Squid Girl | |
The cover of the first manga volume featuring Squid Girl.
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侵略!イカ娘 (Shinryaku! Ika Musume) |
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Genre | Comedy, Fantasy, Slice of life |
Manga | |
Written by | Masahiro Anbe |
Published by | Akita Shoten |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Champion |
Original run | July 2007 – February 2016 |
Volumes | 22 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tsutomu Mizushima |
Written by | Michiko Yokote |
Studio | Diomedéa |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
English network | |
Original run | October 4, 2010 – December 20, 2010 |
Episodes | 12 |
Anime television series | |
Shinryaku!? Ika Musume | |
Directed by |
Tsutomu Mizushima (general director) Yasutaka Yamamoto (director) |
Written by | Michiko Yokote |
Studio | Diomedéa |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo, AT-X |
English network | |
Original run | September 26, 2011 – December 26, 2011 |
Episodes | 12 |
Original video animation | |
Shinryaku!! Ika Musume | |
Directed by |
Tsutomu Mizushima Yasutaka Yamamoto Keizou Kusakawa |
Studio | Diomedéa |
Licensed by | |
Released | August 8, 2012 – September 8, 2014 |
Episodes | 3 |
Squid Girl, known in Japan as Shinryaku! Ika Musume (侵略!イカ娘?, lit. Invade! Squid Girl) with the subtitle The invader comes from the bottom of the sea!, is a Japanese manga series by Masahiro Anbe, which was serialized in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion between July 2007 and February 2016. An anime television series adaptation by Diomedéa aired on TV Tokyo between October and December 2010, with a second season airing between September and December 2011. Three original video animation (OVA) episodes were released between 2012 and 2014.
Squid Girl is a girl from the ocean who possesses blue squid-like tentacles for hair. Vowing to invade mankind as revenge for its pollution of the ocean, she attempts to make a beach house called the Lemon Beach House, owned by the Aizawa siblings and located somewhere on the Japanese coast, her base of operations. However, when she accidentally breaks a hole in their wall trying to demonstrate her power, she is forced to work as a waitress to pay off the damages. Thus, Squid Girl begins her life on the surface, learning new things and encountering many curious visitors to the beach house.
The manga by Masahiro Anbe was serialized in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion between July 2007 and February 2016. The series was compiled into 22 tankōbon volumes released between March 7, 2008 and May 15, 2016. It is published in Taiwan by Chingwin Publishing Group.