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[[File:ika-musume_3029.jpg|frame|Ika-musume, Eiko, and Chizuru]]
The Lemon Beach House, run by the Aizawa sisters, is booming with customers in the middle of the summer. This peace will be short-lived. A girl calling herself "Ika Musume" (Squid Girl) emerges from the sea, stating her goal of taking over the world as a revenge on humanity for polluting the oceans. This army of one has a long way to go, though. When she breaks a large hole in the beach house, the sisters force Ika to work for them until she can pay for the repairs. Thus begins a cute comedy about the friends at the Lemon Beach House and world domination... supposedly.
Season 2, titled ''Shinryaku!? Ika Musume'' in Japan, aired in fall 2011.
Both seasons can be watched legally on [http://www.crunchyroll.com/squid-girl Crunchyroll].
Not to be confused with ''[[Squid Game]]''.
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Typical manga chapters of Ika-Musume are only 8 pages long, so this tends to happen in the anime in addition to the [[Three Shorts]] format.
** In the manga version of "Won't You Study?", Ika gives Eiko her "simplified" calculation method immediately after Eiko begs for it and the chapter ends shortly after. The anime adds in a scene where Ika is running Eiko ragged in the restaurant and trying to show off her math skills.
** Special mention goes to the [[Sick Episode]] (Episode 8-1 and Chapter 103), which not only blended another [[Sick Episode]], chapter 70, into the anime version, but turned the manga's ending into an entire episode, namely 8
** In chapter 49, "Won't you lose weight?", it's discovered that Ika actually weighs quite a bit more than she appears. Eiko forms a few theories as to how, but the actual reason remains a mystery. When this got adapted in episode 2
* [[Alertness Blink]]: In the opening and episodes alike.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: {{spoiler|The "Won't You Keep It?" segment was Sanae's dream.}}
**
* [[All Part of the Show]]: during the Nohmen Rider
* [[Always a Bigger Fish]]:
* [[Amplified Animal Aptitude]]: Alex, Sanae's dog, seems to understand human speech quite well.
* [[And Then What?]]: Brought up in Episode 5.2 of Season 1, and again in Episode 12.1 of Season 2.
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** When Takeru askes Cindy to teach him, Eiko, and Ika English, she's able to speak without even a hint of an accent. Same with the foreigner that started the whole conversation. Takeru, Ika, and Chizuru all have noticable Japanese accents when speaking English.
* [[Apathy Killed the Cat]]: Eiko is the one who most actively challenges Ika, but she's more concerned about getting work done. Takeru considers her a playmate. Chizuru cares about ''her'' getting work done. The fact that she's a talking squid girl is of no importance. Nagisa is the only one that seems to care that Ika's something not seen in this world.
* [[Art Shift]]: Episode 10 includes plenty of these, especially when Ika Musume draws. Takeru gets one
** Also parodied: Takeru draws Ika Musume ''exactly as she appears on screen'', then complains that it looks too much like a
** Eiko has a slight [[Art Shift]] whenever Chizuru forces something covered in Ika's ink on her and she finds it to not just be edible, but actually
** Ika Musume, whenever there's a full-screen portrait of her being scared
* [[Ascended Meme]]: "You gotta be squidding me!" actually made it into the dub.
* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Takeru after putting on makeup in episode 9.
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* [[Balloon Belly]]: Ika-Musume gets this when she gorges on food (usually [[Trademark Favorite Food|shrimp]]).
** Eiko gets this in the manga after gulping down the contents of a cart of drinks.
* [[Baseball Episode]]: Episode 10.3, where Ika temporarily joins Kiyomi's baseball team.
* [[Battle Aura]]: For building sand castles.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Do not mess with Chizuru, her family, or her store. She will hurt you.
* [[Bifauxnen]]: In chapter 148/Episode 2 of season 2, Eiko makes Nagisa dress up as a guy to attract more female customers.
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Chizuru turns up the sparkles to convince Goro to watch Takeru for her. It works.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: In episode 9 Ika and Kiyome play ''[[Street Fighter|Stocking Fighter IV]]'' and Ika picks Dhalsim-expy Mr. Yoga.
** And then they get a copy of ''[[Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing|Hedgehog Kart]]''.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: When Ika gets amnesia in episode 7.2 in Season 2, Cindy and Sanae concoct a made up story of how she's an alien (Cindy) and fell in love with Sanae at first sight (Sanae). Ika nearly falls for it until Eiko tells them to stop trying to screw up her memory.
* [[Blue with Shock]]
* [[Bowdlerise]]: In the manga, when we first see Chizuru get serious, she cuts off Ika's tentacles with a knife. In the anime, she does it with her bare hands.
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* [[Cry Cute]]: Ika-chan was weeping for a ''paper hat'' that looked like a dead squid as it flowed out into the ocean... the family just didn't have the heart to tell her that it wasn't a "comrade" of hers.
** Or whenever Chizuru scares her.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Chizuru vs something. Chizuru
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: Common in the cast, Ika chief among them.
* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: Takeru
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* [[Didn't Think This Through]]: At the volleyball tournament, the scientists show off their newest gadget: an incredibly hard ball, designed to be completely impossible to receive. Which means it's also impossible to serve.
** Ika manages to "conquer" the local high school by tying up the principal. She then commands the students to be her soldiers so she can conquer the world! Unfortunately, the only thing she has planned after she conquers the world is...eating as much shrimp as she likes. Which she already does anyway.
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]:
* [[Dream Sequence]]: The Mini-Ika episodes turn out to be these, the first of Sanae, and the second of ''Goro'' of all people. The home-release-only episodes have one that isn't shown to be a dream sequence and one that is - Sanae, again, and Ika Musume promises that if the circumstances arise in their world, she'll make it real.<ref>The dream ends with {{spoiler|[[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|a giant Ika Musume stepping on Sanae]]}}.</ref>
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Flawlessly performed by Eiko to stop Ika's invasion of the school.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Ika gets this in Chapter 106 (Season 2, Episode 7.2 in the anime) by falling down the stairs. She gets better at the end of the chapter by trying to remove her hat.
* [[Epic Fail]]:
** In the first segment of the second episode of the second season, Ika tries to play soccer, but she can't even do the simple act of kicking the ball! In
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Ika Musume seems to be admired by Sanae (Ika's cuteness) and Cindy (Ika being an "alien") too much.
** Season 2, Episode 9.1 (Chapter 69 in the manga) does not help either!
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* [[Evolving Credits]]: After the first episode, the ending credits changed slightly in each episode, featuring something seen in the episode.
* [[Exact Words]]: When she sees the preferential treatment Alex is getting for being cute, Ika demands "You will treat me just like this creature!". [[Gilligan Cut]] to Chizuru putting her on a leash.
* [[Expy]]: A large proportion of the ''[[
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Chizuru. Beware if she opens them.
** It's shown in chapter 76 that she has bad eyesight, so she's always squinting. She gets contact lenses, but gives them up when she realizes that having her eyes open all the time makes everyone else nervous.
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* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: Subverted with Nagisa, who makes [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v06/c097/7.html a surprisingly good vegetable soup]. She ends up trying to hide it, [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v06/c097/8.html but not because of femininity.]
* [[Feud Episode]]: Season 2 Episode 12.2: ''Isn't That A Festival?'' Ika and Eiko have a falling out and the rest of the sequence focuses on their making up. It's also the season finale.
* [[Flanderization]]: While Ika is usually portrayed as intelligent, but easily distracted (because of her
* [[Flash Step]]: Chizuru demonstrates this ability when angered by Ika in Season 2 Episode 11.
* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: Squid Girl doesn't believe in ghosts, even though a horde of them helped her find her way out of a graveyard once (then again, she didn't even know what a ghost ''was'' at the start of the episode, so she thought they were just weird-looking humans.)
** She's also called out on it when she demands scientific proof for the existence of ghosts, despite the fact that [[Arbitrary Skepticism|squids that look like human girls makes about as much sense.]]
* [[Follow the Leader]]: to ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', down to having Expies of Fuyuki, Natsumi and Aki. And a [[Verbal Tic]], de arimasu. Interestingly, ''Keroro'' sometimes features an underwater civilization that could execute a ''far'' more effective invasion if need be.
* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: Season 2 Episode 5 Part 2 - Kiyomi's 'hidden' wish is never said out loud, but the camera briefly shows it to you before she snatches it away and destroys the wish.
* [[Friend to All Children]]: Ika gets along really well with Takeru and the other kids at the beach.
* [[Fun Size]]: [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v02/c038.5/1.html Mini Ika Musume]. [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] indeed.
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* [[The Men in Black]]: In chapter 170 (Season 2, Episode 6.2 in the anime), Sanae becomes Ika's Secret Service. The chapter ends with Sanae beating herself up over it. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/c170/8.html Literally.]
* [[Modern Major-General]]: Ika seems able to do nearly anything... except the thing that matters most to her: [[Take Over the World|invasion.]] The huge global population, {{spoiler|tentacle-severing karate chops,}} and [[Status Quo Is God|status quo]] make her invasion [[Just for Pun|dead in the water.]]
{{quote|'''Ika:''' "[[Lampshade Hanging|Why do I have to be good at everything
* [[Multi-Armed Multitasking]]: Ika appears to specialise in this with her tentacle hair.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Ika possesses ten tentacles with super strength, super speed and super dexterity. They come in really handy in her job as a waitress. Oh, and the squid ink she can produce makes a formidable pasta sauce.
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* [[Name's the Same]]: Cindy's last name is [[Scary Movie|Campbell.]]
{{quote|'''Ika-Musume:''' [http://mangable.com/shinryaku_ika_musume/chapter-84/5/ "Your tentacles become grotesque shapes and attack people around you indiscriminately de geso!"]}}
* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: After following her bamboo boat along the river all the way to the sea, Ika ends up at the ''[[
* [[Nice Hat]]: Ika has a white hat that resembles a squid's head, but it may be more than that. Episode 6 states that if it is detached from her head, she'll '''''die'''''.
** It's shown that she really
** She wears a more conventional [[Nice Hat]] ''over'' her squid hat in Episode 3.1 of Season 2 (Chapter 167 in the manga, which also shows the MIT trio wearing ''UFO hats'').
** Also, Goro's lifeguard hat.
* [[Nightmare Face]]: Chizuru when she opens her eyes.
** Though she looks normal, even cute when she wears contacts as shown in chapter 76.
** Ika Musume's [[Teru Teru
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Harris looks a lot like [[Barack Obama]].
* [[No Dialogue Episode]]: Episode five's third short is, except for a short dialogue between Sanae and Eiko, a single line of narration, and a few "geso"s, done entirely without dialogue. {{spoiler|This makes the entire short ten times more effective than it would otherwise be.}}
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{{quote|'''Ika''': "What's a military?"}}
* [[Nosebleed]]: Sanae frequently gets these when she's around Ika. Whether it's brought on from physical punishment or just being a pervert, it's often lampshaded by others.
* [[Oddly Visible Eyebrows]]{{context}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: When anyone realizes just how fucking ''scary'' the supposedly sweet big sister Chizuru can be.
** Nagisa on first seeing Squid Girl.
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* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: When [[Eyes Always Shut|Chizuru]] opens her eyes, expect to get your ass handed to you.
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: They're not trying to spirit you away to the afterlife, they're just showing you a way back home.
* [[Pac-Man Fever]]: An odd mix. Eiko's game system is a cartridge-based one, with plenty of [[Shout-Out
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Literally. Takeru pretends to be Squid Boy with a disguise consisting of a paper hat and coloured strips of paper. Ika falls for it. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Even when it's removed.]]
** Chizuru in episode 12 after Eiko crashes into her. She then switches places with her and dons a wig and the Noh Mask Rider Hannya mask—with her real hair hanging out quite obviously.{{verify}}
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Chizuru, Eiko and Takeru are siblings and live together, but their parents seem to be nonexistent. So far it has not been mentioned if they are away or dead, but Chizuru says in the fifth volume of the manga that nobody uses their bedroom anymore. They appear in a [[Happy Flashback]] Eiko has in Chapter 79 (Season 2, Episode 9.3 in the anime), {{spoiler|which makes her cry}}.
* [[The Peeping Tom]]: The burglar from Season 2, Episode 8.1 (Chapter 127 in the manga) was captured because Sanae saw him through one of the surveillance cameras she had set up at the Aizawa residence ''without them knowing''.
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* [[Real Place Background]]: The restaurant is located on Yuigahama beach in Kamakura.
** In both the manga (Chapter 147) and the anime (Season 2, Episode 6.1), they visit Kamakura's [[wikipedia:Kōtoku-in|Daibutsu]].
* [[Recycled in Space]]: Inverted. This show is basically ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' without that pesky "space" thing... Also, Squid Girl's presence is public knowledge.
** This anime can be considered as Japan's own ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', with the setting taking place on land and most of the creatures being replaced with humans. Except for the whole "becoming a network's cash cow and extending it for a bazillion seasons" thing.
*** ''Ika Musume herself'' can be considered as Japan's gender-flipped and '''moefied''' Squidward Tentacles.
* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: In their pursuit of extraterrestrial life, the MIT scientists have cured cancer and created a universal translator. Unfortunately, in their single-minded pursuit of the bizarre, they don't give a crap about either of these discoveries.
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* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: It's eventually explained that the whole reason Squid Girl can pick up people and other heavy objects with her tentacles without losing her balance is that she can alter her weight with her bracelets, becoming heavy enough to anchor herself.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Mini Ika Musume in 5.3 and 10.2; both are {{spoiler|products of Sanae's imagination.}} She appears again in Season 2, Episodes 4.3 {{spoiler|(as a product of the imagination of Ika herself)}} and 6.3 {{spoiler|(as a dream of Goro, who doesn't understand ''why'')}}.
** A quick story in the manga has [https://web.archive.org/web/20130808145955/http://mangafox.me/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v11/c211.5/1.html Ika and Mini-Ika meeting for the first time]. {{spoiler|Thanks again, Sanae.}}
* [[Series Hiatus]]: Season 2 barely started before the show had to be placed off the air for two weeks, citing "a situation with the studio", to the disappointment of many.
** Worth noting: Two of the TV networks broadcasting the second season started two weeks late and did not go on hiatus at all; the overall effect was that the subsequent episodes premiered on the same day on every station.
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* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Nagisa wants to pay Goro back for saving her life by trying to hook him up with Chizuru. {{spoiler|It seems to succeed ... at first}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]: When the scientists accidentally {{spoiler|turn the store invisible}}, they bring about the wrath of Chizuru. They try to protect against her attack by shielding themselves. Harris erects an [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|AT Barrier]], Clark brings out [[The Legend of Zelda|Link's Master Shield]], and Martin throws up a tortoise shell. Naturally, none of them work.
** Perhaps her martial prowess is a shoutout in itself? Cutting flies and tentacles
** In episode 11.1, Eiko brings a doll out of storage because it's picking up in value as a collectors item. It was part of a pair of doll toys known as [[Johnny Depp]].
** Episode 7.1 of the second season starts with Squid Girl playing [[Golden Axe]], and in 7.2 she's playing [[Bonanza Bros]].
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* [[Slice of Life]]: Slice of Squiddly Life.
** Just don't mention the [[Heroic BSOD|NAME of the trope]] around Ika, de geso!
* [[
** The English dub takes this to an extreme propensity for [[Pungeon Master|ocean life puns]]. Words like "Squidy", "Krakken", "Tentacular", "Kelp", "Gilly", "Ink", "Clam", "Beak", "Jet", and numerous other words will find their way into Squid Girl's regular vocabulary. Even when you can tell the context is meant as a swear. For example, Squid Girl never says "Invasion". It's ''always'' "Inkvasion".
* [[Sneeze Cut]]: In episode 11.3.
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* [[Squee|"Squii"]]: Or in Japanese, "gesho".
* [[Stalking Is Love]]: Sanae shows her "love" for Ika Musume by ''collecting an entire album full of photos of her''. Goro also collects pictures of Chizuru.
* [[Status Quo Is God|Status Quo is...Chizuru]]: If she has anything to say about it, Ika will ''
** This also extends to most of the characters themselves, such as Sanae tearfully letting her obsession with Ika go, only to revert right back to it before the end of the episode. And later [[Shrinking Violet|Ayumi]] learns to be more confident thanks to a pair of brass knuckles Chizuru let her use (causing men to be really fearful of her), only to have her dad immediately shoot her confidence right back down towards the end of the episode.
* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: Ika picks it up very quickly in episode 4.1 of season 2
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Sanae in episode 1 of season 2.
{{quote|Sanae: I'm not a suspicious person! I wasn't trying to eavesdrop on your conversation or anything! Not at all!}}
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* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: In the second episode's second segment during the second season, "Shinryaku no Susume" (the first season's opening theme) can be heard on the radio at the Lemon.
** Kiyomi sings it at a karaoke in Season 2, Episode 7.3, too.
* [[There Is Another]]: Mysteriously in the manga chapter {{spoiler|"Can I Bother You?".}} In the anime, it's
** In both cases, the "other" is {{spoiler|[[Punny Name|Tanabe Kozue]].}} Like Ika, she has an unusual hat, {{spoiler|but hers is round and orange. And [[Meaningful Name|the first syllables of her name are "tako", meaning octopus]]}}. She finds it amusing that Ika didn't bother to come up with a less obvious name than "Ika Musume"/"Squid Girl".
* [[Three Shorts]]: This is because the original manga is basically a "gag-a-day" comic, with very short chapters (usually less than ten pages long).
* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: Ika's "takeover" of Eiko's high school is the closest thing to actual invading she's accomplished. Though it also reveals that she hasn't thought through what she intends to do ''after'' her invasion succeeds.
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* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Sanae
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Ika loves shrimp, much like an actual squid.
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: Used In
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: The beach house Lemon is destroyed at one point, but it's back next chapter no worse for wear. There's no explanation given [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v05/c095/10.html unless you count the omake]...
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: The subtitles for the anime give Ika quite the potty mouth.{{verify}} However all of her curses are squid puns (ala [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] and turtle puns) so the show still remains relatively tame.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: None of the customers of the Lemon Beach House seem to mind getting served by a half human / half squid hybrid creature which carries their food and drinks with its tentacles.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Ika frequently ends sentences with "de geso" ("geso" meaning "squid tentacles" in culinary terms) and "jana'''i ka'''".
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** That and the purpose of her "invasion". While not the smartest way to go about it, [[Anti-Villain|her motivation for doing so is valid]].
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: It's eventually revealed that Squid Girl can vomit ink at will. [[Played for Laughs]] whenever it happens.
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Goro. Justified since he's a lifeguard.
* [[Walking Swimsuit Scene]]: Cindy and Tomomi, as well as others; justified since this is a beach series.
* [[Waterfall Puke]]: Played with. Though not actually vomit, Ika-Musume replicates the visual perfectly when she horks up some ink to make squid ink pasta.
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: Invoked in ep 5-3, which answers the question of what would happen if Ika and Eiko had initially gotten on better terms. The answer? {{spoiler|It ends in a [[Tear Jerker]] as [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|Ika will most certainly outlive any human]].}}
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Takeru and Nagisa, apparently.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Orcas and Sharks?]]
** She's also scared of Chizuru [[Beware the Nice Ones|(but she has very good reasons to be)]].
** Goro's not afraid of near-drowning—as a lifeguard, he takes risks regularly—but he is absolutely ''terrified'' of ghosts. Although it takes a lot to get him to admit it in front of Chizuru.
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