Shinryaku! Ika Musume

These are two similar series that are SO similar - it's almost scary. Both main protagonists, Keroro and Ika, are "invaders" from very different worlds who come here to Earth in order to invade us and claim everything in humanity for their society back home. And, both end up becoming slaves to a pair of siblings to do hard work and labor for one reason or another as soon as they arrive unto Earth. Ika - a pair of sisters. Keroro - a sister and brother. The art style and emotion art between the two is even similar. The comedy is the same between the two as well. Slapstick and character torture [to a very light degree]. When Keroro and Ika do something that they aren't supposed to, they are punished by fists driving into their skulls [or other forms] and yelled at for their foolish behavior by the tsundere sister in the series. The sound effects, music, and setting are spot on with each other as well [various popping and squishing noises and electric/bubbly music]. The two protagonists also have the same sort of character motifs and actions and emotions, as well as a catch phrase/regularly used Japanese honorifics. Keroro - "~De Arimasu!". Ika - "~De Geso!". And lastly, they also are sheltered and befriended by their captures in return for their hard manual labor and being tortures. They also find out just what it means to be a citizen on Earth and what the humans go through in their daily lives. Episodes are also split into two parts - however, they are both tied in with each other. So, if you have watched on of these series watch the other. You're seriously going to like it and notice EVERYTHING that's similar with the other series in the first episode.  read more 

If you like nonsense comedy, go with Shinryaku! Ika Musume and Azumanga Daioh. The first is some kind of an amateur version of the second, but the laughter is guaranteed either way. And don't forget: Osaka-san rules all! 

Mermaids and squid both come from the sea. This is MAL and that's enough to justify linking the two. Yes. ... It's also worth noting that both series consist almost entirely of gagtastic slapstick comedy. Mermaid Bride has romance and haremish humour powering a hefty chunk of its jokes, where as Squid Girl has its titular heroine and is devoid of love-love... aside from a lesbian stalker. But those minor differences aside, these two are aimed at 100% the same crowd. 

Ambitious "conquerors" attempting to take over the world but ends up becoming a part of the working society. Both packed with comedic moments, it'll sure to entertain everybody. 

Both have a main character coming from another world, who wants to be evil and impress others but ends up being nice and bullied by animals and other people. 

Similarities: Both settings are in a Restaurant. Both have characters (Aizawa Chizuru of Shinryaku! Ika Musume, Sato Jun and Kyouko Shirafuji of working) which the main character (Ika and Souta) won't dare mess with. Both were safe enough to be viewed by elementary school kids. Both do have either a shallow or unstable plot. Both characters (Souta and Ika) never intended to work in the restaurant in the first place. And both have little bit lesbian that goes in it. Dissimilarities: One was set in the suburbs of Hokkaido while the other one was set on a beach somewhere in the southern part of Japan (In Okinawa... I think). One has 2 characters that no one in the restaurant would wanna mess with ( Jun and Shirafuji) while the other only has one characters which one should beware about (Chizuru). in one has a main character who is so naive about living on land which always get's her in trouble, while the other the main character always gets his face whoop by an androphobic co-worker. And in one, the character has super abilities, while the other has super tolerance for his sisters and teasing from his co-workers.  read more 

A non-human girl who is unfamiliar with the human world tries to achieve a large antagonistic goal, but finds herself foiled again and again, relying on the support of a friendly group of regular characters. Many comedy hijinks ensue, often character-based. These shows have a very similar feel. Ika Musume is more episodic and inventive, while Jahy-sama has more of a constant thread, with Jahy trying to achieve her aim every episode (when she's not distracted). 

Both feature mysterious blue haired 'aliens.' Both are comedy. 

Both series consists of silly dialogue, scenes, and interactions involving sea creatures. In essence, they are supernatural comedies that deals with characters who are not so normal. Both series follows more of a slice of life style with no different story. The main female protagonist also seems to have an outgoing personalities from both series that occasionally drives some of the other characters nuts.  

Cute girls with superpowers find themselves doing cute things around town with puny humans. Ika certainly acts like she's a civilization destroying dragon but doesn't show off as much power and everyone just accepts she has a weird head thing while Dragon Maid each new character has superpowers and is hiding. Both are great comedies and have a touching moment here or there. 

Both are fun comedies with rather unique characters. Each episode is structured like multiple misadventures following humorous events. If you enjoyed the randomness of daily life of Ika Musume, you'll like the adorably cute Umaru-chan. 

Both protagonist are trying to conquer the world. But Shinryaku is more focused on comedy and Zvezda on the action. 

Both are the humorous misadventures of a strange creature and its interactions with a small community. Both have cute, simplistic character designs, and each has the same satisfyingly slow pace.  

Both stories revolves around a blue haired female (or tentacles for Ika's case) whom have superiority complex issues and childlike behaviours due to the fact they both have flat chest, probably. 

•Both are about "Aliens" •Both have a secondary character who is "in love" with the main character •The anime revolves around the main characters Ika/NieA. 

Similar summer time mood, similar humor, similar settings. An eccentric and not-quite-human character comes to live with an unsuspecting host family and causes them havoc, while also bringing about their own character growth. They each remind me of the other, and I imagine anyone who enjoys one will enjoy both. 

They are both the top of the genre when it comes to consistent quality of lighthearted entertainment. 

Same level of comedy. Lots of goofy powers or situations which really mirror how I felt when I watched Ika Musume for the first time. It's a cute feel good show with silly jabs. Even though it's now almost ten years older than this anime, it's still worth a watch. 

Slice of life comedies that usevignettes to tell witty stories which are often very random in nature.Lashings of moe and general endearment abound in each. If you liked one you'll probably like the other, although the characters are very different in comparison. 

They are both about kemonomimi girls who feel oppressed and decide that the only logical solution is to defeat the entire human race with the help of their tentacles. They are then taken in by a group of friendly humans and forget about what they were trying to accomplish. 

In both. Enters a character or if are several (in Rokujouma) to invade , mainly the earth, under their own purposes. But at know the owner or owners of the property (base of invasion), forming a strong friendship, making situations comedy. 

If you are a fan of quirky comedies with some cute silly characters in odd situations, watch it! Squid Girl is about an anthropomorphic squid girl who goes on land and adjusts to life with humans. She is clueless and very cute. Her goal is to conquer humanity, de geso! In Panyo Panyo DiGi Charat, Princess Dejiko and her friends come to earth and have a lot of silly and whimsical adventures. Their goal is to make people happy, nyo! 

Both are comedies. Both have the same epiosde structure of 2 or 3 episodes within 1 episode. Both have plenty of parodies. Urara and Sanae are similar. 

Although the genres may be different, with IkaMusume leaning more on comedy while Umi Monogatari presenting more of drama, the theme is likely similar with beings or shoujos from bottom of the sea, interacting with land dwellers, ocean and seaside as the main obvious settings, and giving the anime fans who are seeking for genres/themes like these, a piece of their minds. 

-both the main characters are very similar & have a specific goal throughout the series -each episode includes short skits that make up the plot -same balance in comedy & similar art style -both characters experience and learn new things to fulfill their goals Tomoko: new student currently attending highschool for the first time who is trying to accomplish popularity by experiencing and discovering what it's like to be "part of the group" with the help of her friend, Yu. Squid Girl: new citizen currently inhabiting the surface land for the first time and is trying to accomplish her goal of invading the world by experiencing and discovering what life is like on the surface with the help of her new friends. read more 

Both series prominently feature a strange tentacled invader as a main character among an ensemble cast of "normal" humans, for lack of a better term, and are ripe with ridiculous comedic antics. First in the endless summer gag category we have Shinryaku! Ika Musume, featuring the title character Squid Girl. She claims to be a messenger of the sea and has come to invade the surface so as to punish humans for polluting the ocean. Unfortunately she is incredibly naive and lacking in knowledge of the surface, as well as easily influenced and pushed around by other humans, such that she got dragged into working at a beachfront restaurant to help pay back the repairs for a hole in the wall she accidentally made. Then over in the shounen battle comedy category we have Assassination Classroom, featuring a yellow octopus-like tentacle creature known only as Koro-sensei. He has destroyed 70% of the moon and intends to destroy the earth the following March if none of the kids he's assigned to teach can kill him by then. While the two series don't have much overlap in terms of plot, there are enough similarities that someone may wind up being a fan of both series.  read more 

Sudden dark humor! It's a bit more rare in Ika Musume but it, just like Yokai Watch, occasionally has these sudden moments that make you think "Wait what." Especially when it's so casually played off. You wouldn't expect it from a colorful and childish looking show like Yokai watch but it deals with cannibalism, suicide, murder and many more topics presented in a fun and child friendly way. Ika-chan is kind of like a mix of Whisper and Jibanyan personality wise now that I think about it. Heck she would probably totally fit in the Yokai Watch cast. 

Both Jashin-chan and Ika Musume: Are from a foreign world. Have an ambitious goal but do not know how to execute it. Both are not intelligent and can be easily manipulated by others. Both have someone they feared the most. Both anime focus on the everyday life of Jashin-chan and Ika Musume with relatively light-heard humor. Jashin-chan does feature more blood and violence while Ika Musume features very little of it. It has a relatively similar vibe so if you enjoy Jashin-chan you will enjoy Ika Musume and vice versa. 

"My Deer Friend Nokotan" and "Squid Girl" are both absurd gag comedies involving a human/animal girl coming into society and causing havoc. Some other similarities include: -a very meme opening which is catchy but also gets annoying -similar characters, whose primary characterization revolves around a gag -pretty similar styles of humor, which usually revolves around the main character misunderstanding or being misunderstood by those around them The main difference is that "Squid Girl" takes place on the beach while "My Deer Friend Nokotan" is more of a school anime with school-related jokes. If you like one you'll probably like the other though.  

Cute supernatural girl comedy. While Ika Musume is a squid and Puniru is a slime, both have the appearance of a cute girl and are unique beings (in an otherwise normal world) with supernatural abilities that can wreak havoc and cause laughter in a charming slice of life comedy. 

Land and Water. Ok, so how are they similar? I can really consider Ika Musume and Ranka being the more chaotic main characters in their animes. They are animals of course, they usually don’t wanna lose against someone who are challenging them. Sometimes they get attacked or teased by even some smaller characters or bigger characters I would say. You still have the humorous slapsticks going on there. For Ika, you get the three stooges, Takeru’s friends, Ika’s friends. For Ranka, you get the gang of monkeys, Lion and Impala, The dolphins, mammals, etc. Can’t elaborate more animals because theyre so many to say lol. But any who. You have Eiko who is annoyed at times at Ika for her behaviour, very similar to Jin when encountering Ranka. Ranka is usually the same as ika when it comes to the behaviour. The slight addition for Ranka is her love affection to not just Jin, but other animals, wanted to make them on her pack / team. When it comes for Ika in teaming or joining her pack I would say, she always ask the closest people to join her. Jin and Eiko play similarily when it comes to disciplining Ika and Ranka. Its also weird how I noticed that the two last words from Ika and Ranka are “k” and “a”, which i would call it krazy antics which fit them, I guess. Ika’s team has less people and Ranka’s team has more people, but their people do leave them or they stay as long as they want. So the only difference is that theres only one hybrid animal/humans in Ika Musume and there are more than just 10 hybrid anima/humans in Murenase. read more 

Both anime involve otherworldly humanoid creatures that are part sea creature turning the main character's life upside down with while learning the customs of land life. 

Both series are comedy focused and have a main character who isn't exactly human (one is a Squid Girl and the other is literally a talking hamster), therefore they speak and act a way different from most humans around them. Both characters stick to their shtick throughout the series. Both are fairly hilarious.  

KonoSuba reminds me of Squid Girl in their comedy and characters style. Squid Girl is not in a magical world so its events aren't alike, but the way they treat the characters and their kind of jokes and theme per episode method are alike in my opinion. I enjoyed Squid Girl very much and I think it's pretty hard to find anime comedies from this kind, so I recommend it to you if you want a comedy that kind of feels like it's from the same creators of KonoSuba. 

A girl works in a restaurant. She is quite aggressive, competitive and full of fighting spirit. Yet, when she crosses the line, she's being brutally tamed by her female boss. She makes different kinds of friends along the way. This description applies to both shows actually. 

The main girls, Flower and Ika Musume are really simular. If you like one main character, you will probably like the other too. But Kowarekake is more serious then ika musume. 

They had the same relaxed quality summer time makes you sit back and enjoy every episode. 

Another anime revolving around cuteness done right. Moe characters, humor based on situations that are both funny and cute at the same time. Great as a way to boost your spirits when feeling drab or tired. 

The anime are both very funny and contains parodies. Both anime also each episode contains 3 different short fillers inside one episode. 

Lead character of these shows have a very strange goal! Yamada in B Gata H Kei wants to make about 100 sex friends and Ika Masume in Shinryaku wants to take over the world, but none of them have no clue of the truth beyond their simple imagination of their goal! Very funny Stories to watch with random jokes here and there.  

Both look like stupid moeblob but end up as very funny and touching. 

Both adorable in some ways, with incredibly clueless characters with similar levels of humor 

Similarities: Both can be watch by children ages as young as 10. Both have somewhat a meaningful slice of life. Dissimilarities: One can be watch with adult supervision, while the other can be watch by kid without any supervision. One has a couple of mild encchi while the other one can be accepted since the setting is in the beach.  

Both use the same format of splitting the episode into 3 different stories.  

Its really similar, since they have the "Musume" word in the name too.. But the randomness and the characters are pretty similar also. Tho it dosen't have the ecchi of Penguin Musume, Ika Musume is surprisingly good and fun to watch. And also, it has many weird characters xD. 

Both characters are cute. Although both plots are different, they both have a sense of fun-loving, and the show include slight comedy, and both shows are very carefree. Moreover, both shows are targeted at the same age group. Hence, this two shows have quite a bit of similarities. 

Land lubbers are invaded by malicious sea dwelling creatures. 

Both have a bunch of short, cute, funny stories. Plastic Nee-san is made of simple 2 minute shorts. Shinryaku Ika Musume has full length episodes but each is split into 3 separate mini-stories. 

Powerful monster girls trying to fit into human society resulting in misunderstandings over cultural differences and the occasional destruction of property. MonMusu is an ecchi harem with many monster girls while Squid Girl is a comedy about the titular character and an otherwise human cast. 

Both shows have random humor at its best, with likable characters and great music. Both Squid Girl and Ryoko are great heroines that really make you laugh. Be warned that while Squid Girl focuses more on humor and random scenarios Okami-san has a much heavier plot, as well as much more overall seriousness. I highly recommend both shows! :^) 

In both series, there is a focus on comedy with a lighthearted background. Additionally, it involves a talking creature with the ability to speak and behave like a human. Both series contains an area where there it involves food. Additionally, the main character from both series has curious personalities. Both series has many cute expressions with the main character being the main focus. Although lacking storyline, they have give off a slice of life feeling that details every day lives in a fun way. 

In essence, there's a slice of life feeling feeling in both series. But more than that, some of the characters aren't so normal; or rather not even human. There is a lot of comedy that is presented in a lighthearted way. The main characters also have fun with their lives doing various activities such as working, chilling out, and trying new things in life. Both series also has this sense of fun atmosphere that although seems somewhat unrealistic but gets its point across with the characters' every day lives. 

Both are comedies that have the OP sung by ultra-prism and the ED by Itou Kanae. 

similar format. They're both plotless and the episode is split up into smaller stories or skits. 

Both main female characters love the ocean. And both animes have a comedy element to it.