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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: As the manga grows into the triple digits, her obsession with Squid Girl gets so out-of-hand she becomes a paranoid wreck who more often than not [[EnemyMine ''teams up'' with Squid Girl]] to preserve their tenuous status quo.

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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: As the manga grows into the triple digits, her obsession with Squid Girl gets so out-of-hand she becomes a paranoid wreck who more often than not [[EnemyMine ''teams up'' ''[[EnemyMine teams up with Squid Girl]] Girl]]'' to preserve their tenuous status quo.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one save Nagisa ever takes notice of her strange appearance and PrehensileHair.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one save Nagisa Aside from Nagisa, nobody is ever takes notice of taken aback by her strange appearance and PrehensileHair.


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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: As the manga grows into the triple digits, her obsession with Squid Girl gets so out-of-hand she becomes a paranoid wreck who more often than not [[EnemyMine ''teams up'' with Squid Girl]] to preserve their tenuous status quo.
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->Voiced by: Creator/AyakoKawasumi (Japanese), Creator/SarahWilliams (season 1), Allison Sumrall (season 2) (English)

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->'''Voiced by:''' Azusa Enoki (Japanese), Creator/CristinaValenzuela (season 1), Stephanie Wittels (season 2) Jessica de Borja (Animax) (English)

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->'''Voiced by:''' Azusa Enoki (Japanese), Creator/CristinaValenzuela (season 1), Stephanie Wittels Creator/StephanieWittels (season 2) Jessica de Borja (Animax) (English)
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Woman In White is now a disambiguation.


* WomanInWhite: Has a white dress.
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A gentle girl that Squid Girl meets one day on the beach.[[spoiler:Implied to be an anthropomorphic "tako musume" (octopus girl)]].

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A gentle girl that Squid Girl meets one day on the beach. [[spoiler:Implied to be an anthropomorphic "tako musume" (octopus girl)]].
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* UnwantedHarem: [[http://www.mangapark.com/manga/SHINRYAKU-IKA-MUSUME/c214/5 Eiko and Isozaki come to realize this.]] Maybe not a true harem, but definitely unwanted.

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* UnwantedHarem: [[http://www.mangapark.com/manga/SHINRYAKU-IKA-MUSUME/c214/5 Eiko and Isozaki come to realize this.]] this. Maybe not a true harem, but definitely unwanted.



* MetaGirl: Quite possibly, being the only character of the series to acknowledge [[spoiler:the [[MilestoneCelebration three-hundredth chapter]] of [[http://www.mangareader.net/shinryaku-ika-musume/300/7 the manga]].]]

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* MetaGirl: Quite possibly, being the only character of the series to acknowledge [[spoiler:the [[MilestoneCelebration three-hundredth chapter]] of [[http://www.mangareader.net/shinryaku-ika-musume/300/7 the manga]].]]manga]]]



* BerserkButton: She is not an alien. [[http://www.mangapark.com/manga/SHINRYAKU-IKA-MUSUME/c218/4 Do not forget that.]]

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* BerserkButton: She is not an alien. [[http://www.mangapark.com/manga/SHINRYAKU-IKA-MUSUME/c218/4 Do not forget that.]]



* BerserkButton: [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v07/c117/4.html Don't take surfing lightly. Even if you're Ika Musume.]]

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* BerserkButton: [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v07/c117/4.html Don't take surfing lightly. Even if you're Ika Musume.]]



* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Can understand animals like Alex, or at least claims she can. [[http://www.mangapark.com/manga/SHINRYAKU-IKA-MUSUME/c224/6 The others hope it's true.]]

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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Can understand animals like Alex, or at least claims she can. [[http://www.mangapark.com/manga/SHINRYAKU-IKA-MUSUME/c224/6 The others hope it's true.]]



* NiceGirl: She's an absolute sweetheart. [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v10/c185/8.html Clearly seen]] in Chapter 185 of the manga, for example.

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* NiceGirl: She's an absolute sweetheart. [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v10/c185/8.html Clearly seen]] seen in Chapter 185 of the manga, for example.
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* ADogNamedDog: She's an anthropomorphic young female squid, in other words a "squid girl", whose name is... Squid Girl.
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* FriendToBugs: In a manga bonus chapter, Eiko explains that before Sanae met Squid Girl, she mostly gushed over how cute caterpillars and spiders are.
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* ShesGotLegs: Which is rather apparent when she's donning her bathing suit, but it gets more emphasis in episode 3.


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* ShesGotLegs: In episode 11 Sanae's slender legs get quite a bit of emphasis, for some reason.
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* HiddenDepths:
**She apparently really likes soldiers, and has a full outfit to boot.


* ForeignFanservice: A sexy blonde woman with a pony-tail, wearing a parka over a two-piece bikini or a tube-top and short shorts? Yes, please.

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* ForeignFanservice: GorgeousGaijin: A sexy blonde American woman with a pony-tail, wearing a parka over a two-piece bikini or a tube-top and short shorts? Yes, please.
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* GratuitousEnglish: She learns to speak English in one episode. Despite claiming it's easier to speak than Japanese, her English comes out as very broken.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Her abilities are blatantly superhuman and she hates it. In the OVA she wishes for nothing more than to be accepted as a normal girl.

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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Her abilities are blatantly superhuman and she hates it. In the OVA she wishes for nothing more than to be accepted as a normal girl. Then Sanae comes along with a new camera leading Ika to attack with her tentacles, but Sanae [[SuperSpeed moves so fast she dodges all of them]]. Chizuru remarks ages actually pretty normal compared to Sanae and she had nothing to worry about.

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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Her abilities are blatantly superhuman and she hates it. In the OVA she wishes for nothing more than to be accepted as a normal girl.



** One time she feels lonely at everyone treating her as special and [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to be accepted as normal]], so she makes a conscious effort to tone down her superhuman feats, taking care to cook slower than usual (even timing Ika to see what constitutes as normal). Then when there's a banana peel on the ground, she thinks at ultra fast speeds at what a normal person would do in the situation, reasoning that a normal person wouldn't be able to prevent their foot from stepping on the skin, that a normal person wouldn't be able to recover from the fall, but at the same time she doesn't wish to fall on the ground and hurt herself so she proceeds to slip and launch into the wall. A very large hole results and she's completely unharmed, leading all her efforts to seem normal to be rendered moot when everyone remarks that a normal person would have died from a crash landing like that.

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** One time In the OVA she feels lonely like an outcast at everyone treating her as special like a monster and [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to be accepted as normal]], so she makes a conscious effort to tone down her superhuman feats, taking care to cook slower than usual (even timing Ika to see what constitutes as normal). Then when there's a banana peel on the ground, she thinks at ultra fast speeds at what a normal person would do in the situation, reasoning that a normal person wouldn't be able to prevent their foot from stepping on the skin, that a normal person wouldn't be able to recover from the fall, but at the same time she doesn't wish to fall on the ground and hurt herself so she proceeds to slip and launch into the wall. A very large hole results and she's completely unharmed, leading all her efforts to seem normal to be rendered moot when everyone remarks that a normal person would have died from a crash landing like that.
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** One time she feels lonely at everyone treating her as special and [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to be accepted as normal]], so she makes a conscious effort to tone down her superhuman feats, taking care to cook slower than usual (even timing Ika to see what constitutes as normal). Then when there's a banana peel on the ground, she thinks at ultra fast speeds at what a normal person would do in the situation, reasoning that a normal person wouldn't be able to prevent their foot from stepping on the skin, that a normal person wouldn't be able to recover from the fall, but at the same time she doesn't wish to fall on the ground and hurt herself so she proceeds to slip and launch into the wall. A very large hole results and she's completely unharmed, leading all her efforts to seem normal to be rendered moot when everyone remarks that a normal person would have died from a crash landing like that.
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* NotNowKiddo: How most characters dismiss her proclaimations for invading humanity.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HisakoKanemoto (Japanese), Creator/ChristineMarieCabanos (Creator/MediaBlasters and Creator/SentaiFilmworks dub), Alice Beaver (Creator/{{Animax}} dub) (English)

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Cabanos reprises her role in the second season dub.


->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HisakoKanemoto (Japanese), Creator/ChristineMarieCabanos (Creator/MediaBlasters dub), Alice Beaver (Creator/{{Animax}} dub) (English)

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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HisakoKanemoto (Japanese), Creator/ChristineMarieCabanos (Creator/MediaBlasters and Creator/SentaiFilmworks dub), Alice Beaver (Creator/{{Animax}} dub) (English)

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* MysteriousPast: Her backstory prior to working at the lemon house is completely unknown.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Kokoro Kikuchi (Japanese), Creator/CarrieSavage (season 1), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (season 2), Jessica de Borja (Animax) (English)

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->'''Voiced by:''' Kokoro Kikuchi Creator/KokoroKikuchi (Japanese), Creator/CarrieSavage (season 1), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (season 2), Jessica de Borja (Animax) (English)
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He means well and he's generous, but he's one helluva grumpy old man.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He Hh's one helluva grumpy old man, but he means well and he's generous, but generous. For one example, when his daughter brought home a stray puppy, he didn't think for a second about kicking it out despite his fear; he instead allowed her to keep it and kicked ''himself'' out. Eiko and Ika lampshade how he's one helluva grumpy old man.a surprisingly nice guy.
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* {{Adorkable}}: ''Oh so much''. Her being a FishOutOfWater gives her an adorable child-like naiveté about many different aspects and items of life on the surface.

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* {{Adorkable}}: ''Oh so much''. Her being a FishOutOfWater gives her an adorable child-like naiveté and curiosity about many different aspects and items of life on the surface.surface. She's also childish to begin with, which helps make her even more adorkable.




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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Although she's somewhat knowledgeable about them (Since she's a teacher), she's terrified of bugs.
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* FriendlessBackground: By her own admission, she was pretty lonely when she lived in the sea. Now, she's happy to have made some friends in the surface, especially Kiyomi and the others.

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** She has another one, as revealed in Season [[spoiler: 2, Episode 11.3: '''DO NOT EVER IMPLY THAT SHE'S INHUMAN!!!''']]

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** She has another one, as revealed in Season [[spoiler: 2, Episode 11.3: '''DO NOT EVER IMPLY THAT SHE'S INHUMAN!!!''']][[spoiler:'''Do not ever imply that she is inhuman.''']] At best you'll simply make her sad, and at worst you'll make her very, ''very'' angry.



* MysteriousPast: According to her own admission in one of the extra mini-chapters, her past [[BreakingTheFourthWall isn't suitable to be discussed in a shonen manga]].



* BadassAdorable: Downplayed, since she doesn't know the first thing about fighting. Her SuperReflexes, however, are much better than any teenage girl's should be, and she's very cute.
* BadassNormal: Mild example, as she has no combat abilities, but she has such insane SuperReflexes that she can dodge Ika's tentacles ([[TooKinkyToTorture When she feels like it]]); this causes Ayumi to see Sanae as a "monster" and feel at ease around her.



* TranquilFury: Mild example, but she didn't take Cindy's affirmation that she's an alien well ''at all''.



* BewareTheNiceOnes: After episode 10.2, you better show some manners while talking to her, as her father finds out after ''she throws him down.'' Though that one is an accident. She learns self-defense from ''Chizuru''. Yes, ''that'' '''''[[MentorArchetype CHIZURU!]]'''''

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After episode 10.2, you better show some manners while talking to her, as her father finds out after ''she throws him down.'' Though that one is an accident. She learns 1earns self-defense from ''Chizuru''. Yes, ''that'' '''''[[MentorArchetype CHIZURU!]]'''''CHIZURU!]]'''''
** In chapter 224, she looks surprisingly intimidating when translating Alex's barks into human dialogue. This shocked Ika, Eiko and Sanae for a second, until Ayumi went right back to her normal sweet self.
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* VagueAge: While she's definitely young, her actual age is unknown. This gets lampshaded a few times, like when Eiko wondered what school Ika would go to; she acts like a grade schooler, looks like a middle schooler, and her skills in maths go even beyond high school level.

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* VagueAge: While she's definitely young, her actual age is unknown. Not even she knows her own age, as sea-dwellers don't count birthdays, and she didn't even know how long a human year was until she came to the surface. This gets lampshaded a few times, like when Eiko wondered what school Ika would go to; she acts like a grade schooler, looks like a middle schooler, and her skills in maths go even beyond high school level.

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* GracefulLoser: In arcade games, she somehow combines this with SoreLoser. When Ika schooled her in a few games, Chizuru outwardly took her defeats pretty well and didn't get angry at Ika. On the other hand, she trained so hard on her own she became a living legend in that arcade center, so as to not lose again.



** In chapter 153, she sometimes leaves huge and ''perfectly'' round holes in the kitchen's wall without realizing it. Eiko and Ika teamed up with the Three Stooges to find out how: when [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill a mosquito lands on the wall, Chizuru punches it to oblivion]] so fast, it couldn't be picked up by a camera that slowed the action down to a ''tenth of a second''. As for why the resulting holes are so perfectly round, they never found out.

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** In chapter 153, she sometimes leaves huge and ''perfectly'' round holes in the kitchen's wall without realizing it. Eiko and Ika teamed up with the Three Stooges to find out how: when [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill a mosquito lands on the wall, Chizuru punches it to oblivion]] so fast, it couldn't be picked up by a camera that slowed the action down to a ''tenth ''millionth of a second''. As for why the resulting holes are so perfectly round, they never found out.


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* SoreLoser: Somehow combines this with GracefulLoser as far as arcade games go. When Ika schooled her in a few games, Chizuru outwardly took her defeats pretty well and didn't get angry at Ika, but she trained so hard on her own she became a living legend in that arcade center, so as to not lose again.

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* CordonBleughChef: She's not a chef herself, but her squid ink qualifies nonetheless. You'd be forgiven for thinking that black liquid being vomited from a girl would taste as gross as it looked, but it's actually delicious.



* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Ika is, in an appropriate and friendly way, friends with many kids of either gender, specifically Takeru and Kiyomi's respective groups of friends. Sanae and Cindy, on the other hand...

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** She can flap the fins on her head to help her swim. On land, they're instead useful for batting Sanae away when she gets too close.
** And of course, she spits out squid ink. Whether directly, "vomited" out, or sneezed out. It's surprisingly delicious when used in meals, and it makes watermelons grow super fast (Though their insides were completely black).



* VagueAge: While she's definitely young, her actual age is unknown. This gets lampshaded a few times, like when Eiko wondered what school Ika would go to; she acts like a grade schooler, looks like a middle schooler, and her skills in maths go even beyond high school level.



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* MadScientistMadScientist: Less so than the Three Stooges, but still.
* {{Meganekko}}: When she went to teach Eiko, Takeru and Ika English, she wore glasses. They're not PurelyAestheticGlasses either, she does need them; she simply usually wears contacts on other occasions.

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