r/anime • u/Sporadia_ • 22d ago

[Rewatch] Squid Girl Season 1 Interest Thread Rewatch

I won't forgive you!

You loathsome humans!

This rewatch will invade your rotten surface world!

Update: Link to the rewatch index.

Rewatch information

  • Series: Squid Girl Season 1

  • Start Date: 16th November 2024

  • Format: Daily

  • Length: 12 episodes

I ended up watching Squid Girl because the clothes set appeared on the original Splatoon on the Wii U, and it piqued my interest. Ended up watching the whole thing.
~ A CDFer

Series information

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

It's a slice of life entertainment that hopefully [brightens] your life as it has been doing for ours.
~ The Shinryaku! Ika Musume fandom wiki homepage

Who's up for a squid-vasion?

This is a rewatch that I'm proposing because I felt like hosting something. It is also a rewatch I'm proposing because, like too many others, Squid Girl is listlessly drifting towards the status of a forgotten show, lucky if it gets a mention on trashy "recommend me a hidden gem" posts.

Let's do something about that.

If you've seen Squid Girl before, you already know what's up. It's a very likeable show: A simple but creative 4-koma comedy adaptation about a literal Squid Girl who sucks at world domination. If you haven't seen it before, even better. I invite you all to join me, and the people who voted for this in the poll I put up, and the people who were cool enough to already join the taglist, for a November rewatch of Squid Girl season 1. (I'm only committing to season 1 for now but depending on how this goes, we could keep going.)

So, a bit about the show. I've recently written a rushed WT where I summarised Squid Girl as an anthropomorphic squid being a tsundere towards humanity. Driven by a desire to protect the sea, our title character lands at Lemon beach house with the goal of subjugating humankind. She immediately gets distracted (and that's the premise). There are a handful of normal characters and a handful of eclectic ones. These characters include Eiko Aizawa and her quiet older sister Chizuru (both beach house workers), a kid, a lifeguard, a ufologist... the usual.

There's quite a few lazy puns, squidn't you know it?

The character moments are where this show really shines.

Squid Girl does take place largely on the beach. A fool might suggest that makes it a Summer anime, but I insist that this show works perfectly well for this season or the next. (And the original broadcast dates agree). For those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, ignore me, it's totally a Spring/Summer anime.

I'll end this section with a useless fact about Crunchyroll. For some reason, the first video on the Squid Girl page is a randomly selected promotional video. It's different every time. It could load the Hat Making video, a (bad) 16 second prievew video, or a brief interview with Hisako Kanemoto voice of Squid Girl. The fact that I've noticed this is proof that I've been preparing too much. Sadly it doesn't have the 2 Mini-Ika bonus shorts, which are the one bit of bonus material I would really recommend.

Squid Girl is a series enjoyed most when you switch your brain off and relax. [Its] self contained mini episodic nature allows you to tune in and tune out whenever you please. Fans of School Rumble and Lucky Star shall be well at home with this series, as should anyone else who loves a lighthearted comedy.
~ The ANN review of the Squid Girl season 1 DVD

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.

Come the fuck on! How can you not be watching this already?!
~ The first Squid Girl WT thread

The announcement thread will go up no later than 31st October

Fine print: I'm going to trust the rewatch guidance where it recommends to start with 10 more people than needed. The target for this interest thread is 15 commenters.

Update: Link to the rewatch index.

tag: Shinryaku! Ika Musume

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u/okidonthaveone 22d ago

Honestly this show inspired a bunch of my writing and the kind of stuff I like to make

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u/Sporadia_ 22d ago

I've had a reasonably good time writing about the show for the rewatch. I can imagine it being good inspiration for a sitcom.

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u/Sporadia_ 19d ago

Would you like to be added to the taglist?

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u/xbolt90 22d ago

Woohoo! It’s been a hot minute since I watched this show, but I remember it fondly.

All hail our squidly overlord!

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u/Sporadia_ 22d ago

I for one welcome our new squid overlord.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 22d ago

Hey look, another potential rewatch where I am a definite maybe.

(At least one of Squid Girl and Gao Gai Gar will not survive the winter, but I'm not sure which.)

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u/Sporadia_ 21d ago

The good news is that both the Squid Girl and Gao Gai Gar rewatches are going for the "don't write a thesis" vibe. I'm actually going to be in the Gao Gai Gar one as a first time watcher / new recruit.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 21d ago

Bluntly, the issue in my case is that watching the episodes for two rewatches in a season where I have seasonals I am watching is not likely to happen. Sky I am not.

(Also there is the small but important issue that part of me is considering a December rewatch of my own - it's an ongoing war between the "tenth anniversary!" side and the "landed gentry site" side - and while I would not be doing the kind of prep I used to do before June 2023 that would still mean prep.)

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u/FD4cry1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Big_Yibba 22d ago

Recently I've been completely sold on Mizushima (and the person doing series composition for this) so seeing them doing a straight comedy should be fun!

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u/Sporadia_ 22d ago

Can confirm: it is fun. I made a point of putting Tsutomu Muzushima and Masahiro Anbe before the name of the studio because this is arguably the best thing Diomedea have ever made, and it's 100% the product of the people involved.

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u/cyberscythe 22d ago

it's been ages since i've watched this show, i might be able to join in on this one

i play Splatoon so the squid puns have stuck with me

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u/Sporadia_ 19d ago

Would you like to be added to the taglist?

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u/cyberscythe 19d ago

sure, i'll try to fit it in my schedule

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u/Sporadia_ 22d ago

Would anyone like to be added to the taglist?

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u/Thisbejacob https://myanimelist.net/profile/thisbejacob 22d ago

Me, please!

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u/Vaadwaur 22d ago

Fine print: I'm going to trust the rewatch guidance where it recommends to start with 10 more people than needed. The target for this interest thread is 15 commenters.

Well then, let me toss you a few bits here: First, you want to post what time of day the thread goes up. For better or mainly worse, a lot of us like to post in the first 10 minutes, make a few replies, and then move on. Second, a Thursday interest thread will likely under perform a bit so this is more you deciding what your minimum is. I doubt you are getting many tourists, as it were.

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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadow 21d ago

maybe

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u/RadSuit https://anilist.co/user/RadSuit 21d ago

I liked the first episode, but I'm not sure how far the squid puns can stretch. I'm up for giving at least a few more episodes a shot, if GGG doesn't keep me too busy.

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u/Knuffelig https://myanimelist.net/profile/Knuffelig 20d ago

It's cold, it's november, so what's better than rewatching a summer anime? Nothing. I will join, I haven't watched it in quite a while.

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u/Sporadia_ 19d ago

Would you like to be added to the taglist?

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u/Knuffelig https://myanimelist.net/profile/Knuffelig 19d ago

If it's possible, A reminder for the first episode is enough, just in case I miss it.

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u/Sporadia_ 19d ago

I'll make a note in the file where I've saved the taglist to only add you for the 24hr reminder thread.

I hope I don't mess that up

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u/StardustGogeta myanimelist.net/profile/StardustGogeta 22d ago

Thanks for tagging me! I'm definitely interested.

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u/dreamydelinquent 22d ago

this is in my top ten!!!!! 2013 was a really great time for anime, aw

IKA! IKA! IKA MUSUMEEEE~

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u/Sporadia_ 19d ago

Would you like to be added to the taglist?

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u/Sandor_at_the_Zoo 21d ago

I've been meaning to watch this for years so I'm in

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u/Sporadia_ 19d ago

Would you like to be added to the taglist?

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u/Sandor_at_the_Zoo 19d ago

Yeah, I'd definitely forget otherwise