Hilarious Clip from Ika Musume – English Mixup
May 5, 2012 in Shinryaku! Ika Musume
I found this clip hilarious when I was watching the episode so I had to blog about it, This clip is from an episode in season 2 (Around episode 2 or 3). The Lemon Shack manager, Eiko, decides to get Cindy, who’s an American MIT graduate and who speaks fluent Japanese, to teach them English after a foreigner asked for directions. Things get out of hand as Ika Musume (the math and language master) masters the language in under 10 minutes while everyone else quickly catches on leaving Eiko behind.
Suddenly everyone starts speaking and practicing English leaving Eiko to just smiling and trying to avoid conversation having no idea what anybody is saying but Cindy mistakes Eiko for speaking English and brings her into a conversation mistaking everything she says in Japanese for English.
Cindy (English): Answer me Eiko!
Eiko (Japanese): I don’t care anymore (Having completely different conversation in her head).
Cindy (English): Sit down? Well, if you say so, I’ll sit down.
Clip is a little over 3 minutes long
This video was amazing but it’s quite long because it’s based on the full length of the theme song. The video is 5 minutes long and contains the same singer but through clever use of costumes, props, sets, and special effects they make it appear as though there are 12 different singers. They also have other actors that play other parts in the video.