Squid Girl, known in Japan as Shinryaku! Ika Musume (侵略!イカ娘, lit. Invasion! 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.
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Dubbing History[]
Media Blasters had initially licensed the series in 2011, with dubbing being done at Bang Zoom! Entertainment. Media Blasters originally planned to release the second season but dropped those plans in March 2013. Both anime seasons and the OVAs were later licensed by Sentai Filmworks in 2016. Sentai would dub Season 2 and the OVAs themselves, replacing most of the LA voice cast with their typical Houston-based talent pool. Christine Marie Cabanos was the only reprisal from the previous cast, her lines being recorded at The Habertat.
Another dub was produced in Hong Kong by Omni Productions, dubbing both seasons of the anime.
Cast[]
Episodic Characters[]
| Image | Character | Seiyū | Dub Actor | Episode |
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Customers | Akitoshi Kimura Ena Matsuo Gō Inoue Kengo Takanashi Shunzou Miyasaka Yumi Uchiyama |
Matthew Wolfrom Erika Harlacher Victor Sgroi |
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Father | Atsushi Tamaru | Tony Oliver | 2 |
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Mother | Hiroko Ushida | ¿? | |
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Principal | Tomomichi Nishimura | Kaiji Tang | 5 |
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Noh Mask Rider | Junko Noda | Amanda Lee | 6 |
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Host | Yuka Saitō | Lauren Landa | |
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Devil Squid | Eiji Miyashita | Jonathan Meza | |
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Yuta's Father | Taiten Kusunoki | Kaiji Tang | 8 |
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Kiyomi's Mother | ¿? | Marin Miller | 9 |
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Tanaka | Mikako Komatsu | Lauren Landa | 10 |
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Kozue Tanabe | Akemi Kanda | Erika Harlacher | 12 |
| ¿? | 24 | |||
| Season 2 | ||||
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Foreigner | Bryan Burton Lewis | ¿? | 16 |
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Risa (Lisa) |
Nanako Sudō | Kalin Coates | 21 |
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Amusement Park Man | Hiroshi Naka | ¿? | |
Additional Voices[]
Bang Zoom! Dub |
Animax Dub 
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| Image | Character | Seiyū | Dub Actor |
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Squid Girl | Hisako Kanemoto | Alice Beaver |
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Eiko Aizawa | Ayumi Fujimura | Jessica de Borja |
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Takeru Aizawa | Miki Ōtani | |
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Nagisa Saito | Azusa Kataoka | |
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Kiyomi Sakura | Kokoro Kikuchi | |
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Chizuru Aizawa | Rie Tanaka | Sarah Hauser |
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Mr. Tokita | Rikiya Koyama | Victor Lee |
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Ayumi Tokita | Ayako Kawasumi | Sarah Hauser |
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Cindy Campbell | Hitomi Nabatame | |
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Harris | Seiji Sasaki | Victor Lee |
Video Releases[]
| Distributor | Year | Format | Contents | Region | Country | |
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2011 | 
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Season 1 | 1 NTSC |
United States | 
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| 2 Volumes | ||||||
| 2012 | 
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Season 1 | A DVB-T | |||
| 2 Discs | ||||||
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2017 |
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The Complete Series | 1 NTSC | ||
| 5 Discs | ||||||
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The Complete Series | A DVB-T | ||||
| 5 Discs | ||||||
See Also[]
- Squid Girl (OVA)
External Links[]
- Squid Girl at the Internet Movie Database
- Squid Girl at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Squid Girl 2 at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Squid Girl on Behind The Voice Actors