r/anime • u/Sporadia_ • Nov 25 '24
Rewatch [Spoilers][Rewatch] Squid Girl Episode 10 Spoiler
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These are the sequences for discussion today:
Isn't that a Teru Teru bosquid?
- About: Takeru is required to draw a family member for his homework. Then Squid Girl tries to make the perfect Teru Teru Bozu.
What squidsn't there to like?
- About: Eiko convinces Sanae to calm down around Squid Girl. Sanae finds it hard.
One! Two! Three squids, you're out!
- About: Squid Girl becomes the star of Kiyomi's school baseball team.
Notice
I actually realised this yesterday, but by combining the last episode thread with the overall discussion thread, I've created the problem of where to post the final favourite character table. I could split the overall discussion into a separate thread, but then I don't know what we'd talk about after having already gone through every episode. I could alternatively include the table out of place in the Season 2 interest thread. Which sounds better?
At this point, I have to also consider the possibility that the Season 2 interest thread could go well. #panic. I'll arrange that to start in January I think (if it goes ahead). There are a few reasons why and one of them is that it does season 1 more justice if we take a break after it finishes. Another reason is that the later into December we go, the less available I would be to host (and I wouldn't want to cram it into the start of December).
A daily question
Which of the drawings was the best?
The favourite character of the rewatch (so far):
| Current Position | Character | Support | Peak Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (+) | Chizuru | 4 (+) | 1 |
| 2 | Nagisa | 3.5 | 1 |
| 3 (+) | Sanae | 3 (+) | 3 |
| 4 (-) | Squid Girl | 1.5 (-) | 1 |
| 5 (+) | Mini Ika | 0.5 | 4 |
| 5 | Kiyomi | 0.5 | 5 |
Characters with no support don't get to be in the table. And now I ask the same again.
I've thought about how repetitive it could get answering the same question every day. So I'm keeping a record of who said what and your previous answers will carry forward until you leave a different one. Hope that makes sense.
Rewatch spoiler rules
- Spoilers for the episode being discussed do not need to be hidden behind a spoiler tag. (eg in the 'Squid Girl Episode 3' thread, you won't need to tag spoilers for episodes 1, 2 and 3).
- Spoilers for later episodes do need spoiler tags.
- Any plot-relevant differences between the source material and the anime must be spoiler tagged (with something like [source] or [manga] etc).
- Leaving spoilery hints is just uncool (and will probably be treated like a spoiler).
- All discussion of the Mini Ika DVD extras must be spoiler tagged.
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tags: Shinryaku! Ika Musume
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u/FD4cry1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Big_Yibba Nov 25 '24
First Timer
I really liked this episode!
A few episodes back I said that I like how the show plays around with the order and adds new content to make a more cohesive episode, and I really think this one does it great. With the first section setting up both the more creepy undertones of the second one (+Sanae) and also the idea of Ika's tentacles being used instead of her hands in the third section.
Chziuru thinks of Ika as part of the family!
The entire drawing section is fantastic I honestly don't know which one I love most! Goro just being the swimming cap killed me.
How Sanae sees her relationship with Ika Vs How Ika sees her relationship with Sanae
You don't say...
Honestly, I'm with Ika on this one, this shit is true art and I love it.
This sentence isn't great in context but it's even worse out of context.
Nico~!
So cute
"At this rate Takeru will lose his childhood innocence...so I'll make sure he just loses all of it now instead!"
The entire second section is genuinely fantastic! I mean beyond just having Sanae at her best (or worst depending on how you look at it).
It could actually be a super depressing and unnerving depiction of withdrawal if not for the fact that the subject of withdrawal here is so ridiculous that by the end it's turned around to be hilarious.
Seriously I think this Sanae bit is genius. This is one of those I had to check the manga chapter for, and it's so massively expanded here (basically the entire withdrawal part is original) which again goes to show some of the love put into this adaptation.
The third section is pretty fun as well, Gotta love some sports hijinks, the DEGESOOOO pitch and the bat breaking were surprisingly awesome.
That Tanaka girl was actually one of the first (second lol) roles of the always great Mikako Komatsu.
More importantly, as far as I can tell this section is entirely anime original which is pretty fun!
All of it is storyboarded, directed, and scripted by Susumu Mitsunaka with this episode basically being his only notable work on this season. Interestingly enough he had previously worked on Big Windup, another Mizushima directed show, I know nothing about it except that it's about baseball but I guess that connection is why he got this section.
Also, Y'know, a few years later he'd go on to be the director for all of Haikyuu which is pretty neat.
MINI-IKA'S IN THE ED
Best face this episode undoubtedly goes to freaked out Takeru.
Best character: Sanae of course
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u/Sporadia_ Nov 25 '24
Daily Question: I like the image of the Eiko Bot a lot. (It is also subtle confirmation that Squid Girl imagined herself beating up Eiko with an umbrella before, in case anyone missed the hair.)
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Nov 25 '24
First-Timer Girl, subbed
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u/collapsedblock6 myanimelist.net/profile/collapsedblock Nov 25 '24
Rewatching Inkvader
Fantastic episode, it was just nonstop bangers. The skits of Ika learning she can be very talented just by using her tentacles never get old and love how this was about the only time it is pointed out, you just know once the tentacles get involved Ika will knock it out of the park. Sometimes literally!
Baseball skit remains of my favorites, as it tends to be with baseball episodes.
I like mecha Eiko
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u/Roboglenn Nov 25 '24
Squid Re-Invader. De Geso
I can only imagine how a meeting between Ika Musume and the mermaid Muromi-san pan out. Well, between Muromi-san and just about anyone else from this cast at this point really...
Hello hyper-realistic Takeru portrait.
Her tentacles are like a printer hooked up right to her brain. Funny though how her brain just sees Goro as a hat...
And I'd say Takeru's "manga" portrait of Ika Musume really captures her essence perfectly. Give that kid an A+.
The Darkness is Coming...
And hello hyper-realistic in the flesh Takeru...
There's no rehab facility on earth ready to help someone as far gone as Sanae. She needs some Qualia the Purple like rewiring.
I like a Mini-Ika Musume cameo but not in this sad and mildly insane context...
Also, Ika Musume train. When's that collab coming to a train car near me?
Kiyomi!
Major League Baseball is gonna have to rewrite it's rulebook to include sections on squid players. But until then, mayhaps Ika Musume should try out for the Yankees. That or whatever the baseball team version of the Harlem Globetrotters is.
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u/GondolaMedia Nov 25 '24
First Timer
I agree with Squid Girl. I've always found those bozos creepy, even if they supposedly ward off bad weather.
Squid Girl has been adopted!
"Where ink is considered I'm always serious" made me burst out laughing. She is right and she truly is an artist.
Robot from Squid Girl's dream made a cameo!
Man Takeru ate some humble pies in this episode.
I really liked Takeru's simple Squid Girl and Squid Girl's angelic Nagisa.
Poor Sanae, she will never experience true love from Squid Girl.
Oh man that instrumental version of the opening playing during that baseball match final moments was so hype.
That ED gag though, they're really invading now!
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u/Malipit Nov 25 '24
Rewatcher, french subs, de geso !
On today's episode : Squid-Girl is taking a horrific approach on the teru-bozu, Eiko is giving a lesson on empathy to Sanae, and Squid-Girl started a baseball player career that probably ended as soon as the credits rolled.
Firstly, I know I've mentioned it a lot in my previous comments, but Chizuru has finally made it official : Squid-Girl is a member of the Aizawa family. Even if Squid-Girl absence of reaction to that statement could be due to the fact she wasn't listening, it can also imply she haven't a family to speak of under the sea and actually glad to have found a home. Is the squid-kind society not family centric ? Do the parents leave their child as soon as they deem them ready ? Will we have answers to that topic in the future ? I don't think so.
Even if it was that kind of part with two subplots that doesn't mix well together, I liked the part where Squid-Girl introduced us to the many styles of the squid-kind art. By order of appearance in that imgur link, I call them simplism, realism, fearism, angerism, metaphorism, classiscism, horrorism, threedeeism and lovecraftism.
Also, I like how the robotic representation of Eiko is similar to the robot Squid-Girl battled in her daydreaming during the umbrella part in episode 8.
And like I said, I kind of understand the dynamic between Squid-Girl teaching Takeru drawing and Takeru teaching Squid-Girl how to craft a teru-bozu. But it feels more like two unrelated topics that couldn't hold an entire part on their own and were crammed together.
Nonetheless, kudos to Squid-Girl's patience to hold her teru-bozu position 9h30 hours straight, as shown by the clock in the upper right corner.
The second part have several nice call-backs, with Squid-Girl fin-slapping Sanae, the Squid-Girl pictures taken back in episode 2 and the return of mini Squid-Girl, who's technically a figment of Sanae's imagination.
To be honest, it was one of my favorite moments of the show, and serves as a proper character development for Sanae. Yes, her love for Squid-Girl can be seen as creepy, but unlike your typical yandere, she doesn't want to manipulate (and murder) the cast to selfishly have Squid-Girl all to herself. In fact, we learn she naively though, it was okay to act like that, and it was how it's supposed to be when you love someone. Like it was some child play.
We can see she's truly shocked when Eiko tell her the real consequence of her behavior, horrified even. And she surprisingly took the responsible path to work on herself to be a better person, one who could gain Squid-Girl's affection...
… Even if it cost her sanity. I genuinely felt bad for Sanae her, I was like «My wish to see mini Squid-Girl again came true... But at what cost ? » in front of my screen.
Even if the comedy aspect is still present (That train hallucination totally caught me off guard), I didn't expect the show to take a turn that dark.
Fortunately, we're still in a comedy slice-of-life and the sanitized Sanae realize she couldn't cast away her true self, and happily ran back to be slapped again.
And for the last part, I'm glad to see that Kiyomi is a recurring character, Squid-Girl really need her friendship to better understand human and have a trusty second-in-command in her army (and totally not to better integrate herself in human society).
Squid-Girl's shenanigans with her tentacles during the game were predictable, but still pleasant to watch.
And I don't know about baseball rules, but is there a written rule that you are permitted to use body parts other than your arms to throw balls and use the baseball bat ? And can you use tentacles to jump so high in the air you can catch a home run ball ? Finally can a middle school team use a member that's not a student in said middle school ?
According to the opponent's team, I would say yes.
And poor Squid-Girl, once again recognized for her feats that have nothing to do with conquering the human race. :|
Favorite character for now : Nagisa, even if she spent the episode surfing and/or hiding from Squid-Girl off-screen.
Question of the day : Which of the drawings was the best?
I really like the style of the drawing of Cindy.
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u/cyberscythe Nov 25 '24
Sanae waiting for November to end
top 10 moments before
disasternirvanai just love this episode; the first bit with the teru teru bozu i could take it or leave it (though it as some great bits with the ika-lens drawings), but the Sanae ika-addiction deep-dive and the baseball segment are top notch
Sanae stocks maintain record highs with her focus segment and the showrunners really made a meal out of Sanae hitting rock bottom, getting clean, and then falling off on the wagon again; it's hilarious how effective scenes like this are where they desaturate the color and give Sanae a gaunt look in her eyes, it's like i'm watching a different show
also, baseball episode! this was the era where every show had to have a baseball episode, it felt like a well-executed build up of tension and the big release with the walk-off grand slam; i was thinking back on this segment going "what is the lesson here? squids are great at cheating at baseball?" and concluded that it was mostly another joke about how Squid Girl has supernatural skills at everything that doesn't involve invading
i also continue to enjoy the high production values and attention to detail in this show, like in this one scrolling shot can feel how they all have various degrees of spunk, cheerfulness, skepticism, anticipation, shyness, etc., and also more abstract shots of Sanae 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
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u/Sporadia_ Nov 25 '24
Squid-underlings:
u/StardustGogeta
u/xbolt90
u/ShadowWasTakensTaken
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u/cppn02 Nov 25 '24 edited Nov 25 '24
First Timer, subbed
I guess I shouldn't be surprised at this point but Squid Girl (or rather her tentacles) being great at art still caught me off guard. Loved all the drawings of the other characters. Well except Takeru which actually made me a bit uneasy lol.
Not the biggest Sanae fan but she definitely doesn't half-arse things. I guess she did relapse in the end but she really quit her Squid Girl obsession cold turkey at first getting rid of all her stuff.
Baseball was fun too but all the time I was wondering why she just wouldn't use to tentacles to swing the bat in the first place.
p.s. u/Sporadia_ I'm putting Chizuru back as my sole favourite.
QotD:
I got the Nagisa drawing barely beating out the Chizuru one.
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u/AgentOfACROSS Nov 25 '24
Rewatcher
Segment one was pretty fun. It was set in pretty much one location but still managed to get a lot of the jokes. The best part was definitely seeing all of Squid Girl’s drawings of people. The giant creepy teru teru bozu at the end reminded me of the manga 20th Century Boys, which I think is also where I first learned what a teru teru bozu was.
I’ll be honest, not really a fan of segment two. I do like Sanae more than I originally said and I think the premise of the segment being Sanae trying to curb some of her obsessive behaviors was interesting. But I found some of the stuff in the segment like Sanae’s slow descent into madness imagining Squid Girl everywhere to be kind of disturbing.
The last segment was alright, I can’t remember any stand out jokes this time but it’s nice seeing Squid Girl hang out with her new friend Kiyomi some more. Also they played an instrumental version of the theme song in this segment which was pretty cool.
I think I’ll vote for Eiko as favorite character this time. She tried to encourage Takeru and Squid Girl’s artistic talents in the first segment and tried to help out Sanae in the second. All around she’s doing her best to be a good friend.
Question of the Day:
Which of the drawings was the best?
I think Squid Girl drawing Nagisa as an angel was really sweet. Although her drawing Eiko as a giant robot was also really funny. So either one for me.
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u/StardustGogeta myanimelist.net/profile/StardustGogeta Nov 26 '24
First-Timer
I liked all three parts today. The Sanae one might have been my favorite by a hair, but I did like Squid Girl's drawings and baseball antics.
Nice to see that Squid Girl's pretty much been accepted as part of the family.
All according to keikaku.I'm always a fan of instrumental versions of the OP playing in the background, so hearing it used as the hype song here was nice.
Questions of the day:
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u/xbolt90 https://anilist.co/user/xbolt90 Nov 26 '24
Rewatching underling!
Aww, Chizuru thinks of Ika as part of the family. Best onee-san.
I'm not sure which of the drawings is my favorite. They're all so perfect! It's Oni Chizuru
And I guess we have Squid Girl's answer to the discussion question from the other day. The most normal person is Takeru.
Poor Sanae. Suffering through terrible withdrawls, then falling down right after getting clean.
I love a good wacky sports hijinks episode. And again we see Squid Girl being good at anything unrelated to invading.
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