It was quite the educational week on Shinryaku Ika Musume. Not only did we get a lesson on the origins of Tanabata, we also learned that the Three Stooges’ names are Harris, Clark and Martin. With last week being a hiatus and another due next Monday, this is our only […] Read more
We had a little of everything this week – some mockery of Americans, some slapstick, some heart, even our first visit this year from Mini-Ika. And for the first time this season, everything worked. I had some serious laughs in every segment this week, which brings the overall batting average […] Read more
I confess all of the squiddle puns in the subtitles are starting to wear down my resistance a little bit. I hated them at first, but some of them a pretty damn funny. And Ika in a sun hat – I almost passed out from the kawaii… On balance, I […] Read more
Looks like last week was a bit of a false alarm – after this week, I can say with confidence that everyone’s favorite squid girl is truly back. It wasn’t that the season premiere was bad, but it was a bit…sedate. Well, not to worry – there were some big […] Read more
The first official premiere of Fall 2011 is actually the second initial bow for a sequel to one of my favorite 2010 comedies. Like Working, Shinryaku Ika Musume is back with a new director – and some new punctuation. What’s up with the lazy title ideas, anyway? OP: “High Powered” […] Read more
To help tide us over till the (no date announced yet) second season of Ika Musume, we get a couple of four-minute “Mini Ika” shorts attached to the BD released last week. For those of you hoping these would include a heartwarmer like the Mini-Ika chapter from the first season, […] Read more
Let the invasion begin anew – Shinryaku Ika Musume‘s second season has been confirmed, ~degeso! Anyone who followed this blog knows this was one of my favorites of 2010 – consistently funny, really smart and often quite emotionally involving. In a great year for comedy, this one held it’s own […] Read more
I think we’re pretty fortunate to have two pure comedies as good as Shinryaku Ika Musume and Soredemo in one season. Straight-ahead comedy is really difficult to pull off consistently, and this show was brilliant. It delivered a terrific batting average over the course of roughly 35 mini-episodes, and even […] Read more
It’s going to be hard for me not to wax poetical about how much I loved this show, but I’d really like to save that for the series review and confine myself to the final episode itself. The writers managed to accomplish several things in this episode. They managed to […] Read more
While the penultimate episode of Shinryaki Ika Musume wasn’t the funniest, it did bring home a couple of the elements that make this such an unusual comedy. First of all, this show does the creepy factor really well. Usually it’s Sanae and her bizarre loli-S & M fetishism, and we […] Read more