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Squid Girl
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Young girls and tentacles! Don't worry, it's not *that* kind of anime :)
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:CreationDate: 2012-09-23 19:40:27
:Id: anime/review/squid-girl
:tags: - anime
- review
:rating: 3.5
:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/squid-girl-complete-series-1-collection
Anime has a very bad reputation when it comes to tentacles, not
entirely undeserved: there's been some very, let's say, creative uses
of them. But this series has nothing to do with those! Here you'll
only find cute comedy and laughs.
The setting: Squid Girl (really, that's the only names she gets) in
very angry at humans because they have polluted the sea. She then
decides to invade the dry land and conquer humanity, as you do. The
tentacles on her head are strong, flexible, extensible, prehensile,
and can cut almost everything: you'd think they would be enough to at
least impress the first few people she meets. Not so, though: Aizawa
Eiko is not impressed, she's upset that her little restaurant on the
beach got wrecked. As it turns out, her sister Chizuru is way more
fearsome than the poor Squid Girl, who ends up pressed into service
waiting tables. Her tentacles are very useful to juggle plates and
glasses, and she can even produce ink!
There's gags, situational comedy, humorous romance (the lifeguard likes
Chizuru, and the girl Sanae has a crush on Squid Girl), even a group
of scientists who want to study Squid Girl. All the ingredients for
good fun, mixed in the right proportions.
This is not a series that will be remembered in the annals of the
great anime masterpieces, but it is a little gem of comedy, and it
will make you laugh from start to finish.
