Is Shinryaku! Ika Musume good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Shinryaku! Ika Musume (The Squid Girl: The Invader Comes from the Bottom of the Sea!) is a TV series from Fall 2010 by Diomedea, Diomedéa Inc.: 12 episodes, about 4.8 hours in total, finished, 7.51/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Episodic: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 4.8 hours for the run, 6 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 12
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 4.8 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2010
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Diomedea, Diomedéa Inc.
- Score
- 7.51/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- aliens, manga adaptation, comedy, cute girls doing cute things, slice of life, episodic, found family, iyashikei (healing), school, shounen, urban fantasy, workplace
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: The Squid Girl; The Invader Comes From the Bottom of the Sea!; Invader! Squid Girl.
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More like this: aliens · manga adaptation · comedy · cute girls doing cute things · slice of life · found family · iyashikei (healing) · school · shounen · urban fantasy · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shinryaku! Ika Musume?
- About 4.8 hours for all 12 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Shinryaku! Ika Musume have?
- 12 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Shinryaku! Ika Musume finished?
- Yes, Shinryaku! Ika Musume is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shinryaku! Ika Musume good for a group?
- Yes. Shinryaku! Ika Musume is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Shinryaku! Ika Musume listed?
- Shinryaku! Ika Musume is on AniList (id 8557) and MyAnimeList (id 8557); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists