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- Squid Girl, known in Japan as Shinryaku! Ika Musume (Invasion! Squid Girl), is an anime series produced by Diomedea based on the comedy manga series by Masahiro Anbe published in Weekly Shōnen Champion. The series tells of a Squid Girl who seeks to invade humanity as revenge for the pollution of the seas. However, due to accidentally breaking the wall of a beach house, she is forced to work as a waitress to pay off the damages. The first season aired on TV Tokyo between October 4 and December 20, 2010, and was also released with English subtitles on Crunchyroll. The fifth and sixth DVD/Blu-ray volumes, released on April 20, 2011 and May 18, 2011, contain short "Mini-Ika Musume" episodes. A second anime season titled Shinryaku!? Ika Musume aired in Japan between September 26 and December 26, 2011. Three original video animation (OVA) episodes were released on August 8, 2012, June 7, 2013, and September 9, 2014 respectively. Crunchyroll began streaming the OVAs in February 2014. Media Blasters licensed the anime in North America under the title Squid Girl. The first season was released on two DVD volumes on September 27 and December 6, 2011, respectively, followed by a Blu-ray Disc release on March 13, 2012. Media Blasters will also be releasing the second season. The first season was released on DVD in the United Kingdom by Manga Entertainment on August 13, 2012. The first season uses two pieces of theme music: one opening theme and one ending theme. The opening theme is "Shinryaku no Susume" (侵略ノススメ☆, Let's Invade!) by Ultra-Prism with Hisako Kanemoto and the ending theme is "Metamerism" (メタメリズム, Metamerizumu) by Kanae Itō. For the second season, the opening theme is "High Powered" by Sphere, and the ending theme is "Learning About You" (君を知ること, Kimi o Shiru Koto) by Kanemoto. For the OVAs, the opening theme is "Let's Shinryaku Time!" (Let's☆侵略タイム!, Let's Shinryaku Taimu) by Ultra-Prism, the ending theme for the first two OVAs is "Puzzle" (パズル, Pazuru) by Itō, and the ending theme for the third OVA is "Miser's Dream" (マイザーズドリーム, Maizāzu Dorīmu) by Itō. In Japanese, each episode's title is in the form of a negative question in order to end with nai ka and thus make a pun with the Japanese word for squid ika. The last two syllables (i, ka) are written with katakana instead of hiragana in order to emphasize the pun. Example: Shinryaku Shina-ika? (侵略しなイカ?) (en)
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- The Aikawas blow up an inflatable pool for Squid Girl, which she decides to put on the roof for privacy, only to end up sliding out to sea when it starts raining. Later, Goro faces embarrassment when his mother stops by the beach. Afterwards, Squid Girl becomes interested in sending a message in a bottle, only to find her bottle keeps washing back onto the shore, so the Three Stooges try to invent a rocket that will launch it far out to sea. (en)
- The gang take Squid Girl, who had never heard of ghosts before, on a test of courage at the local cemetery, but when she goes on ahead, she activates her bioluminescence, which scares the others. Later, Squid Girl plays with Takeru in the beach waters, but she freaks out when inflatable killer whales and sharks appear. When Takeru almost drowns, Takeru asks Goro to teach him how to swim; but Squid Girl tries to upstage him. Surfer girl Nagisa Saito joins Lemon as a hired hand, but when she is scared of Squid Girl, the latter is pleased that someone actually fears her. Nagisa is puzzled that the others do not think Squid Girl is dangerous. (en)
- When Takeru buys a radio-controlled car, Squid Girl takes it outside for a drive, but ends up breaking it. Feeling guilty, she offers to be a replacement herself, but soon apologises for breaking it. Later, everyone writes down their wishes for Tanabata, with Squid Girl struggling to narrow her choices down to one wish. After Takeru finishes his summer homework, Squid Girl tries to help him find ways to play by himself. (en)
- Noticing Sanae's dog Alex being jealous of Sanae constantly giving Squid Girl attention, Eiko suggests Squid Girl take him for a walk so they can bond. Though they don't initially get along, they help each other out when they are attacked by a ferocious dog. Later, Squid Girl observes some kids doing morning exercises and can't get them out of her head, leading to some trouble at work. Afterwards, Goro puts Squid Girl to work as a lifesaver, but after a couple of false starts, Goro doesn't trust her when she actually notices something dangerous in the water. However, after she manages to save some drowning kids, Goro understands that she protects the sea in her own way. (en)
- Ayumi's father invites the Aizawas to have dinner at his house, where Squid Girl and Eiko find his unique hospitality to be quite awkward. Later, Squid Girl falls down the stairs and loses her memory. As the others try to make up memories for her, she regains all but those of Sanae after she tries to force her hat off and sees her life flash before her eyes. Later, Squid Girl decides to set up an "Invasion Club" with Kiyomi and her friends, where they go out to various places to "invade." Squid Girl becomes worried about the club when Kiyomi becomes absent with a cold, but they all decide to visit her and invade her house too. (en)
- A beach volleyball tournament is held with a 3D television as top prize and Squid Girl and Eiko decide to team up, managing to reach the finals against Gorō, who has teamed up with Tatsuo Isozaki. When Eiko twists her ankle during the match point, Chizuru takes her place and wins the competition. Later, Squid Girl's tentacles suddenly stop working, along with her other squid abilities, and the others try various methods to bring them back with no avail. Although the others suggest it would be alright if Squid Girl returns to the sea, everyone becomes lonely when she does not immediately return. Squid Girl later returns with her tentacles cut off, residing herself to being a normal girl, though Takeru makes it clear this is not what makes her happy. As Squid Girl laments on the beach, she meets a girl named Kozue Tanabe, who assures her not all humans are bad and that she is not alone. As Squid Girl and Eiko go swimming in the sea, they are caught in a whirlpool caused by Harris, Clark, and Martin, and Squid Girl's desire to save Eiko causes her tentacles to grow back, allowing her to rescue Eiko from drowning. (en)
- A girl named Risa asks Squid Girl and Eiko to play House with her, which becomes more complicated when Sanae and Kiyomi get cast as Squid Girl's lovers. Later, Eiko and Chizuru give Squid Girl a bag and schedule planner for her to make use out of, though she finds things don't always go to her scheduled plans. On the weekend, the Aizawas take Squid Girl to an amusement park they went to as kids, only to find it is closing down and the only ride left are the teacups. Despite the limited rides, the gang decides to stay with the park until the end, giving Eiko memories of being with her parents. (en)
- During a hero show at the beach, Squid Girl realizes that the villain monster is a squid so she gets everyone to cheer for the villain, causing the performers to have to change the plot. Later, Eiko is shocked to find Squid Girl can solve math problems. Squid Girl agrees to teach Eiko provided that she do Squid Girl's chores, meanwhile, Squid Girl tries to show off her genius math ability to the other regulars. Later, after Goro saves Nagisa from drowning, Squid Girl tries to keep Nagisa scared of her, but when Squid Girl argues with Goro, Nagisa gets more confused that he might be brainwashed, while Eiko gets hints that Nagisa might have a crush on Goro. (en)
- Nagisa goes to the Aizawa residence for her welcome party, but finds Squid Girl, who tells her she has a master invasion plan. Nagisa asks to stay the night in order to watch over Squid Girl. Nagisa pretends not to be scared of Squid Girl, which upsets her. Eiko tries to convince Squid Girl to get along with Nagisa, but Nagisa's fear rises up again. Squid Girl role-plays a queen for the day, and recruits the others to be her servants. Cindy tricks Squid Girl into going to her research lab where she and Eiko meet Cindy's research assistants Harris, Clark, and Martin. Later, the girls run into the shy girl Ayumu and offer her a trial run working at their stand. As Ayumu attracts more sales, Eiko lets the owner borrow Squid Girl for the Southern Winds, where she proves to be a worthwhile entertainer. (en)
- While attempting to get a tasty looking shrimp at the Lemon, Mini-Squid Girl finds herself chased around by a lovestruck Sanae. (en)
- When Squid Girl gets a fever, she has to rest in bed, but she thinks it's a special squid disease that makes her crave shrimp, so Eiko tries to help her stay off shrimp until she gets better. The gang try to figure out what Squid Girl's fins on her hat are used for. Squid Girl builds a weird sand castle that is mocked by Takeru's friend; then his friend's father arrives and tries to build a better sand castle. When Squid Girl and Eiko go into town to shop, Squid Girl becomes fascinated by umbrellas. (en)
- Trying to copy Takeru and his friend, Squid Girl tries to do a doorbell ditch but fails when Chizuru shows up as well as the homeowner, who has a daughter named Kiyomi Sakura in middle school that Squid Girl then spontaneously says she is friends with. Squid Girl invites Kiyomi over to the Aizawa household, but becomes paranoid that she will get punished for not asking permission. Later, Squid Girl tries on lipstick for the first time and becomes interested in all sorts of makeup. After that, Sanae and Cindy get into a fight over their respective desires for Squid Girl. Later, Harris, Clark, and Martin bring over a special device which turns out to be a ray gun that destroys the whole beach house. (en)
- As the Aizawas get together to have yakiniku, between Squid Girl and Chizuru, Eiko can't get any beef for herself. Wanting to better handle herself around flirtatious boys, Ayumi takes some self-defense lessons from Chizuru, who demonstrates her techniques on Goro. On an extremely hot day, the Three Stooges equip the Lemon with a super powered air conditioner to attract customers, which soon turns the beach into a Winter wonderland, which quickly turns into a blizzard. (en)
- Squid Girl practices her invasion plans on the Lemon shack; and the folks there play along. Realizing that Chizuru has been able to defend Lemon from other invaders , Squid Girl trains harder on invading. Squid Girl gets into a fight with Eiko and it carries over to work. Chizuru has them go to a summer festival. Squid Girl ends up getting separated from her friends. As a shower hits, Eiko decides to search for her and meets Kozue, who helps her find and make up with Squid Girl. (en)
- As Sanae practises hypnotism in the hopes of hypnotizing Squid Girl, the others play along with her. Although Sanae fails to make it work, Squid Girl is actually able to make it work, only to discover the coin she had been using was actually a device made by the Three Stooges. Later, the Southern Winds owner joins forces with the Three Stooges to make a robotic Squid Girl to once again challenge the real deal. Although it proves to be a match for Squid Girl, its technical shortcomings lead to its loss. Later, Squid Girl tries to make an effort to become more evil, but becomes concerned when Chizuru doesn't react to her misbehavings. The two end up going shopping and going to a restaurant together, where Chizuru expresses her wishes to be good friends with Squid Girl. (en)
- Goro accompanies Chizuru on a lengthy jog while Eiko and Takeru take Squid Girl on a tour of the city, where she becomes shocked at the sight of a large Buddha statue. Later, Sanae decides to become Squid Girl's personal bodyguard so she can be around her all the time. However, her 'SP' self soon comes into conflict with her old perverted self. In another dream, Mini Squid Girl finds herself blown into the wilderness and goes on an adventure to find her way back home. (en)
- After Takeru has trouble understanding a tourist, Cindy holds an English-teaching session with Eiko being the only one who doesn't understand anything. This leads to some communication errors as Cindy misinterprets Eiko's Japanese as English. Later, Squid Girl learns about tickling from Eiko and starts going around tickling others. However, she gets her comeuppance when she attempts to tickle Chizuru and ends up catching hiccups which she believes can only be cured if something makes her happy. Later, Squid Girl joins Takeru and the others by the river, where they have a race with grass boats. As Squid Girl follows her boat down the river, she winds up on a completely different beach. (en)
- Squid Girl meets lifeguard Goro Arashiyama, though she gets annoyed when he does not live up to her definition of "guardian of the sea." Squid Girl tries to hold him down from rescuing a little girl trapped in a riptide, but must save her herself. After witnessing a birthday party, Squid Girl decides she wants one as well, so Eiko and Chizuru hold a "hatch party" for her and play with some sparklers and firecrackers. Squid Girl later meets Eiko's friend Sanae Nagatsuki who takes a creepy liking towards her and later forces her to cosplay for her personal photo collection. (en)
- Eiko finds an old doll named Depp from her childhood that freaks Squid Girl out as it appears to move by itself overnight. As Eiko recalls that Depp is an alarm clock for the morning, and, as Eiko and Sanae wonder about the whereabouts of the other doll named Johnny, they remember that the two dolls were set as a reminder to wake up and lie down. Having witnessed her abilities first, Cindy starts to wonder if Chizuru is actually an alien and enlists the help of Harris, Clark, and Martin to gather some DNA, though the three have trouble approaching the situation. Later, Squid Girl and the Aizawas go on a hiking trip to the mountains, where Squid Girl's tentacles seem to attract the appetites of the wildlife. After a long hike, they meet Sanae, who tells them that she came via cable car. (en)
- Squid Girl joins Takeru to elementary school, where the teacher becomes jealous of her popularity. When some bullies take over the playground, Squid Girl challenges them to a game of soccer, which proves tricky without her tentacles. Later, Eiko tries dressing up Nagisa as a guy to attract female customers, which also stops Squid Girl's teasing. Ayumi also comes to work again, being dressed in a maid's outfit equipped with a metal knuckle to overcome her shyness. However, they both stop after Ayumi's father points out this isn't solving the core issues. Later, Eiko and Chizuru are surprised to find Squid Girl has the ability to change her weight at will, leading to some odd experiments. (en)
- When Squid Girl finds a lost wallet, the owner rewards her with 10,000 yen; so the Aizawas have her shop with Nagisa. When Squid Girl has to stay at the beach shack and the television set breaks down, she works on her invasion plan. Squid Girl is invited the next night to stay over with the Aizawas but wants to play instead of sleep. While exploring a nearby beach, Squid Girl and Eiko find a woman dressed up in a mechanized Squid Girl kigurumi head, which was built by the owner of a rival beach shack. The owner wants the real Squid Girl so he has the two Squid Girls compete in a series of contests. (en)
- As Squid Girl is put in charge of the house while everyone is away, she mistakes a burglar for Chizuru's father. After falling into another trap, Squid Girl tries to give up her craving for shrimp, but finds it hard to resist temptation. Later, both Squid Girl and Sanae collapse with heat stroke with Squid Girl becoming paranoid over what'll happen should Sanae recover first. (en)
- A blonde woman scientist named Cindy Campbell believes Squid Girl is an extraterrestrial alien and wants to take her back to her lab. She brainwashes Squid Girl into thinking she is actually an alien, but the latter's appetite eventually snaps her out of it. Later, Squid Girl visits Eiko's school, believing it to be a military base. She holds the principal captive and declares her invasion plans over the PA system before Eiko stops her. A story is presented in which Eiko finds a really small Squid Girl and raises it as a pet until Eiko herself dies of old age; it turns out to be a dream from Sanae, who is jealous of not being in it. (en)
- On a rainy day, Squid Girl exhibits a talent for art, though the depictions of her friends are somewhat scary. Later, Eiko tells Sanae that she should give up on her crush on Squid Girl and try to become proper friends with her. However, holding herself back proves to be harder than Sanae thought. Later, when Kiyomi's baseball team falls short one member, Squid Girl decides to help her out. Though she initially has trouble with the game, her tentacles soon come into good use. (en)
- The Southern Winds Owner is brought in to fill in for Chizuru at the Lemon, where his talent and cooking is outweighed by his robotic Fake Squid Girl blowing up in everyone's faces. However, he does manage to help out Squid Girl when she is chased by some hungry dogs. Later, Sanae attempts to hide her collection of Squid Girl memorabilia from Kiyomi when she comes round to visit, but gets found out when she returns for her bag. Instead of becoming disgusted with her, however, Kiyomi becomes impressed by Sanae's talent. Afterwards, a police officer named Keiko Furukawa comes by the Lemon, initially becoming suspicious of Squid Girl but soon befriending her. (en)
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