This was a great show. The story revolves around “Squid Girl” who is from the sea. The “sea” is upset at humanity for polluting it and destroying the sanctity of the sea. Umm yea okay, whatever. It’s kind of a strange premise but doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t matter past the first few minutes. So anyway the sea sends Squid Girl (Ika-chan) to overthrow humanity and control the surface world so that the sea can remain clean.

So skipping the premise and moving on to the actual story… Ika-chan is a complete failure at her mission. Yea I know, big surprise. She starts trying to take over the Lemon, which is a kind of diner on the beach run by the sisters Chizuru and Eiko, along with their little brother, Takeru, who helps out from time to time. Not able to take over the Lemon right away Ika realizes that her plan to take over the surface would could take awhile – and she will need a place to stay!

The rest of the story follows Ika as she tries (and fails) to take over small parts of the surface world. Many of her adventures are outrageous as she slowly learns what it is to be human. Over time she even seems to begin to understand humans and realize that not all humans are bad. The show is filled with lots of humor, lots of friends and lots of crazy antics by Ika-chan.