[File:Squid Girl - Tatsuo Isozaki.jpg|thumb|200px]]
Goro's friend and fellow lifeguard who tries to flirt with Ayumi.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Isozaki include:}}
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Like Goro, his tan is justifiable with his career.
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Tries to flirt with Ayumi, much to the annoyance of Eiko.
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=== Kozue Tanabe ===
A gentle girl {{spoiler|implied to be an anthropomorphic "tako musume" (octopus girl)}}. She never gives her name in the anime.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Tanabe include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Octopus Girl]]}}
* [[Humans Are Flawed]]: Her basic philosophy, which she sometimes shares with Ika.
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* [[Nice Girl]]
* {{spoiler|[[There Is Another]]}}
===Invasion Club===
Kiyomi's classmates, '''Tomomi Mochizuki''', '''Yuka Nishimura''' and '''Ayano Watanbe'''.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by them include:}}
* [[Walking Swimsuit Scene]]: Tomomi, although not as often as Cindy does.
===Keiko Furukawa===
'''Voiced by''' [[Misato Fukuen]] (Japanese)
A police officer who is very suspicious of Squid Girl, but eventually befriends her.
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