Iguana Girl (1996)

Synopsis

Iguana Girl is a manga by Moto Hagio published in Petit Flower. It was adapted into a television drama in 1996. It is about a young girl, Rika, whose mother views her as being ugly, and favours her other daughter, Mami. Rika thinks of herself as ugly and as an iguana, but after her mother's death, realises that her mother was also an ugly iguana. Iguana Girl reflects Hagio's own relationship with her mother, and it took her "years to write this story". Hagio saw an iguana in a documentary on television and identified with it, feeling it was "lamenting its failure to become a human, just like me".

Series Information

First Aired

1996

Last Aired

1996

Seasons

1

Episodes

11

Episode Length

60 min

Genre

Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Network

tv asahi

Status

Ended

Rating

6.3 / 10 (3 votes)

Top Cast

Miho Kanno

Aoshima Rika

Naomi Kawashima

Aoshima Yuriko

Yoshinori Okada

Okazaki Noboru

Rena Komine

Hashimoto

Kanako Enomoto

Aoshima Mami

Masao Kusakari

Aoshima Masanori

Hitomi Sato

Mikami Nobuko

Koji Yamamoto

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