Squid Girl: Difference between revisions

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* [[Ascended Meme]]: "You gotta be squidding me!" actually made it into the dub.

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Takeru after putting on makeup in episode 9.

** Also Nagisa when she dresses up as a boy, leaving a huge impression on the female customers.

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Ika-Musume when she actually tries, Chizuru ''as natural as breathing air.''

** Which is suspicious enough to Cindy and her team that they try to get a lock of Chizuru's hair for analysis.

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* [[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. {{spoiler|[[A-Cup Angst|It's for a bigger bust.]]}}

* [[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.

* [[Fun with Foreign Languages]]: Season 2, Episode 4.1, particularly the hilarious [[In My Language, That Sounds Like...]] thing between Cindy and Eiko.

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* [[Genki Girl]]: Ika and Sanae.

* [[Godiva Hair]]: at one panel when Ika took a bath.

* [[Gosh Hornet]]: When Ika hits a sunflower in chapter 141 and a bee stings her nose.

* [[Gratuitous English]]: The alien researchers from America speak broken English.

** In the very first episode of the anime, when Ika Musume is explaining her tentacles' abilities to Eiko:

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** [[Broken Aesop]]: Pollute the seas so [[Moe|some squid girl will try and take over the world]].

* [[Gretzky Has the Ball]]: Ika in Soccer.

* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: Sanae with regard to Ika.

* [[Hot Scientist]]: Cindy

* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: Alluded to; when you think about it from ''her'' perspective, Ika Musume's so-called invasion is quite justified when you have to watch your loved ones literally choke by our garbage every day.

** Or the fact that Japan is well known for overfishing their waters. That said the show is more [[Humans Are Flawed]]: everyone is good, they just shouldn't dump trash in the water. {{spoiler|Part of Ika's character development as the show goes on is her own realization of this.}}

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: All the episode/chapter titles are in the form of questions, ending with, in Japanese, "-na'''i ka'''", which signifies a question in the informal mode, with the "i ka" in katakana for emphasis. This makes for a pun with "ika", which by itself means squid.

** [[Pun-Based Title]]: [[Woolseyism|Since that doesn't work in English]], the translation makes most of the chapter titles' puns on "Squid," "Ink," or "Fish," such as "Feeling Inkquisitive?" and "How about a squiddle walk?!"

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Cindy carries it for a little while in S2 4.1 when she fails to realize Eiko is still speaking Japanese instead of English and the [[In My Language, That Sounds Like...]] phrases get more and more ridiculous. It's still hilarious though.

* [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me]]: The beginning of "Won't You Keep It?". Sanae tries to do this on a regular basis to Squid Girl, but always gets punched away.

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* [[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]] ''[[Lampshade Hanging|but]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|invading, de geso~?!]]"}}

* [[Multi Armed Multitasking]]: Ika appears to specialise in this with her tentacle hair.

* [[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.

* [[Mundane Object Amazement]]: Being an invader from the sea, this is to be expected. Especially in the last segment in Episode 8.

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* [[Pac-Man Fever]]: An odd mix. Eiko's game system is a cartridge-based one, with plenty of [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to actual 16-bit era games (especially [[Sega]] games,) but it also plays a [[Bland-Name Product]] version of [[Street Fighter|Street Fighter IV.]]

* [[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.

* [[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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* [[Princess Curls]]: Ika acquires these after one of her makeover sessions.

* [[Pungeon Master]]: Ika/Squid Girl herself; this is exaggerated in most translations and the English dub. She doesn't do it on purpose so much as she actually thinks that's how things are pronounced. Eiko and the others quickly notice it's part of her mannerisms.

* [[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.

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* [[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.

* [[She's Got Legs]]: Sanae, apparently, as shown in episode 11.

** Ika as well, as shown in episode 3.

* [[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}}.

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* [[Sick Episode]]: Ika falls ill to a Squid Girl disease. Symptoms include nausea, headaches, flushes in the face, fever, delirium, and '''''death...'''''{{spoiler|ly cravings for shrimp.}}

** A later episode has her and Sanae suffering heat stroke, with Squid Girl worrying that Sanae will recover before she does and take advantage of her in her weakened state. {{spoiler|[[Even Evil Has Standards|She doesn't.]]}}

* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Sanae with regard to Ika.

* [[Slice of Life]]: Slice of Squiddly Life.

** Just don't mention the [[Heroic BSOD|NAME of the trope]] around Ika, de geso!

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* [[Time Skip]]: In the final episode of season one, a year passes {{spoiler|after Ika "returns" to the sea. Of course, she comes back.}}

* [[Tomboy]]: Nagisa

* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Sanae

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Ika loves shrimp, much like an actual squid.

* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: Used In Universe in episode 10.1 when Eiko gets Ika Musume to draw a self portrait.

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