Iguana Girl

Iguana Girl (1996)

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".

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  • First Air Date: 1996-04-15
  • Last Air Date: 1996-06-24
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 11
  • Episode Runtime: 60 min.
  • Network: tv asahi
  • Director: Imai Kazuhisa

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Seasons

  • Season 1

    11 Episodes

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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

  • Miyuki Komatsu

    Takano Haruko