Shinryaku! Ika Musume earned the Bronze Prize for the sentence-ending phrases "-ika?" and "-geso." In Masahiro Anbe's Shinryaku! Ika Musume (The Invader Came From the Bottom of the Sea!) comedy manga and the anime adaptation which premiered in October, a squid girl vows to invade the beaches of mankind since humans have polluted the seas. However, her invasion is less than successful, and she ends up on dry land. Ika Musume/Squid Girl characteristically ends her sentences with either "-ika?" or "-geso" —The English subtitles manage to translate this by using "squid" as a sort of epithet, as in Squid Girls' angry question, "Who the squid do you think you are?"
words that literally mean "squid" and "squid tentacles" in the dictionary.
Isn't she cute? And also, nothing at all like a squid? At least she vomits ink.
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