Squid Girl

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.

Synopsis

From the depth of the seas rises an evil monster, bent on taking over the human world: Ika Musume. She's ruthless. She's menacing. She's... an adorably non-threatening little girl who makes an awesome squid-ink spaghetti?

Ika Musume has come out of her home in the ocean on a quest to punish humanity for polluting her waters. With squid tentacles for hair and some pretty useful ink-spitting skills, Ika Musume is sure she'll have no trouble invading Earth. What she didn't account for were the Aizawa sisters, rough and tumble Eiko and deceptively mellow Chizuru, who immediately bully her into working as a waitress in their seafood restaurant by the shore.

Ika Musume decides to take this chance to learn more about the human world, having silly adventures, meeting lots of strange characters, and never once letting world domination out of her sights. Will Ika Musume be able to exact her revenge on the human race that had wronged her? Or will she learn to enjoy the company of these foolish air-breathers and let bygones be bygones?

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[]

Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Seasons
Squid Girl	Hisako Kanemoto	Christine Marie Cabanos	1-2
Eiko Aizawa	Ayumi Fujimura	Heather Pennington	1
Eiko Aizawa	Ayumi Fujimura	Kira Vincent-Davis	2
Chizuru Aizawa	Rie Tanaka	Shelby Lindley	1
Chizuru Aizawa	Rie Tanaka	Luci Christian	2
Takeru Aizawa	Miki Ōtani	Bennett Abara	1
Takeru Aizawa	Miki Ōtani	Greg Ayres	2
Sanae Nagatsuki	Kanae Itō	Xanthe Huynh	1
Sanae Nagatsuki	Kanae Itō	Emily Neves	2
Goro Arashiyama	Yūichi Nakamura	Jason Wishnov	1
Goro Arashiyama	Yūichi Nakamura	Blake Shepard	2
Nagisa Saito	Azusa Kataoka	Cristina Vee	1
Nagisa Saito	Azusa Kataoka	Stephanie Wittels	2
Mr. Tokita	Rikiya Koyama	Tony Oliver	1
Mr. Tokita	Rikiya Koyama	David Wald	2
Ayumi Tokita	Ayako Kawasumi	Sarah Anne Williams	1
Ayumi Tokita	Ayako Kawasumi	Allison Sumrall	2
Cindy Campbell	Hitomi Nabatame	Laura Post	1
Cindy Campbell	Ema Kokubun (English; ep. 16)	Shelley Calene-Black	2
Harris	Seiji Sasaki	Phineas	1
Harris	Seiji Sasaki	Andrew Love	2
Clark	Anri Katsu	Tony Oliver	1
Clark	Anri Katsu	Jay Hickman	2
Martin	Tetsuo Gotō	Jonathan Meza	1
Martin	Tetsuo Gotō	Mark X. Laskowski	2
Kiyomi Sakura	Kokoro Kikuchi	Carrie Savage	1
Kiyomi Sakura	Kokoro Kikuchi	Brittney Karbowski	2
Tatsuo Isozaki	Shuzo Miyasake	¿?	1
Tatsuo Isozaki	Shuzo Miyasake	Philip Hays	2
Yuta Matsumoto	Yūko Sanpei	Marin M. Miller	1
Yuta Matsumoto	Yūko Sanpei	Bryson Baugus	2
Tomomi Mochizuki	Yumi Uchiyama	Patricia Duran	2
Yuka Nishimura	Naoko Sugiura	Elizabeth Byrd	2
Ayano Watanabe	Yukari Oribe	Molly Searcy	2
Shota Kuroishi	Yuka Nishigaki	Molly Searcy	2

Episodic Characters[]

Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Episode
Customers	Akitoshi Kimura Ena Matsuo Gō Inoue Kengo Takanashi Shunzou Miyasaka Yumi Uchiyama	Matthew Wolfrom Erika Harlacher Victor Sgroi	1



Father	Atsushi Tamaru	Tony Oliver	2
Mother	Hiroko Ushida	¿?	2
Principal	Tomomichi Nishimura	Kaiji Tang	5
Noh Mask Rider	Junko Noda	Amanda Lee	6
Host	Yuka Saitō	Lauren Landa
Devil Squid	Eiji Miyashita	Jonathan Meza
Yuta's Father	Taiten Kusunoki	Kaiji Tang	8
Kiyomi's Mother	¿?	Marin Miller	9
Tanaka	Mikako Komatsu	Lauren Landa	10
Kozue Tanabe	Akemi Kanda	Erika Harlacher	12
Kozue Tanabe	Akemi Kanda	¿?	24
Foreigner	Bryan Burton Lewis	¿?	16
Risa (Lisa)	Nanako Sudō	Kalin Coates	21
Amusement Park Man	Hiroshi Naka	¿?	21

Additional Voices[]

Bang Zoom! Dub

Sentai Dub

Animax Dub []

Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Squid Girl	Hisako Kanemoto	Alice Beaver
Eiko Aizawa	Ayumi Fujimura	Jessica de Borja
Takeru Aizawa	Miki Ōtani
Nagisa Saito	Azusa Kataoka
Kiyomi Sakura	Kokoro Kikuchi
Chizuru Aizawa	Rie Tanaka	Sarah Hauser
Mr. Tokita	Rikiya Koyama	Victor Lee
Ayumi Tokita	Ayako Kawasumi	Sarah Hauser
Cindy Campbell	Hitomi Nabatame	Sarah Hauser
Harris	Seiji Sasaki	Victor Lee

Video Releases[]

Distributor	Year	Contents	Region	Country
Media Blasters	2011	Season 1	1 NTSC	United States
	2011	2 Volumes	1 NTSC
	2012	Season 1	A DVB-T
	2012	2 Discs	A DVB-T
Sentai Filmworks	2017	The Complete Series	1 NTSC
		5 Discs	1 NTSC
		The Complete Series	A DVB-T
		5 Discs	A DVB-T

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