According to new video from the Hakodate tourist bureau, the Japanese city has been invaded by space squid from the planet Ikaaru because the Hakodate residents eat too much squid.

Apparently the aliens have taken over Hakodate’s mechanical mascot, a real mechanical squid built by a local university in 2007. Now it’s terrorizing the city. See if you can make any sense of it. We’re rooting for the Ikaaruans, of course.

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