Okay, we don’t have to worry about this series running out of material. With this episode the creators showed that they can make something as simple as an umbrella awesome. The third part of this episode was definitely my favourite sketch of the past three episodes. Generally, for me the best episodes of Squid Girl have been not the ones who focused on some gimmicky character, but instead left Squid Girl and her imagination alone for a while, only to observe the carnage. Squid Girl was just too adorable as she discovered the magic wonders of the umbrella.
The other two parts of this episode also rocked. In the first part we see Squid Girl as she catches a truly bizarre disease that makes her hungry for shrimps in a way not too dissimilar from a person drinking sea water: eating them would only make her more and more hungry until she’d eat as much until she dies. How do they think of it? The episode also built up to a great punch-line at the end with the shrimp costume making its return.
The second part also was hilarious as it introduced another part of Squid Girl’s bizarre powers: her hat, as it suddenly starts moving. It’s a pretty useless power, although it seems quite powerful (I loved the part where she tried to squat a mosquito with it). A large part of the episode was also spent om some bickering between Squid Girl and Takeru and a friend of his, which also was just priceless.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
Man, that shrimp attire is just creepy -.-“
Why does she say deso deso all the time. It’s a little annoying
Lol she says “geso”, which means “tentacle” and is referring to her own tentacles moving.
Same is with -ika sentences that are said in negative question form, meaning a pun for the word “squid”.
Using these rules you’d say:
“Isn’t it like she’s squidding trying to be kawaii?”
Infact there’s a clever use of words in this anime, and it’s meant to add to Ika Musume’s character by using a cute and silly way of speaking.
Lolled hard at the moving castle, the father’s dissapointment was awesome
The thing that makes this show so enjoyable is that they refuse to make Squiddie *too* cute and adorable. Paradoxically, this makes her a lot more like a real child than the usual bug-eyed, open-mouthed kawaii-kawaii anime kids. Ika´s doing her best to act tough and grown up despite being more or less completely ignorant of how the world really works. On a completely different note, the art in this series really rocks. It´s so restrained – notice how the color scheme is almost all just simple blues and yellows? The simple character designs that keep the characters believable? A class act.