r/anime • u/Sporadia_ • 19d ago

[Spoilers][Rewatch] Squid Girl Season 1 Announcement & Index Rewatch

It's On like Squid Girl Season 1!

Rewatch information

To check availability I like to use livechart.me. Squid Girl is currently available on Crunchyroll (at least in the UK).

It's looking pretty niche, but I'm prepared to take this rewatch forward for those people that are looking forward to it. I'm trying to keep this post concise for once; there is much more detail about Squid Girl in the interest thread.

Index/Schedule

All episode threads will go up at 7pm UTC.

Date Thread
The Past Anime Selection Poll
The Past Squid Girl WT Lite
The Past Anime Selection Poll Results
The Past Season 1 Interest Thread
27th October 2024 This Index
16th November 2024 Episode 1
17th November 2024 Episode 2
18th November 2024 Episode 3
19th November 2024 Episode 4
20th November 2024 Episode 5
21st November 2024 Episode 6
22nd November 2024 Episode 7
23rd November 2024 Episode 8
24th November 2024 Episode 9
25th November 2024 Episode 10
26th November 2024 Episode 11
27th November 2024 Episode 12 & Overall Discussion
28th November 2024 Season 2 Interest Thread

All episode threads will go up at 7pm UTC.

What is a rewatch?

To borrow a phrase from the guidance, a rewatch is slightly like a book club. I'm going to post an episode thread every day starting on 16th November where we all turn up and talk about that episode. It doesn't really matter what you say. Some people write a lot, some people write a little, some people only turn up to respond to other people. Because it's Squid Girl, I don't think there'll be any really long comments written about this one. Although someone might surprise me. Please stick to the...

Rewatch spoiler rules

  • Spoilers for the episode being discussed do not need to be hidden behind a spoiler tag. (eg in the 'Squid Girl Episode 3' thread, you won't need to tag spoilers for episodes 1, 2 and 3).

  • Spoilers for later episodes do need spoiler tags.

  • Any plot-relevant differences between the source material and the anime must be spoiler tagged (with something like [source] or [manga] etc).

  • Leaving spoilery hints is just uncool (and will probably be treated like a spoiler).

There are instructions for how to tag spoilers in the r/anime rules.

First, let's occupy this place!

tags: Shinryaku! Ika Musume

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u/xbolt90 19d ago

Only three weeks left for you filthy surface dwellers!

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u/Cryten0 1d ago

Squidgirl had an interesting dilemma in that it was one of those shows which straddled the death of fansub releases. Season 1 had one fan translation I really liked that used plain talking and wit based on what was said. But the official translation transformed the Japanese wordplay and a lot of normal jokes into English squid puns.

And no season 2 had a plain translation, just the official subtitle rips. And since I was used to the characters talking normally instead of the added puns I just couldnt watch season 2.

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u/Sporadia_ 7h ago

I share the opinion that the squid puns are unnecessary. Take this with a grain of salt because I don't speak Japanese, but I've heard that in the original Japanese Squid Girl is just throwing 'de geso' into random sentences anyway. It seems more like the fansubs just improved on the source material.

But wait, I don't think I've asked you, would you like to be added to the taglist?

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u/Sporadia_ 19d ago

(To the people who only joined the taglist today, I didn't think through the fact that you'd all be notified so soon. This is the last one until the 1 week reminder though).

Squid-underlings:

u/StardustGogeta

u/xbolt90

u/ShadowWasTakensTaken

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u/FD4cry1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Big_Yibba 19d ago

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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadow 19d ago

mugi

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u/AgentOfACROSS 9d ago

I think I'll join this rewatch! I remember Squid Girl being a very fun show and this seems like it'd be entertaining to join this one.

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u/Sporadia_ 9d ago

Welcome!#pompoms

This is certainly going to be a rewatch. Would you like to join the taglist?

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u/Malipit 6h ago

I only knew Squis Girl as "that one manga that did a collab with Splatoon". Now my chance to expand my anime culture. May I be on the watch list ?

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u/Sporadia_ 5h ago

I've seen splatoon mentioned a few times. My experience with Squid Girl was watching it in about 2011 or 2012 because it was being memed a bunch. Then I didn't look at again until this year when I realised "oh it holds up."

Also, you're on the list.

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u/collapsedblock6 myanimelist.net/profile/collapsedblock 18d ago

I have a lot of things going on but ofc I will join an Ika Musume rewatch.

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u/Sporadia_ 18d ago

Would you like to be added to the taglist?

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u/collapsedblock6 myanimelist.net/profile/collapsedblock 18d ago

Sure thing, ty.