Squid Girl (イカ娘, Ika Musume; lit. "Squid Daughter") is a humanoid squid girl who came to land with the goal of taking over it and is the main protagonist of the Squid Girl franchise.
I am going to use this house as a base to squidly subdue humantity!—Squid Girl, to Customers & Workers of Lemon Beach House,
Who's up for a squid-vasion? / ... (Season 1, episode 1 overall overall)
Her goal is to take over humanity as punishment for the pollution done to the sea. But her initial attempt fails and after causing damage to Lemon Beach House (which she planned to use as a base), she was forced to work as a waitress to pay for the damages. She possesses numerous squid abilities. Her favorite food is shrimp, and she greatly fears natural predators of squids and initially couldn't distinguish between inflatable or toy versions. Although generally immature at first and often getting herself into mischief from the start, she is a fast learner and can be an unexpected savant with some skills.
Appearance
Squid Girl appears as a young humanoid girl with aqua blue cephalopod tentacles for hair along with messy bangs and matching aqua blue eyes, and typically in a white sleeveless dress with bulging blue bracelets and anklets.
Her real age is unknown but her appearance matches that of a 12 to 16 year old. Her outfit mainly consists a white sleeveless V-neck summer dress with light blue linings on the neckline and near the bottom with a circular pattern in between and a pair of white ankle boots with a thick ring or sock on top of each. Around her wrists she always wears two thick blue bracelets that are actually weight shifters. On her head is a pointed white cap in the shape of a squid's head.
Aside from her usual dress, she is seen wearing a simple white V-neck one piece swimsuit when she is swimming.
She had a coat in Episode 10.
In Episode 12 she cut her tentacles off because they were not working anymore, but they grew back later in the episode.
In Episode 12 of Season 2 she wore a pink kimono to a festival.
She occasionally wears different outfits as well.
Personality
Edit to right of the section title.Squid Girl is initially demanding when she is in "invasion-mode", but is easily persuaded or distracted by other things.
History
Squid Girl was hatched into the ocean near Japan and lived there for an unknown amount of years. But when humans started littering the sea she came to land with the goal to take it over as revenge. Her main goal was to make them pay for dirtying the ocean with their garbage, but accidentally blew a hole in the Lemon Beach House, which is owned by Chizuru, Eiko, and Takeru. In order to pay back the money for the repair, she started working at the Lemon Beach House, while continuing to try to take over the Earth.
Over time she meets various visitors to the beach including acquaintances and friends of the Aizawa family, alien researchers, rivals of various sorts, and slowly furthers her efforts to conquer the land dwellers. She also demonstrates or discovers her various abilities, fears, and weaknesses.
Squid Girl's Abilities
Squidly Powers
| Power | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Tentacles | Squid Girl has ten tentacles protruding from the top of her head down from her "hat" which she can use to pick things up as well as attack from a distance. They have an extremely long range and have been useful in saving people from drowning in the ocean. She also uses them to play baseball and volleyball. Goro Arashiyama called them "all-purpose tentacles". |
| Tentacle Regeneration | If her tentacles get cut off or damaged, she can regenerate them back, but how long it takes is not clear, although it seems to take less than a day. |
| Squid Ink | She can spew squid ink from her mouth and nose. The Aizawa sisters collect the ink and use it to make Squid Ink Spaghetti. |
| Bioluminescence | She can glow in the dark. She is sometimes mistaken for a ghost when she glows in the dark as seen in Episode 3. |
| Mass Adjusting Bracelets | She can change her weight using her bracelet, allowing her to become light as a feather. This power allows her to glide through the air. |
| Squidly Smart | She is an extremely fast learner, for example mastering mathematics in one afternoon. She posses artistic ability when using her tentacles to draw. For example, When she draws with her tentacles, she draws the picture the way she thinks about the person. She quickly mastered the English language. |
| Squiddle Talk | While not exactly a power Squid Girl usually ends her sentences with "Geso" (tentacles as food). In the English Dub/Sub squid puns are used extensively to achieve the same effect. |
| Gill Breather | She breaths in the water because she has gills. |
| Hat Flaps | While not technically a power, she can wiggle/flap the flaps on her Squid Hat. |
Squidly Weaknesses
| Weakness | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|
| Squid Hat Vulnerability | If it is removed, she will says she will die. In Season 2 Episode 7, she was trying to pulling her hat off after getting amnesia. | |
| Fear of Sharks | Sharks are a predator of Squids, so she has a natural fear of them. | |
| Fear of Killer Whales | Killer Whales are a predator of Squids, so she has a natural fear of them. | |
| Fear of being jumped by Sanae Nagatsuki. | Sanae is obsessed with Squid Girl. | |
| Fear of being experimented on by Cindy Campbell and her fellow researchers. | Cindy Campbell believes that Squid Girl is an alien, and pesters Squid Girl since she wants to experiment on her. However, Squid Girl doesn't want to be experimented on. | |
| Fear of Chizuru Aizawa | Squid Girl fears Chizuru as she has experienced Chizuru in a state of anger which is very frightening. Chizuru is also insanely fast, has incredible agility, and combat skills. | |
| Fear of Fire | Fire is a cause for many squid-related deaths, therefore naturally Squid Girl is afraid of it. |
Trivia
- She made a cameo during the end of Mini Squid Girl Short Story Part 2 bonus episode.
- Due to her strong tentacles, she is an excellent baseball player and drummer.
- Her outfit is available as unlockable clothes in the first Splatoon game as part of a collaboration. For girls it appears the same, while for boys the dress has a tunic appearance.
- Notably, both variants include a T-shirt (the same color as the accents) underneath the dress/tunic unlike Squid Girl's outfit. The accent colors (including the T-shirt) change depending on the player's ink color as well.